Razing Cities

Once I take over one of the NPC worthless spamed cities is there anyway to just raze it? I want to wipe them out I just don't want to keep all their cities that seam to be placed by every single resourse, dang!

elemental

Locked Post

Advanced Search

Watch this post

Do not email me updates for this post Email me updates for this post

Successfully updated karma reason!

There is a tech to be able to raze cities, or you can hit the 'X' key and then hit the X in the upper right corner of the city details page.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Polistes

Join Date 02/2008

+19

Razing should also carry some type of penaty, you are after all killing the population of that city.

Successfully updated karma reason!

I suggest that razing a kingdom city makes the other kingdom's more hostile to your sovereign and more likely to join in an alliance against your kingdom/empire.

I would like to see such actions (razing an enemy's cities) also inspire them to adopt a similar policy towards your cities.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Well, I don't think that they are completely worthless. I find them useful when playing Empire. Ilyan Orekeepers have a ogre camp which will allow you to produce them--a nice addition to your armies. Cities also keep your territory contiguous which helps with movement/trade route, and some times they have a shard in there territory, which in most cases makes it a keeper.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Quoting Edwin99,

reply 3

I suggest that razing a kingdom city makes the other kingdom's more hostile to your sovereign and more likely to join in an alliance against your kingdom/empire.

I would like to see such actions (razing an enemy's cities) also inspire them to adopt a similar policy towards your cities.

I agree, but only after they get the city spam under control. I played a medium map on normal today and the first Sov I ran into on turn 54 had 14 cities. It is not even fun right now because of it. I want to develop a Kingdom/Empire, not race to see how many cities I can start. Razing them is the only thing you can do with them right now. Make limitations on the number of cities and I would absolutely agree with a penalty for razing a city.

Successfully updated karma reason!