Worker takes city

[kristopherb]

Worker takes city?
How is this possible?

 

[ori]

by not installing Bhruic's patch
the way this bug works is:
you capture a city that has a ship in it. inside this ship there is a worker (or settler I *think*). By capturing the city you displace that worker - because it is no *in* the city but rather on sea to the nearest city of his civ. At the same time you capture that worker - so the displaced worker ends up in your foes city but belongs to you. This means that one of your units entered your enemy's city - thus capturing it

Edit: Bhruic can explain this much better:

If you want the specific details...

What happens is there is a ship in the city with at least one worker on it. When you capture the city, normally what happens is any workers/settlers in the city are captured (settler is "captured" into a worker), and all other units in the city are destroyed. The bug is that the ship gets destroyed, which "bumps" the worker on board to the nearest city (of the Empire that used to own the city you just captured). But because the worker was in the city when you captured it, that worker still gets "captured" by you. This means you now have a worker sitting in an enemy city. Since having a unit in an enemy city is the "capture" condition, you immediately capture that new city.

And yes, you can actually "chain" capture this way. For giggles, I set up a test condition where I completely eliminated a 12 city Civ just by capturing a single city.


Bh

 

[ggganz]

And how does he fix this?

 

[ori]

I fear you need to look through the code changes he made - I did not check for this, but would assume his patch prevents the worker from being displaced, though this is a wild guess