How big do your cities get?

[Desertsnow]

How big was your biggest city that you recall? I got Alexandria to 37 (population a trifle over 7 million I think) once.

 

[commodified]

Oops, I didn't read your explication of the question. Typically my cities don't get bigger than 25 or so, but I recently had Philadelphia at 35 when I won a 100K victory, and it was still growing. I never milk.

 

[Desertsnow]

I don't milk either. I should clarify, that I mean without such cheats or semicheats as dogpiling and the like. Alexandria hit 37 (stably) without ever folding in a worker or settler.

 

[WackenOpenAir]

Most likely 12. I don't build hospitals

 

[Twonky]

I like to have my core cities at about the same size, which would be something just below 20. It´s easier to manage happiness this way.

 

[Turner]

Usually I like them to top out around 20 - 22. However, if I have a far off city that's got lots of Flood Plains, I'll get it as high as I can.

I think my biggest was something like 38 or so. May have had a 40.

 

[Stylesjl]

I had a city over 40 but it was surrounded by mostly flood plains and i had a mod which increased the food genearted by terrian even more

So im not sure it counts

 

[Tomoyo]

Most likely 12. I don't build hospitals

Yeah.

But I might've had an OCC that got Shakespeare's.

 

[kingpenguin]

Rome got up to 34 in one of my previous games. I had a fairly small area, so I wanted to grow my cities up before I grew out.

 

[Grohan]

My cities rarely get larger than 20 so my biggest city is 25 at most.

 

[budweiser]

I like to get Shakey's and make one really big city. It can get up to 18-20 without rails. This takes some of the pressure off of me to get hospitals and I just concentrate resources in the one big city. Eventually, with hospitals my others get to about 20 before it ends.

 

[DS_Legionary]

The highest I've ever gotten is a size 28 city, but I haven't really been trying all that hard, and I tend to not build hospitals unless there is absolutely nothing better to build. I'd rather spend the sheilds on units, or other better improvements.

 

[thetrooper]

32-34. Can't remember. Usually 12-21.

 

[Bartleby]

I had 50 once. I milk a lot of games, so I've seen a lot of 36-42's.

 

[island007]

I only get to 12, unless I OCC.

 

[Desertsnow]

Actually more typically my cities max out in the mid twenties, occasionally around thirty if I'm lucky.. The Alexandria case was interesting because I put so little effort into it. No changes (terraforming) in the region, no workers or settlers joining. In the same game most of my cities were around 18-25, though I did have one at 33 (plus or minus a little, fluctuating) at the time, I can't remember which. I did, however, manage to put about seven wonders in it, though I don't think this contributed much.

@Bartleby: 50? *boggle*

 

[Bartleby]

Lots of floodplains, 7 with wheat IIRC. The production wasn't up to much.

 

[a space oddity]

Depends on the type of game I play. I did three milkruns to date, so I voted "more"... I don't think I've hit 50 though.

 

[JG99_Korab]

I have had a 35 once.

 

[azzaman333]

25 is usually my limit, not because i stop it growing, but because it can't grow anymore