Liberating a city state and having your units evicted

[civfan_999]

When you liberate a city state, you become its suzerain after, which afford you open borders.

However, in that instant between when its been liberated and the game grants you open borders, all your units are evicted from the city state's territory. This sometimes results in your units being pushed into the territory of another civ whom you are at war with. That unit then can be injured or killed on the AI's next turn. Hardly a kind response to the liberation effort.

Given that you have open borders with the city state immediately following liberation anyway, there is no need for this mechanic where the units are evicted.

 

[Sostratus]

I think it's part of the chain of events when city state captures are processed - you get evicted from their territory before they apply open borders for the suzerain.

There might be some edge cases with military units on foreign city tiles that they are trying to avoid by coding it that way.

 

[civfan_999]

There might be some edge cases with military units on foreign city tiles that they are trying to avoid by coding it that way.

I don't understand what you mean by this.

 

[Sostratus]

I don't understand what you mean by this.

There was a bug several years ago where units would get stuck inside cities they liberated. An example. I can't remember, but I think it could also block anyone else from taking the city.

Yes, they could clean this up with some special conditions, but they may not want to put in the effort on something that isn't causing bugged behavior. Personally it's really annoying and I wish they would, though.

 

[civfan_999]

Thank you for explaining that. The context for why is helpful.

However, I think that may have been fixed. I had a very odd experience in my first game of dramatic eras. My city flipped. A builder was standing inside but remained mine. So I had a friendly builder in a hostile free city. I was able to move the builder out of the free city and run it down my road. If the bug has been fixed, then it would be great if they could allow a liberation army to stay in the borders of a suzerained city state.