AI settling city within 3 tiles of another city?

[Zezima]

I've never seen this happen before and I've never seen it mentioned here on civfanatics.

Spoiler :

Now unless I am counting wrong or severely visually impaired, that definitely looks like a city that shouldn't exist. (I didn't think to turn on grid until after the fact, but it's pretty clear there are only 2 tiles between those cities)

 

[Enrico Swagolo]

Cities on other landmasses can be set within 3 tiles, so all is working as intended here.

It's like this:
Cities on the same landmass - 4 tiles.
Cities on different ones - 3 tiles.

 

[docbud]

They are two different landmasses.
EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[fat_tonle]

Not sure why it wouldn't settle on the left there with oil, sheep, deer, and copper, but that's the AI for ya...

 

[Zezima]

Huh, I was never aware of that nuance. I wonder if it is actually intentional or just an oversight. Either way, thanks for the response. Always learning new things about CiV.

 

[joncnunn]

Cities on other landmasses can be set within 3 tiles, so all is working as intended here.

It's like this:
Cities on the same landmass - 4 tiles.
Cities on different ones - 3 tiles.

While the same landmass one is correct, for a different landmass there is no minimum at all other than the gap that much be there to be on a seperate landmass.

(one tile island - ocean- city is allowed.)

What is more, with just XML you can not mod this to change minimum distance for cities across landmasses as the XML only has a key value pair that was read of on the same landmass and not one for separate land masses.