slaughtering populations?

[Doug-Thompson]

So me being an executoioner has caused my empire to be 1 big slum. Over half my cities are under 2000 because I would use the small 1's to train troops for garrison and I'd retrain troops there. Now that I'm actually letting them grow and letting the people be happy I'm getting muku bucks. The time to execute them is when you first take over a big city to reduce the gariison needed to maintain public order. I've found once the culture penalty goes away and the unrest then you can keep the city pretty much under control. Also temples/pantheons help greatly. Wow look at that awesome temple sure you can tax the bejesus out of us. And on very high tax rate it's near impossible for a population to grow over 20,000

I don't have any objection to letting the survivors live happily and grow AFTER I've made my point. Also, I do use peasant settlers. I do other things, too, but that idea keeps cropping up.

Supposedly, Brutii temples of Juno cuts the culture penalty.

[TinCow]

I occupied all of Gaul, I didn't enslave or exterimate a single city. My empire is strong, but my income is only about +7000 per turn, which doesn't allow for a whole lot of building and training in an empire of 25 provinces. Due to... uh... some complaints by my people about the sanitary conditions of their neighbors and a Senate demand, I recently found myself at war with both Brittania and Spain. I'm a bit stretched thin, so the 10-20k dinarii from exterimation was too hard to resist and I am carving a bloody swathe through both of those regions. It's working out rather nicely I think.

I was opposed to extermination in the beginning as I was trying to uphold the International Charter on Pixel Rights, but I am reconsidering that. Perhaps I might 'accidentally' click the wrong button some more in the future.

[hellenes]

Well i dont know wich version are you all playing but my uk version makes the REGULAR extermination of population a MUST...The squalor BUG (and dont tell me its not a bug when it decreases loyality rapidly ) the garisson that neede to keep the 38k people in line makes the prosedure of losing the city to the rebels and when taking it back exterminating the population a MUST the population goes from 38k to 6-7k and the troops can be trained EASILY and it needs MINIMUM garisson with public order at 160% with the taxes at very high ( but still the pop is raising at +6/8% ) (note the city is FULLY upgraded)so i have to repeat this procedure every 5-10 turns ...

edit: im playing at very hard camp/ medium batt
Hellenes

[Inuyasha12]

Well currently in my Brutii campaing i slaughtered all cities i've gone into. Basically they are all "happy" now. I think i have to slaughter them, especially if they are of a different culture. I have not had a rebellion(unless it was a bloody raid and run). And my cities are now growing nicely and giving me a plump budget. I slaughtered Byzantium for example and after leaving 2 peasant units in it, with taxes on normal the order was higher than 100. Yeah after that i massacred the thracian capital(tylia, tyloia ??) and it was the same story left three peasants and they were happy. When a city becomes accustomed take the peasants somewhere else. When i invade an large area i take my main army and an occupation force of peasants.

So when i take an enemy city, i massacre, destroy all religious buildings and begin replacing with juno temples(lowers culture difference) and add 2-3 peasants.

I think a massacre establishes your power, youre basically saying to the people
"your mine now and i can do with you whatever i please!!"
Ohh and the looting extra cash helps too