most shields from 1 city?

[AyanO]

Just a quick question, whats the most shields/production anyone has gotten from 1 city. Right now at the end of a game as the Egyptians, i have a city with all improvements including IronWorks kicking me 174 shields per turn, with about 4 going to corruption. I still have 2 squares the city can use and not enough people to use them..

Anyone over 200 production from 1 city?

 

[Peteus]

No, and I've never lucked into the IronWorks either! It's kind of like winning the lottery...
Toss a couple of stray workers into that city to increase its size and work the extra tiles, and make sure you're mining those grassland squares - you may get there yet!

 

[AyanO]

Well IronWorks was worth going to war for, had to burn, raze, rape and pillage a greek village inorder to get the Coal in my possession, after that it was on. Nothing like a city late in the game that can kick out a Tank or Modern Armor in 1 turn. Great for the war machine..

Well i've been able to get the city up to 195 Production, with only 3 corruption (Forbidden Palace is right next door).

But still not the elusive 200 shields per turn.. Just one more Iron in the mountains and i would be golden...

 

[slothman]

I have 242 shields with 2 to waste. It's during golden age so normaly it might be less.

 

[hamster]

164 in a city size of 34

 

[moomin]

Actually, sometimes a bug kicks in that lets you get close to infinte prod. There are times when you pollution actually generates production. You clean up the stink, and relocate city workers to that tile - and it gets added to whatever the current production is. I've had it happen many times, and started going for it by having one city be as "dirty" as possible, in order to generate a lot of pollution there.

I don't know what triggers this, but the prod counter is reset to what it "should" be if a) the population number changes, so you should _not_ build a hospital in a city like this b) you get a new power plant (unfortunately, hoover dam also "resets" the prod counter).

If you don't build a hospital and go for heavy pollution you can eventually reach quite amazing production figures.

I'm sure it's not intended, though.

 

[zebomba]

What an odd bug.

Sure someone can get over 300 production by having simultaneous golden age and mobilization.
Icbms every other turn anyone?

 

[eyrei]

One day I will get the ironworks. Until then I will be satisfied with the occasional 100+ shield city.

 

[Dark Sheer]

The highest I have seen is 294 in the Persian capital city during modern age.

I never get that high myself though

 

[qslack]

You can get tons of shields if you set grasslands or whatever to give 25 food, 25 shields, and 25 gold in the editor. You can build every wonder in just a turn if you have 20 citizens.

But without cheating, I've gotten I think 200-250. I was on a pretty difficult map, but I was the Americans, mobilized, and experiencing my golden age thanks to my F-15s.

p.s. I wish we could transfer shields from one city to another. Like, you could build an improvement called "Help another city", and when you selected it, you would tell it what city and then 75% of the shields would be transferred. Or something like that. Not for wonders, just units and improvements. Speaking of that, it would be nice if we could share surplus food with other cities over roads or railroads.