Big Cities

[julian barker]

Just finished an emperor game with a the ripe city of Grovelands being rated

size 87

Is this a record?

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

The maximun possible, using either altered rules to increase food production, or hordes of food convouys, is 127. (128-1)

 

[shadowdale]

?
Did you play double production??
Or did you just pump it up with food caravans

It's bigger then any city I have ever had - but then agian I have never tried to get a big city!!

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[Lefty Scaevola]

I have not personally played with any altered rules onother patches to fix bugs. Most of the register limits have been deliberately test by many people over the years the game has been out and post on one forum or another. You can get a city to the max size, 127 by pumping in 2 food convoys per turn. it is nothing but an interesting experiment, however.

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[Smash]

If you did this without
A.food caravans
B.altered rules.txt
C.2x production

it is indeed a record.It would also be impossible but....

87-36..thats 51 Elvi in that city

 

[Dreadnought]

I can't recall but w/o food cavans and only terra-forming the land to grassland. I think the highest natural level you can reach is about 35. Which takes a while b/c you can't start changing land till you have engineers. Then the process of waiting dozens of turn for it too grow from 30 to 35 is haed to do in the alloted time span.

You usually end up after 2020 but who cares?

 

[penvzila]

The largest city in Civ2 I have ever had was a 30, so I worship the almighty gods that can achieve an 87.

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[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

With 21 (C.S. included) squares of farmed grassland around a supermarketified city I could only manage a 42 sized city.

 

[oryx]

Julian,
Please explain how you did this. It seems to me also that the practical population limit without rules changes is in the 30 to 40 range.

 

[shadowdale]

As Hippo says if you have all grassland and farmed all of it then 42 is the limit!!!
But is you have corn then you can get higher, and if you have lots of corn then you can get even higher - but I don't know how high, and that depends on the number of corn fields you have.
The 87 size must be through food caravans!!

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[Dreadnought]

I agree that 40-42 is the limit, i've never been there nor had that much corn.

And yeah 87 or what ever level he reach had to be with some seroius food caravans (like support form 10 differnct cities) thats a lot of food.!!!

 

[julian barker]

Oryx,

I managed to cultivate an 87 by sending two food caravans per turn to the city.
You must send two as the first fills the granary to the point where the hunger balue is...ie if a city has -3 hunger it fills the granary to -3 and the second caravan/freight fills the granary up, thus increasing the size of your city.

It's along time consuming effort to try and get extra points.

Jules

 

[oryx]

That explains it.