Cities sharing tiles

[couerdelion]

Can anyone tell me how the game determines the sharing of tiles between two cities whose radius overlaps? I can guess that there may be some connection with city culture but this could imply that they tiles might switch between the two as one of the cities gained more cultural power.

I ask simply because I have a game running at the moment in which I could easily settle on the coast near the capital but this new city would overlap with my capital and a third city. Running with a financial trait and with colossus, I’d be happy enough if the new city only got coastal tiles but I rather suspect that it will take some existing tiles from other cities and particularly do not want my GP generator to lose its pigs. My specialists are rather partial to bacon sandwiches and would start complaining loudly if they had to make do only with fried fish.

[proviisori]

IIRC the city that uses the overlapping tile first keeps working it until you change it or the AI-governer changes it for something better. So it does not depend on culture. You can always change the tiles manually in city screens.

[Arrian]

Sometimes a new city will "steal" a tile being worked by an existing city (if the tile is directly adjacent to the new city, for instance), but you can switch it back. Go into the city that you want to have the tile. The tile will appear "grayed out." Click on it. It will no longer be grayed out. Now it's allocated to the right city. Click again to actually use the tile.

-Arrian