Liberation of cities?

[jmp]

Is there any chance that Civ4 will have the option of liberating a city? That is, let's say you're in a military alliance with another civ against a third civ. One of your ally's cities has been captured by your mutual enemy. You then capture the city. What if instead of just giving the options of destroying the city or installing your own governor, the game gave the option of returning the city to its previous owner? Likewise, the AI civs could return your cities to you upon liberating them from a mutual enemy. This would be the sort of thing that would happen in particularly strong alliances (and help keep very high goodwill between the two civs).

The real world example that comes to mind is US/English troops entering Paris at the end of both World Wars. The assumption when the troops entered the city was never that US occupation would replace German occupation. Rather, the US troops liberated the city, returning it to the French.

Just a thought...
-JMP

[self biased]

really, you can do that in civ 3. just capture the city, and give it back through diplomacy.

[jmp]

Yes, but the AI civs are loathe to give back cities that had been yours up until a few turns earlier, even if you want to trade a comparable city that had been theirs...
-JMP

[M. le Comte]

Yes, very VERY good idea.

However, if this game is really about "civilizations" and not states, capturing a city and then giving it back is a non sense:
aren't we part of the American civilization since 1944 ?

No, just kidding

[DerSchwarzfalke]

This would be a very useful improvement to the overall gameplay of the Civilization series in general. I do not imagine it to be terribly difficult to program, and it adds an element of rewards for effectively utilizing alliances.

[Kuciwalker]

Hopefully this will be achieved by enhancing the diplomacy AI.

EDIT: in fact, it might be pretty easy to make this happen automatically, given the editing options.

[KyuuA4]

Try this solution: Don't lose your cities in the first place. Treat them like your children.

[Kuciwalker]

That works too

[DerSchwarzfalke]

It also goes both ways. Allies have a greater tendency to lose their cities than I do

Generally, their recovered cities are of no great use to me, and I would rather just give them back to allies and strengthen them.

[Kuciwalker]

In that case, you don't need special options or diplomacy AI or anything.

[Ninot]

maybe it should be coded/implemeneted simply so the AI can do it amongst themselves, instead of having a big mix of civs and cities after a big war in 1 region.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by KyuuA4
Try this solution: Don't lose your cities in the first place. Treat them like your children.

what.....in the corner and no dessert

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by KyuuA4
Try this solution: Don't lose your cities in the first place. Treat them like your children.

Sorry, but I'm not taking a belt to my computer and I'm sure as hell not using my bare hand.

[/joke]

[Vince278]

Originally posted by KyuuA4
Try this solution: Don't lose your cities in the first place. Treat them like your children.

Have too many cities as it is.

[Addled Platypus]

Can you give it ridlin or prosac ? like they do here in the US (drugs)