

Question 4: What happens once you merge cities?Īnswer: It is very similar to what happen when you attach an outpost to a city, the target city is removed from the game, its city center become an administrative center, all territories it had become territories for the city it was merged into, its population join the city it was merged into, the districts/quarters become districts/quarters to the new city and any infrastructure in the now merged city is simply lost but its districts and quarters benefit from the infrastructure of its new city.Īnswer: While merging cities come at a huge influence cost and there are advantages of having many cities, there are some advantages of merging cities. Secondly the number of territories of the target and third the number of districts of the target. First and most importantly is the cost increase for any infrastructure one of the cities lack, thus you should make sure the cities have the exact same infrastructures before merging them. Question 3: What determine the cost of attaching cities?Īnswer: Right now the exact formula is not know but from experience it is based upon several things. If you don't see the icon, that mean you have not fufilled the prerequests at question 1. Also the cities territories need to be adjacenent to each other, similar to how you attach outposts, in fact merging cities is very similar to attaching outposts.Īnswer: It is very similar to how you attach outposts, you enter/select the city you want to merge another city to and then move the screen over the name of the city you want to merge into your selected city and you should see the merge icon with an influence cost.

Question 1: What are the prerequest to merge city?Īnswer: You need the medieval era technology Military Architecture before you can merge cities. I have seen some people having problem with city merging for various reasons, so here I try to explain it in a quick way.
