kristopherb
Nov 09, 2007, 04:43 PM
In advanced start i placed a city in a bad place it needs food badly.
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Please help.
njorls
Nov 09, 2007, 04:48 PM
If you can irrigate the plains tiles they'll be +1 food surplus with Biology. Or you could spread Sid's Sushi or Cereal Mills to it if you get those corporations. I'd say windmill the grassland hills and irrigate the plains.
Quechua
Nov 09, 2007, 05:16 PM
I'm afraid you're stuck, it would've been better to move it a tile south to pick up the sugar (or if that's rice even better). You can't support both the iron and horses unless you settle a great merchant in the city. You want to get civil service and irrigate the plains, and windmill the grassland hills. No running plains cottages or mines. One hammer per population sucks, but it's the best you can do here until you get biology.
xanadux
Nov 09, 2007, 05:56 PM
The solution is to found cities that have enough food. You can't just fix a poor city like this and make it a good one.
Cookie Crumbs
Nov 09, 2007, 06:39 PM
On a similar note, you sometimes get capitals without much food because you get a plains cow or plains hill sheep, which is only +1 food but technically counts as a food resource. Starts like that piss me off. :(
vicawoo
Nov 10, 2007, 02:53 AM
Grassland hills are windmilled. Maybe you could gift it to another civ, ruin their economy with distance upkeep, then burn it down when you need to.
Or you could just pump catapults out of it and hope it nets you a better city.
MrCynical
Nov 10, 2007, 06:00 AM
This city can't be fixed in the early stages of the game. You need biology (those plains can be farmed to give a net +1). Sid's Sushi or Cereal Mills could also turn it into a decent produciton city if you can find enough of the resources elsewhere.
kristopherb
Nov 10, 2007, 11:09 AM
Thanks for the notes.
shame theres no way to send food to the city because my other cities are breeding like rabbits.
Belisar
Nov 10, 2007, 11:52 AM
The feature you are looking for existed in the old days of Civ2 (food caravan) but lead to all sorts of exploits.
As already stated, biology and cooperations are needed to fix this city.
Settled Great Merchants give +1 food but they are really a waste in a production city.
In the early game, try to get green hills and avoid a lot of plains/desert hills if you can as they need 2 instead of 1 food.