How do you get cites bigger than 36?

[Elfstone]

I recently downloaded Shadowdale's hof game, it was awesome but how did he get cities of 90 with a
ton of hunger? Could anyone tell me how to get that big of cites?

 

[Dell19]

They use loads of food caravans to support large populations...

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

It's typically called the Food Caravan Trick (FCT). When you deliver a food caravan to a city, it fills the food box to half full. If you deliver another food caravan to the same city on the same turn, it fully fills the food box. The next turn the city will add another person. Keep doing this and you can pump your cities up to huge size very quickly.

 

[History_Buff]

You can get as high as 56, on a really well placed city in the original game, but you can also justy cheat and set you cities as high as 214.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

I thought the maximum city size was 127...

 

[monkeyman116]

When you have acity that's size 127, and you try to grow it, it implodes to -128!!!!!

 

[Serutan]

Would it be correct to presume that expanding
a city past 36 is only for padding the score?
I've noticed that all citizens over 36 are entertainers, cannot be changed to anything else,
and do not affect happiness. I think this
phenomenon actually occurs at (used city squares + 16); i.e. if the city only works 18 of 20
squares, the useless entertainers begin at
citizen #35 instead of #37.

FWIW

Wilkey