12-02-2003 23:30									#1
	Disable deposing? Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

You've all got it on occasions. You go into a war, win some cityes, but then they turn on you and depose of your culture. I wouldn't mind if that happened to me every once in a while but it's constant. And I can't stand it. So does anyone know how to disable it? Like do I have to change some file in Notepad or do somthing else? Thx!

	13-02-2003 00:03									#2
	Increase Your PM Length

Timon,

I think with PTW there is an option when you start the game to turn off 'Flipping', but I'm not sure.

There are several ways to combat this problem without changing the rules, however:

1. Build more culture so that you are the one everyone else envys. This will make captured cities less likely to flip back.

2. Make sure you have roads to the new city so they can partake of your Luxury Resources. Start building 'Happy' improvements like Temple, Marketplace, etc.

3. Starve/Kill the enemy citizens before taking the town. You can do this by putting your units on food squares outside of the town. This will prevent the city from using those tiles and the citizens will start starving. Or you can decrease the population by bombardment. Once the citizens are down to a 'manageable' number you can take the city.

4. The easiest way to resist this is to Raze the city. When you capture an enemy city, destroy it. If you want a city there, bring in a Settler and build your own. Your city will be less likely to flip.



On a personal note: I (Chinese) had to take the same Japanese city 3 times during one game. I would take the city and place my Riders in there to quell the resisters. Before they could heal-up the city flipped back to Japan. After taking the city for the third time and losing several Elite units, I razed it. Didn't have that problem again--at least not w/ that city.

	13-02-2003 01:31									#3
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quote: Originally posted by steven8r Timon, I think with PTW there is an option when you start the game to turn off 'Flipping', but I'm not sure.

You need to select culture flipping off when starting a PTW game. Not possible in civ3 AFAIK.

quote: There are several ways to combat this problem without changing the rules, however: 1. Build more culture so that you are the one everyone else envys. This will make captured cities less likely to flip back. 2. Make sure you have roads to the new city so they can partake of your Luxury Resources. Start building 'Happy' improvements like Temple, Marketplace, etc. 3. Starve/Kill the enemy citizens before taking the town. You can do this by putting your units on food squares outside of the town. This will prevent the city from using those tiles and the citizens will start starving. Or you can decrease the population by bombardment. Once the citizens are down to a 'manageable' number you can take the city. 4. The easiest way to resist this is to Raze the city. When you capture an enemy city, destroy it. If you want a city there, bring in a Settler and build your own. Your city will be less likely to flip.

All good advice. Cities can flip if they contain citizens of another civ or if the tiles in the city radius overlap with those of a foreign city. Reduce or eliminate these and the city won't flip.

Also if you eliminate the civ the foreign citizens in your city belong to then the risk of the city flipping is removed since they have no civ to flip to.

	22-02-2003 03:24									#4
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

flipping would not be so bad if you didn't lose all units in that city..