Sometimes when my city gets to size 5 or so it stops growing due to lack of excess food to grow. What do I do? Is the city dead? Or is there some way to "add" food to the land and get it to grow? I see some people with all their cities size 12 and I am at a loss on how they do it?
Help with city growth!
- Thread starter Cutwolf
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If the city is not on fresh water, you need to build an Aquaduct to grow beyond size 6. To grow beyond size 12 you need a Hospital.
Let your workers irrigate the tiles. An irrigated tile will provide one extra food.
The best location for a fast growing city is on grassland, which provides 2 food for every tile before irrigation.
Switch to the city management screen, make sure people are working on those tiles that give you enough food.
Some time, your adviser reports that some city need aqueduct or hospital to grow further. Then just follow the suggestion, build aqueducts or hospitals in such cities.
The best location for a fast growing city is on grassland, which provides 2 food for every tile before irrigation.
Switch to the city management screen, make sure people are working on those tiles that give you enough food.
Some time, your adviser reports that some city need aqueduct or hospital to grow further. Then just follow the suggestion, build aqueducts or hospitals in such cities.
Cutwolf said:
You need to irrigate, build a Harbour and/or an aqueduct and research a new form of Government, Despotism is not the best government if you want to grow. Also the following article from Cracker will help you a lot to understand why your city is not growing.
http://www.civfanatics.com/doc/civ3/cracker/civ3_starts/opening_plays.htm#terrain_basics
And make sure the citizens are working the tiles you have irrigated. (Use the City Screen to move citizens around to the different tiles. 
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)davidcrazy
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very probably u r still in despotism and so even if u irrigate your grassland u won't get the bonus food.
u may not be working on the right tiles. if u r still new, u can let the governer to focus on food. if u irrigate your non-grass lands and focus on the food but your cities still don't grow, then u have to wait. it's just a bad position. after you change your government type or after you build railroad ur city may grow again.
u may not be working on the right tiles. if u r still new, u can let the governer to focus on food. if u irrigate your non-grass lands and focus on the food but your cities still don't grow, then u have to wait. it's just a bad position. after you change your government type or after you build railroad ur city may grow again.
.Chunky Kong
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Can't you grow to Size 6 without river/aqueduct/hospital/whatever?
