What to do with non-faction buildings?

[Bullman]

Hi

Just started playing EB 1.2 under BI and it has been great so far. I have chosen the Romans to start with and I am only a few turns in to the game.

I have now just conquered some provinces to the north and south and I decided to Occupy both. I now have to deal with the building that were built by the previous owners and the population in those provinces..

How do I know whether I should leave the buildings or demolish them and replace them with my own factional buildings? I see many of them offer bonuses but is that only of that faction controls it, or does it apply to any faction?

Cheers

Bull

[a completely inoffensive name]

At the bottom it should say "Used only by: blah blah blah" With blah being different factions, if your faction is not listed, it is not useful in any way, and just destroy it.

[Bullman]

At the bottom it should say "Used only by: blah blah blah" With blah being different factions, if your faction is not listed, it is not useful in any way, and just destroy it.

I occupied Taras and all 12 of the buildings/structures have tags saying indicating "Western Greek", but only one of them actually had the "Used by:" description. That was a buidling that made military units so I destroyed it.

As far as the remaining 11 buildings/structures, is there any good reason to perhaps destroy any of them them and replace them with Roman equivalents? Is it that you can't "upgrade" foreign buildings and that is why you might want to consider demolishing a building and building your own factional version of it?

For example, there is a building there called Nomos Stratiotikos Kathektos (Epeirote Military Controlled Territory) II. It affects tax income, troop morale, public order and population growth.

Is it possible to leave this building and build a Roman version of it so that you get additional bonuses from having two factional versions of the same building?

I need to understand how this all works and how the "government" side of things works when you conquer a province.

Cheers

Bull

[a completely inoffensive name]

I occupied Taras and all 12 of the buildings/structures have tags saying indicating "Western Greek", but only one of them actually had the "Used by:" description. That was a buidling that made military units so I destroyed it.

As far as the remaining 11 buildings/structures, is there any good reason to perhaps destroy any of them them and replace them with Roman equivalents? Is it that you can't "upgrade" foreign buildings and that is why you might want to consider demolishing a building and building your own factional version of it?

For example, there is a building there called Nomos Stratiotikos Kathektos (Epeirote Military Controlled Territory) II. It affects tax income, troop morale, public order and population growth.

Is it possible to leave this building and build a Roman version of it so that you get additional bonuses from having two factional versions of the same building?

I need to understand how this all works and how the "government" side of things works when you conquer a province.

Cheers

Bull

For how the governments work read the FAQ. You need to destroy the enemy government though, because if you try to build your own while the other is still there, or you try to repair the enemy government, the games crashes to desktop.

[Macilrille]

Government and Military buildings... Vastatio the Romans called it, think of the English word Waste and you get the idea of what should be done with them.

The rest, let them be, Shrines of Athens become Temple of Minerva and so forth.

[TheStranger]

What about cities, that are larger than 24 000 people and have the foreign governor's palace? Is there antoher way to replace it than to let the city fall to the enemy retake it and enslave the population, so you can upgrade the palace?

[artaxerxes]

because if you try to build your own while the other is still there, or you try to repair the enemy government, the games crashes to desktop.

hehe, I've done that a 1000 times, and tho it has never worked, it has never crashed either ;)

btw, in the same vein, those buildings that you DON'T smash, since they are usable by you, but which ARE built by previous owners, do they add to the cultural difference-kinda-unrest? I mean, fx temples to foreign gods, it says they give fx 5% order bonus, but I was wondering, if they were really counterproductive until I've upgraded them to my own faction - that is, do they add to unrest at the same time by being of a different culture?

[Mediolanicus]

Foreign temples/markets/... give bonusses. Just watch the public order when you do destroy one, it drops as much as the bonus.

[Megas Methuselah]

WAIT!!! Don't destroy the wonders unless you really need the cash. I mean, you can't just go around destroying wonders, man. That is not cool.