Maximum number of farms?

[Lord Skrolk]

Hi,

What would be the best number of farms to get the maximmum growth for a city?

Greetz

 

[Trickster7135]

Well, for maximum population growth, I'd say just farm every plot. You might want to be more specific with your question

 

[pennjersey83]

Try putting farms next to rivers. But if it's a hill next to a river i still do trading post...but any flat land next to a river I do farms...and when you get civil service tech you get plus 1 food for farms next to rivers...the only mines I build are on resources

 

[Lord Skrolk]

Well, for maximum population growth, I'd say just farm every plot. You might want to be more specific with your question

Touche! What i really mean is what is a good balance between the number of farms and tradeposts?
For example if you want a Trade city: how much farms to build to ensure the growth but still get enough from tradeposts?

 

[Cyberian]

I usually take into account the number of free happy and Land to expand I have.


So if I have plenty of happy available - more farms.
If I am at war and conquering cities on good spots or if I have good land to expand with settlers I go for more TPs.

Usually in early game I build more farms and in middle and late game I exchange some of the farms in developed cities for TPs, even leading to a Stop of growth.
The happiness spared will be used for expanding more cities.
I find a size 12+ city that does not grow anymore more useful than a city with 6 surplus food and very slow growth. I can exchange those 3 farms for TPs spare me a hospital in late game and calculate my happy easier for expanding other cities.
Only in best placed Key cities for Wonder/Unit Production I don't stop growth.

A standard city on mixed terrain would be like

40% farms, 40% TP, 20% resource improvements

farms usually on river tiles especially hills

a complete grassland city would have less farms and more TP, also in the early game farm and resource percentage is more, while in late game TP is more at the cost of farms

 

[bluedevil99]

Usually I only have farms in my first two cities near the beginning of the game or in (early) production cities where I'm feeding lots of hills. One of those early cities generally becomes my GP farm and the other a production city. Otherwise, I just TP everything and use the gold to pay maritime city states. Frankly I wish you could TP certain resource tiles (e.g. wheat).

Oh, and this may go without saying, but for puppet cities you definitely want to TP everything- the idiotic puppet governors WILL build a market and bank eventually, and in the meantime you want your population skewed toward the cities you do control.