Buganda unlock - am I missing something, or is it bugged?

[pjotroos]

I had plenty of navigatable rivers in my current game, so I decided to give Buganda another go in modern. Bad news was, there were no available lakes on my continent. Good news was, Isabella already settled two cities on the lakes that she was happy to share. Here's the state of my empire at the end of exploration era:

Baak' has two Lake (Coastal) tiles next to its center, Tikal has one - I've moused over to confirm they are lake and not wonky looking ocean. The unlock screen still says this:

The criteria is very clearly met. I even tried reloading and converting both to cities, to no avail. Is the detection broken on conquest, or is there a hidden aspect of the unlock that I am missing?

 

[pjotroos]

ETA: I did some testing with the autosaves:

Behold, the utterly useless one tile city of Penfekim'teko and the fruits of its creation:

Looks like the city center check is only done upon settling and not conquering, but the conquered cities count just fine, since one of the two in the scenario above is Isabella's Tikal.

 

[Vincent_lacruz]

Behold, the utterly useless one tile city of Penfekim'teko and the fruits of its creation:
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Would be fun to pop just before asking for peace, and giving that useless city that will just consume hapiness (through settlement limits).

 

[pjotroos]

Well, that was worth a reload. I guess I'm playing Buganda

Thanks for the idea. I hereby pronounce you an honorary Machiavelli.