Destroy Own City

[ifandbut]

Is it not possible to destroy a city you own? I took over a city in a war an kept it but have recently came to regret it because it is in a pointless location with little access to resources. Is there any way for me to abandon the city?

[MonkeyspankO]

good question! Let me know if you find out

[SPC_UK]

Could try gifting it to someone else.

[BladeSe7en [ICON_RESOURCE_FURS]]

Besides gifting it no, after your initial conquest, if you don't raze the city that turn you can't get rid of it. Otherwise players would exploit it by using a form of scorched earth tactics and raze thier own city right before an enemy was going to cap it.

[ifandbut]

Originally posted by Apples:

Originally posted by BladeSe7en:

Besides gifting it no, after your initial conquest, if you don't raze the city that turn you can't get rid of it. Otherwise players would exploit it by using a form of scorched earth tactics and raze thier own city right before an enemy was going to cap it.

It could take a number of turns based on population. No real reason not to provide an option.

Besides you could add a "besiege" option to melee units, which would prevent both troops & civilians leaving the city.

I agree with this. Scorched Earth should be a valid tactic, but should have some time delay as well.

[BatMart]

Originally posted by BladeSe7en:

Besides gifting it no, after your initial conquest, if you don't raze the city that turn you can't get rid of it. Otherwise players would exploit it by using a form of scorched earth tactics and raze thier own city right before an enemy was going to cap it.

the AI did it to me once. I was about to conquer France's last city, paris, and catherine just told me well, seems like I lost, and then she destroyed her city and was gone for good....never understood how this happened...

[BladeSe7en [ICON_RESOURCE_FURS]]

Originally posted by BatMart:

Originally posted by BladeSe7en:

Besides gifting it no, after your initial conquest, if you don't raze the city that turn you can't get rid of it. Otherwise players would exploit it by using a form of scorched earth tactics and raze thier own city right before an enemy was going to cap it.

the AI did it to me once. I was about to conquer France's last city, paris, and catherine just told me well, seems like I lost, and then she destroyed her city and was gone for good....never understood how this happened...

That's not possible. For one you can't raze capitals period. And you can't raze your own city..
Only possible explanation would be that it was linked to that game crash when capturing cities bug. Did you take the city down to zero health and was the last attack done with a melee unit? If so my only explanation would be that the city failed to transfer ownership when captured then the coding that destroys all of a civilizations units glitched out and deleted the city as well.
I'm curious did that game crash? And if not what did the domination leaderboard say?

[CrazyVulcan]

Shift+F12, a debug command that deletes any city instantly, even capitals but doing so may make the game unstable and crash.
Link to video

[katzenkrimis]

Sell it to the most useless opponent in the game.

[Uldis]

I tried out civ 6 and this is a boring bug. You could obliberate base in Alpha centauri or decolonize it by making a colonist while population is 1. The fact you "cant" do it is ridiculous. I thought civgames would become better over time but instead the developers invent new restrictions. This one dosn't have any logic in it.

[BladeSe7en [ICON_RESOURCE_FURS]]

Originally posted by benedikts:

I tried out civ 6 and this is a boring bug. You could obliberate base in Alpha centauri or decolonize it by making a colonist while population is 1. The fact you "cant" do it is ridiculous. I thought civgames would become better over time but instead the developers invent new restrictions. This one dosn't have any logic in it.

this is not a feature due to how easily it can be explioted. for example if an enemy was seiging your city, it would ruin the game if you were allowed to raze your own city right before it was to be captured

[mlilback]

Only allow destroying cities of a certain size. I can see no way to exploit being able to destroy a city with a population of 1. I wasn't paying attention and now have a useless city of 1 in the tundra that is a complete waste.

[David]

I did the same and keeped getting that they hated me for ocuping one of there citys. I managed to trade the city for sugar from another civ. Worked for me

[Gentoo]

Well this sucks... to avoid a wormonger penalty I purchased a city instead of conquering it. Then I couldn't disband it to move it over to better land a couple squares over. Now I'm just giving up the game in frustration. Meh.

[Dray Prescot]

Find a way to let the Barbarians destroy it if there are any Barbarians nearby.

Another possibility, I was in a War gainst Persia (he started it) early in the game (1000 to 2000 BC timeframe) with some City States that I was suzerain over. While I was conquering Persia's Capital and another city, the City State using it's own military units (I did NOT take control of them) conquered and DESTROYED the other TWO Cities of Persia. I conquered Persia's last city AFTER the other two Cities were destroyed, so I still took the diplomatic hit for killing Persia.

So go to War with a nearby City State (that has land military units available) (it may not matter if it has a suzerain) and pull all your military units out of the area of the city you want to lose, and hope that the City State will conquer and destroy that city.

I have thought of using this in a different way against the last remnant of a Major Civ that does not control it's original Capital City (you conquered it). You want to get rid of that Civ (AI Player) but do not want to take the major warmonger hit for destroying that Civ. So try to get a City State destroy the last City (or two) of that CIV.

I have not actually done it (yet) but I see two variants:

1) Let them declare War on a City State nearby them, then go to War with them (the major CIV) and use your military units to destroy their military, possibly weaken their last City (or two)'s defenses BUT do NOT conquer it, and then hope that the City State conquer's and destroys that last City (or two).

2) Declare War yourself (or wait to be declared War on) with that small Civ you want to get rid of, have some nearby City State military units that you are suzerain of (do NOT take control of them), and then try to help the City State units fight and defeat the military units and City that you want dead. Hopefully the friendly City State units will then destroy that City. The major problem would be the CIV making Peace with the City State before being killed, but that can not happen if you are suzerain of the City State. The other potential problem is the City State units might be passive and not do anything. Also the game may have a built prohobition against a City State destroying the last City of a major Civ, although in the past I have seen a City State ask me to destroy/conquer another City City.

I have finally figured out how to find the numerical score for your Warmonger status with the other (AI) Civs: you have to go to the diplomatic screen for each Player (Civ), near the top there is a row of 4 icons that each give more detailed information, click on the last one (I think is a little heart icon), and you will see a list of all the things affecting your Diplomatic status with them in numerical form. One of the items on the list is your warmonger score with that Civ. My warmonger score was NOT the same with every (AI) Player. At least now I can try to track how my warmonger score changes with various actions on my part.

added: the problem with relying on City States is getting them to be active and not passive.

[radziu93]

But why can't I even detroy cities, when other player gives it to me to make truce? :(