Permanently occupied city

[Arms Longfellow]

A long time ago, I conquered a city from China, Longxi, and it's stuck at 2 population and refuses to grow. It has good housing and amenities. When I talk to Qin Shi Huang, no option is available to make a deal to cede the city to me.

 

[Arms Longfellow]

UPDATE: I went back and completely eliminated Qin Shi Huang from the game and the city is still occupied! Why do the people of Longxi yearn to be ruled by that wonder-hoarding tyrant when they could be enjoying life in their fabulous new châteaus?

 

[Arms Longfellow]

Update 2: I figured out how to re-create the bug. I think I was too hasty in making a peace deal.

STEP 1: Conquer a city, do not click on the "Keep city?" button.

STEP 2: Immediately talk to the leader of the city you just conquered, make a peace treaty.

STEP 3: Now click the Keep city? button and keep it.

RESULT: That city is now permanently occupied and will never grow again.

 

[Browd]

Yes, this is well attested. Lesson: Decide whether to "Keep or Raze" before initiating a peace treaty or, if you forget, and make peace before deciding, go ahead and raze the city (and just re-found the city if you want a city in that location).

 

[BrendanVI]

this happened to me too, I even tried resurrecting the AI, to give it back to him to only take it away again....
I tried to give it to another AI and take it back...still occupied...
So I harvested what ever I could around the city to grow it's population....then built forests all around with mills, the city became a worker production hub, but a thorn in my empire.
Should be able to raze cities when ever you want to, cause I would of happily razed that city......

 

[Arms Longfellow]

Did you also make a peace deal with him before clicking on "Keep city?"? I ask because I'm not 100% sure if I did that the first time it happened, even though I was able to replicate the bug by doing that.

I also don't know if it's intentional or not that AI leaders will denounce you for occupying their cities even if they cede them to you.

 

[BrendanVI]

Did you also make a peace deal with him before clicking on "Keep city?"? I ask because I'm not 100% sure if I did that the first time it happened, even though I was able to replicate the bug by doing that.

i honestly can't remember, I very well could of seeing how it is an easy thing to do....will remember to be more meticulous next time...

 

[BrendanVI]

Yes, this is well attested. Lesson: Decide whether to "Keep or Raze" before initiating a peace treaty or, if you forget, and make peace before deciding, go ahead and raze the city (and just re-found the city if you want a city in that location).

sounds like we can raze cities now, even after we capture them....how do we do this?

 

[Nigel_Tufnel2]

(After summer patch) -- I took China's capital, and later Teddy took China's last city. I DOW'd Teddy while he was still fighting China, and got that last China city from Teddy in a peace deal. Of course, I had no option to Keep or Raze BEFORE peace - so I took the city and now it is permanently Occupied. Huh?

I reloaded and can resurrect China, and it's not Occupied... The only 2 options are Keep and Liberate - Razing is not an option.

No matter which option, Teddy thanks me for keeping the peace the next turn, even though he Denounced me earlier for DOWing China (I started 2 wars and kept a capital!).