well... this is quite obviously their civilization capital, it gives more morale, industry, influence, food and research then a normal colony would.

Its like conquering a tech capital, you can have more then one as long as you conquer the extra ones... I THINK this might be intended (ie, you conquered their capital, now you get it to yourself)... but I might be wrong.

One thing that might be problematic with this is:
1. To conquer their capital you had to bring billions of people and annihilate their population.
2. Every time you conquer a captial, tech capital, construction captital, or economy capital they seem to go and get a NEW one.. so you might end up with a TON of them....

Civilisation Capital (12) + Advanced Farm (7) = 19
So it's all correct.

It was not a civ capital.

The quintessential man of few words.    So what was it? And how did you figure it out?

Let me try to clarify a bit. I am not sure what the Devs intention was but I really don't think I should get 9 civ caps in one game. Once an AIs cap is taken I think it should revert back to an initial colony. From last game: All of the Major AI HOMEWORLD civ caps switched to initial colony after they had been conquered. I had 4 Minor Races and they all remained as civ caps after being conquered. So there is definitely an issue there, unless Brad and Co. intended this. One was my civ cap of course so that accounts for 5 of the 9. The other 4 are planets the the Major AI switched there civ cap to after there home world had been conquered. Since there home world reverted back to initial colony I beleive these planets should also revert back. Next thought. Why only 4 when I had 6 major AI? 2 of the AI surrendered prior to my taking there homeworld and allowing them to switch civ caps.

Here are a few screenies. Taken at various times during the game but always at least 5 turns after a planet had been conquered to avoid

I have even seen when I first conquer a planet and it takes you to the planet screen you can see the civ capital on the planet, but the next turn that your opponent gets, he apparently sets a different planet as the civ capital.

. This would jive a bit with what I have seen. If they don't get a last turn because they surender the civ cap that is not there homeworld would not update. During the game the 'crown' that signifies Toria as my cap disappeared. It only showed back up after a reload. I did not switch homeworlds during the game. I guess the bottom line is are you supposed to have more than one civ cap?

Homeworld of the Paradians



Chased a Major to this one

Chased a Major to this one



Chased a Major to this one



Homeworld of the Snathi

Actually I think it should neither stay as a civ capital, nor degenerate into an initial colony. Instead it should be a "well established colony" or some such. Basically the reasons you have bonii in the civ capital to because:
1. As the capital, most of your race's economy is based there.
2. As the homeworld, it has VERY heavy infrustructure.

Conquering a planet could degrade the infrustructure, and it not being the capital anymore should degrade things further. But much of the infrustructure COULD be taken intact.

Ideally this would be represented with an infrustructure value that would give a % boost to a planet, and that infrustructure would develop over time (but start out really high in home planet) and would also be damaged when a planet is conqured (depending on the type of attack).
This however is very complicated and is likely not to occur in this version of galciv.