population score

Hi

I've been trying to work out how the population element of the score is calculated - does anyone know?

I remember figuring it out back in Civ2 that the "real" population of a size 1 city was 10,000; size 2 was 10,000+20,000 = 30,000; size 3 was 10,000+20,000+30,000 = 60,000; size n was (1+2+...+n)*10,000 = n*(n+1)*5,000. In that sense, a size 2 city had "more" population than two size 1 cities. Likewise, a size 15 city (1.2 million) had more population even than two size 10 cities (2*450,000=0.9 million). I haven't checked if the calculation mechanism for CiV is the same, but I'm guessing it's similar.

In BNW it's 1000*N^2.8 per city (N=Population) rounded to the nearest 1000th all summed together. It's probably the same in G&K.

Is OP asking about how many people is implied by the city size, or how city size is reflected in your current in-game score?

beetle said:

Is OP asking about how many people is implied by the city size, or how city size is reflected in your current in-game score?

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Sorry for any confusion - I meant specifically how it is reflected in the score. Monitoring over several games I could not determine as it seems to vary a lot. I thought one of the clever code manipulators may know the detail?