One of the ways you can win Civ games is to amass large armies (at the expense of culture, technology, etc) and try to take over other civilizations. I like doing that - it's good for pent up aggression. Who cares if you are the first civilization to reach space - that's not winning - I want to kick butt for the glory!
But here's the problem in the new game: every time you conquer a city, the 'happiness' level, not just of that city, but of your entire civilization permanently drops (until you spend game-decades building 'happiness' generating things like theaters, Colosseum, etc.). Meanwhile, your production drops and your growth slows across the board. You can't build things but you have a big army so you might think you could keep conquering and amassing more people and happiness that way, but the problem is, the more cities you conquer and the more population you add, the less happy your people are, the less you produce, and the less your population grows!
A couple comments from a gaming blog summarizes the problem:
09-27-2010, 02:18 PM | #2978 |
Ironically you can't replace it with your own settler, that's the whole point. You can't actually HAVE anymore people. It's like immigration reform run amok. It's Finland saying "there are too many people for us to govern!" and then slaughtering everyone in Sweden and Russia to the last man, because it's The Only Way. |
Military conquest has costs and benefits - the costs are obviously the cost of the conquest itself (life and resources) and the temporary localized unrest it creates as well as long-run diplomacy with other countries. But the benefits are new and unique resources, new land, new opportunity and new knowledge. Civ 5 captures all the costs PLUS some costs that are completely unrealistic described above- which means you can't reap the full benefits.
3 comments:
You probably missed the "Install Puppet Government" button just next to "Raze City" and "Annex".
This lets you continue your warpath by removing the happiness penalty at the cost of losing production control. It's just as well because who wants to micromanage cities while they are steamrolling their opponent?
yeah I saw that but then you can't really govern the city....and they won't make you an army.
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