Biggest city

[Mathalamus]

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

no i just entered world builder and increased the population so i dont have to wait 50 something turns for it to reach max.

 

[oawiefga]

I had over 70 pop in a city once. National Wonders were Globe Theater and National Park. The BFC was mostly farmed flood plain and I had Cereal Mills. IIRC the empire was 50+ cities so Cereal Mills was supplying lots of food. On top of that the city was still growing when I won, so I don't know how big it could have gotten.

 

[Eklabiaan]

Awesome numbers, all these cities.

Post me some savegames please. Would help me to extend and elaborate my
Flexible City Planner by Eklabiaan one day.

 

[PreLynMax]

If I kept going with that Spanish game, I could get my city size to average around the mid-30's, with my largest city (probabaly Sippar) to push around 60.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

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

Wow! How high can the pop. go?

 

[PreLynMax]

Wow! How high can the pop. go?

Don't get too excited, he probably WB'd it.

 

[MythicCommodore]

I think it's actually unlimited, at least in my experience with WB. The city stops graphically growing after level 55, though.

 

[Bushface]

I don't know if city pop has a cap, but world pop caps at 2 147 483 647 (or 2^31 - 1), which is only about one-third of the real world pop. It's an interesting thought that one might get a single city whose population exceeds that of the whole planet.

 

[Mathalamus]

the city probably caps at the same number.

 

[Bushface]

Then if it does, what happens to all the inhabitants of your other cities ? Rather regrettably, in all the Sid Meier games that I have played it has been my experience that somewhere I can amass so much gold, or population, or whatever, that the game isn't capable of handling it: in Civ4 it's population and final rating (far too easy, I think, to attain several times the score needed to be rated at Augustus level).

 

[Silv Something]

I don't know if city pop has a cap, but world pop caps at 2 147 483 647 (or 2^31 - 1), which is only about one-third of the real world pop. It's an interesting thought that one might get a single city whose population exceeds that of the whole planet.

Those are pop points, not actual population. One pop is not one person, but 1000~2000 people (I forget the exact number).

 

[FriendoftheDork]

Dude...

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

Something smells fishy here.... oh yeah! Sushi!

I've gotten about 40 myself once, with Cereals in Lor (which nerfs sushi somewhat).

 

[Bushface]

Those are pop points, not actual population. One pop is not one person, but 1000~2000 people (I forget the exact number).

No. There is a population figure as well as a point size for each city, as was shown for some examples in my earlier post. Nor is there a consistent step in population from one size to the next; instead, the steps increase as the point size rises.

 

[Silv Something]

Oh, so you did know what you were talking about. Silly me .

Sorry if I sound rude, I don't mean to.

 

[fenrus]

Do you guys consider destroy Towns in order to build Farms after Biology?

 

[ICNP]

Do you guys consider destroy Towns in order to build Farms after Biology?

Simple Answer: No

Longer Answer: You shouldn't have put a cottage in a place where you needed a farm. Typically you build additional farms, and then get rid of THEM due to the greater efficiency of Biology, or just run more specialists.

 

[Mallin]

Wow! How high can the pop. go?

The highest pop number the game will allow is 1000 but you would never be able to get a city that big without adding about nine hundred merchants to it through WB.

 

[kivanc]

Something smells fishy here.... oh yeah! Sushi!

I've gotten about 40 myself once, with Cereals in Lor (which nerfs sushi somewhat).

your screenshot reminded me my early days of BTS when I played on noble or monarch. as corps was a new option at that time, I used it with passion. Later I started to dislike corps.
Also IMO, corps are weaker in higher levels

 

[kochman]

Do you guys consider destroy Towns in order to build Farms after Biology?

Sometimes, if I am shooting for population to meet the domination requirements for example.
Also, by then, I usually have a couple of religions w/ shrines, civ jewelers and a forbidden palace and Wall Street in my Civ Jeweler city (I spread the corp extensively)... I don't need towns anymore because 2-4 of my best cities have me well over 100% science with hundreds of gpt coming in still. Best case scenario of course.