Razing your own city

[epics]

I have read in one post that you can destroy your cities. I'm asking how can I do this??

THANKS

[Jaybe]

In PTW only, you can Right-Click on the city and "Abandon City." You get nothing in return, no Workers. Not available in Civ3.

[Hurricane]

Abandon city is also available in vanilla Civ3, but you need the 1.29 patch.

[Alex]

Why would you want to destroy your own cities? You could have a strategic reason for this, of course, but I think that in most cases if someone feels the need to destroy one of his own cities, he/she made a bad planning.

[Mazarin]

if you have civ3 but no 1.29 patch, the only method for getting rid of your own cities ist to get pop down to 1 or 2 and to build a worker or settler without surplus food.

[WarpStorm]

Of course, if you have Civ3 but no 1.29f patch, get the patch!

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by Alexnm
Why would you want to destroy your own cities? You could have a strategic reason for this, of course, but I think that in most cases if someone feels the need to destroy one of his own cities, he/she made a bad planning.

Sometimes when I'm at war I capture and enemy city but don't raze it, I capture it say, because it has a harbor or barracks intact and I need it for the war. Once the war ends however, I would like to make the cities in different places so I abandon it and build a new one in the site that I like.

[epics]

If I build them to close I could just raze them.

I tried to build a settler or worker but that didn't worked, but maybe I try once more

And I think the patch wouldn't work with "not quite legal" version of civ3 .

[Master Zen]

The settler/worker trick only works if the city is running a food deficit so make sure you start starving the population before you try it.

[Datajack Franit]

Nuke it and then rush a settler

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Bit drastic that last idea but suppose it could be fun

[Mazarin]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Of course, if you have Civ3 but no 1.29f patch, get the patch!

if you don't have the US-Version this might be impossible

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by Alexnm
Why would you want to destroy your own cities? You could have a strategic reason for this, of course, but I think that in most cases if someone feels the need to destroy one of his own cities, he/she made a bad planning.

A few reasons to raze (abandon) your own city
1) just captured it
2) Palace Jump
3) Has a Small Wonder that you want to rebuild elseware (I did that once with my FP)
4) City shares too many tiles with another (like a city you built for culture warfare)
5) To clear a site you intend to build a future city on ( a city could be badly placed or you may need to change the site to build the Iron Works)

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Nuke it and then rush a settler

I like it, does it cause unhappiness

[Theseus]

Ask Trip.