93 food to get 2 pop?

[Rojonia]

I am told I need 93 Food in my pop 1 cities to get to pop 2 in a new game. I thought the rule was 33 Food .How can this be? This is a killer to growth. Could it have to do with me chopping to produce workers and settlers in th early game? It is as if the food requirement increased on the basis of the number of turns elapsed independent of the size of the city. Explanation anybody?

 

[Mr Smith]

Explanation anybody?

Check civics, I know for certain in CoM they speedbump growth to incentivize switching asap.

 

[Rojonia]

I see that now. Early civics are a real challenge.Any recommendations on this?

 

[Mr Smith]

Any recommendations on this?

Just abandon Tribal civic asap, if you play AND. For CoM it's all starter civics, or you could set iPopulationgrowthratepercentage in CIV4CivicInfos.xml for those to a lesser value or zero like I did in my modmod.