My cities refuse to grow even with surplus food (major bug I think).

[Veristek]

Hiyas guys.

I noticed an odd bug in my first few games of Civ. For some reason after I load the games, my cities refuse to grow in food production.

For example, my capital is size 2, and has 6 food. 4 goes to feed the population, and 2 goes to growth. I should grow in 15 turns, correct?

However, when I save the game, then load it back up, the capital city food becomes 0, no growth, BUT if I remove both workers, the food goes to -2 as it should normally (starvation). Then I put my workers back to the food squares and the food goes to 0, still not the +2 that's supposed to be happening. Keep in mind I'm using squares that provide +2 food.

Why are my cities refusing to grow or have food growth after load? They do grow normally if I start a new game and play it (save as well) *UNTIL* I do the load up for whatever reason, when I get back to the computer or made a terrible mistake or whatever.

Even after 10 turns, my capital city is size 1 while all my rival capital cities hit size 2 or 3.

For information, I played as the Chinese on Noble (normal) difficulty level.

 

[DrD]

Just a guess, but are you building a settler or worker? Both of these cause zero pop growth while being built.

 

[Veristek]

Hmm- I'll look into that. I remember in Civ 3, your cities still did grow even though you were building workers and settlers.

This is very interesting if this is actually why my capital city refuses to grow. Keep in mind, I have been playing from 4000 BC to 3500 BC and give up because I thought my capital city (Beijing) got bugged up or something.

 

[Djc]

Hmm- I'll look into that. I remember in Civ 3, your cities still did grow even though you were building workers and settlers.

This is very interesting if this is actually why my capital city refuses to grow. Keep in mind, I have been playing from 4000 BC to 3500 BC and give up because I thought my capital city (Beijing) got bugged up or something.

They've changed that for this game. Now, settlers and workers are built with a combination of hammers and food, but your population does not decrease when they are built.

 

[warpstorm]

This isn't Civ3. Your cities will not grow while building workers or settlers. You should wait till you grtow a few times before starting your expansion.

 

[weimingshi]

and in city management screen. on bottom you can set assign worker preference like, prefer food, hammer, gold, science, the last option is avoid growth. if you accidentally switched on that option, your city will never grow.

 

[ainwood]

This isn't Civ3. Your cities will not grow while building workers or settlers. You should wait till you grtow a few times before starting your expansion.

Actually, I think you should weigh it up. If waiting to grow to size 3 from size 2 (for example) is only going to mean you get to work one more tile that gives 3 (hammers + shields) = 1 extra after the extra citizen is fed, then it may not really be worth waiting.

And also in answer to the thread topic - did you turn-on "avoid growth" for the city by mistake?