Ghost towns

Merignac

Centaur
Can one of you wise people explain this to me please?

I found this in wiki about ghost towns and how to conquer them. In revolt it is simple. You clear it and land a cs. Done.
After reading this I still have no idea what to do in a conquest world.

From wiki:
Ghost Towns
If you send attacking troops to a target town before CS lands and these attack troops arrive after CS lands they behave differently in towns with owners and those towns which are deserted. If a town has an owner, these troops have coffee and return home without lifting the siege. If the town is deserted and is a ghost town, they attack your siege troops and have a chance of lifting the siege.
 
Mim le Fay

Mim le Fay

Zeus
You can conquer the city, if you land a cs.

This printed sentence show a different between a normal conquering in a conquer world, and a conquer of a Ghost city. Please accept that it is not a good idea, to attack a Ghost Town during the time period you conquer it.
 
galanoulis

galanoulis

Zeus
In conquest worlds you just send a CS with land troops (i.e plus transportation ships) and some ships and take it over.
Please ensure that prior CS attack, that city has no troops in it defending it.
Mainly it is the same as if it was a players town. Only difference is that none has ownership of the town
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DeletedUser4493

Guest
this advice is just pointing about the consequences about a wrong timing: on an owned city the attacks will take cup of tea and return (no losses) but on a ghost city, if your attacks arrive after the CS, the game considers your attacks as an enemy of the troops siege thats all mate
 

Merignac

Centaur
I find it very strange that in a revolt world you just have to make sure ghost town is cleared before landing a cs and then the city is yours, without having to revolt it or having to wait 12 hours. Yet in conquest you have to go through the motions of a siege
 
yonut258

yonut258

Game support
Technically, there is no need for a revolt since there is no leader to overrule. From the wiki page:
Ghost towns on revolt worlds

You can of course also conquer ghost towns on worlds with the revolt system. But since there is no leader to revolt against, an attack to spark a revolt is not needed. All you have to do is to send a colony ship (accompanied by escorting troops for protection) to capture this city and incorporate it into your empire. If the ship survives its arrival, the city will be yours immediately, provided that you fulfill the necessary cultural requirements for owning another city. In the city, from which the colony ship sets sail, you don’t necessarily have to have researched "Conquest" for this manoeuver.
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Merignac

Centaur
Yeah, and there is no ruler in a ghost town in a conquest world either so why the need for a siege?
 

Merignac

Centaur
What I am trying to say, unsuccessfully I may add, is that ghost towns in conquest should be no different than ghost towns in revolt.
In both styles you should just be able to land a cs. In revolt you do not need to wait the 12 hours, whereas in conquest you do. In both style to natives are restless, so I think that part is just a bit of a red herring in conquest.
 
galanoulis

galanoulis

Zeus
Merignac said:
What I am trying to say, unsuccessfully I may add, is that ghost towns in conquest should be no different than ghost towns in revolt.
In both styles you should just be able to land a cs. In revolt you do not need to wait the 12 hours, whereas in conquest you do. In both style to natives are restless, so I think that part is just a bit of a red herring in conquest.
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You mean in conquest send the CS and instantly take over control of the town??
 
galanoulis

galanoulis

Zeus
Sounds really bad because this will also open "pandoras box" and people will ask for instant take over of opponent players town or creation of new towns.
Conquest of a ghost town is exact;y the same as in conquest of the town of a player. Only difference is the ownership (ghost has no owner)
Instantly taking over a ghost town will make it really unfair as there would be no time of reaction and you will end up seen ghost towns with 6000 or 7000 biremes and some thousand of transportation ships to defend them......
(this might happen now as well but as there is a chance of reaction defences are less and tehre is an opportunity for a war over the ownership
 
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