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It's happened to me as well, only at the time the civ was one of my allies and infact was my closest one, I don't know if it was because they liked me that they didn't take it or if it was just because I was more powerful though.
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Vienna, Austria
Aug 2001
time: 06:22
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Originally posted by Catt
I have seen the AI refuse a flipping city once, and have seen several screenshots from others showing the same thing. It seems to happen, but why or when I cannot begin to understand. |
I actually experienced a situation where, on second thought, I should have refused a cultural flip. I was playing as the Egyptians on Monarch and was aiming for a 'single-city' cultural victory. (Part of my strategy was to build temples before settlers, which really hampered the growth of my empire, but nevertheless made me vastly superior in terms of culture.) While I was still in Despotism and had not researched Map Making yet (alas no galleys), a Zulu city on another landmass adjacent to my continent flipped to me. I decided to let it join my empire and rushed a second spearman as soon as possible. It was a calculated risk, as the Zulus were likely to try to take the city back by force, and I was unable to ship reenforcements. To make a long story short, the Zulus, which had swordsmen, declared war on me two turns later and managed to take the city back. Oh well - nothing gained and nothing lost in the process, I thought.
Many turns later - I was a Republic in the early middle age, no. 3 at the histograph and still superior culture-wise -, the very same Zuly city flipped to me a second time, and I decided again to let it join my empire. My reasoning was that a) I was able to reenforce the city's defense over sea by now and b) the Zulus and I were trading luxuries on a 1-by-1 basis, so that war would hurt them too. It turned out that the Zulus had a somewhat better reasoning, namely a) reenforcement was likely to take at least two turns and b) war would hurt them too, but not as bad as me, because they weren't a Republic. So they declared war on me the next turn, threw about half a dozen impis and swordsmen against the city and, again, took it back.  Moreover, I had to adjust my luxury slider up a notch to substitute for the Zulu's lost luxury.
At that point I swore to me that if the people of this city would try to join my empire a third time, I would refuse to acknowledge their claims. They seemed to be aware of my anger, as they didn't try anymore. 
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