Can you not trade capitals?

[Willard]

Spain and the aztecs both had cities I wanted (colonies close to my lands, where I wanted to settle), and spain had previously stolen the aztecs capital. The plan was to declare a joint war with the aztecs against Spain - taking both the colony I wanted from Spain and the Aztecs capital back. After I took the capitol it gave me the option to give the capital back or keep it, I wanted to keep it so that I'd still have my leverage for the city I DID want.

The capital shows up in my deal list, but It's the one city I can't offer. The Aztecs still won't budge on giving me the other colony no matter how much I offer.

[killemall]

It must be a bug. The AI seems to be not too bright about making deals for even smaller cities... Sorry mate.

[donald23]

No, that's no bug.

Any city that has the label capital cannot be traded.

[Willard]

I assume because they are requirements for military victory, and you can't trade it so you don't help another civ win.

Why not just a prompt like "are you sure you want to trade this city? It is an original capital city and counts twords military victory."?

[donald23]

Originally posted by BigWillBlue:

I assume because they are requirements for military victory, and you can't trade it so you don't help another civ win.

Why not just a prompt like "are you sure you want to trade this city? It is an original capital city and counts twords military victory."?

I have no idea, you'd have to ask the designers.

But if the trading of capitals is a victory thing, there was an oversight. Because as far as I know, you can also not trade their replacement capital.
Say you capture the original capital and a random other city.
Now some other city became their capital.
If you want to trade the extra city you captured for the new capital, that's not possible as far as I know.

[paugus]

Originally posted by donald23:

Originally posted by BigWillBlue:

I assume because they are requirements for military victory, and you can't trade it so you don't help another civ win.

Why not just a prompt like "are you sure you want to trade this city? It is an original capital city and counts twords military victory."?

I have no idea, you'd have to ask the designers.

But if the trading of capitals is a victory thing, there was an oversight. Because as far as I know, you can also not trade their replacement capital.
Say you capture the original capital and a random other city.
Now some other city became their capital.
If you want to trade the extra city you captured for the new capital, that's not possible as far as I know.

Probably has something to do with the palace being present in that city. My guess would be it flags the city as untradable.