strange messages

[civi_fan]

hi, im kind of confused here, i was playing civilization 4 yesterday, and when i got in the game , a message appeared saying "washington wants to join our glorious expanding empire " and then the options "install a new governor and so on..." but... washington is my capital, and it was already mine. now, the little icon on washington turned a little redish, you know, where the numbers are,

what does this mean???

[Solver]

You could be running into a bug where there are two cities named Washington.

When the message comes up that some city wants to join your empire, it should certainly not be your city.

[civi_fan]

yeah , something strange, it was actually 3 cities, but i kinda liked that they recognized it was a great exanding empire

[Addled Platypus]

accidently running the same civs ?

I did that on purpose once

five civ game, all were France


click the event log, see if it shows you another location

[civi_fan]

nope, there werent any other civilizations with that citie

[VonSharma]

It's always a gratifying feeling when your founding city decides its time to join your civilization =P

[civi_fan]

hahahaha , nooo ****