largest city

[LordKestrel]

I rarely let any cities grow beyond size 20, and those are generally coastal cities with several fish. Size 20 is where you hit the maximum worked squares, and at that point I tweak the city to not grow anymore.

 

[Gargantutron]

48.... meh!! my record is 47! curses!

 

[Vietcong]

i offen starve, citys to much ( dont put any moeny to entertainment, or entertainers in citys, so when thay get unhapy, i starve them and i usly am communist gov, so i allso used force labor, i rather save money for diplomacy, and for upgrades) so i never hand one biger then 28

 

[ainwood]

This is BamSpeedy's, not mine. But I dug it out anyway.

 

[Mr Funkypants]

My largest city! I'm a noob so it's only 17... Oh well, better luck in my future games. How could you get a city up to size 3415? I think he had a LOT of workers/settlers from other cities.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Originally posted by Gargantutron
48.... meh!! my record is 47! curses!

I am still the champion (of real city populations at least)

 

[Mewtarthio]

Let's see...

Floodplain = 3 FPT
Wheat = 2 FPT
Irrigation = 1 FPT

Total = 5 FPT

5 * 20 = 100

Plus two for the city tile (if on an appropriate terrain) = 102 FPT

102 / 2 = 51 citizens (theoretical maximum)

 

[Tatran]

The good thing about having size 25+ cities is the taxmen you get from this. Say you have 8 citizens that can be taxmen. IIRC the Marketplace, Bank, and Stock Exchanges all increase this. So from what is 8 gold turns into 20 extra gold.

I don't think you'll get extra gold/science/shields from city improvements
generated by specialists.

 

[bob rulz]

Let's see...

Floodplain = 3 FPT
Wheat = 2 FPT
Irrigation = 1 FPT

Total = 5 FPT

5 * 20 = 100

Plus two for the city tile (if on an appropriate terrain) = 102 FPT

102 / 2 = 51 citizens (theoretical maximum)

You forgot railroads and 3+2+1 is 6, not 5...

Flood plains + wheat (3+2*20=100) + irrigation (+20=120) + railroads (+20=140) = 70 + 2 for city center=142/2=71 food (72 + starving for agricultural civs) so Chieftess is right.

As for me, I currently have a size 37 city on flood plains. It has 14 flood plains squares that I irrigated (with railroads as well) and two of the tiles have wheat on them. It's still growing comparitevely fast (considering most of my cities are hitting their maximum without sacrificing shields for food). It would be larger but it was getting pollution every 1-3 turns, so I built Mass Transit System in the city and the pollution went WAY down so now it should grow faster.