Biggest city

[WaKonabi21772]

I'm just curious what is the largest population anyone has had in one of their cities. I believe my largest ever had was 25 with a population of 8,207,000.

 

[Sincro]

I tend to cut my cities off on population when they go past the health cap, so I think the largest cities I've ever had were also in the 23-25 range, but even that size is rare for me. I normally cut mine off about size 18-21.

-Sinc

 

[WaKonabi21772]

Well actually the game i'm playing now I have reached a city of 30 with 13 mil population. I find it kinda fun to just see how high I can get a city in games i'm dominating.

And they're still under the health cap so I dont have to worry about that

 

[Koning]

If you take away the two restrictions to growth (health and hapiness) by building the national park and the globe theater national wonders in one city, a city can grow very very big.
In my current game, I have a 31-sized city. I've built the national park in it, and I''m running the culture slider on 100% for a cultural victory. City can't grow larger anymore only because there's no excess food anymore. Unless I farm the towns, and build widmills on the iron and silver hills..

So if you really dedicated, you should be able to have a 40+ city

 

[McThomas]

34.... sushi rules!

 

[Iron59]

19. More than that and they'll starve.

 

[kochman]

34.... sushi rules!

34 or 35 is the highest I have acheived in Civ 4 Bts also... can't remember which.
I am working on one right now, it has the Globe and the National Park, so it should grow grow grow... I am about to give it SS, and then of course some merchants. My goal is to beat 35.

This current city is a capture Beijing, funnily enough.

 

[Badtz Maru]

I was able to get up to 36 for a while, but it cost a lot (Sid's Sushi plus buying all the seafood on the market).

 

[MrCynical]

41 was the largest I've had that was stable - thanks to Sushi of course.

 

[kochman]

I have one at 40 right now, if I top 41 I will post a screen shot... I think it has the potential to do it.
At 40 is like 30M people.

 

[WaKonabi21772]

Yea my city has capped at 31 with 15 mil people.

 

[PreLynMax]

Dude...

Seriously.
Some of my smallest cities were bigger than my rival's largest cities.

 

[Tamed]

I've had a 207k culture, size 34, 15 mil population city as my best.

The culture impressed me, atleast. =D

 

[Wimsey]

I can't beat 46 unfortunately, but I'm still proud of my size 41 city - in Warlords. So no corporations. Philosophical leader and 20+ settled great merchants does the trick. I think the city churned out 1000+ gold each round, which is pretty decent without corporations to help.

 

[AlphaShard]

If you take away the two restrictions to growth (health and hapiness) by building the national park and the globe theater national wonders in one city, a city can grow very very big.
In my current game, I have a 31-sized city. I've built the national park in it, and I''m running the culture slider on 100% for a cultural victory. City can't grow larger anymore only because there's no excess food anymore. Unless I farm the towns, and build widmills on the iron and silver hills..

So if you really dedicated, you should be able to have a 40+ city

Omg that would be a GREAT way to make a GP farm buy removing those caps and putting in a Sid Sushi or Cereal mils, and being under the Caste System Civic, it'd just be sick!

 

[Badtz Maru]

Dude...

Seriously.
Some of my smallest cities were bigger than my rival's largest cities.

Mods don't count.

 

[PreLynMax]

Mods don't count.

No one asked you.

 

[Sporknife]

The theoretical max (without corps) is probably 120, but you'd need to worldbuild it (20 grassland flood plain irrigated corns w/ biology)

 

[kochman]

No one asked you.

I gotta back badtz maru on this one...

 

[PreLynMax]

I gotta back badtz maru on this one...

Don't worry, I already iggyed him, so his opinion no longer matters to me.