How to make cities flip?

[mimi]

I've never had a city flip to me. Once, one was built right in the middle of my space and it was down to a single tile and said the citizens were revolting but it never came over to me and a few turns later it had larger borders. Is there something I have to do to make them flip?

[MikeH]

Once they revolt sometimes they flip sometimes they don't. No idea why.

If you want to flip annoying cities rather than invade them I think you just have to increase your culture in neighbouring cities to help.

If you hover over any square it tells you who owns it and also gives you a percentage.

eg. Indian 100%, American 57%

What you want to do is increase the culture in your neighbouring cities so you reduce the percentage ownership of their main city square to nothing. You can watch as the percentage goes down as you increase your culture.

(at least that's what I do)

[Axxaer]

Also it is easier to flip cities which have the same religion as you or if it was recently owned by you.

[Tattila the Hun]

I thought it was something, like, after two revolts, the next time the city would revolt, unhappiness reaching X% or something, it flips.

[mimi]

Originally posted by MikeH


If you want to flip annoying cities rather than invade them I think you just have to increase your culture in neighbouring cities to help.

how do i increase the culture in my cities, by adding buildings that do that? if i increase the culture slider at the top of the main map screen, does that increase the city's culture output, or just my overall civ's?

[MikeH]

I normally try and put buildings/wonders in them. You can increase the slider but I normally value the gold/science too much.

I've never tried rushing by upping the culture slider but I imagine that'd work?

Setting a city to build culture also seemed to speed things up but I don't have any statistical evidence to back that up.

[MikeH]

I love flipping cities more than conquering them. I used to be really military in previous versions but I love how you can expand through culture. I really liked that aspect of Black and White 2, I almost never went to war in that to stay as good as possible and it's basically the same thing here.