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10/17/2007 5:32 PM

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Spoiler Text Below - Highlight to See Hidden Text Well, the last city I left them with was on the NW coast of my continent, with lots of desert squares around. It was too feeble and too far away from anything important to incite any ethnic uprisings, so I figured they might just as well be allowed to keep it, I would never have made a profit of it anyway, with the actual marginal maintenance cost of a city being more than what it says on the city screen (since it not only brings its own costs, but also increases the "number of cities" costs of every other city you own).
-- I am the Alpha and the Omega, the last dictator of Team Omega and the first president of Team 1BC.

10/17/2007 6:32 PM

In the depths of Moria

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That's what "raze city" is for
-- "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." - Obi-wan Kenobi, Star Wars VI. Humanity and stupidity are explicitly entwined. Political Compass: Economic Left/Right: -0.62. Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77.

10/19/2007 1:13 AM

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Well with BtS, raising cities has it's own problems as well.
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

10/19/2007 3:34 AM

In the depths of Moria

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I'm aware, Jerm; everything in BtS is a calculated risk. To me, razing a city is sometimes better than keeping it.
-- "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." - Obi-wan Kenobi, Star Wars VI. Humanity and stupidity are explicitly entwined. Political Compass: Economic Left/Right: -0.62. Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77.

10/19/2007 4:58 PM

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Yeah but it seems like the citizens of the raised city always turn into enemy soldiers. I haven't done it enough to know the odds but it can slow you down if your advantage isn't that great to begin with. I usually only raise the last city if I'm going to do it at all.
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

10/20/2007 12:52 PM

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I raze sometimes, and I'd estimate the odds of partisanship to be about 1/4 or 1/5, it hasn't happened to me too often. And even if it happens, I'd say having to garrison a city slows down your advance even more, especially in the case that the city is under the cultural influence of another city of your enemy and there's a very real revolt risk.
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10/22/2007 4:38 AM

Good night, and good luck.

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if i may post a little bookmark here, i asked some questions about city razing in this topic : http://206.196.26.167/FindPost2244978.aspx (i didnt want to monopolize this current topic )
-- "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde Edited: 10/22/2007 4:38 AM by Copy and Paste