Problem with capturing cities

[Serther]

Everytime I try to capture a city, the city is automatically
destroyed. It only does this in regular games not in some of the
conquests. Why is this happenening?

 

[Pfeffersack]

This is called "auto-razing" and happens only if you coquer a city with 1 population and no accumulated culture.You can do nothing against it (only delay the conquering until the city grows) and you will suffer the attitude hit for razing a city.

 

[Theoden]

Just remember that it has to have any culture from any civ, so if you have a cultural city and they capture it when it's size 1, you can capture it back immideatly without razing it because it has your culture.

 

[enwi]

Everytime I try to capture a city, the city is automatically
destroyed. It only does this in regular games not in some of the
conquests. Why is this happenening?

I hate it too. But you can still build a new city,