lolwut?

Well, I think they've got a few choices as how to handle it...  Which they could easily implement all of, as an actual choice you make upon liberating/conquering a city.

Some suggestions to that end:

Enslave - The city maintains the characteristics of its founding race, but an 'Upper-Caste' of people from your own society is implemented to keep order and force the peasantry to bend to your will.  This could also come with a chance for revolution that could be affected by local military, food, and how much the original inhabitants hate you.  (Any one or a mix of those, and I'm sure there are other things you could think of that may or may not factor in to it.)

Purge/Cleanse - Which of these it would be would depend on whether you're 'Good' or 'Evil,' however, and if, that's defined.  The city maintains only the look of it's original inhabitants, and only for so long, until finally it's been...  'Adapted,' to your races needs.  However, this requires you to move/acquire new citizens for the city.

Liberate - Opposite of Enslave, though not exclusive to enslaved cities.  If a city is unhappy enough with its current leader, or was previously enslaved by said leader, and you come in and seemingly save the day for them, you receive a temporary bonus to...  Something, build speed, resource production, citizen growth, or any combination there-in.  (I say 'seemingly,' because when people want change, and it comes, they generally welcome it with open arms, for better OR worse.)  Once the bonus wears off, so does the charm surrounding your liberation, and the city, depending on circumstance returns to a more 'Normal' state of operation.

Integrate - Attempt to integrate that cities population into your empire as a whole, and have a chance to provide a bonus or penalty for an (un)successful integration.  There would also be an chance for there to be no bonus or penalty at all, and the chance for the citizens to be more or less neutral to the idea of integration could rise proportionally with how often the city changes hands.

Exile - Exile the current citizenry, allowing them to return to their original empire and giving you control of the city.  You would need to bring in new citizens, but you could receive a temporary Prestige bonus in that city, since you showed mercy to your enemy, therefore giving people something to say about you.

There are a million-and-one ways to implement this kind of mechanic, and a million-and-one choices for the mechanic to work on.  This is just a very limited sample using what I could come up with off the top of my head.

*sigh* Races have special traits buildings design etc. even spells so shush they are needed and can be balanced and can work I'm through arguing with those whom do not even look into the game before commenting.

One...  What are you even talking about?  It's like you didn't even read the posts.

Two...  If you're here to 'argue', then I think you're here for the wrong reasons.  Good debate towards the end of trying to help make Elemental be all it can be should be the only thing even similar to arguing that we're doing.

Three...  You nailed the problem right on the head with your post, but you're treating it as if it's the answer.  We know there will be special traits, designs, etc...  The question is, since those -are- in the game, should change be affected, and how will change be affected on a newly conquered city of a race not already your own or under similar circumstances?

I don't mean to hound, but do us a favor and either re-read the posts and provide some constructive suggestions or criticism, or, like you pretty much said, don't bother.

Edit: Directed at Seth.

It did seem dismissive, but more than that, I think you may have misunderstood the point the OP was driving at.  He wasn't exactly crystal clear about it either.

But now it seems like you're on track with the topic, so, no harm done.

Like I said, no harm done.  You aren't the only one on edge...  Though, I'm just cranky from insomnia.  =P

Yes well i think we should leave this one to the Dev's even if its just cometic i like multi races.

Moo2 was very cool in this regard. If you conquered a silicoid planet with no food you can take advantage of the fact they don't need food. So in effect you have two species mitigating their respective weakness and better using their strengths.

In Civ IV, different nationalities could make a big difference on how easy it was to hold a city of a different nation.  You would have to stack up units in a city to keep it from going into revolt--the more different the people were from your home race, the worse it was.

I noticed that there is only one race in Beta 1Z, I was like what?

More MoM, less Civ. Don't get me wrong, Civ games are great and they do have their "strengths", in my opinion though, "Variety" isn't one of those strengths. Neither is their horrid combat model but this isn't about that. The Races should mean something, just as they do in MoO2 and MoO3 and countless other Fantasy/Sci Fi games. As said above in numerous replies, Races need to Mean something. As such, in a game with multiple races, you have to be prepared to deal with the consequences of Mixing those Races.

A lot of games that have multiple races for gameplay variety do a great job in making those races "mean something". A lot of those very same games do a Horrible Job at dealing with the consequences of Mixing those races. In fact some of these game ignore any racial distinction what-so-ever once those races are mixed. I honestly don't think Stardock would do something like that, as to me, that just shows a lack of will in taking ideas to completion and Stardock isn't that Lazy.

The question will be how they decide to implement those racial distinctions once they are mixed. In a lot of games the different races strive to simply wipe each other out and can't mix. In the intelligent design of a strategy game this isn't the case. How they mix simply needs to be kept "logical" and "simple".

Since Elemental draws from the population of cities when drafting military units the game should take that into account. When you make a new unit there should either be a percentage chance based on the population or you should get to chose what race the soldier is. Choice or automation, either way, in intelligent design this need to be present. That alone is why in a lot of games they keep the races separate or have two sets (or more) of each unit a city can make or they have completely different recruiting structures (meaning you need 2 barracks in the same city).

Also though, for story and background reasons, some populations may simply refuse to live together. Different races that were both of the same faction (Kingdom or Fallen) could mix populations, but races of Different factions may not be able to mix at all. I'm sure the Devs will chose something, and it's highly possible it may be a core mechanic we have almost no say on. We should still try to steer them in a intelligent direction with our suggestions and thoughts in the Ideas Section though.

You're what?!?!?! That's it, I'm suing!!! Prepare to feel the Power of Attorney!!!

LoL J/K , be my guest, friend.

No promises needed. I think we all understand at this point it's still way too early to nail down anything solid with so many other things to do first. Just saying how you're putting thought into it shows a lot. Thanks, Frogboy

Note: especially with something so "potentially" complicated