What's a little Genocide between allies...

[red_jon]

I had a good idea for destroying cities. When you order a city to be destroyed, one population point should be destroyed per turn. This means that small cities can be easily eradicated, but large cities will take ages to destroy and so the enemy may have a chance to reclaim the city before it is wiped out.

There should be no limit on the city size that can be eradicated - New York could be destroyed, but it would take a very long time.

For example, the Aztecs conquer Paris, which is size 23. It takes the French 12 turns ro recapture the city, by which time it has been rediced to 11. Whilst a city is being 'genocided', it should not grow, nor build things, produce taxes or science.

With this feature, if you knew you could not hold on to an enemy city for a long time, you could at least damage it.

What do you lot think?

[dainbramaged13]

supposedly, once you take over a city, you can either destroy it or take it over, (see news item) i like your idea better, where it actualy takes a certain number of turns to eradicate it. Not so slowly though.. maybe 3-5 pop points per turn

[red_jon]

Maybe the more units in a city the faster they can destroy it? One unit per pop point.

[DonJoel]

I think red johns idea sounds good. perhaps 2 sizes a turn.

[faded glory]

I dont like the idea jon.


But Genocide is optional. When I take over cities in CTP, I put all the workers as Merchants . Thus the city does not recieve any food and starves to death . But the gold they give me is usefull!!!

[Earthling7]

Sounds good Jon. Very realistic. I think it would also emphasise the gruesomness of genocide.

[isaac brock]

i agree with faded glorys ethnic-cleansing ways. i suppose red jon's idea is okay, but i like a fast solution to my problems, like nerve-stapling.

[red_jon]

Saddam/FG's method is what I usually do, but it takes a while.

Perhaps the improvement 'concentration camps' could speed the process up, say by having 2 population points die per unit.

It's sadistic, but it's life.

[DonJoel]

your desgusting.

[Col Bigspear]

Originally posted by DonJoel
your desgusting.

Don't try to forget the past. It HAPPENED and still goes on today (Serbia).

[red_jon]

Originally posted by DonJoel
your desgusting.

Oh, c'mon!

I doubt there is one civ player who has never tried to 'dispose of' a captured city. IT ISN'T REAL. The British used the camps during the Boer war and many nations have since.

[isaac brock]

Originally posted by Col Bigspear


Don't try to forget the past. It HAPPENED and still goes on today (Serbia).

Actually, NATO air strikes killed a considerably higher amount more than Milosevic did. The charges of ethnic cleansing were exaggerated.

[orange]

Wow, well thought out idea I like it

[Christantine The Great]

A turn is approx. a year, right? Would it take decades to wipe out a city with 1,000,000 citizens? I don't think so. If you really want to you can just line them out and kill them. Small groups of resistance fighters do not make a single population point. Maybe a one turn delay between a city being wiped off the map so the owners have a slim chance of getting it back at best.

[isaac brock]

I agree with everything i've heard you recently say. I think the one year a turn creates some realism problems, but luckily, realism isn't worth sh*t. I agree that you can kill off a city in a year, and I also agree that, if you think about, it, a lot of things don't make sense because of the one turn a year. If you don't think about it, and enjoy the game for what it is, you don't go complaining about whether there should be a picture of a missile truck under a nuke. or some other useless thing like that. I hereby applaud Christantine The Great's rapid succession of good calls.