How can you use slavely to "whip" the populatian?

[Super_Bob:)]

I just joined and I've been reading game starting things and slavery and granary and "wiping" is what this is about.
Three words.
WHAT IS IT?

 

[absimiliard]

Whipping, not wiping, is when you use the slavery civic and convert population to hammers.

In the city screen, if you're in slavery, there's a button that you can use to finish an item the city is working on. It will reduce the population of the city, and for each pop point reduced it will give you 30 hammers. So a size 6 city can either take a long time to make a settler, or work for one turn on it and then whip 3 citizens away to build the settler now. (I play regular speed, YMMV)

Early game it is an excellent way to convert food to production. Later you might want to have the larger city rather than the immediate boost to production at the cost of population.

Basically it is a good tool, but like any tool you need to use it correctly.

-abs

{edit}Oh, and hey! Welcome to CivFanatics!{/edit}

 

[Refar]

This is quite a big topic.

For short: You can sacrifice some population points in one city, to finish the item you are building in just one turn. This gives you a angry citizen for a couple of turns, and of course the city needs to regrow again...

Details and hints on when this is actually a good idea can be found in many discussions around here. Perhaps its a good idea to start here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=193659

 

[hiddie]

For short: You can sacrifice some population points in one city, to finish the item you are building in just one turn. This gives you a angry citizen for a couple of turns, and of course the city needs to regrow again...

With the exception of Montezuma's sacrificial altar.

 

[absimiliard]

With the exception of Montezuma's sacrificial altar.

He's a fun one to play.

I'm not sure he's really effective, but when running an SE with him there's a point where you have loads of excess food and the Sacrificial Altars that's just great fun. Basically you whip and whip and whip and whip and can't seem to seriously bring down your cities population much because of the food, and when folks get to unhappy you switch to Caste System for 15 or so turns and then start again when they've calmed down a bit.

It's not great for research. But boy is that a fun play-style.

-abs