Border Decay or Bug?

[Zembar]

So can your borders decay or have I encountered an odd bug?

I went to war with Ethiopia and during that time I spawned two great generals and used them both for citadels. One I had place next to Ethiopia's capital. After I captured and razed the capital (OCC) I started exploring again and after I moved my archer from the citadel i lost some of the territory around that 2nd citadel.

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Spoiler :

Both citadels were made by me, and I had all territory around them except to the immediate right of the rightmost citadel (where my warrior is)

So can you lose territory in some manner or did I encounter a bug?

 

[crawf0rd]

Definitely a bug.

 

[SalemSage]

It's not a bug, I don't think.

Capturing a city instantly converts all tiles immediately surrounding that city to its ownership. Thus, it is possible to have a citadel set up like how you have it.

 

[Zembar]

It's not a bug, I don't think.

Capturing a city instantly converts all tiles immediately surrounding that city to its ownership. Thus, it is possible to have a citadel set up like how you have it.

Not sure you understand what happened. Maybe I wasn't clear enough in the OP. I had taken over the capital (which was located where my warriors are in the pic) and it was insta-razed due to OCC.

A few turns later I moved archers out of my citadel and when I did that I lost 3 tiles of my border. I had all tiles around the citadel except the one were the city was (my warriors) but in the pic I don't.

Not a big deal in the end, but was just trying to figure out what happened.

 

[Tachii]

SalemSage makes sense to me. The land bombed by your citadel becomes the city you just took so when that city is gone, it took the 6 hex around it as well.

I assume the game mechanic gets a bit trippy with OCC since it get auto-razed - perhaps the game engine still thought it need to wait for the city to be razed even though it was auto-razed due to OCC - thus you see the land disappear only some turns after you auto-razed it.

 

[Zembar]

Ahh, I see what you mean. Maybe so.

 

[kaspergm]

My guess is that it's not so much a bug as an oversight in the game code. When a city gets razed, basically the tiles within it's cultural control turn neutral. Game has a check to see if these tiles would then be within another city's cultural zone, but apparantly forgets to check whether they would be within a citadel zoc. However, the lack in timing is odd, so I might be wrong - it can, however, be an artifact of the graphics only updating once you move a unit in the area. There are different cases of lingering graphic issus happening in the game.