10-10-2001 20:41									#1
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You notice in the Developer Update: Resources (linked directly it here) the Romans build a colony outside it's borders, but then their city culture grows large enough that the city borders expand and the colony is no longer needed. It disappears.

Where did the unit go that created that colony? If it disappears, where does that population point go? Does it go back into the city or does it just vanish?

	10-10-2001 20:51									#2
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As far as I know (could be wrong) it vanishes.

The cost of having that resources earlier than you ordinarily would have is losing the pop point from the colony/worker.

Better balanced that way.

	10-10-2001 21:05									#3
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Can you term colonies into Cities?

	10-10-2001 21:07									#4
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If you "plop" a settler unit down where the colony is and tell them to build a city, then yes you can turn colonies into cities.

	10-10-2001 21:15									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Deathwalker Can you term colonies into Cities?

I sure hope so

	11-10-2001 08:37									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Deathwalker Can you term colonies into Cities?

I doubted. It would be nice if you could transform the colony into a city by sending there another worker, before your colony is swept inside your border.

Little chance.

	11-10-2001 10:55									#7
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I think that putting settler on the colony shall do the trick!

	11-10-2001 13:44									#8
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I think once you use a worker to build a colony, that population is lost forever. This is so its not a 'given' for the player to build colonies whenever they can, and get the population back later. If you want the resource now, then exploiting that resource incurs a heavy penalty: the loss of one pop point. Thats the way i think it will work

	11-10-2001 14:06									#9
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I assumed that the colonies wouldn't cost any population to build, because they're basically just "mines" for a resource. I guess I was wrong, I'll go and check CivFanatics.