No "Free Cities" civ in Jan2021 update

[danguru]

My mod's LUA crashed when it tried to add "Free Cities" to the map at the start of the game. This used to work before I updated. Turns out when looking at the GameCore.log file I see this:

[1249375.961] Player 53: Civilization - CIVILIZATION_NALANDA (430881916) Leader - LEADER_MINOR_CIV_NALANDA (-1194013229), - Level - CIVILIZATION_LEVEL_CITY_STATE, SlotStatus - AI
[1249375.961] Player 54: Civilization - CIVILIZATION_NGAZARGAMU (-1121933578) Leader - LEADER_MINOR_CIV_NGAZARGAMU (-370119521), - Level - CIVILIZATION_LEVEL_CITY_STATE, SlotStatus - AI
[1249375.961] Player 55: Civilization - CIVILIZATION_YEREVAN (-1895171710) Leader - LEADER_MINOR_CIV_YEREVAN (779323437), - Level - CIVILIZATION_LEVEL_CITY_STATE, SlotStatus - AI
[1249375.961] Player 63: Civilization - CIVILIZATION_BARBARIAN (-1758762461) Leader - (null) (0), - Level - CIVILIZATION_LEVEL_TRIBE, SlotStatus - AI
[1249378.168] Pathfinder Allocation, rows 66, columns 106, column buffer 848, row buffer 5808, total 615648

Before the update there was a "player 62" aka the "Free Cities".

I suppose this is just a warning to modders. Wonder if they are now just barbarians also and now Barbarians can have cites again.

 

[TreVor_ish]

This is probably a prelude to February changes

 

[danguru]

This is probably a prelude to February changes

I think it is a bug. I posted on the bug forum. I started a game and a neighboring city is rebelling. Only problem is it gets to "0 turns to rebellion" and stays there for ever. I assume the game tries to move it to the Free Cities player but that fails as that player does not exist.

 

[TreVor_ish]

If that's the case then, yeah.