City Size - > Real Life Correlations

[BrianL03]

I was wondering if anyone has a list of what size city in Civ3 equals its real life population counterpart. I'm wanting to make a real-life based scenario, but I don't want to make the cities too big nor too small.

 

[Goober]

I believe that you multiply the number that you see as the city's size by 100,000 or something. Yes, 100,000 is what I think it is, although I could be mistaken.

 

[BrianL03]

100,000? O.o

I guess that makes some sense, especially modern-wise... although in the early ages, it seems a bit big.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I don't think that is right. I don't know the exact sizes, but I know that size 12 is about 800,000-820,000 people.

 

[CrazyMrLeo]

That puts it somewhere in the range of 68,000 people per number.

It would be far more realistic if it was more of an exponential thing, though.

 

[Xerol]

Each population point is worth its number * 10,000, but the effects are cumulative, ie pop point 1 = 10,000, pop point 2 = 20,000 PLUS pop point 1, etc. And the additional population is calculated with the amount of food you have towards growth, so pop 2 with 9/20 food has 10,000 + 20,000 + 30,000 * 9/20 = 43,500 population.

 

[Goober]

Ahh, yes, that would make much more sense. The designers of Civ would not want to make it too easy, now would they? I mean really, they can use some big long complicated math equation, employ those math Geeks (only joking) Is there a list of what City sizes equal? Or a calculator?

 

[BorgeoisBuffoon]

I wouldn't worry too terribly much. Most cities in the city list for say, Rome, would be sizes 1-4 while Rome itself was size 12-14. Just do it in relation to the game scenario, not real life.

 

[DBear]

The population of a city in civ of size n is sigma n for i = 1 to n, multiplied by 10K.

A city size 3 would be 1+2+3=6, or 60K
A city size 10 would be 550K
A city size 15 would be 1.2M
A city size 20 would be 2.1M
A city size 30 would be 4.65M

This is further modified by 1K per filled grain box.

 

[The Last Conformist]

A weirdish consequence of this is that if you build a Worker in a small city and plop it down in a big one, your total population increases, and vice versa.