[BTS] How Does a City Get Into the Top 5?

[Lennier]

This is the "Top 5 Cities" screen from my current game:

Spoiler :

Why is Phoenician #3? It has no wonders, is only size 8, and can't have tons of culture as it was founded fairly late as a barb city. Why isn't Tenochtitlan on the list? I don't remember how big it was on this turn, but it was in the double digits and had three wonders in it.

 

[elmurcis]

If got demographics of Japan, could check F9 culture graph if there was culture-bomb - that might make it instant top5.
Otherwise (from pure player view, no idea about mechanics behind it) - culture and size matters, so early wonders like Stonehenge can accumulate a lot of culture over time (specially with 2x culture output after 1000 yrs).

 

[Kjotleik]

From CvInfoScreen.py:

iTotalCityValue = ((pCity.getCulture() / 5) + (pCity.getFoodRate() + pCity.getProductionRate() \
                    + pCity.calculateGoldRate())) * pCity.getPopulation()

Looks to me like it is based on Culture, Food, Production and Gold (Commerce?). Then multiplied by population.

I think it is total accumulated culture. It wouldn't make sense otherwise. But what exactly Food-, Production- and Gold-rate means, I don't know. I can only assume it is total food per turn (gross value), total production per turn (including or excluding modifiers?) and total commerce(?) per turn (including or excluding modifiers?).

 

[sampsa]

Pretty certainly a culture bombed city.

 

[Hamilton321]

In my last game, the top city was an AI city with like a dozen and a half wonders in it.