Moral Discussion on What We are Actually Doing to Our Citizens in the Game

[allhailIndia]

What a stupid option??

Do we turn all the people into fertilizer or something

You ought to get at least a settler, maybe something akin to an evacuation

 

[Immortal]

could you imagine how the despot rush would explode if you disbanded your largest city and moved all the workers to the capital to rush a wonder?

 

[donsig]

Make views:

Whipping is killing citizens. Someone pointed out that when an improvement is rushed in despotism the advisor pops up and says this will cost such and such number of citizens lives.

Rushing with gold - well, that's what gold is for, isn't it? Citizens are getting paid to work harder. Didn't know it caused unhapiness. heck, bigger paychecks should make the people happy.

Abandoning cities. To me this isn't so bad. It's like an eminent domain kind of thing. The city is turned into a settler that goes and lives somewhere else. I should stipulate though that I would only do this with a small city. I would not starve the city down. That would be wrong. Could build workers to reduce the size though.

Razing cities. Depends. If they're evil and picked a fight then I might not mind that. I can also live with keeping foreign cities, too - BUT the game sucks in that you usually have to turn all the foreigners into entertainers anyway and then they starve. I don't like it but what can one do? Too bad we can ship food in like in Civ 2.