What Do You Think Cities In Your Game Look Like?

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So, in the current Civ game that you are playing.
What do you think that your cities look like right now? Describe it to me.
 
When I've played civ for like 13 hours straight I like to goto bed and fantasize what my Empire would look like and I imagine myself as the Emperor of my Nation. I always maintain a powerful civ on Noble level.
 
Given the most popular buildings I put down are barracks, granaries, and forges, I assume it is somewhat dystopian.
 
Marble, gold, neo-classical columns, palatial glass-domed railway termini, Georgian-style military barracks, steel and tinted glass corporate headquarters. It's all rather nice really. Except Paris, which is currently occupied by my forces having just been captured and is largely a smoking ruin.
 
It's generally a pretty nice place until the late Renaissance, at which point angry men run through the streets with whips, forcing the poor citizens to clamber onto horses, grab muskets, and charge en masse at neighboring empires, where thousands of them will perish on the walls of the enemy castles.

Good times.
 
I can picture my Rome perfectly: Sizable houses covered in colorful flowers with clay roof shingles line paved cobblestone streets, which run in every direction. Wealthy merchants stand in the shade of road-side carts, which hold exotic fruits and spices. In one corner of the city the acropolis looms above everything else (except the Pyramids, which are on the outskirts of town). Atop it stands a grand monument: the Corinthian Columned Parthenon. Deeper into the city a statue of their emperor is being erected, with the following engraving upon a golden plaque:"MICHEALIOVS MAGNIFICVS".:king:
 
Like this:

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I imagine there is a great deal of confusion in my capital city right now. A massive effort was just made to construct the world's greatest library, costing the lives of 1/3rd of the city's inhabitants, and then when they were finished the library simply vanished and was replaced by a stack of about 500 gold pieces because an identical library was constructed somewhere else at exactly the same moment.
 
I've often thought about how the modern phenomenon of mass tourism could be reflected in Civ and the OP's question has brought me back to it. What do you think of this idea that activates with construction of the Airport improvement in a city:

1:commerce: per turn x no. of ancient/classical/medieval wonders in each city x no. of non-city civs still in game and at peace with city civilization.

Coming from London I can testify to the number of tourists who flock in every summer and the huge amount of cash they bring.
 
The capital would be a glorious city on top of a hill with the palace on a very top, flanked by the most beautiful wonders of every kind while the flat lands would have markets and the finest entertainment and utilities. The nearest cities would be similar.

And then mostly every other city would a neglected backwater with only the barest of essentials, and sometimes not at all, desolate, covered with a ton of farms and "built wealth"-- aka sweatshops to feed the nearby metropolises. Life in those cities would be crap as the denizens would only work to produce raw materials or be sent to fight in some war to turn nearby foreign cities into the same thing. Fortunately, the religious temples keeps those pitiful masses happy in faith and turns them into fanatics when it is time to war, so they don't to furfill their earthly needs. Or that's what I think.
 
Current game cities are very modern, and for some reason there are marching bands everywhere playing the Marine Corps hymn without taking a break... Public trans riding past the pyramids... The Statue of Liberty is stuck in the middle of Boston... There are random corn stalks growing in the middle of D.C.... 3 giant infantrymen are crushing buildings like Godzillas in Atlanta... and Philadelphia has been blowing black smoke for about 50 years, and I've just been pretending it is a huge BBQ instead of the people burning stuff down due to overcrowding. Maybe I'll go fix that now.
 
uat2d said:
Like this:
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So you mean that it is covered in a stinky yellowish haze and the site of frequent train crashes as they plow into giant grapevines.

On the bright side, the miners can get home to the city via a convenient giant water slide. It's probably very refreshing after a hard day in the mines.
 
tdy99 said:
I imagine there is a great deal of confusion in my capital city right now. A massive effort was just made to construct the world's greatest library, costing the lives of 1/3rd of the city's inhabitants, and then when they were finished the library simply vanished and was replaced by a stack of about 500 gold pieces because an identical library was constructed somewhere else at exactly the same moment.
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As in one city or other in almost every empire. Oh man, if we can't be first then why bother. Actually, I have investigated this and it turns out that the contractor was working on a contingency contract, either be the first to completion or return all fees collected up to that point. It's in the small print.


CocoIsKing28 said:
Yes, I assume that is because under my city there are many small tectonic plates constantly migrating below my city.
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Oh, tectiny plates. Never thought about that. Perhaps I had it wrong in the first place and it is the city that rotates around the Pyramids, which remain stationary. I should tech Astronomy to find out where the center of the universe is.


Archon_Wing said:
The capital would be a glorious city on top of a hill with the palace on a very top, flanked by the most beautiful wonders of every kind while the flat lands would have markets and the finest entertainment and utilities. The nearest cities would be similar.

And then mostly every other city would a neglected backwater with only the barest of essentials, and sometimes not at all, desolate, covered with a ton of farms and "built wealth"-- aka sweatshops to feed the nearby metropolises. Life in those cities would be crap as the denizens would only work to produce raw materials or be sent to fight in some war to turn nearby foreign cities into the same thing. Fortunately, the religious temples keeps those pitiful masses happy in faith and turns them into fanatics when it is time to war, so they don't to furfill their earthly needs. Or that's what I think.
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Nice description. I probably should run my empire like that as well, less luxury and more production. Granary front and center, barracks wing added on to the left, forge wing to the right. Intriguing image.
 
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