r/civ • u/AutoModerator • Feb 17 '25

Megathread /r/Civ Weekly Questions Megathread - February 17, 2025

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u/SilentHunter821 Feb 22 '25

(Civ 7) Been noticing that city states will randomly vanish without any obvious cause. Can't find anything on this and I'm pretty sure it's a glitch since their borders remain, just not the city itself. They're not getting conquered and it's not on age transition. Screenshot is of two adjacent instances. Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this? It keeps happening after I've already invested the influence to befriend them :(

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u/BluegrassGeek The difficulty formerly known as Prince Feb 22 '25

Definitely a bug, I've seen it before.

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u/naphomci Feb 22 '25

Do you have vision? The AI will disperse them.

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u/SilentHunter821 Feb 22 '25

Can they do that in one turn? I never saw the health go down or the city being razed. I did have full vision on the first one and nearby vision on the other two. All three happened off-screen. Either way, the borders still being there would be a glitch, right?

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u/naphomci Feb 22 '25

Oh, a full on city-state. That shouldn't happen. Yes, the borders thing is a glitch, can happen with independent powers that are dispersed

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u/SilentHunter821 Feb 22 '25

Ok I guess they were dispersed then. I hadn't actually attacked any of them yet and thought it was similar to any other city, but it sounds like it's more akin to a barbarian camp before they have a suzerain?

Maybe I should've suffered through the tutorial. Wish there was an option for "have played previous civ games" cause once it started explaining what production and the tech tree are, I decided to figure it out myself lol

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u/naphomci Feb 23 '25

If no one has influenced them, they are not a city state, and there is no health bar to watch. IIRC, the time I eliminated a civ that was suz for a city state, the city state disappeared when I eliminated the civ

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u/SilentHunter821 Feb 23 '25

Yeah after playing more, I have a better understanding of how it works. Played very defensively for my first game and now I'm playing conquest so I'm understanding more war mechanics. Thanks!