City States?

[Bolo Mark 33]

I was just reading the "Features" on the official Civ 5 website and noticed that City States were mentioned:

City States will present a new diplomatic battleground on which the major powers of the world will vie for supremacy.

I don't know if any developers or people in the know are reading these forums, but I'd be curious to hear more about these and how they work in the game.

[Bob Ilyani]

What I would like to see is, come end game, City-states are the smaller nations of the world. Not the world powers, but the everyday nations. Wars, diplomacy, everything that could be done by big nations could be done by them, but on smaller scale. I would LOVE to see that in the final game.

[hypex76]

Also, if city could buy food if needed, it would allow establishing trading posts far away from home like Portugal did...

[SanderThomas]

Also, if city could buy food if needed, it would allow establishing trading posts far away from home like Portugal did...

Good one! Founding a city within or close to other's cultural borders always seems a bit radical/drastic to me. There should be some way of innocent presence.