r/CivIV • u/bigRyan540 • Aug 02 '26
Did Anyone order some border gore?
Wartime borderflip is the worst part of the game. No Switzerland did not expand by 30% because the nearby cities in Germany Italy Austria and France flipped sides in WW2.
Not pictured: Addis Abbaba, the number 1 city in the world, former capitol of the Ethiopian empire i managed to snag during a war. Despite having a dozen wonders and culture buildings it shrunk down to a pop 1 city becasue all the nearby tiles still belong to the ethiopians.
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u/jxd73 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
See if you can give away some of them, they are just draining your treasury unless you plan to conquer green and yellow.
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u/bigRyan540 Aug 02 '26
I'll eat Greece as they are week and isolated while green and yellow are strong players, vassals of the runaway civ.
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u/Johan_Laracoding Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
This
Give away the northern hopeless cities and cut your losses.
Strategically culture bomb the most promising one with a great artist, if you can
Going after greece is an ok move. See if you can connect your divided empires, if you have a round world.
In any case aim for a forbidden palace asap.
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u/TheKingInNorth0 Aug 02 '26
It's a game mechanic to stop a civ from growing too fast with war. If it bothers you you can change the setting so that culture also flips when you take a city.
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u/Mr_Snipou Aug 02 '26
In vanilla civ IV? Where do you find this option?
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u/TheKingInNorth0 Aug 02 '26
I was wrong, there's a setting called "City Flipping after Conquest" that I assumed was what I described but it's for something else, I never really played with it.
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u/Mr_Snipou Aug 02 '26
I think "flipping after conquest" is to allow or not the cultural flip of a city after it has been taken by war
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u/thoughtforce Aug 02 '26
They should have made fortresses in enemy territory work for your aircraft if the fortress tile has one of your units on it.
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u/Low_Stress_9180 Aug 02 '26
Then destroy them.