razing holy cities

[Insidion]

I was going for a quick atk on a neighbor (I was Incan so i rolled over there with a couple of my UU). It was his only town and i killed him off. I was planning on razing the city since it was a bit far away. The only reason i didn't was because he founded Judaism there.

I remembered once a buncha Civs getting pissed at me for razing holy cities. so...

Would the other Civs i hadn't met yet (4 on the other continent only 1 on mine) have cared had i razed his city?

 

[Spammurabi]

Yes, you will always get a negative diplomatic modifier for razing a holy city with all civilizations.

 

[Andraeianus I]

Only when it was their state religion of course...

 

[kniteowl]

Would the other Civs i hadn't met yet (4 on the other continent only 1 on mine) have cared had i razed his city?

It's dependent how far the Religion has spread and whether the Civ in question has that Religion as their state religion.

It's ok to raze holy cities if they've been recently founded... if you want to...l've only done so when their located in really really crap locations like in the ice with zero or low resources and zero to very few workable tiles.

 

[scooter]

AFAIK, if no one had judaism as their state religon and/or no other civ had judaism in any of their cities, it wouldn't matter, otherwise, people would be pretty ticked.

 

[br_casino]

I thought that you get negative modifiers with every civilization even if you haven't met yet and even if it is not their state religion.

 

[Carnage04]

I think there should be a HUGE negative modifier for razing holy cities...especially once most civs are under Free Religion. The lashback in real life for razing some type of very important religious sanctuary would not be good.

 

[Dan Quale]

Why would you raze one anyway +5 culture and the possibility of making a fully functional shrine, you cant beat that, pluss holy cities are rarely in marginal locations. A holy city is usually the most functional and easily assimilated city you can capture.

 

[CivDude86]

Because desert holy cities with don't have a shrine and only have the religon in 2 cities are worthless. Late game religons usually don't take off and this is the period where the AI runs out of usable land so it will start founding anywhere. Since these cities have no religon for a while they pretty much get stuck founding Islam or whatever. A prophet makes 15 in a wall street city, that 15 missionaries (going to be a while before you get a bank in here) if none fail. Then you'll need more to cover city upkeep.