Settler production vs worked tiles(bug?)

Can someone explain this situation?

From this picture, you can see -2 food per turn.



From this one, a settler is chosen. The -2 food disappears, giving me more hammers to build it. Looks like a city(maybe only capital) can support more hammers and less food when a settler is in construction, accelerating production.



This was a multiplayer game. I found this thing(bug) months ago but i finally think about getting pictures. It's a nice way to use more hammers for a settler.

Yes I noticed that as well and I have a hard time not exploiting it Looks like citizens don't mind starving when building settlers... Feels like a bug to me.

people rarely eat while making babies.

this is especially important when you have the +50% settler production policy, as that only works on hammers (not excess food turned into production). just make sure you remember to unlock tiles afterward, starving sucks.

I found it a while ago, I'm pretty sure that it's a bug. Kinda hard to ignore though...

Ok, it seems to be a bug then. But a nice and practical one.

From some other starts you need to work more cow or plain tiles than anyone else so this is not always preferable. But this case is a good example how to maximise settler production from that bug. I didn't take the 50% discount settlers policy here.

Yeah, you can just switch to all production when making settlers and it cuts off a few turns without losing any food due to starvation. I was going to make a thread about this but I don't like the civ community and decided to not share the information.

KevinMiles90000 said:

Yeah, you can just switch to all production when making settlers and it cuts off a few turns without losing any food due to starvation.

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I wasn't sure about this. I was about to ask because i always set to default since i micromanage all citizens. I tought the bug would prevent to use the production focus efficiently and not put optimally citizens like it should(from the bug).

Pretty much simple that way.