Flipped cities you don't want

[Oblivion]

It was pointed out in another thread that in standard Civ4 rules, a city cannot flip back to the country it was taken from. However, that was in warfare (IE, back to the county you beat the city out of right after battle) so I don't know if the same thing appies to cities that are given away or not.

 

[TwoFaced]

The city square does 2 food, 1 hammer (2 if on hilly plains), and 1 commerce. You can't starve away the last person, because even if that last person is in revolt, they're STILL getting fed.

For some reason I thought I remembered reading that you could disband a city in the manual. Guess I was mistaken. Good to know.

 

[TwoFaced]

The ai seems to have no hesitancy about building cities in placements most real players would consider encroaching on their teritory. Yet when these dumb cities which I don't want as the heavily overlap with mine inevitably flip I don't seem to have the option of "rebuff the rebels" or so on that were in other civ games. The only option I seem to have is to go to war and raze the city before it flips.

Is there a way to disband a city I own? I don't want these dumb things as they meerly leech off my good cities and often cost more than they produce.

By leech off your good cities do you mean the flipped city uses some of the workable tiles that your good city used to control?

I discovered if you open up the city screen you can click on a shared tile that your city doesn't have control of (appears dark) and give that city the tile. By doing this you could ensure your good city retains all of it's tiles. Just another option for you.

 

[Jsyudo]

For some reason I thought I remembered reading that you could disband a city in the manual. Guess I was mistaken. Good to know.

I think the only way is to delete the city in world builder if you are thinking of manual disband.

its dumb that we cant abandon the city. I was looking for a way and the above is the only way. but is it considered cheating? I hate to cheat.