Using trade routes to help grow a city question.

jonpfl · Jul 16, 2013

All,

If I create a city in a barren land so I can get access to luxuries, I assume I can just use a land (or sea) caravan to pump food into to help it grow, right?

Once I get to a nice level with that city, I assume I need to continue to give it food otherwise it might starve, correct?

Thx
jonpfl

dac050 · Jul 16, 2013

Yes. This makes late game cities much more useful. But, if gold is scarce, it's going to be a pain diverting one of those precious Caravan's or Cargo Ships...

VainoValkea · Jul 16, 2013

Yeah, a city with extra food grows faster but might starve if it doesn't have enough food tiles to support that population when the extra food input ends.

notyetsuperman · Jul 16, 2013

Does using a caravan to trade food between cities reduce the amount of food produced by the trading city?

Consider City A and City B
A's current food is equal to 12 food per turn. Upon trading 4 Food to B. Will A's food now equal 8?

VainoValkea · Jul 16, 2013

No, the only penalty for internal trade routes is not having the trade unit available for other routes. They effectively create food/production from the thin air.

Using trade routes to help grow a city question.

jonpfl

Prince

dac050

Warlord

VainoValkea

Emperor

notyetsuperman

Chieftain

VainoValkea

Emperor

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