Increasing the value of the capital

[LostKnight]

In civ 3, the capital is not that much important.
Yeah,its true it reduce corruption, but thats pretty much all.
People are changing their capital easily, just to get a better spot.

My idea is, that the capital must be THE city to take when in a war. Not just because its tthe highest productive city, but more because it means something. I dont know exactly how to do it,but here are some idea:

-whenever your capital get captured(or destroyed), you must declare peace on THEIR term. (if it is not too much) You can still declare war after that, but if he asked for too much...

-maybe the ability to CHOOSE our capital. Not the fist city built, but really chosing it by an option. But, to prevent people switching capital all the time, giving it a bonus hat increase in time. So if you capital get captured, even if you get it back, it will never be the same.

Here are just my idea

Flame accepted.

 

[sealman]

well the capital does get a bonus that sort of increases with time. the culture produced by the capital doubles after 1000 turns.

I do agree that there should be a little more associated with the capital, but what, I don't know.

EDIT: The capital is also the place where your spaceship is assembled, so if you lose the city while building, you have to start all over again.

 

[Mewtarthio]

I don't think that you should be able to force people into peace by taking their capital. If a foreign army invaded America and took Washington, do you think that all Americans would instantly surrender? Besides, it's a bit overpowered; you could force them to give you all their cities except a single weak border city, all their money, and all their technology, then capture the one border city and instantly defeat them. I still think that losing your capital should be more important, though. Maybe your soldiers would be temporarily weakened due to morale loss, or maybe you would suffer communal, painful corruption and a culture loss until you rebuild the Palace.

 

[Colonel]

funny if the US got invaded by even russia as it is now they could get to chicago without major resistance but anyways it is sort of true that if ur capital gets taken its easyer to get enemies to give peace easyer and more on ur terms

 

[ybbor]

read the sticky

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86713