Why can't the Capital City be burned?

[독도는한국땅]

I want to remove other countries from the map, but it's awful that I can't erase the Capital City. Do you have any mods to recommend?

[knighttemplar1960]

So you can use the liberate function. At one point in time you could trade a capital or a city state to another player and the other player would be able to burn it but they patched that out.

[cuavas]

Allowing capitals to be razed would make the domination victory conditions problematic.

With Brave New World, you need to be in control of all original capitals to achieve a domination victory. If original capitals could be razed, it would make this impossible to achieve.

Originally, you needed to be the last player in control of their original capital to achieve a domination victory. If original capitals could be razed, another player could raze your original capital, making it impossible for you to recapture it to head off another player’s domination victory (this would make achieving a domination victory easier).

[Tasi]

Use this, works just fine and does exactly what you want, plus domination victory is not a problem. I use it all the time and you can raze every city except your own.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1369403871

[Damsteri]

I tested a mod to raze capitals and realized that it makes game way too easy due stupid AI. I played with a mod and saw an AI to wage war against Venice, eventually capturing their capital with over 20 world wonders. Largest and best city in the game. That another AI razed the capital and settled a new city to one tile away from the original capital to reach one more luxury resource (but losing all wonders and so much other things). Original capitals are not in the best place, so AI rather raze them and shoot themselves to the foot by doing that. I instantly removed the mod once I saw how badly AI works with it as I didn't want that kind nerf for the already bad AI.

[Tasi]

Originally posted by Damsteri:

I tested a mod to raze capitals and realized that it makes game way too easy due stupid AI. I played with a mod and saw an AI to wage war against Venice, eventually capturing their capital with over 20 world wonders. Largest and best city in the game. That another AI razed the capital and settled a new city to one tile away from the original capital to reach one more luxury resource (but losing all wonders and so much other things). Original capitals are not in the best place, so AI rather raze them and shoot themselves to the foot by doing that. I instantly removed the mod once I saw how badly AI works with it as I didn't want that kind nerf for the already bad AI.

I like cities with wonders being razed. There should be a reason to protect those cities without doing just to keep it from the AI. With this mod there is always a chance that a useful wonder gets destroyed along with it. No different than the real world.

[독도는한국땅]

Originally posted by Tasi:

Use this, works just fine and does exactly what you want, plus domination victory is not a problem. I use it all the time and you can raze every city except your own.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1369403871

Oh! I've been looking for this! Thanks a lot ! Have a nice day! :)