Razing Cities

Once I take over one of the NPC worthless spamed cities is there anyway to just raze it? I want to wipe them out I just don't want to keep all their cities that seam to be placed by every single resourse, dang!

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There is a tech to be able to raze cities, or you can hit the 'X' key and then hit the X in the upper right corner of the city details page.

Reply #2 Top

Razing should also carry some type of penaty, you are after all killing the population of that city.

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I suggest that razing a kingdom city makes the other kingdom's more hostile to your sovereign and more likely to join in an alliance against your kingdom/empire.

I would like to see such actions (razing an enemy's cities) also inspire them to adopt a similar policy towards your cities.

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Well, I don't think that they are completely worthless. I find them useful when playing Empire. Ilyan Orekeepers have a ogre camp which will allow you to produce them--a nice addition to your armies. Cities also keep your territory contiguous which helps with movement/trade route, and some times they have a shard in there territory, which in most cases makes it a keeper.

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Quoting Edwin99, reply 3
I suggest that razing a kingdom city makes the other kingdom's more hostile to your sovereign and more likely to join in an alliance against your kingdom/empire.

I would like to see such actions (razing an enemy's cities) also inspire them to adopt a similar policy towards your cities.
End of Edwin99's quote

I agree, but only after they get the city spam under control.  I played a medium map on normal today and the first Sov I ran into on turn 54 had 14 cities.  It is not even fun right now because of it.  I want to develop a Kingdom/Empire, not race to see how many cities I can start.    Razing them is the only thing you can do with them right now.  Make limitations on the number of cities and I would absolutely agree with a penalty for razing a city.