08-12-2000 17:37									#1
	Engineers and Building cities Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Ok, i dont know if this has been mentioned but it would be helpful if you had flags in the rules.txt for each individual engineer ability (and spy for that matter), allowing engineers who can build improvements but not cities.
In historical scenerios it would be so much help if the AI civs didnt go off and build a load of cities that werent there in real life

	09-12-2000 01:51									#2
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I agree-that is a problem. But sometimes it is helpful:
I was playing the 2941 days of war scenario. And the Japanese captured San Fran and LA. Both were destroyed as I retook them so I built cities on the same spot with the same name-the city grew out of its ruins. Should this be discontinued?

But I have a counter idea-Cities are never totally destroyed so a city could be reduced to size 0, and the picture would be ruins. Thus the above would not have to happen, and the integrity of scenarios would not be threatened

	10-12-2000 03:50									#4
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Jer, I kinda like yer idea, but at the same time, I dont agree, for one thing, some cities were totally blown away, many cities in history were completely burned to the ground. But, i get what you are saying, and I agree.

Also, just because the population of a city is destroyed, the city itself is still standing, this has happened many times over throughout history. Just look at the fall of Berwick (scottish city) to the English in the war between Scotland and England from 1200 AD-1500 AD, Longshanks (English King that attacked Berwick) litterally slaughtered 3/4ths of the Scottish population in the city, but kept the buildings up, for usage for himself, and his armies.

Zulu, about the AI building cities in historical scenarios where they shouldn't, I have a solution, just dont let the AI build settlers/engineers, turn them off in the Units editor, then resave the scenario, get out of it, get back into it, and restart.
[This message has been edited by Diablo, Bro. of Mephisto (edited December 09, 2000).]

	11-12-2000 23:28									#6
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

You could have an option when you take a city to raze it (remove it from the face of the land), kill all the inhabitants but keep the city, burn it (leaves a small amount of pop, and destroys most buildings), or just keep it.

	05-01-2001 06:34									#8
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Great idea, airdrik! Firaxis, please make this an option! On countless occasions, I've conquered a city I didn't want to keep, thus forcing me to wait twenty turns as I slowly starved the city and settled it out of existence. In a recent game in fact, I promised myself I wouldn't have more than 3 cities, then when the Carthaginians launched a spaceship before me, I had to break my oath and take their capital. I would have been completely content to just raze that damn city! Hey, and it gives me new OCC possibilities as well...

	06-01-2001 00:10									#10
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Yes, yes. Have the option to raze.

If you march into an undefended Size 1 city, you get the message. "The population has been decimated. Shall we level this city to the ground?" If no, you get size 0 ruins that retain the old city name and can be built upon. If yes, muahahahahaha...

Very cool idea. And I don't remember it being on The List, either...