How to Buy Tiles as a Landowner

[Sir Goon]

Simple question on mechanics. Playing my first game as a Landowner and can't determine how to buy tiles.

[mk11]

Position unit in neutral territory just outside city boundary and buy tile option will be available. Normally buys one tile but may buy more to extend to a resource.

Note you can only buy tiles for the Landowner's family seat, not other Landowner cities. (You need colonisation or the appropriate guvnor).

Edit: The option is listed below actions such as heal and you may need to scroll to see it,

[evolena]

A unit on a tile outside but just next to your Landowner SEAT city should have an action to Buy a Tile, in the section below the list of improvements if this unit is a worker.

For example, here my worker can buy a tile for Waset because it is the Landowner's seat, but not for Per-Sapdu even if it is also a Landowner city (until I get the Colony law):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2943249502

[r47926]

Two related things I had to find out first:

Your borders are actually the borders of that city, not of your civilization. If you want another (neighbour) city to work on a tile, you have to buy that tile again for that city. And this will make the original owners family unhappy by quite a bit.
(This can be frustrating in combination with the effect that buying one tile can buy more then one tile if there's a resource nearby or if it closes the border. I wish this was handles more conveniently.)

You cannot buy a tile that already has an improvement on it. So if you plan on founding another city nearby later and giving them that tile, you cannot build an improvement on it.

[Sir Goon]

Thank you! So glad I asked the question as it was not covered in the manual or in-game encyclopedia. I'd tried a few things, but would have never gotten around to trying this :) Thanks again.

[evolena]

Originally posted by r47926:

You cannot buy a tile that already has an improvement on it. So if you plan on founding another city nearby later and giving them that tile, you cannot build an improvement on it.

There is a trick if you already built an improvement on a tile that you really want to swap later: start building another thing to replace it (with CTRL), then cancel the new build.

[r47926]

Originally posted by evolena:

Originally posted by r47926:

You cannot buy a tile that already has an improvement on it. So if you plan on founding another city nearby later and giving them that tile, you cannot build an improvement on it.

There is a trick if you already built an improvement on a tile that you really want to swap later: start building another thing to replace it (with CTRL), then cancel the new build.

Thanks!
Didn't know you could remove an improvement like that.