What's a little Genocide between allies...

[orange]

Yah, didn't think about that. Good call CtG

Are all turns one year...even in BC? Because if not, in the early stages of the game, it would be even longer to kill less people.

[Christantine The Great]

Thanks, guys. Those are going in my sig.

Orange, I just assumed that the most furious competition would be in the Modern era. You really don't need your enemies cities then so your choice would most likely be genocide. If I had to wait 20 turns for to kill a city then wiping out a city would be worthless. I'd probably lose 5 times over by then.

[Inverse Icarus]

bah. i proposed that exact same idea back in the "disbanding a city" thread, 2 pop per turn.

but i dont like the "more units faster raze" thing. if you take over a city and fill it with 20 marines it dies in one turn

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by 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.

Most likely yes, even not decades then years. Before you get to kill 1/10 of the population the rest will turn against you. They have nothing to lose. They will die if they don't fight anyway.

[TechWins]

This is a good idea (regardless of who's it is) but 2 pop per turn would be better. This idea may have some faults but I'm too tired to find any.

Edit:With that post I just became a King.

[Lancer]

Genoside might be tough to do during fighting. A unit taking a city might have other things on its plate than killing farmer John, things like defending the city from counterattacks. In other words, no reducing or disbanding cities if there is still a unit of that cities nationality or an allied nationality adjacent.

However, the population might start fleeing, swelling nearby cities...and they might not be such happy citezens either. Call em 'refugee citizen points' or something. Takes a while to assimilate them and they are more prone to unrest, eat but don't work, that sort of thing.

[Dauphin]

I think that relocation is a better game idea than genocide.

If as the Germans you take a French size 20 city it would be very difficult to culturally assimilate all 20 Frenchman; and it would be equally difficult to kill all 20.. However if you could relocate a couple each turn to other cities the task would be made easier.

The benefit of this is that you retain the newly acquired population. It would also be easier to justify the destruction of a city in a couple of game turns when you are a democracy (i.e anit genocide in theory).

[d_dudy]

i can't believe he came up with a serious and good idea but he did. i think he's completely right it should take many turns to destroy a large city and its improvements

[dexter4dxm]

i too am in favor of this idea, however, in early-midway through the game, a turn spans many years, and it's not unreasonable to imagine an entire city being killed off in that amount of time. the same holds true for the modern era of the game, because a turn would presumably last a whole year, and with modern technology a city could be killed off that quickly

[dainbramaged13]

Everybody who says that you should be able to do this and that in a turn because its a year is plain stupid and doesnt know **** about civ.
Is it realistic that armor moves 3 squares in a year?
Is it realistic that it takes 20 years for a modern ship to move around the world?
No, but its fun.

Btw, i dont think you should be able to destroy cities in a turn. the gameplay in especially multiplayer but also singleplayer would suffer.

this was quoted form a post by donjoel in the 'city capture options' forum. Although he says it a bit harshly, I agree with him cmplete ly.

[jdd2007]

i think it is a good idea ... it must work because it lasted through testing. IMHO, 5pop per turn sounds best. anyway, would u really want to destroy a valuable 23pop city???

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by red_jon

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

Is there any way we can killfile members of this forum? Why do I have to subject myself to such stupidity?

[Inverse Icarus]

or go CTPesque and make a "Genocider" unit

[mactbone]

He would have a mustache and speak with a funny German accent...

[Inverse Icarus]

vhe are here keel you.