Citadel bug

[zxcvbob]

I've run into this twice now; two different games. I use a citadel to steal resource tiles from a neighbor AI. Eventually I capture that city, and I raze it because those resources were the only thing I wanted. When the city burns down, the captured tiles (except for the citadel itself) are in unclaimed territory with the city ruins -- it's like the when I capture the city the tiles revert back to the old borders.

[TheGaleRider]

I think I've seen this bug before, but it hasn't happened to me (mainly because I don't need to capture the city if I already have the resource(s) I need).

[Lorofish]

Not too sure about what you are saying here, screenshots would be very helpful. Never encoutered this before. My guess is the game "merges" your citadel territory into the territory of the city you have just captured, and erased it as your raze the city.

[retjero]

I can second the opinion that even on unmoded Civ 5 BNW, there are rare occurences of weird behaviour in or around citadels.

In a simpler situation, I expanded my city's terriotry into two neutral hexes and one enemy controlled hex. After several turns, the hex formerly belonging to the enemy reverted back to him as well as one of the neutral hexes went back neutral. So territory right next to my citadel was no longer owned by me. No other citidels were dropped by anyone.

Prior to that, two of my military land units (lancer and musketman I believe) ended up stacked on a hex next to the citadel when I ended my turn. My enemy killed the lancer with four ranged shots, then wounded the musketman. I did save a screenshot of that, but it looks weird on my viewing software, backwards and upside down. Also don't know how to attach screenshots in this forum.

[ajhartman65]

I know exactly what you are talking about. I have seen it happen on only one occasion where after stealing the resource i wanted i later went back and removed the other civ from my border and ended up losing my resource until the borders expanded again later. Even the citadel was now outside my border once the city was razed (had placed the citadel during war so it was placed in enemy territory to make it mine and to protect my attacking units).

[Lorofish]

What can I say. >1k hours in game and I still haven't seen this problem once lol...

[JH]

Here's a screenshot:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=499065713

I plonked the citadel there to get some aluminium. I razed an enemy city whose borders were a tile away and the citadel is now outside my territory.

[Edit] What seems to have happened is when the game re-evaluated borders after the razing, it decided the citadel was attached to the territory of the now-razed city (I think its borders had expanded in the meantime, which is why this is so rare). When I originally placed the citadel, it was attached to my capital's territory. I reloaded and placed the citadel inside my capital's borders instead of alongside and it was not affected after the razing.

[CuddleKing]

I think the ownership of the citadel and it's territory moves to the nearest city.

So when you conquered the new city, ownership transferred to it
- and once razed became neutral.

I guess its just a quirk you'll have to be aware of in the future, and plan around.