hey idunno if this really works or if i was jus lucky but in my last two games even tho another civ right next to me has had greater culture ive managed to take his 20+ size cities keeping them with the same population and being able to keep them forever with none of the cities reverting back to their original owner. Its quite simple actually.... every city i capture of theirs... i set it to build workers... which continually lowers their pop every turn and for some reason stops any defections of cities. then when i finally get rid of the civs later on.... i just load all the workers created back into their respective cities and they have the same pop that i captured them with without any of them reverting them.
I think this is pretty cool cause i used to absolutely get really off when those cities i spent so hard trying to get reverted back.... but as i said i aint completely sure if this works but it has been working on my last two games where i have been culturally behind..... maybe others can give this a try and let me know if it works with them
I think this is pretty cool cause i used to absolutely get really off when those cities i spent so hard trying to get reverted back.... but as i said i aint completely sure if this works but it has been working on my last two games where i have been culturally behind..... maybe others can give this a try and let me know if it works with them