Synchronize growth micromanagement

How to grow efficiently after an ICS start? Here is the situation :

-You have plenty of 1 pop cities, because, for instance you rushed during a duel
-Your happiness is 0 now because you improved your lux and some of the cities have grown.

If you let things goes normal, one city will grow +1 pop, your happiness will be -1 and your cities won't grow anymore.

You can do better with a little micromanagement:

First check "avoid growth" in your city. (Idk how they translate "Empêcher toute croissance"). And put your citizens manually on food tiles.



Then, let all your cities produce food until their food bars are completly full. (10/10 for 1 pop cities). Because you checked "Avoid Growth" your cities won't grow. Then you can put you manually on prod, while you are waiting for the other cities.

You should have something like this:


Now remove "avoid growth" in all cities. And let all your cities growth simultaneously !



This micromanagement makes you gain, in this example, 6 citizens. What do you think of that ?

I do this when i expand to 3-4 cities and for over 1 or 2 , but rarely from all cities at the same time. But with only 1 pop cities, i guess it's easier to synchronize since you only have to wait 3-4 turns to let a city at 1 turn from growth.

It's certainly a great thing to do when you especially ICSing like your example.

Nice article. You nailed the translation on "avoid growth" spot on.