Vanilla Steam Deity - Besides trying to lineup your food to little less than 60% for new citizen when you build the Aqueduct... every new citizen after that, does it always give you 40% for new citizen or is that % affected by how much food you have the turn before you gain a new citizen?
Naokaukodem
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I don't understand your question - the food basket fulfills up to 40% (maybe + food overflow ?) when a new citizen is born when you have an aqueduct, at least that's how I interpret it.
Like when my city gets to about 1 turn for a new citizen, I always cut to food production down to the minimum amount required to get to 1 turn (putting extra citizens to production, etc). So I was just wondering if I was reducing the amount of food that carries over via the 40% aqueduct by doing that? Or if it's a straight 40% of what was required for the last new citizen regardless of how close I cut it to 1 turn?
Naokaukodem
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I don't think it affects it, but it must be tedious to play like that. People that want to optimize citizens growth usually put cities on focus production and lock the proper needed food tiles manually once and for good unless they get to negative happiness which in such a case they reset tile assignments in every city, which I find tedious also. I generally think it does not worth the hassle just to spare 1 citizen 1 turn production. (I do it early though, or try to do it)
But I do think that, since the food basket grows with every new citizen so that it might theoretically be longer to grow the next citizen after that, that the aqueduct fulfills 40% of the new food basket (the green bar if you want) a new citizen places at birth, regardless of the amount of food you had before citizen growth.
But I do think that, since the food basket grows with every new citizen so that it might theoretically be longer to grow the next citizen after that, that the aqueduct fulfills 40% of the new food basket (the green bar if you want) a new citizen places at birth, regardless of the amount of food you had before citizen growth.
