Buying workers

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

In case of tie, the founding date matters. And since you normally have several cities per distance, that is very well an issue: If the AI city is in the best spot of that distance, better keep it.

 

[Theoden]

I don't quite see the logic of that. If you have cities of your own at the same distance then they are most likely more developed and you would want them to have the lowest corruption. If you keep the new city then the existing city of yours will suffer if the new city gains anything from it.
Or have I missed your point?

 

[Invisible Rhino]

I ALWAYS buy workers when I get the chance, one of my favorite things to do is demand all the workers that are hiding in the enemy capital as part of a peace treaty. Plus when you resettle them later you get a very diverse civilization In the later game I prefer to think of it as encouragng immigration