Captured neutral city of minor power has maxed city level stuck at 1 after capture

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I captured a city (IYANA in save-West coast of map) - and have a very nice dragon roost that has appeared next to it. Unfortunately if you check the city level it states Level 1 and Max city size. I've owned the city for quite some time and you can get the population well above 100, but it doesn't increment the city size.

 welll...I can't see how to post my save or the screen print yet. I'll see if I can find some tips to posting in the forums, but hopefully the explaination is clear of what is occuring.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Neutral cities don't grow.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Its best to Raze them after capture, they are fairly useless.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, i believe this is by design, to prevent "neutral" cities from growing/building and increasing their area of influence - since they are meant to be "minor" factions and not "major" (playable) factions.

 

As mentioned, razing them is generally the best choice.  Trading them a thousand materials for their gildar before assimilating their faction would be an even better choice.

 

Another option is to engulf their area within your area of influence... making it so you are the only faction able to reach their territory (short of people at war with you, or non aggressive with you).  The purpose of this is to have a faction you can always develop trade and tech treaties with for a very low cost - usually recouped in a handful of turns.  By engulfing them, you prevent other factions from wiping them out.  They also serve as a bank of sorts, since they generally have about 1000 gildar and no other resources whatsoever, making for an easy trade.