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Originally posted by Yaropolk
Occupying is always the worst choice. Here is why:
When you enslave, nobody is killed, just some people get shuffled around to various cities. Your total tax base remains the same, and cities back home get a nice boost.
Distance to capital is unaffected as you point out above.
As far as I know, cultural differences are affected only by the proportion of buildings in your settlement built by other cultures (you can see who built each building in the settlement browser). If you tear down and rebuild (or upgrade), culture penalty goes away.
If anything I would say having more people in a newly conquered settlement is just asking for problems as far as unrest and squalor goes.
No it isnt because you can jump to the next city level that upgrades the city to your *own* cultural townplan and that townplan is the most significant factor in proportion of cultural penalty as it counts all the *house* buildings in the city.