border expansion doesn't always occur

[playshogi]

In the below screenshot, both Baghdad and Najran have had 3 border expansions, but I cannot close the gap between the 2 cities.

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[stagnate]

Can you show a mouseover of the cultural details for najran, because to me it looks a lot like only 2 border there not three.

 

[playshogi]

I can assure you that it has enough culture for 4 expansions. I think there is some problem with island cities expanding borders over water, because I see some ancient AI cities that haven't expanded beyond the first one also. This could be a feature and not a bug, however.

 

[Roland Ehnström]

In fact, in CivIII all those eight tiles would have been inside your borders even if the cities had an influence of 2, so this is definately a new feature or a bug.

-- Roland

 

[playshogi]

My 'refined' cities north and south could not absorb these tiles and the AI managed to find a way to settle there. I wonder how many turns it will take me to culturally absorb it.

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[alva848]

Culture will only go two tiles over water.

 

[playshogi]

That's what it looks like. I think though that if the next tile is land, as here, then culture should continue. The AI never made a city on that spot, so I have a free worker if relations break down with that civ.
If a tile is surrounded on 3 sides by my culture, it should be mine, even if only a water tile. Perhaps, it should not count for score, but only for aesthetics.