thanks for the response. I haven't played since any of the updates. Do most people wait for the AI city to grow to 2 or just conquer them either way. (I don't usually build to many cities. I just expand through victories)
I wouldn't mourn the loss of too many size-1 AI cities. If you so despeartely want a city there, just invade with a few settlers in your army.
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None, Sedentary, Roving, Restless, Raging ... damn, is that all? Where's the "massive waves of barbarians that can wipe out your civilisation" setting?
No need to wait for pop as all that is required is they have a culture of at least 10. That will happen soon after the cities founded. So if they have a city and pop a worker or a settler and drop to size 1 you can still capture it.