I think you could do that in CoW a few years ago, in CoW original.
28 Mar 2024, 21:38
Give us the option to demolish buildings
Let's say, you have no use for a building, or you accidentally constructed a building and had no time to deconstruct it and it's already built, this has happened to me every time. I find it annoying to have to ignore the city or building. It will also be useful to demolish your building from other important buildings to give pain to the enemy once they get close to you and you know you are going to lose that city, or building that is important to you, you can demolish it, and hope the enemy doesn't use it. This was used a lot during World War 2, and I think this would be important and possibly a game-changing mechanic. The only side effect you would get from demolishing your building is you will get half of the resources you used back to you, instead of getting the full resources to balance it out. Again, this is only a suggestion, so please tell me if it's a good idea.
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28 Mar 2024, 21:39
Maybe, but not this version.BladeFisher wrote:
I think you could do that in CoW a few years ago, in CoW original.
My father once said this: “If you don’t know anything, don’t assume you know and don’t say anything you don’t know is true”
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
28 Mar 2024, 21:46
This used to be in the game, would be a really good feature, but I can see it getting abused.
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28 Mar 2024, 23:21
Literally anything in this game can be abused. Don't keep using that as an excuse to dismiss legitimate suggestions.
29 Mar 2024, 04:47
Great suggestion! It is would be very helpful to demolish buildings, sometimes you make it accidently or sometimes you don't want it to be used by the enemy (once the province is captured). I also think destroying a building should take 50% of its construction time and you would have to spend 25% of the original cost to destroy it. You shouldn't gain resources from destroying a building afterall..... its very illogical to gain resources from destroying something.
Say I made a building which costs 2000 goods and took 10 hours to build, then for demolishing it, a time frame of 5 hours would be needed and you would need to pay 500 goods (25% of CP) for the same.
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29 Mar 2024, 08:35
I would really hate this. Everyone suggesting this only looks at themselves destroying their own building, but they never consider that their enemy could use it as well. Combined with the hefty damage already done to buildings when you take over a province, it would basically mean that you never conquer a building anymore, making all your conquered lands look like a waisteland.
29 Mar 2024, 12:52
Is that why they dropped it when they upgraded the game 2/3 years ago?
29 Mar 2024, 13:25
That's why this is a suggestion, probably why it was removed in the older version. Though that would bring much more challenging situations, it would encourage you to start building at buildings that were demolished by your enemy.K.Rokossovski wrote:
I would really hate this. Everyone suggesting this only looks at themselves destroying their own building, but they never consider that their enemy could use it as well. Combined with the hefty damage already done to buildings when you take over a province, it would basically mean that you never conquer a building anymore, making all your conquered lands look like a waisteland.
My father once said this: “If you don’t know anything, don’t assume you know and don’t say anything you don’t know is true”
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
29 Mar 2024, 13:29
It will add a sense of realism.
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29 Mar 2024, 13:30
Yes, it would because this was used a lot when the French were retreating from the Germans I believe, correct me if I am wrong.Joe Bartolozzi wrote:
It will add a sense of realism.
My father once said this: “If you don’t know anything, don’t assume you know and don’t say anything you don’t know is true”
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
29 Mar 2024, 13:31
Strange, I have been playing this game for eight years now, and I can't remember EVER having been able to destroy buildings...
29 Mar 2024, 13:31
Wait, I'm thinking of the germans back in 1944
My father once said this: “If you don’t know anything, don’t assume you know and don’t say anything you don’t know is true”
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
29 Mar 2024, 13:38
Never heard about that one either? I guess you could call the giant Soviet operation to move entire factories from European Russia to the Urals and beyond something like this, and the German were pretty good at it towards the end of the war as well... still for example, they put in a HUGE operation to destroy the harbor of Cherbourg when they were about to lose it, yet it was operational again in two weeks iirc. So no, blowing up your own buildings so they were unusable to the enemy didn't happen much actually. Infrastructure was another matter; many bridges were blown of course.NEPTUNE the great wrote:
Yes, it would because this was used a lot when the French were retreating from the Germans I believe, correct me if I am wrong.Joe Bartolozzi wrote:
It will add a sense of realism.
