[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14982) capturing a city gives negative borders

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14982 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14982 >
> 
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>When I capture a city, I immediately get ownership of the city tile but
>>every tile around the city is still owned by the enemy.The result is
>>that no tiles can be worked and the city typically starves horribly for
>>several turns.
>>
>>Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> 
> It is an interesting consequence of the new borders rules.
> 
> It does not strike me as altogether implausible that a city might have
> problems with production a few years after conquest.

It also happens during civil war.

I had thought borders would not be stolen, so if I controlled a border 
with a city someone else couldn't take it away.  But this isn't the case 
at the moment since the borders are taken.  I think it is a bug because 
it is the city that was just conquered that is the source of the borders.

In a related problem, you can easily take your settlers into enemy 
territory and found a new city.  However you only get control of the 
tile your city was on, and it may quickly starve.  But if you have a 
unit fortified there, you then keep control of that tile and the player 
can't get it back!  This is really obnoxious during peace.

-jason