Preventing hunger?

[über_Rabbit]

It's 1996 and my great Greek civilians are finally fattening up and taking all the food. How do I solve this problem without stealing food from another one of my cities with a freight? (That doesn't work very well anyway...)

 

[Gelion]

Hmm.... This is either too easy or very hard .
Have you tried irrigating and building granaries in your cities?

 

[ElephantU]

1996 is a little late to deal with food problems...

Irrigation, double irrigation (farmland), transforming low-food land to higher-food land, and Harbors will help. A Granary only preserves half of the food box when you grow via surplus food; it does not help ongoing food shortage.

Techs you need for the above: Explosives, Refrigeration, and Seafaring.

 

[über_Rabbit]

Yeah, I've discovered everything up to Future Tech 5, in which point I changed tax rates to 70% Tax, 0% Science, and 30% Luxury. I have at least three farms around every city that is having problems, and yet they sooner or later end up getting hungry. Well, it's 2075, my reign has already ended, the R.S.S. Alexander has reached Alpha Centauri, and Civ3 is sitting on a FedEx truck her in town, waiting to be delivered.

If I had more than the demo for Alien Crossfire, I'd be playing it right now.

 

[Gelion]

Try to irrigate (farm) every quare around town that is not "mined" as quickly as possible. At least one when the city is built.

 

[Ace]

There is a limit to the number of citizens a city can support. Even with the best food-producing land, farmlands, etc, eventually the city will max out. I don't remember the number, but it is somewhere in the 30s, I think. There is just so much food 21 hexes can produce.

 

[ElephantU]

21 tiles times 4 food each (farmland grass) would be 84, or 42 citizens. If the corner tiles are four Wheats that would add 4 more, for 44 citizens.

That said, the game will only allow 16 specialists in any city, so any citizens over size 36 can only be Entertainers.

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

In addition to what has been mentioned already, some of the cities could be supporting engineers. If you have a city running out of food but supporting engineers, you could rehome an engineer to a different city with a food surplus to level things out.

 

[eatstatik]

What type of government are you using? Some gvt's limit the amout of production you can have from each square. Try a Democracy or Communism for the best results.