[0.77 Bug?] Resources and Cities

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When Building Iron mines, if the mine is completely separate from any city it will build by it's self in a few turns but if its adjacent to a city, it will be placed into the cities build queue and wont complete until everything else is done. Since in the early game I often have several other things needing to be built this can be massively detrimental. I haven't checked if other resources behave like this but I'd guess that they do.

Is this working as intended? Is there a way to manually separate a resource with a city?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

There is one advantage to connecting a resource to a city - it can be rushed to get it finished sooner.  But apart from that, the only other advantage is that they can't be pillaged separately to the city.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Still seems like I'd be better of in many cases building early cities 2 squares away from a resource and just joining it later. Pretty counter-intuitive

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, and sometimes you don't want to do that because the right square has high food and reasonable materials, so you don't really have a choice if you want a good capital.