Razing cities

[Free_Mumia]

I was playing Civ3 with version 1.17 @ my friend's house and I noticed that most of the cities I conquered were automatically razed. In my game (with the original version of Civ3) when I conquer a city a little message pops up and asks me if I want to raze it or keep it. Are the cities supposed to be razed like that in 1.17? btw this was on regent, don't know if that matters or not.

[Swissy]

Size one cities are automaticly razed unless there is surplus food. Since the AI maxs out production, there is little chance unless the AI is trying to build a settler. Then the AI sets up for pop growth, thus has extra food. This was a change implemented in the first patch.

[notyoueither]

I don't think the limitation on auto-destruction is food. I believe it is culture.

If you capture a 1 pop city it is destoryed, UNLESS it has a cultural value greater than 0.

In other words, I have a size 2 city building a temple. I'm 10 shields away from completing it. I'm a despot. My neibour declares war. I want to switch all my cities to produce units, but I really want to finish the temple in this city. I pop rush it (cost 1 pop for the last 10 shields). The city is now 1 pop. 4 turns later, the city has not yet regrown to 2 pop. My enemy's Horsemen burst though and capture the city. The city remains even though it is only 1 pop, because it has produced a few culture points and is now important enough in the scheme of things to escape the auto destruction of 1 pop burgs.

I think that's how it works.

Salve

[Skanky Burns]

As NYE said, it is based on the culture of the city.

This was introduced to prevent the player from following around the AI settler/defender pairs and attacking as soon as the city was built (when it was at its weakest).

If the city is BOTH size 1 AND has no culture, it will be razed automatically, otherwise you can choose to keep or raze.

[Free_Mumia]

Thanks for the info guys.