29 Mar 2024, 13:41
Didn't the Germans do this when they were retreating in 1944?K.Rokossovski wrote:
Never heard about that one either? I guess you could call the giant Soviet operation to move entire factories from European Russia to the Urals and beyond something like this, and the German were pretty good at it towards the end of the war as well... still for example, they put in a HUGE operation to destroy the harbor of Cherbourg when they were about to lose it, yet it was operational again in two weeks iirc. So no, blowing up your own buildings so they were unusable to the enemy didn't happen much actually. Infrastructure was another matter; many bridges were blown of course.NEPTUNE the great wrote:
Yes, it would because this was used a lot when the French were retreating from the Germans I believe, correct me if I am wrong.Joe Bartolozzi wrote:
It will add a sense of realism.
My father once said this: “If you don’t know anything, don’t assume you know and don’t say anything you don’t know is true”
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
I always got annoyed when he said that, but to be honest he’s kinda right if you think about it
Have a good day!
29 Mar 2024, 15:01
What about the soviets burning entire village infrastructures in early Barbarossa? Scorch fire was greatly used in ww2.K.Rokossovski wrote:
Never heard about that one either? I guess you could call the giant Soviet operation to move entire factories from European Russia to the Urals and beyond something like this, and the German were pretty good at it towards the end of the war as well... still for example, they put in a HUGE operation to destroy the harbor of Cherbourg when they were about to lose it, yet it was operational again in two weeks iirc. So no, blowing up your own buildings so they were unusable to the enemy didn't happen much actually. Infrastructure was another matter; many bridges were blown of course.NEPTUNE the great wrote:
Yes, it would because this was used a lot when the French were retreating from the Germans I believe, correct me if I am wrong.Joe Bartolozzi wrote:
It will add a sense of realism.
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29 Mar 2024, 15:51
Infrastructure, yes. But not much steel works, factories, shipyards, etc
(and maybe not even recruitment offices 
29 Mar 2024, 22:08
This thread is giving me the oddest deja vu.
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29 Mar 2024, 23:23
You certainly could destroy buildings in 2020/21. IIRC it was a little bit difficult to find but it was there. Id prefer if we had portable prefabs. . . .
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30 Mar 2024, 22:17
I joined right at the end of 1.0 but couldn't you only disable them?K.Rokossovski wrote:
Strange, I have been playing this game for eight years now, and I can't remember EVER having been able to destroy buildings...
Yes because with WWII era technology you could have moving factories which could produce tanks directly onto the battlefield. This isn't Command and Conquer and I'd prefer a semblance of realism. Building plants near the front line is already easy enough.BladeFisher wrote:
You certainly could destroy buildings in 2020/21. IIRC it was a little bit difficult to find but it was there. Id prefer if we had portable prefabs. . . .Take your buildings as you advance.
I mean yes you could do what the Chinese or Soviets did and rebuild everything in Chungking or Magnitogorsk but that's a bit harder and took huge resources to do. Portable prefabs doesn't cut it.
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31 Mar 2024, 02:10 (edited)
Cherbourg “ was operational again in two weeks iirc. ” is at odds with my recognition.K.Rokossovski wrote:
Never heard about that one either? I guess you could call the giant Soviet operation to move entire factories from European Russia to the Urals and beyond something like this, and the German were pretty good at it towards the end of the war as well... still for example, they put in a HUGE operation to destroy the harbor of Cherbourg when they were about to lose it, yet it was operational again in two weeks iirc. So no, blowing up your own buildings so they were unusable to the enemy didn't happen much actually. Infrastructure was another matter; many bridges were blown of course.NEPTUNE the great wrote:
Yes, it would because this was used a lot when the French were retreating from the Germans I believe, correct me if I am wrong.Joe Bartolozzi wrote:
It will add a sense of realism.
In brief, at the time of two weeks, it's not like it have fully recovered.
Although first ships were able to use the harbor in late July, but the port was only not brought into limited use until the middle of August.
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