Really bad city spot plz help.

[Sonnybonds]

Really bad city spot plz help.

I need some help here.

I settled a city on a very bad location. Now i dont have food to let the city grow. the city is now size 2 and grow is stagnant.

How can i let it grow?? plz help.
Or should i destoy the city and settle a new one further north?

Now i have a screenshot:

 

[Cookie Crumbs]

There is no way of getting more food to that city without corporations.
Could you post a screenshot of the surrounding land?

 

[madscientist]

Cookie is correct, the city will not grow until corps.


You are in anarchy and I cannot see what the cost would be, but my best guess would be let the city stay as is. You have 2 different happiness resoruces, and numerous of a fairly rare one. Trade the excess fur away to get enough gold to pay for the city and simply look at it as a source of happiness to your empire.


Also pre-corps you do not need certain buildings, such as health (granery, grocer) or happiness (forge, market) because of the population size. A libray is fine, maybe a barracks, a courthouse, and walls/castle.

It's not a bad city and I very well could have built a similar one to claim those happy resoruces.

 

[Charou]

Why did you build a granary if there is no growth ??
courthouse and barracks are all it needs.

 

[Ad Hoc]

There is no way of getting more food to that city without corporations.
Could you post a screenshot of the surrounding land?

i think you could also settle a great merchant but what a waste

 

[Verge]

Rename the city "Ice Station Zebra" and hope that the USS Tigerfish will bring supplies of food.

 

[Sonnybonds]

Thx for the reply guys. It looks like its hopeless as it looks.

There is no way of getting more food to that city without corporations.
Could you post a screenshot of the surrounding land?

Do corporations bring more food?? and how do they do that?

Why did you build a granary if there is no growth ??
courthouse and barracks are all it needs.

I though it would grow slowy so i builded a granary first but it turns out it doesnt grow at all. a miscalculation.

i think you could also settle a great merchant but what a waste

Yeah i though about that but its a waste indeed so not likely to happen.

 

[madscientist]

Corporation work in BTS only.

Sid's Suchi and Cereal Mills are the 2 corps (each requires a Great Merchant) that provide food. You need to found the corp in a city (usually the Wall Street city), then spread it to the iceberg city. Every resource for the corp will give you a certain number of food units in the Bergcity.

Anothe option I forgot about is to build a supermarket (BTS again) which gives +1 food. Far off I know, but better than nothing.

 

[xanadux]

Looks like you settled the city for fur and silver. That is its purpose. You can see that it won't grow.

 

[stuttrboy]

it does look like there is one tundra that will support a farm, next to the two furs. it has a commerce tile and unless you cottaged it that means there's a river next to it(though I can't see it. If you had founded the city 1-2 n of there you would have some tundra near a lake, but I don't remember if you can irrigate from lakes on tundra.

Looks like you settled the city for fur and silver. That is its purpose. You can see that it won't grow.

 

[martin026]

Isn't maintenance somewhat tied to the population of the city (as well as other factors like distance etc)? So, it should never cost too much since it won't grow and will allow your better cities to grow larger with the happiness resources.

The only problem is that if there were any better city spots, you could have left this one for a later time.

 

[batavier]

it does look like there is one tundra that will support a farm, next to the two furs. it has a commerce tile and unless you cottaged it that means there's a river next to it(though I can't see it. If you had founded the city 1-2 n of there you would have some tundra near a lake, but I don't remember if you can irrigate from lakes on tundra.

It's just another uncamped fur tile.

 

[Sonnybonds]

thx for the help.
Now i will wait for corporations. I hope i will reach that year i still have axeman.

 

[The Rook]

I think you are being too hard on yourself, the city is never going to be a bustling metropolis, but if I've counted right it has 5 resources in the fat cross. Just build camps on the Fur, make sure they are connected with roads, and trade them with the AI. If it is a border city, it just might be worth building/whipping a theater, and assigning an artist specialist to absorb the Iron, and possibly the Silver.

 

[Gooblah]

Tech to Civil Service. Build a farm next to the lake that's 1 NW of the western fur tile. I'm not sure about chainfarm specifics, but try building a farm 1 S of the western Fur. If the computer doesn't let you do this, replace the Fur tile with a Farm. Then chain the farms to create a better city.

 

[oyzar]

chain irrigation doesn't work on tundra and the tundra farms are still useless...

 

[Cer]

When I have tried, chain-farming is not allowed on tundra-- even after civil service you can only farm (or cottage!) a tundra tile if it is by a river. Not sure about a lake, but it definitely didn't work on tiles that were beside a farm, but not beside a lake or river.

This was vanilla, no guarantee it hasn't changed for BTS.

 

[Airefuego]

I agree with those who say - don't worry about growing it, just look at it as a little village that claims a whole bunch of useful resources.