City limitation

[Hattawa]

Hi all, first time here.
Is there a limitation to the number of scientists in a city?
I cannot set more than 16, the remaning stays in Elvis.

An other point: I am french and I still dont know why the Effeil Tower has this ability to make you frendly with everyone.

 

[funxus]

Any citizen past 36 cannot be productive, not even the elvis is productive. The only reason to have cities larger than that is to get a higher score.
The pyramids were tombs, I doubt they stored all the food in egypt in them, or that the production in one of the European cities increased when all the men went out to fight non-christians.

 

[Old n Slow]

I think I see the opportunity for a new thread -- which wonder title has the thinnest connection with its effect?

 

[Ace]

This one wins by a landslide. The only way you can infer that the real crusades increased production is by assuming that by sending lots of the Royalty class off to foreign lands, you are freeing up the resources back home that these people used to consume!

 

[mardukes]

As a matter of fact, I was taught that the formation of cities in the middle ages was partly the result of the entitled selling land and freedom to raise money for crusading. So there you have it!

 

[Ace]

They didn't "sell" their land, they borrowed against it. Usually from abbeys. (only the Lords and the church really had any money at that time, say arround 1000-1200). The land might change hands by default, if the lord and master didn't come back from the crusades.

The towns and cities grow out of commerce, ie places to exchange goods.

 

[mardukes]

Yes, the towns grew out of commerce, but there was no commerce to be had while the serfs were tied to the manors. However they formed up there is a tie to the crusades.

 

[ElephantU]

Here's another one: how do you complete Magellans Expedition in a totally land-locked city? Same goes for Darwins Voyage...

And it seems kind of ironic that we all use the Statue of Liberty to allow us to do a quick change to Fundamentalism...

The 50% increase in research from SETI seems kind of backward too - seems like SETI "drains off" research talent and effort rather than enhances it...

BTW, Hatawa: Welcome to CFC!!!

 

[Michael York]

You can have an inward island. The Gallopigos are small enough to not need to be visible. SETI is effective because we then make contact like in Men in Black and they give us cool guns. (Or is it like in Star Trek where the Vulcans help us?)