Cities next to each others

[LezzerLord]

I know that it is impossible to build cities next to each other, but look at this!
View attachment CITIESNEXTTOEACHOTHER.rar


I had created a map and placed my (egypt) start loc. and then the Romans spawned randomely next to me. (I wiped them out first turn)

 

[Perfection]

If that's true, wy are they at pop 7 and 5?

 

[LezzerLord]

Because I chose accelerated start and he got 2 cities, thus his main city is smaller. No you cannot see the second city, but I have another screen which shows it. I can post it if you wish.

 

[civiijkw]

Even if you don't choose accelerated start it is possible for a restart to begin with a lot more than a single size one city. When I was retroactively tracking how one game went I found that three of the 17 restarts had begun with two settlers that at turn end became a size 4 city with four city improvements, a settler, a phalanx, and a half-dozen irrigated squares (which were not irrigated the turn before), and one of the 17 began with two settlers ten squares apart (that became a pair of size one cities) without seeing the squares between them.

 

[Catfish]

This anomalous metropolis appeared out of nowhere in one game of mine. The poor bugger in the middle isn't faring so well.