What's the largest city you grew?

I've had 90+ cities multiple times, my record is 95 with about 50 turns left. My computer decided to crash all and on from that date, so I never completed any of those games.

This was before the newest patches and I will try again. :)

Settings would be:

Chieftain
Small
3-4 opponents
Pangaea
Full on CS - 28

Me SIAM, even if I got close to the end numbers with other civs, I'm comfortable by picking this.

And I'll play OOC, with a LOT of reloading the starts. My best OOC was 95 pop with everything green around me and that was playing noble! Alex wanted to fight all the time, 'cause I scooped up all the CS's.

I start with chieftain, so at least the AI might have a chance to give me gold and stuff.

I'll let you see how I fared after the weekend, ok. :)
 
I got upto 38 as India on Prince/Cont-std/std.


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40, Moscow on Continents-standard/Emperor, built 3 cities and conquered the whole continent with Cossacks/Infantry/Artillery
 
This is the biggest I've ever gotten, along with my only science victory to date. Of couse I have barely played Civ5 for months so I don't know if this is that good. The two mods I'm using are "Infoaddict" and the "Unofficial Patch & Vanilla Enhanced", both of which do not make the game easier in any way, in fact the UPVE makes it harder by complelty nerfing GP and many wonders.

Game Options:
Russia
Continents
Prince
Standard Map Size
Ancient Start
Standard Time

Heres some pics from the endgame. displaying my awesomeness. Moscow is more than 30 :c5citizen:, with the rest of my cities not far behind. I managed to bottle up China (SE of me) early on and continued to expand around Moscow. Late game Persia was a monster, and controled that entire middle continent you see along with several others, and had twice my score. I had to invade and either raze or sell many of Darius' cities to mantain the balance of power.
 

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For the moment, my capital Carthage has 57 citizens, my second one Utique 42 and some others close to 40.
 
I want to see screenshots for those people claiming 90 and such. I had a 33 or more today with Britain. It was an arch. map and I started on a crappy tundra island, but it had 6 workable ocean tiles. What a beautiful city it became.
 
In my last game as Japan I believe I got Kyoto to about size 53 with a combination of Tradition Social Policies + Temple of Artemis + Hanging Gardens + Petra + Swords into Plowhorses/Feed the World + lots of flood plains, wheat, oasis' and Maritime city-states.

Playing a Large Pangaea map on King, standard speed with 14 other civs and 14 city states.
 
My Steam profile has a screenshot of a game where I had 9 cities in my empire with the following sizes to the cities: 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 31, 36 & 39. The turn counter was at 431.

I love building wide and tall as much as I can. This game had me squished onto the northern half of a large continent so I ended up building taller than wider.
 
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someday when i get the game again, i will focus more on maritime cs and grow this bad boi way bigger and way earlier
 
Small Pangaea, King. Aztecs on a Floodplains start with two riverside wheat.

Got to 60 at turn 299. I was past 30 when it was turn 150. I got ToA and HG. Plus my Pantheon was Fertility Rites. I was popping new babies every three turns! And that's without maritimes!
 
Recently played a King Standard Continents as Ethiopia and am at 63 around turn 330. Think I was at mid 20s around turn 100.

Originally started by some tundra but moved down a few tiles and found a beautiful river-side desert spot with about 5 wheat and 2 fish tiles. Beelined Hanging Gardens and Petra and my capital immediately shot away. Stayed on Food focus the whole game and pumped out buildings, units, and wonders like crazy. This is completely without maritime CSes because my friend was playing Attila and wanted to go on a CS murdering rampage. :crazyeye:

Wish I had thought of the Aztecs to do a crazy growth game, I went Ethiopia just to ensure religion for all the food bonuses.

I also avoided upgrading some of my oil and uranium tiles so that I wouldn't lose food. :crazyeye:
 
TM Moot said:
Paradoxically, the fact cottages GREW was one of my favourite features on civ4.

It encouraged long term strategy, initial planning and continual development and protection. A fully fledged town was a wonderful tile.

Ideally i would of liked towns adjacent to cities to merge (suburbs?) into super conurbations, but perhaps thats best for civ6!!

Still, at least we've got a trade post to enjoy now :sad:...
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this. cottages where the best.
 
I think the largest city I've ever had is the capital on my story Into The Future, which is forty something.
 
BjoernLars said:
35 - Delhi, in a nice river valley with about 3 Maritime countries donating a plethora of food.
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I'm surprised by all the low numbers, I've had a number over 40, including one at 44 once.

I generally target growth because bigger cities means more production, gold and science. If I can build Artemis and The Hanging Gardens in a city and have my religion modifiers all be growth related and finish the tradition track, I can really grow like crazy even without connection to maritime city states.
 
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