Selling cities

[CPCMaxwell]

Hi,

I'm new here so sorry if this has been talked about before, and my computer's PSU exploded so I can't play the game until I get a new one in a couple of days.

So, what am I supposed to do ? Right, wondering about the game.

Correct me if I'm wrong:

1- You can exchange your own cities for a bunch of gold to other civs.
2- The other civ receive the city exactly as if they had captured it.
3- If I sell enough cities, I can buy myself an army, or at least stengthen it.
4- While I'm down in number of cities, I can spend some wisely saved culture point to buy cheaper social policies.
5- Now the turn is over, let's send this new army of mine set those cities free.

Since they were mine, no occupation problem. And since I had the guy spend all of his gold to buy my cities, he's in trouble unless he really has a kickass army he was able to hide from me.

Pros: free units, easy experience, cheap policies.
Con: a pissed off neighbor.

Could this work ?

 

[Deckhand]

Sounds like it could work and might be fun to try.
I don't know how much it would hurt the AI to give you the gold.
I don't know how many of your improvements would be lost when you recapture. In Civ IV, all cultural improvements were destroyed. I don't know what happens in Civ V.

 

[CPCMaxwell]

Well you could build a "fake city" near your neighbor, grow it a little without building much in it, sell it, train your troops setting it free and then of course burn it to the ground.

Man that's evil.