Winning via Domination by capturing capital?

[GLRob79]

I'm fairly new to Civ5 but found this mod and have been enjoying it so far. However, as I recall from the handful of unmodified games I played, whenever I would capture an enemy's capital city, the game assigns a new city to be the replacement capital. I am playing a game with three opponents as America: Germany, England and Russia. I destroyed Germany early on, and conquered conquered Russia later, then attacked me. In retaliation, I took a few of their border cities, but as soon as I took London, the game gave me a domination victory, even though at least 10 cities (some very strong, including Russia's Moscow) are left.

Is this intended and due to there only being two players left? I was expecting (and wanting) to have to take the rest of the cities to win, because London was on the border and was much more easy to take than some of the other cities will be.

If it is intended, is there an option to change back to (what I recall) the original domination victory requirements?

My apologies if this is clearly found information, I've been searching on the boards for a while but haven't found the answer. Thank you in advance!

 

[Thalassicus]

Capturing the original capital is the only requirement. It's not necessary to completely wipe out the civ. You can track this on the victory progress screen.

 

[Ahriman]

To clarify further; the requirement is that you are the only player in possession of their original capital. Suppose there is an 8 player game, players A, B, C,...H.
If B takes the capitals of players C, D, E, F, G and H and then you take the capital of B, then you win.

This is working as intended - and this is how it works in vanilla Civ5, not just this mod.

And: no, AFAIK this can't easily be changed with the current modding tools. And nor should it, I think. This was a deliberate design choice by the Civ5 designers so as to make a warfare victory possible without having to control every city (which can cause a lot of unhappiness). It makes target selection in a domination game a bit more important, and the victory a bit more achievable.

 

[GLRob79]

Thanks for the replies - I guess I just hadn't noticed that the rules for victory were structured like that. I understand the reasoning now that you explain it too and will adjust my tactics accordingly.