Most productive cities

['Copter Pilot]

Why do they need different power plants anyway? Couldn't they just put "clean power" and "unclean power"

Everything else has names. Like Sperman, Pikeman, Infantry instead of Defender-2, Defender-3, Defender-10. With coal, hydro and nuke plants, we have cheap'n'dirty, clean but can't get it everywhere, and clean massive risky. Good choice IMHO.

Also even though it's possible to build massive coal or hydro plants (the Hoover dam, in Civ 3 and the real world, is a huge one), there are also lots of small coal and hydro plants scattered around the world. However because of the security and waste handling requirements, nuclear plants are always fairly big.

 

[Agamemnus]

I thought I said it! Nuke plants can produce power with less money than coal plants! Therefore, an equal amount of money spent on both means, in Firaxis's view, +50% power for nuke plants!

 

[Mad Bomber]

The most I have had is <120 or so, but it doesn't really matter past 80 because a 600 shield wonder w/ an 80 shield city will take but 7 turns, which is good enough for my needs. A 1 turn MA was nice though.