What's the largest city you grew?

I had a 29 with Siam, I had lots of merritime city states allied and I had 2 wheat and cattle and fish
 
i have filled my workable tiles and my specialist slots so somewhere in the 40s but i dont remember the exact number because it was months ago
 
Krikkitone said:
Well the maximum (theoretically) is

Total Food from Tiles - Total # of worked tiles (because unemployed only take 1 food with Civil Society)

assuming all 36 tiles worked... and all Grassland/Floodplain that's 36*4-36=108
Then add the output of the city center
2
+2 Granary
+2 Watermill
+5 Hospital
+2 Landed Elite
=
13

for a total of 121 pop.
for Aztecs that's 144

and that's with no Maritimes or Special tiles (+1 for Fish, +2 Wheat, Banana)

So for mass Banana, Aztecs, and 10 CS (giving 4 food each)
6*36+40+13=269
+15%=309
-36=273

So 273 is the max in an unmodded civ. (the ability to reach that level by 2050 is something different)
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Pep said:
My largest city ever. Finally, got tired and decided to win that turn, instead of continuing the milking fase.

Of course, Temple of Artemis helps a lot. Krikkitone's calculations should be revised to include the new wonder :)
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Including
ToA, (+10%)
Tradition Finisher (+2)
Hanging gardens (+10)

Aztec ToA, HG super wheat city 10 Maritimes=
269+12=281
+25%=+70
=351
-36
315 population [Total pop unhappiness ~88, with monarchy+freedom]....158 gpt from pop alone (before modifiers)...279 hammers from specialists if they are all unemployed. A trade route with this capital and a pop 1 city would make 47.3 gold

For a general civ in blank Grassland, no Wonders, no Maritimes
4*36+13 (tradition finisher replaces the watermill)-36=
121 pop

perhaps a more reasonable... average of 3 food per tile (since some are plains, hills, mountains, etc.)
85 pop

The exponential increases in cost are the main thing holding it back.
 
42 with Korea had the Temple of Artemis, Hanging Gardens, was on a river with 6 tiles of flood plains, finished Tradition and Freedom trees and ran specialists to keep more food. I might go back and just play more to see how big I can get it. Not to mention i had all the food benefiting buildings.
 
42 by 1940's (epic speed) with England with about 1/3 of my tiles being coast, only 1 fish and a small river not settled on. My 3rd city was size 40 and it was land locked on a river. I had 8 other cities and 2 puppets with pops in the low 20's to mid 30's.

With Montezuma I think mid 50's would be possible with a river start.
 
I had a size 47 capital city once, I think it was China I was playing, and it was a science victory. Most times I am usually around the size 30 capital, except when I go to war.
 
The above game I mentioned above a few pages ago ended with me having a much higher population; I had pop 46 in my OCC as Persia on an archepello map [but no sea resources]

If I went for a slower method of victory I could have gotten it up to pop 50.

This included Hanging Gardens, buying all out city states, and the Tradition, Piety, Patronage, Freedom, and Commerce trees; so my happiness counter with increasing 100 a turn (when I wasn't already in a Golden Age.) If I'd gone for UN I might have filled a 6th policy tree.
 
Sorry to revive a dead thread, but i didn't want to create a new one just to show off what i did today.

I got my city to pop 82 after a few hours. I believe i could have gotten it a few higher if i had a start where i could surround the city better.

anyone know the true maximum?
 

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I'm not sure there is much point growing past 50 since any pop points would be unemployed beyond that. I guess their only use would be science modifiers but I'm not sure that is realistic.
 
An unemplyed citizen gives

1 prodution +1 with SoL
1 science +0.5 with Library +0.5 with Public School +2 with Rationalism SP, +2 if Korea
1 food if Freedom SP
0.5 happy if Freedom SP
0.5 gold with Tradition SP +1 with Commerce SP
 
JimboThrasher said:
I got my city to pop 82 after a few hours. I believe i could have gotten it a few higher if i had a start where i could surround the city better.
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3 cattle nearby was no doubt helpful. What difficulty are you on and is this a modded game or just vanilla CiV?

Good job either way!
 
qalsip1977 said:
3 cattle nearby was no doubt helpful. What difficulty are you on and is this a modded game or just vanilla CiV?

Good job either way!
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Yea it was on the easiest difficulty. I just wanted to see what was possible. It was on vanilla, I don't play modded for some reason. Thanks though, it ended up taking more time than i thought and by the time i got to 82 i was done hitting enter!
 
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