Big bigger biggest?

[erhaminus]

What is the biggest city you have had? While I was close to science victory and bored a bit, I decided to check it out. I found a city and spammed farms like mad everywhere around. As you can see on screenshots I have 54 size city and stil 50 food surplus (with only 1 city state allied giving food bonus). But if I settled it earlier..........


I attached savefile if you like take a look at.

 

[Rpger29]

Wow. I thought I was doing pretty good to hit 35-40.

I can't look at the save file right now... did you have TOA or HG or any other wonders to push it that high?

 

[erhaminus]

Wow. I thought I was doing pretty good to hit 35-40.

I can't look at the save file right now... did you have TOA or HG or any other wonders to push it that high?

I have no DLC, I built no wonder in this city too (my wonder-builder city is usually the capitol).

I built only farms and buyed some buildings (Aqueduct, Medical Lab, culture buildings). I was surprised how good is such city. At first it was horrible, but later on, with huge food surplus and Freedom's policies, I had adequate hammers, huge science and a little gold. I spent all specialist's slots and still had unemployed citizens.

The only problem was unhappiness. I had to annex puppets and buy hapinnees buildings but I think that it was a general issue caused by my wide empire (I usually play with 5-7 core cities only).

In fact, this city had a great potential to grow on and gave me a lot of fun.

 

[Becomedeath]

I've had a 50+ a few times, although usually it's my wonder laiden capital.

There was someone on the forums a while back with a 90+ city though. Not sure of the circumstances, but have a search for it as it was darned impressive.

 

[fmlizard2]

I recently did an Aztec capital at 38 pop in the mid-Industrial Era (approx 1400 AD). Haven't played it out to see how humongous it could get. It also didn't have one single farm I would imagine I could goose it up to the 60s by 2050 AD...maybe 70+ if I clear cut my jungles for farms. Just floating gardens (w/5 lake tiles), granary (w/3 deer), Temple of Artemis, Tradition, and an Aqueduct.

 

[jtb1127]

I hardly ever get above 30.

 

[chgrogers]

57 Aztec Capitol.

Temple of Artemis
Hanging Gardens

 

[Cicerosaurus]

If I get mid 20's I think I am doing well.

 

[headcase]

If I get mid 20's I think I am doing well.

Same here

 

[pspboy7]

My largest was 55-56 or something, but it was before most of the latest patches. Unemployment is crazy in cities like that though hehe

 

[That nerdy kid]

max possible pop is about 150, with all grasslands, grain, and all buildings.

i got to 31 on a sandstorm map in a desert, but i think my highest is around 37-40

 

[JWAT44]

my capitol usually gets to low-mid 30s before the game is over mainly because i almost always build the hanging gardens

 

[Noatz]

I'm running a game as Aztecs now precisely for this purpose.

Its currently about 1710 and the capital is at 76 pop and growing fast. I'm delaying my victory to see how far I can push it.

 

[Sneaks]

Supercities with Korea is just broken. I had a dozen unemployed all producing 2 science and 2 hammers

 

[Matthew.]

I've actually started playing Civ 5 games with this mentality. I've never played any of the other civ games until 5. Coming from RTS games, such as Starcraft, the mentality has always been "Don't build combat units unless you need them; focus on workers and tech instead." Thus, I build farms, acqueducts, and such.

30-40 in a regular game, depending on map tiles. 60+ when messing around and focusing on high pops.

And I can agree with Sneaks--The Statue of Liberty is stupidly powerful in this scenario as it adds the 2 hammers to unemployed citizens as well.

 

[jtb1127]

I never understood how unemployed citizens contribute anything.

 

[Life123]

56 pop, 877.5 beakers per turn city was my best.

 

[Becomedeath]

I knew I'd seen it somewhere!

City with 90 pop.

http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=3174&c=36