Biggest city

[The Rook]

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

It should be pretty easy really, if that is the sole objective. A city of size 21 based entirely on grassland could reach size 42 without Sushi/CM or any food specials. Add 3 irrigated corn plus a supermarket, and already we are on size 47. With the aid of a food corp (and some bullied vassals), I'd be surprised if size 60+ isn't achievable on a random map in the MOST favorable circumstances.

 

[Badtz Maru]

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

Wow, sensitive much?

 

[kochman]

Pretty quick to pull the trigger there!

 

[kochman]

Enough hypotheticals... this is from my most recent game. As you can see from the 2nd slide, there is still room to grow. Since my spaceship FAILED, and I have to completely rebuild it, I will have time for it to grow.
2 Rice, 2 Clams, 1 Fish. 43 pop, 37+ Million inhabitants. Not a mod.
(Note: I got so lazy on this game that I still have LONGBOWS defending most of the other cities!!! LOL
This is on emperor no less.

 

[mica8911]

My highest is 23 or 24. I can't even imagine getting to 30 +

 

[katipunero]

@kochman

Nice. But that's one cramped screen you go there hehe. Personally I adjust the scoreboard spacing so it doesn't hog much of the screen.

 

[CHEESE!]

Double corn, triple seafood is one helluva city.

 

[CivMcNut]

I seldom have a city that's surrounded by farms, and I've never run Sid's Sushi and my best is about 31. It does certainly help to have the globe cause those cities will start having some unhappiness issues for sure. 46 sure is impressive.

 

[ICNP]

I tend to snub out my cities early. So nothing huge, like 20's.

 

[Silv Something]

This isn't mine, but is was SOTD:

http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=2442&original=1

 

[alanschu]

How is his health +125?

 

[kochman]

I'm going to guess world builder

 

[playshogi]

How is his health +125?

He's researching future tech 78 which is +77 health, alone. Each future tech is +1 health and +1 happy.

 

[kochman]

Yeah, I counted like 66 foods... not 136... how many great merchants does this place have?!!

 

[DMOC]

My highest was about pop 200. I had every tile = farmed grassland floodplains + countless great merchants.

 

[Mathalamus]

my highest legit size was about 12. then i got lazy and WBed the population to happiness or food cap.

 

[6K Man]

I've had cities in the high 30s. I suppose I could have gone higher if I had really prioritized getting seafood trades from the AIs, and farmed everything.

 

[Akkon888]

I have had one city reach a size of 27 as Suryavarman (Baray+Exp helps). That same game, I had 4 cities 20 or larger.

 

[kochman]

my highest legit size was about 12. then i got lazy and WBed the population to happiness or food cap.

12? Really???
That's really small...
Do you put your cities very close together in general?

 

[Mallin]

I tend to snub out my cities early. So nothing huge, like 20's.

I cant imagine how.

My largest city so far was Carthage which got up to 31 and was still growing. But as I had long since won that game and got tired conquering the world I never got to see how big it would get. Since a lot of other cities here have gotten over to the mid 40s I will now have to try to build one that passes 50.