Abandon city

[Rosty K]

There's no way to do it in Civ 6, right?

I remember some previous versions had a button, which would turn a pop 1 city back into a settler, or in some other versions you could do it by rushing a settler in a pop 1 city... Now there's no button and you can't build a settler too...

Just got a bit frustrated - I settled a city forgetting that one nearby had Petra, and a new city took a couple of desert tiles from the Petra one (and those are adjacent to the new city center, so I can't swap them).

And I was too lazy to load an autosave, so just went on, I'll win anyway

And while we are at it, shouldn't Petra have some area effect? Or just apply for all cities?

 

[Orange1861]

I don't remember this ever being a thing. I do remember that one could put a settler into another city, increasing its pop by one.

 

[Felis Renidens]

I don't remember it being possible in Civ. It was possible in colonization but you had a lot more control over the colonists there anyway. I suppose you can gift it away and then conquer and raze it if it really bothers you.

 

[Lanthar]

I think it was Civ2/3 that allowed abandoning a city by building a settler with 1 population.

 

[Victoria]

You could indeed .... Petra effect is only for 1 city

 

[Rosty K]

Petra effect is only for 1 city

I know. I was asking wouldn't it be more attractive if it wasn't just for 1?

 

[Victoria]

Ooooh, duh! Yes but it could be a bit OP, especially if Australia got it

 

[craney1987]

Ooooh, duh! Yes but it could be a bit OP, especially if Australia got it

omg. Petra with civ wide effect plus outback stations. Op or not I want it. Lol

 

[Rosty K]

Ooooh, duh! Yes but it could be a bit OP, especially if Australia got it

But, uh, it's not that you often have desert everywhere. I almost always get it in small patches here and there, rarely large enough to justify building Petra in the first place (you need to spend 1 tile of desert on the wonder itself, and it would normally leave me with like 3-4 tiles to be affected by the bonus).

Don't know about Australia, but desert resource mines with Petra are indeed omg

 

[Kinestic]

What would be nice for petra is if it was a sort of "Viral" effect. So any desert tile touching Petra gets the bonus, and any desert tile touching 1 of those desert tile gets it, and so on, but only for desert tiles in your teritory.