Pressure from nearby citizens help?

[suds2002]

Hello, I'm about 30 hours into my first game in Civ 6, I'm going for a domination victory. I'm having major issues when taking over cities with "pressure from nearby citizens". So much so that my cities revolt after 3/4 turns and flip back.

Could I please get some tips on how to combat this please? Ideally if somebody could also recommend a mod, that'd be great to.

Thanks

[gimmethegepgun]

Take multiple cities in short succession. That will decrease enemy pressure and increase your own.

[suds2002]

Thanks, any civics, buildings, wonders, mods that can help with this please?

[Darc]

It's all about loyalty pressure. Conquering a city will have negative loyalty for a bit due to occupation, to counter this you'lI want to keep a unit garrisoned till the occupation icon goes away. Additionally, install a governor on the city and nearby cities (they add pressure, and Amani has a special promotion that lowers other civs loyalty if obtained), try to grow nearby city populations quickly (more citizens adds pressure), look for policies that add loyalty, excess amenties in the city will also adds loyalty.

If you conquer a lone city with none of your other cities around or you conquer a city with several big opponent cities nearby, you're going to have a hard time.

Good Information:
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Loyalty_(Civ6)

Hope some of that helps!

[Magma Dragoon]

you can always raze cities that lack luxuries or wonders that would benefit you

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Magma Dragoon:

you can always raze cities that lack luxuries or wonders that would benefit you

Razing cities makes keeping the future captured cities harder as you no longer have the loyalty pressure from their population helping you keep new acquisitions loyal.
Also even aside from loyalty it's almost never worth burning a city down unless you were trying to make a canal city very close by (and even then, is it REALLY worth it?)

[Maya-Neko]

It's normally enough to have a triangle of 3 cities to get enough pressure to at least 2 of the cities, most of the time even all of them. If a city still looses loyalty, then putting in a governor is a good idea.

And you don't need every single city for a domination city. The capital and 2-3 cities around it are normally enough and everything else can be razed, especially the ones which were placed on abysmally bad locations.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Maya:

And you don't need every single city for a domination city. The capital and 2-3 cities around it are normally enough and everything else can be razed, especially the ones which were placed on abysmally bad locations.

No, you don't need every city, but it's very rare for a city to not be a net benefit for you. Razing them wastes so much.

[Maya-Neko]

That's just true for the early or mid game, but in the lategame you normally already have everything you need to beat the AI. Adding more cities to your empire just makes it harder to get every city happy without any real benefit on production or something like this.

[suds2002]

Thanks all, this has been very helpful :)

Although I am hoping for a mod for this as this aspect isn't really for me.

Thanks