Devastation Q

[sunsmountain]

Yes the only thing that causes devastation, always visible on the campaign map (black spots), are rebel/enemy armies. The only thing that fixes it, after removing the armies, is time.

(oh, and exterminate population of course causes it as well - around the city). But that gets cleared up pretty quickly, even for small towns.

[Oaty]

There's no way to reverse the damage as far as I know. If you right click on terrain you'll notice that most of the farmland is right next to the city. So when you are besieged they are destroying the best farmland in that province. I've noticed that rebels you find in the woods quite often do less than 100 damage to income even if it takes you 3-4 turns to get an army there. A road is the next highest on the devastation category. It takes about 20 turns to let mother nature reverse the course of devastation

[lancer63]

I have noticed that devastation disapears faster around cities and high trafic roads and it's slower to go away in far away regions. Guess it has to do with growt and development too. Makes sense to me.