Hunger in my cities

[Welly Wu]

I own Sid Meier's Civilization V with all of the current DLCs and the latest version of Valve Steam. I started a single player game at the Settler difficulty level with the American civilization and George Washington is the leader. My cities, New York and Washington, have suddenly reported that they have negative food supplies and they are starving. How do I solve this problem?

I am new to this game and I enjoy it a lot.

I know that I can order a worker to move to a hexagon that has a farm and work the land, but I am not sure how to do this exactly.

Please reply with an answer soon. Thank you.

 

[odin_toelust]

Go to the city screen and click on the green portraits from there you can assign citizens to different tiles

i.e. one click to remove worker from tile, another to add it to a different one, although if you leave your governor on default focus your cities shouldn't starve unless it reaches a pop that it simply cannot support currently

 

[grandad1982]

Please don't think this is a put down or anything but I suggest you try the tutorials as it will explain the basics of controlling your empire.

Welcome to the series and the forums!

 

[Furycrab]

If you have your citizen manager on default (or if you didn't change it at all). This can happen if your city grows, but doesn't have enough food afterwards to support the current population.


You can consider building more farms with workers so that the city can now support it's bigger population, you can also make buildings like granaries which will offer your city more food.

Once you get a better hang on how cities grow and produce stuff you can manually manage the cities so that they either grow faster, or produce more of a specific resource (hammers or gold mostly) but for now, just know that you don't get a direct penalty if the city is starving except having it possibly lose one population of size.

 

[AznWarlord]

I know that I can order a worker to move to a hexagon that has a farm and work the land, but I am not sure how to do this exactly.

Not quite. What you do is move a worker over to an "empty" tile, either a plains or a grassland without a resource on it, and you can build a farm on that by either click on the pop up in the lower left area of the screen, or hit "I".

Other ways to increase food are to ally with a Maritime City State (it has a ship's wheel next to it), build a granary, or if you are next to a river, a water mill.

Also, your food decreases when your civilization is unhappy, so make sure to keep happiness up with luxuries or appropriate buildings like Circuses and Colosseums.

I suggest watching some of the "Let's Play" vidoes you'll find on this forum to get an idea of how a "normal" game runs.

 

[Johan de Witt]

Not quite. What you do is move a worker over to an "empty" tile, either a plains or a grassland without a resource on it, and you can build a farm on that by either click on the pop up in the lower left area of the screen, or hit "I".

To elaborate a bit on this:
Workers only build the farms, mines, lumbermills, plantations etc.
Citizens actually work them and gain the , and .

The number to the left of your city name designates the amount of citizens the city has. Mind you that every citizen eats two , so if a couple of citizens bring in less than 2, your city will start to bring in too little food.