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I've had the spontaneous disappearance happen one time (that I observed) since the 1.1.0 patch (no mods installed). I was playing in early-middle Antiquity, and the village was only one tile. The hostile independent attacked me before I could finish befriending it, and in defending myself I killed its units. No more enemy units spawned, and the village disappeared maybe 8-10 turns later with no provocation from me. I tried it a second time and stood by the village to prevent any AI unit from dispersing it, but it still disappeared (and no, it wasn't a coastal village). It just went "poof."
I then replayed the game and left one hostile unit alive. Another hostile ranged unit then spawned in the village, and it did not disappear. It seems like the problem is when the village gets down to zero units, it's unable to spawn a new unit (which seems like a bug to me), which can cause the auto-dispersal of the village. Clearly, this issue occurs frequently enough that they should be able to organically observe it during Civ VII game testing. I've also seen it once since the patch where a village seems to have auto-dispersed (I wasn't nearby, or involved with whatever happened to it), and the spot where the village used to be located was labeled by the map as still belonging to that village, even though no borders were visible there any longer.
Before the last patch, I had it happen a couple of times with the expanded borders being left behind, while the village center tile was clear. I learned that the leftover borders will block you from placing anything on those tiles even if they're within the three-hex radius of your town center, but once the age ends, the leftover borders vanish and you can work with them during the next age.
I've also observed situations where the AI attacks/defends against the hostile indie settlement, and doesn't disperse it after killing all the village's units even though it's standing right on the village center. I've then gone in and dispersed myself after the AI left (no more village units spawned), and gotten the bonus yield from doing so.
I then replayed the game and left one hostile unit alive. Another hostile ranged unit then spawned in the village, and it did not disappear. It seems like the problem is when the village gets down to zero units, it's unable to spawn a new unit (which seems like a bug to me), which can cause the auto-dispersal of the village. Clearly, this issue occurs frequently enough that they should be able to organically observe it during Civ VII game testing. I've also seen it once since the patch where a village seems to have auto-dispersed (I wasn't nearby, or involved with whatever happened to it), and the spot where the village used to be located was labeled by the map as still belonging to that village, even though no borders were visible there any longer.
Before the last patch, I had it happen a couple of times with the expanded borders being left behind, while the village center tile was clear. I learned that the leftover borders will block you from placing anything on those tiles even if they're within the three-hex radius of your town center, but once the age ends, the leftover borders vanish and you can work with them during the next age.
I've also observed situations where the AI attacks/defends against the hostile indie settlement, and doesn't disperse it after killing all the village's units even though it's standing right on the village center. I've then gone in and dispersed myself after the AI left (no more village units spawned), and gotten the bonus yield from doing so.
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