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So I tried making a city within a region that I established with my original colony's charter code, hoping that the region would be part of my colony. The region part works, but the problem is that when i make a city within the region it loads up the city, but when i save and quit, the city doesn't appear on the region map. I know the regions are being made because i get a message on my original colony saying that a charter has been established each time. Does anyone know of a solution?

this is a region? not a multiplayer map?