We yearn to join our Motherland.

[Loyran]

I think the "We yearn to join our motherland" might be bugged. In my last game, I captured one city from the barbs and even after all the map was discovered and all the barb cities destroyed, the citizens were still complaining.

Same for another city that I took from the Japanese. 1000 years after the japanese civ was anihilated, I still had that message.

 

[EricTred]

I solved this problem by destroying their Motherland. After that, they stopped complainning because they no longer had any Motherland to yearn about.

LOL I guess that would solve it hehe

 

[Yzen Danek]

Why would you milk a game in Civ IV? You get more score for an early victory than you will ever get for population expansion, wonders, or technologies.

All my 30,000+ point games are purely from an early victory, even if my accomplishments are unimpressive in other regards.

Which is how it should be. The most depressing games of Civ II I ever played were the ones where I was trying to max score, deliberately forestalling victory until every square inch of the globe was being used to its full extent to support population, cranking out future techs, and cleaning up pollution every turn.

 

[Yzen Danek]

I think the "We yearn to join our motherland" might be bugged. In my last game, I captured one city from the barbs and even after all the map was discovered and all the barb cities destroyed, the citizens were still complaining.

Same for another city that I took from the Japanese. 1000 years after the japanese civ was anihilated, I still had that message.

The message isn't bugged. The 'yearning' reason for unhappiness is purely related to what % of the city considers itself to be of your nationality, as shown in the bottom left of the city screen.

 

[Shillen]

Why would you milk a game in Civ IV? You get more score for an early victory than you will ever get for population expansion, wonders, or technologies.

All my 30,000+ point games are purely from an early victory, even if my accomplishments are unimpressive in other regards.

Which is how it should be. The most depressing games of Civ II I ever played were the ones where I was trying to max score, deliberately forestalling victory until every square inch of the globe was being used to its full extent to support population, cranking out future techs, and cleaning up pollution every turn.

Sorry, but milking is better. I got 246,000 points on emperor. I got 81,500 on settler even.

 

[Kieran]

Is there any way to get this source of unhappiness to go away without destroying the civ? I've found even if I raze the AI's city and put a new city down in a nearby location I still get this message. Even if the AI only had a city there for 10 turns before I razed it, my new city will have this message for the rest of the game with +1-5 unhappiness unless I completely destroy the civ that once had a city there. I think that's a bit absurd. There must be a way to get rid of it without destroying the AI civ...

After you capture the city perhaps you could starve it right down to size 1 to begin with, then let it grow and repopulate with citizens of your nationality.

 

[Artanis]

After you capture the city perhaps you could starve it right down to size 1 to begin with, then let it grow and repopulate with citizens of your nationality.

AFAIK, it doesn't work that way, but is entirely tied to how much of which civs' culture has been pumped into the tile that the city is on.