It's too crowded! How do I fix?

[Tecova]

Most things in my city manager I can understand and fix. No military unit makes them feel unprotected and they complain. Too crowded though I haven't figured out. I've tried building more cottages but it doesn't seem to lower the "It's too crowded" complaint. Any way to fix this? I read the manual cover to cover and don't remember reading about it.

 

[AWeeMoose]

It simply means you have too many people. In CivIII, you could build a worker or settler to fix this. In cIV, my only solution has been to build more happiness-producing buildings or to turn up the culture rate to increase happiness.

BTW, I love Montana. Such a beautiful place.

 

[Jazz_Newton]

'It's too crowded' can't be fixed. It's basically the game's way of simulating that crime etc goes up as city size increases. It starts kicking in at a certain pop point, which differs depending on what difficulty level you're playing.

You've just gotta make more happy faces to counter it.

 

[Tecova]

Thanks for the info guys. Building more happiness buildings has been, and apparently, will continue to be my solution for it. On a side note, Montana is GREAT at the moment, 20 degrees farenheit, and about a foot of snow. Very Christmas-y

 

[TealVeal]

Thanks for the info guys. Building more happiness buildings has been, and apparently, will continue to be my solution for it. On a side note, Montana is GREAT at the moment, 20 degrees farenheit, and about a foot of snow. Very Christmas-y

If you have access to the slavery civic you can get some production going while cutting down the unhappiness, it's not like those unhappy people are doing anything anyways you might as well go all John Smith on them.

 

[ZippyRiver]

Still new to the game, and i freaked out the first time i found where to look for "it's too crowded". But I can ease your mind a bit...... next new game, look at it when you found your first city. it's there from the git-go. I now watch and make sure I don't go over the "allowed" population. It's really not that hard to stagnate a city until you get more happiness in place (resources, buildings, ect). Then I let it grow to the (new) cap again. And of course, pop-rushing is a solution as well albiet not one that I tend to choose. Don't forget you have a happiness penalty for doing that. Only afterwards you have less ppl, and their angry anyway. granted, 10 turns is not THAT long, but it certainly takes more than 10 turns to regrow to the cap.

 

[Colossian]

If you have access to the slavery civic you can get some production going while cutting down the unhappiness, it's not like those unhappy people are doing anything anyways you might as well go all John Smith on them.

Yes, it works well. But not the best way. I think to build more farms is better.

 

[Astax]

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Bronze Working Slavery