Macedonian idle villager bug

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Issue: villagers garrisoned in a town center that gets destroyed will disappear, but will permanently be listed as idle villagers and eat up population space. Clicking on idle villager will bring you to the ruins of the town center. You can then delete them one-by-one to regain population space, even though they can’t actually be seen.

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Trigger Event: Destruction of MD town center with garrisoned villagers.

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This problem (probably) would not let me win games without win conditions against AI opponents. I decimated the entire map. No more visible active units, yet the Macedonian bot would not be eliminated. The game summary shows some alive villagers. None are shown on the map. No building is standing.