As designed, or bug?

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When I corner an enemy mage and destroy his forts, the AI replaces the destroyed fort at the end of the turn with a new construction site. However, when I lose a fort I have to wait until the city grows again, essentially losing a building spot. Is this as designed, or is this a bug?

 

[Hassat Hunter]

Odd. In the demo I could immediately replace any lost fort.
It does sound like a bug if a spot is permanently lost. Unless of course starvation made it drop under the building limit and that's why you cannot rebuild it, not the loss of the fort.

 

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When you loose a fort you also loose population, but less than one population level. This means that you may or may not be able to replace it immediately.

 

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Ahh that might be it. I will keep a close eye on my city's population when this occurs again

 

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Thanks sagji, I can confirm the levels of a city indeed drop, causing the above mentioned situation of sometimes not being able to replace a building immediately. Learned something new

 

[Dalwin]

If having it destroyed is the same population penalty as when you voluntarily destroy a building, the message in the latter case says you will lose 200 population. Now I have seen nothing to specify how that 200 fits into scale with the rest of the game so I have been playing with the assumption that each population point is 1,000 and destroyig a building costs you 1/5 of a population point. This may not be entirely correct, however.