When and if they are, I think it would be nice to be shared to the top contributing players of the city. Highest prestige gets a certain % and staged down from there for a set number of players in the top of the list.
But Mayor shouldn’t be lost to prestige. It is a form of war. A political pvp.
That’s just me voicing about the game mechanic, not the situation of the original poster. Seems like neither is doing something wrong. Just working with a game mechanic.
Another thread with mention of incoming fix at some point.= Toggle-able settlement merge? Discuss solutions. Dev response inside