How does loyalty pressure work?

[planetfall]

I'm often checking the city loyalty to see effect of pressure. The first icon, citizens, says the range is from -20 to +20, but I only see a range between -10 and +10. Any ideas what effects this number value?

 

[Pengwin7]

Pretty sure there's only two (major) factors:

1. The proximity of the closest city(s) to yours. Anything btw 4-9 tiles from your city-center will exert loyalty pressure.
2. The amount of that pressure is also highly based on population [of the nearest city(s).]
[There's some unique conditions too - like Eleanor(France) can exert city pressure from her great works... maybe all Civs can... can't recall... but the two major items are above, I believe]

I actually recently watched some good videos on YouTube on dealing with that.
Sometimes, on higher levels - you NEED to settle a city on new continent and maybe everything is -10 to -20 range. (high)
Best way to deal with that pressure is to get your own city population up... FAST. Chopping bonus food resources (wheat, deer, fish, etc) for instant food is good method.
You can also move a governor in (takes 3-5 turns), or slot in a policy card to help (there's two), or move a food-heavy trade route from that city.
If you have gold, BUYING monument and granary is immediately helpful.

Doing none of these things... is going to possibly cost you losing your new city though...

Good video:

[I've never seen a cap on loyalty of -10... maybe it's at a lower-level.]

 

[Mahasona]

I discovered religion makes a difference too. Playing as Russia and starting a Dark age after a Heroic, one of my cities was about to flip in 6 turns. Checking the loyalty tab I found some were loyal due to religion, so it was easy to fix with all the excess faith.

 

[DeckerdJames]

I think those numbers add up inside the city’s borders. I believe that because if I settle on a hex with no foreign pressure but there are still hexes inside the borders, the city will be affected.

Supposedly a city is capped at + or - 20 per turn but I never checked if the total number is based on what is added up inside the borders. I assumed it was likely that.

 

[planetfall]

You have to go to the loyalty screen and open the drop down menu under the city to see the loyalty breakout. The citizen number is the first column. Governor is next, I don't have game open so don't know the other columns. Above the columns is the sum of effective loyalty sum. Yes there is a max loyalty cap/city in default game settings. I'm just trying to drill down and get a better understanding of what effect it.

 

[planetfall]

The 3rd column is happiness, pretty straight forward. The 4th is other, i.e, policies/wonders/etc.