Capitals can be flipped now?

[InThane]

I'm playing on the earth map as Rome, and got an early pincer move in to block Germany from any expansion to the south and west. Since those two were the first two cities I built after my capital, they were heavy culture producers. The one in "France" was a wonder factory, the one in the east was the home to multiple religions. I basically had three heavy culture factories pushing on the capital...

...and around 1700ad, it flipped to me!

It still had the palace in it (as did my capital), and when I mouse over the "build palace" button, it said "-1 of 1" or something like that. I'll get screenshots, and if anybody wants the save file, I'll produce that as well.

This was NOT a military conquest, Germany and I are best buds with only a -1 for close borders.

Is this behavior as designed, or a bug?

[serenya]

I don't know if it is a bug or not, but I have also had capitals flip to me during peacetime. The civ's capital just relocates automatically, and it didn't affect the civ's opinion of me /shrug

[Hauptman]

Yeh my current game Moscow is about to flip, I'm sure its designed as once you get to 50%+ of an apposing nationality regardless of a palace or not you begin getting a chance of revolt.

A palace only makes it harder to flip as it begins creating culture turn 1. So lately ive been making my border cities the wonder producer (as apposed to the capitol in civ3) as then i can placate and be nice to my neighbors and still take there cities, leaving military conquest for farther ranges.

This will be my first game that I've out cultured another civs capital, because its there border city. Cranking out that settler first is paying off now!~

[djpsychonaut]

This hasn't happened to me yet in a game, but I've heard of it from others. I'm curious though, does the palace in the old capital still produce culture?