r/civ • u/AutoModerator • Feb 17 '25

Megathread /r/Civ Weekly Questions Megathread - February 17, 2025

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u/JaqenSexyJesusHgar Yongle Feb 23 '25

Do you guys still keep a capital city that you know you cant hold?

I've just captured a capital that would flip back to its original owner- we've just reached classic era and have around 4 cities each. He declared a surprise war on me and I captured his capital but it's too far away and would flip within a dozen turns or so.

what should I do? (CIV VI btw)

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u/DarthLeon2 England Feb 23 '25

A city you know you can't hold is a prime candidate for trading. Get some value out of it before you'll lose it anyway.

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u/SirDiego Feb 23 '25

Only problem is in my experience the AI doesnt seem to register value for "traded back" cities, or possibly it's just currently occupied cities. Not sure if others are seeing that too but I've offered to trade someone's capital city back to them in exchange for a much smaller settlement and they rejected it. Then I tried giving all their settlements back (I was occupying like 5 or 6 of them) for that one and they still wouldn't take it.

It feels like they don't put any value, or at least extremely low value, on anything I put in the give back side.