population control?

[Rock_Strongo]

A big gripe from my citizens is that my 'main' city is overpopulated. How do I qwell this problem? Also, my cities don't really grow in size.....what gives? I send workers in to join the city, but it seems like after '12' it won't get any bigger. I've been reading posts on this board, very helpful....but man, I am no where close to you guys.....you can get railroads in this game? I still can't get past swordsman in my military....my horsemen just have spears and I, under no circumstances, can win a fight.

 

[Hooray]

A city cannot grow beyond size 12 until you've built a Hospital there.

Depending on your difficulty level, your citizens will start becoming unhappy once you've reached a certain city size. You counter this by making your people happy through various means. You should build temples in your cities to help keep them content. You can turn some of your citizens into entertainers to keep them content as well. You should also acquire some Luxury Resources to make them happier. If necessary, you can increase the Luxury tax slider too.

 

[Rehan]

To get over 12 pop. you have to build a hospital. I prefer not to build the hospital and stay at 12 because of pollution popping up.

 

[Padma]

Originally posted by Hooray
Depending on your difficulty level, your citizens will start becoming unhappy once you've reached a certain city size. You counter this by making your people happy through various means. You should build temples in your cities to help keep them content. You can turn some of your citizens into entertainers to keep them content as well. You should also acquire some Luxury Resources to make them happier. If necessary, you can increase the Luxury tax slider too.

Generally speaking, if the unhappy citizens are in/near your core area, you are better off increasing Lux Tax instead of adding Entertainers. Entertainers are most useful in distant, corrupt cities.

 

[Rock_Strongo]

do i increase lux tax by adding tax collectors?

 

[RX2000]

Originally posted by Rehan
To get over 12 pop. you have to build a hospital. I prefer not to build the hospital and stay at 12 because of pollution popping up.

Usually by the time I can build hospitals, mass transit and recycling centers arent too far off. I would think that limiting yourself to all size 12 cities would hurt your production way more than any benefit to pollution.

 

[RX2000]

Originally posted by Rock_Strongo
do i increase lux tax by adding tax collectors?

Increase luxury in one city by adding an entertainer. To increase your national luxury tax, hit F1 to bring up the Domestic Advisor, and the bottom slider (under science) will be luxury tax.