When you see it you can chose to use something like the tidalwave so with luck it gets off with it :9

It is not a bug. All capitols, achievements, trade goods, and wonders cannot be demolished. It pays to spend on espionage so you can check out what is on a planet before you invade, so you don't end up getting a poorly located one before you've built your own.

It takes away from the immersion of the game to have somebody AVOIDING taking a planet because it has a very important building there, that's just daft. I agree that you shouldn't be able to move capitals at a whim- it forces you to think ahead, perhaps weigh short term benifits (building a capital on a planet that would be good now) against long term gains (waiting to find a higer PQ planet to dedicate to whatever).

This is just a personal opinion of course, but I'd prefer it if you could only BUILD one of each capital rather than only being able to OWN one (excluding captured ones). This would also remove the exploit I remember reading about somewhere where you could get tons of capitals by taking a civ's capital, waiting for them to build another, then capturing that one as well.

It is not a bug. All capitols, achievements, trade goods, and wonders cannot be demolished. It may not be a bug, but it's poor design. Why would my empire use the capital of a newly aquired slave race? And if you've already build your own capital you can still take over other to get more, the above exploit is still there. IMO extra capitals should either be auto-demolished when you take their planet, or you should be given a choice of either demolishing the new capital or making it your new capital and demolishing your old one.

uhhh i like that

that way you can have 2 capitols

Meh, I've got no problem with sterilizing a planet just to move a capital. Its not like I won't have plenty of other planets with maxed populations by then. Just a matter of moving a colony ship there.

Why would my empire use the capital of a newly aquired slave race?

Because a capital is a *building* with *benefits*, and folks who don't play Evil probably don't think of newly conquered worlds as being enslaved. Removing the Torian boot from your neighbors' necks is liberating them

There are numerous historical examples of new regimes absorbing the grand state architecture of the past, e.g. the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (almost typed Constantinople, but Istanbul's not...) or the Kremlin in Moscow.

Speaking of taking planets, when an enemy planet joins your empire through influence, the planet's racial ability and soldiering etc remain the native race's or switch to yours?

I totally agreed that unable to remove captured capital building is nonsense. Why put such restriction with the excuse that I have to espionage to find out where capital buildings of enemy race?

Who's care about enemy capital building after the planet is captured!? The only valid reason to find their capital buildings planets during espionage is to conquer them and reduce their infleuence, bonuses, etc but not to keep their buildings after that.

It is definitely poor design and poor excuse from Kryo.