The peasants are revolting

[micasa]

In fact, when they're killing my citizens, soldiers and smashing my buildings, they're awfully disgusting.

[bovi]

Anger leads to the dark side.

[micasa]

Indeed. And it angers me.

[Zaknafien]

give them universal healthcare

[Foot]

Pfft, they'll complain about the service and huge queues even if nationalised healthcare. I would focus on illness prevention programmes.

Foot

[Baldrick]

recruit them as cannon fodder...that'll shut 'em up

[Respenus]

I've been bothered by RTW by not having a way to enforce order on your cities. You have to wait for them to revolt, create a full stack army of elites and silver 3 chevron units and everything. How about a little execution as when you take the city over. How about that. Kill everyone and repopulate or kill enough to stop the revolts for the next 100 years.

[Bootsiuv]

You guys make me smile, with your silly silliness.

@Respensus

You can exterminate cities (I'm sure you know that) and it usually does have a pacifying effect. I don't know about stopping revolts for 100 years, but after I exterminate, most settlements will be fairly placid (Some Iberian and far eastern cities notwithstanding).

[bovi]

He wants to do another extermination when he owns the settlement.

[Bootsiuv]

Oh....how cruel. :(

j/k....I would do it too to those little bastards. Muaahahahahaha.

[Respenus]

You guys make me smile, with your silly silliness.

@Respensus

You can exterminate cities (I'm sure you know that) and it usually does have a pacifying effect. I don't know about stopping revolts for 100 years, but after I exterminate, most settlements will be fairly placid (Some Iberian and far eastern cities notwithstanding).

Yes, you can exterminate them when you CONQUER them. Not afterwards, which is what I'd like to do. I try not to kill off the populace, by from what I've seen from my "failed" Romani campaign is, "If you don't exterminate them, you'll have problems, sooner or later!"

[Rodion Romanovich]

Yes, RTW definitely has overpowered the exterminate option, and made occupation nearly impossible. In fact, historical exterminations were comparatively rare and far smaller in scale than most ancient authors claim. I just pretend the game doesn't exterminate the city when I press the exterminate button, and press it repeatedly (just as I pretend, when the enemy sends a new full stack after me each turn, that it's not a new stack but the previous army, that didn't get 99% wiped out but managed to retreat, rally and join up with reinforcements after I defeated them). The whole thing about revolts automatically throwing out your garrison from the city etc is quite screwed up anyway, as is the entire happiness/revolt system. Would be much better to spawn 3 full stacks of so of medium quality troops outside a settlement, and also let the revolt risk depend on other things such as diplomatic and political settings... Cruelty is historically only a very short term way of dealing with unrest, and a very good way of increasing unrest in the long term - contrary to how the RTW engine handles it.

[Bootsiuv]

It would be cool if, when a city revolted, a battle would be played out between your small garrison and hundreds of angry peasants.

They could throw poo poo on your troops from the second story windows.

[Spoofa]

or rocks, like how they killed Phyrus

[Tellos Athenaios]

<_<

>_>

Does he ...?

[Spoofa]

Do I what?

[Watchman]

Throw poop at cops from your window ?

[Spoofa]

Oh yeah, its sort of a hobby of mine.


(Realized he might have been talking to bootsiuv )

[Megas Methuselah]

i bet the coppers don't like that...

[Slim_Ghost]

I rather pretend that the extermination wasn't extremination per se....but the execution of all possible as well as potential citizens the cities that wish to revolt.

As someone might have pointed out here, the number of citiziens in the population is actually the number of RECRUITABLE citizens, not the whole population of them.