City Overlap

[wioneo]

How do you switch tile assignments in between overlapping fat crosses? I always have the tile grayed out in one city, and even when I unassign the tile, it stays gray.

 

[Inyuraye]

If you want to use a tile that is currently part of the workable fat cross in another city, just left click it in the city that you want to work that tile in, and it should no longer be greyed out, becoming a workable tile. After that you can click it again to assign a worker to the tile.

 

[wioneo]

Are you serious? I feel incredibly stupid, and will now go off to hang my head in shame. Thank you.

 

[HectorSpector]

I'm sure I tried that before, but it never worked (even when not being used in the overlapping city)

 

[voek]

Just make sure the other city which initially worked the tile, stopped working that tile (i.o. manually switch that working tile to another). Then you will be able to work that tile in the other city. Should be no problem.

 

[carl corey]

I'm sure I tried that before, but it never worked (even when not being used in the overlapping city)

That's most likely because you clicked OUTSIDE the fat cross. This "fat cross" is composed by all the tiles that are in the cultural borders of the city after their first expantion from the initial size. Considering the city (c) in the center, it goes like this:

_xxx
xxxxx
xxcxx
xxxxx
_xxx

(the x tiles are in the fat cross)