"The people of Ravenna are rightly asking to join the Dutch empire, should we let...

[Lancer]

...them?" Or something like that.

I need an answer option that goes as follows:

Have the ringleaders spread one to every major city and hung in the square and you, advisor, fall on your sword for using the word "rightly".

So, anyone out there handing out cities? If so, why?

[Starfarer]

Never. But I jealously guard my own people.

But then, I understand the idea. You might want to if the city's far away from you, you can't easily support it, and you're likely to loe it to culture flipping anyway, especially if it'll appease a warlike neighbor.

[Lancer]

If it were all those things I would not have built it, or burned it when I took it.

[Starfarer]

Circumstances can change unfavorably in a game.

[Lancer]

Yes I know, I'm really good at bring that about. Still, give away a city? Let them die trying to take it. Even if they do get it they'll lose guys trying. Better to die fighting than begging kinda. I know, stupid analogy...

[Theben]

I'd hang the members of your cultural works committee, since they obviously have been taking long lunches.

[Lancer]

Right over my head.

[Theben]

i.e., you aren't generating enough culture, espec since that "froward Dutch git" generates plenty w/o trying.

[Lancer]

We've already helped sponser two kids Christmas discos here in the Phils, that's culture. No you're wrong! I'm generating culture!

[rah]

I played a game the other day where a city asked to join another empire before I even met anybody. Strange.

[Heraclitus]

The people must have been really desperate for a new leader...

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by rah
I played a game the other day where a city asked to join another empire before I even met anybody. Strange.

I've had that happen too. Turns out the continent was sort of horseshoe shaped and Mansa was just across the water but as yet unseen.

[rah]

Yeah, the civ they wanted to join was just across the water but yet unseen.


and yes they're always desperate for a new leader because I'm going to use them as fodder to serve my imperialistic aims

[Theben]

Originally posted by Lancer
We've already helped sponser two kids Christmas discos here in the Phils, that's culture. No you're wrong! I'm generating culture!

But at what cost, Lancer, at what cost!?

[Brutus66]

This is definitely the most annoying dialog box in the game. I get this constantly when going for a domination win and conquering cities around the globe.

[rah]

Yes it is annoying. I keep thinking I'm going to hit the wrong response one of these day.

[Seedle]

The real problem is that most often, they aren't rightly asking. Many times, they will be asking to join an empire that never controlled the city and has zero culture in the city's radius, much less the city square itself. In order for this box to come up, you should have to have less culture in the city than the civ they are attempting to join. And I would still tell them where to stick it

[johnmcd]

Never seen the damn box.

[Fleme]

I have never had this occur. Only times my people are unhappy and wish to join my enemy is when they are in fact not my people at all but weak subjects of a captured city yearning to join their motherland. I wish there was an option to build camps to which I could transfer them into, for a few extra and a few less

[Heraclitus]

Evil Nazi Finland™

Good idea.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Fleme
I have never had this occur. Only times my people are unhappy and wish to join my enemy is when they are in fact not my people at all but weak subjects of a captured city yearning to join their motherland. I wish there was an option to build camps to which I could transfer them into, for a few extra and a few less

-10 "You built kz-camps!"

[Unimatrix11]

yeah and have the game banned from the german market - thanks...

[Starfarer]

Power Punishment Sphere, anyone?

[Lancer]

While you're at it, slavery should be a US only civic just to make sure Americans never buy the game.

[Yosho]

Yeah, I basically always say "no" to this one.

I guess, if you have a city you can't hold anyway due to cultural borders, you might as well get the diplo bonus from doing it of your own free will rather then it rebelling. Even in this case, though, I think you get the same bonus from just giving the city back on it's own that you would from saying "yes" to this question, right?

[Lancer]

Well yeah, I would assume so. Has to be!

[Seedle]

Originally posted by Yosho
Yeah, I basically always say "no" to this one.

I guess, if you have a city you can't hold anyway due to cultural borders, you might as well get the diplo bonus from doing it of your own free will rather then it rebelling. Even in this case, though, I think you get the same bonus from just giving the city back on it's own that you would from saying "yes" to this question, right?

I don't think whether you liberate in response to this prompt or on your own matters, but you don't get the diplo bonus if you "return to x's control" when you capture the city. So stupid to have to wait till it comes out of revolt...