Has anyone else noticed this? In my latest game with the Dutch I planned of getting a Greek city as a foothold on the continent, then burn a Great Artist in it to allow faster healing and to give it a great border boost once I take the surrounding cities. Surprise, surprise, the anarchy didn't end, so all I got was 4000 culture but no border pops, nothing. Was this intended or a bug?

It's intended.

The borders will pop when it comes out of anarchy, but this use of the GA is, unfortunately, removed.

Drat... It was probably the single best use of a Great Artist. Now it's back to using it for Golden Ages and cultural victories (very situational), which makes the Great Artist very weak compared to the other great persons.

Yes I expected to bomb Madrid back into action, and had kept the GA for it.

However the pop came after the city returned to normal.

Pah, pathetic.

Yeah, I noticed this - LAME :wallbash:

I recently reported this as a bug. How do we know it's intended? It was about the best use for GAs. Shame.

Yes, it takes away their strongest ability.

To snap a captured capitol back into line, and strengthen your culture in your new region.

:(

pah

I've heard it was a very strong tactic in multiplayer. If they changed it intentionally, maybe that's why.

Yes, but it has ruined it for those who don't play multiplayer and who don't have mega farms throwing out a GA every other decade...

Has anyone else noticed this? In my latest game with the Dutch I planned of getting a Greek city as a foothold on the continent, then burn a Great Artist in it to allow faster healing and to give it a great border boost once I take the surrounding cities. Surprise, surprise, the anarchy didn't end, so all I got was 4000 culture but no border pops, nothing. Was this intended or a bug?

Yeah pretty much, had the artist ready to go for Chichen Itza, ended up not getting it and couldn't even whip up some defense and lost the city 2 turns later. Man was I pissed.