largest city

hoplite505 · Feb 17, 2004

i have had a size 30 city and was wondering ifthat was big

if you irrigate aflood plain with wheat on it, it produces seven food

what was your biggest city :confused:

SuperBeaverInc. · Feb 17, 2004

Lets see someone beat this.

Chieftess · Feb 17, 2004

Size 70-some (78 I think) is the largest, editable size. The coded limit in PTW and C3C is 255 (provided you have enough food to reach that). In vanilla Civ3, it could be in the thousands (worker exploit).

EDIT: Just tested it - size 71.

Behold the power of 51 Engineers! (yes, that's 51 engineers! Equal to 102spt with NO production boosting improvements).

Note: The extra growth is due to being agricultural, so with an agricultural civ, you can hit size 72, but you'll starve. I also put the palace to 255 content citizens and eliminate the population pollution to make it easy.

However, I have had a natural start with 5 cattle once, so I'm pretty sure that can take the total up pretty high.

WildFire · Feb 17, 2004

Cheater

He probably meant in a real game

Chieftess · Feb 17, 2004

I was merely showing him the theorectical value using non-edited resources.

Strider · Feb 17, 2004

I've never gotten a city over 30. I go for production instead of growth, and only usually irrigate floodplains, and that's about it.

WildFire · Feb 17, 2004

Originally posted by Chieftess
I was merely showing him the theorectical value using non-edited resources.

If you're going to be verbose, spell "theorectical" right

Strider: That's what happens when you do ICS ;p

SuperBeaverInc. · Feb 17, 2004

Wow, 143 food per turn.

Strider · Feb 17, 2004

Originally posted by SuperBeaverInc.
Wow, 143 food per turn.

I've been 143 shield wise and commerce wise (never food wise) I believe my records were 200 something shields, and maybe around 500+ commerce.

Rob (R8XFT) · Feb 18, 2004

Wow, I'm really quite impressed. The most I ever get in a city is around the 32-34 mark. Superbeaver, was that city built up to that size due to being lucky with resources, or have you a technique to increase city size?

Goober · Feb 18, 2004

My largest city is 38. It woulda been higher, but there were some stupid hills in the way. Also, like 2 tiles of grassland overlap with a size 30 city that I could not destroy (it had wonders). And pollution at that point was being annoying . . .

Longasc · Feb 18, 2004

I think that huge cities are not a must -
they need tons of food, but do they produce SHIELDS?

If I have wheat, I usually add a mine to increase productivity, not irrigation.

SuperBeaverInc. · Feb 18, 2004

Originally posted by R8XFT
Wow, I'm really quite impressed. The most I ever get in a city is around the 32-34 mark. Superbeaver, was that city built up to that size due to being lucky with resources, or have you a technique to increase city size?

The city was located on a giant flood plain with a couple of wheat.

SanPellegrino · Feb 18, 2004

I really don't get it, in civ3 contrary to civ2 the specialists are worth very little, so what is the point to have a city over 21?

hoplite505 · Feb 18, 2004

pollution kept on making my city shrink and grow but it had really bad production

DS_Legionary · Feb 18, 2004

i find that having large cities is nice, but not necessary at all. The good thing about having size 25+ cities is the taxmen you get from this. Say you have 8 citizens that can be taxmen. IIRC the Marketplace, Bank, and Stock Exchanges all increase this. So from what is 8 gold turns into 20 extra gold.

Although I rarely have a city reach above size 15 except maybe my capitals. I tend to pack my cities in close, so they can't get the food required to get really large. Besides, in most cases, I'd rather have sheilds then gold.

Cuivienen · Feb 18, 2004

Originally posted by SanPellegrino
I really don't get it, in civ3 contrary to civ2 the specialists are worth very little, so what is the point to have a city over 21?

Ah, but in the Conquests expansion, the specialists are much stronger (Taxmen produce 2 gold and Scientists produce 3 science) and the almighty Civil Engineer (2 shields when not working on military) has been added.

Admiral_Tarton · Feb 18, 2004

38 is my largest yet

puglover · Feb 18, 2004

Um....

21 :blush:

jalapeno_dude · Feb 18, 2004

31. It could have been higher, but kept getting polution.

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