Ruins?

[brianshapiro]

The second screenshot on the civ3.com page shows ruins of destroyed cities

[kring]

The video mentioned ruins happens when a city is destroyed.

[whosurdaddy]

maybe they should provide a chance for the previous owner to repopulate the city or somethin???

After all, the ability for an invader to erase a huge city that had existed for millenia in a single turn is a bit harsh, isnt it?

[hr_oskar]

Those ruins are interesting, and quite cool... I suppose the tiles can't be used until the workers clear them up (???)

[WarpStorm]

I imagine they are just eye candy. Just to let you see just how much of a bad boy you've been. It'd be cool if they gave you an extra shield because of the extra building materials readily available and extra defense.

[Lord_Davinator]

interesting... should let the original owner... or the one with higher culture to esb. a city with much more ease

[Caliban]

I'd say you can just send a worker into the ruins to repopulate them. So you save the construction costs for a settler...

[Andrew_Jay]

It'd be nice that once you take them back, the ruins become the original city, just one population and no buildings, but your city is where it was, with its old name, or perhaps something like New Madras.
The city of Stalingrad was more or less "razed" during the Second World War, but was later repaired.

[Darkworld Ark]

I think it'd be cool if by repopulating a ruin, you could get a wonder that was built in the city before it was destroyed.

[JtheJackal]

The ruins should give you gold. They are ruins and what better way to use them but for tourists?

[Panag]

hi ,

a long time ago they confirm that that option was going to be included , ....

have a nice day

[hr_oskar]

Wow, we're off flying here

I say the ruins give you a defence bonus like cities and metropoles do - note that they come in different sizes!

[Panag]

hi ,

lets hope their is a worker task option that let you clear them up , ....

Firaxis

have a nice day

[Firebird]

Sounds good.

[Galvatron]

Originally posted by JtheJackal
The ruins should give you gold. They are ruins and what better way to use them but for tourists?

Yeahh ruins are always good for tourism people love to see things that are destroyed (don't know why perhaps we like to see things get trashed ).

But I think the working progress of rebuilding a city should take a long time. It would be very unrealistic of a worker just enter a ruin and tata the city is back. I suggest you would need a certain amount of workers regarding the size of the city was and it should take longer if the city was bigger.