[NEVERMIND - NOT BUG] Can't build farm in second city.

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I'm not entirely sure why I couldn't build the farm - this may be intentional - but in the below city I couldn't build on the farm space:

 

Can't build on the farm space to the right.

This was a second city - the spot from another soveriegn, whose city disappeared after I killed him.  I could build other non-palace things but not the farm.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I think the city needs to level up or something in order to unlock more building plots. Check out the available buildign plots number under stats, you will need 4 to build a farm (or so I think :D).

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It looks like there should be enough plots for the farm there (2 map tiles/8 miniplots in addition to the base city and only 2 miniplots used by the looks of it).  I'd be willing to call it a bug unless, as you said, they meant for you to only have one farm (which is odd imho).

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I think Hyrim is correct.  In the game I was just playing before it crashed, I was able to build 4 towns with farms.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

In the corner, I think it reads "Tiles Available: 0." That should explain the inability to build a farm?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, you guys are right; the size of the town controls how many tiles (each tile being a square of 4 plots) the town can build in and this one was maxed out.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Also to add, not only does it need a new square but from my experience of saving a slot till agriculture was researched it still was not enough, it needs to be a hamlet. 

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

I did the exact same thing, and made a bug report inspired by the same problem. whoops, we're a little over-eager.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Chrisyou, reply 6
Also to add, not only does it need a new square but from my experience of saving a slot till agriculture was researched it still was not enough, it needs to be a hamlet. 
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In my last game I built a farm immediately after founding a city and it worked ok for me:

Farm built right after founding town

 

It looks like there should be enough plots for the farm there (2 map tiles/8 miniplots in addition to the base city and only 2 miniplots used by the looks of it).  I'd be willing to call it a bug unless, as you said, they meant for you to only have one farm (which is odd imho).
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I had filled 2 plots (with about 6 miniplots) previously before canceling builds.  Apparently canceling things doesn't free up plots.  Now that does sound like a bug ...