Starvation in all cities !! Help !!
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go to the city screen and check if the citizens are working the fields in city radius. Most probably, your citizens are turned into specialists/entertainers - move your mouse over the faces displayed - it should say the status of every citizen. Left-click on the city (in other words - the centre of the city controlled plates) - this places your workers automatically, usually with the priority of food.
if this doesn't help - you are probably in anarchy (in the midst of revolt). wait 6 turns (1 if civ is religious) and implement new govt form - things should return to normal.
other possiblity is that some cities with one spare food, shrink back after they have grown, cuz no more food was around. (i.e. a city of 7 is growing slowly, because it has just one food to spare. eons pass, and it reaches 8, but only unoccupied plots left are mountains. one population point needs no less than two pieces food, but your city had only one. It shrinks back to 7, thus returning to our starting point. In this case, try to irrigate plots with mines (consult c-pedia if that would result in more food).
NOTE: you can irrigate ANY plain plot if you've entered industrial era (or maybe modern era)
if this doesn't help - you are probably in anarchy (in the midst of revolt). wait 6 turns (1 if civ is religious) and implement new govt form - things should return to normal.
other possiblity is that some cities with one spare food, shrink back after they have grown, cuz no more food was around. (i.e. a city of 7 is growing slowly, because it has just one food to spare. eons pass, and it reaches 8, but only unoccupied plots left are mountains. one population point needs no less than two pieces food, but your city had only one. It shrinks back to 7, thus returning to our starting point. In this case, try to irrigate plots with mines (consult c-pedia if that would result in more food).
NOTE: you can irrigate ANY plain plot if you've entered industrial era (or maybe modern era)
catfreedom
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I irrigate all my squares as soon as I can, I clear forrests to make way for irrigation, etc. (The only thing I usually leave as is are squares with resources I need.) My cities grow like crazy in the early stages and then they starve - not for lack of workers working squares because they are automatically taken off and turned into specialists because I've got too many citizens. So, I really don't know what to do to keep my cities from starvation. It's like they grow and grow and grow, then I have to watch them starve and shrink, and only then they grow again, and shrink again. Maybe that's the way it works?!
Catfreedom, I've exactly the same case as you do, and you just need to change them back to worker once starvation started. By doing this, you won't lose much as quickly as its used to be.
OR, just let them starve and they will growth again. (that's mean you're killing your people!!!)
OR, just let them starve and they will growth again. (that's mean you're killing your people!!!)
jc011
Rider of Rohan
I think there was something like this i noticed in civ2.. occasionally there is an odd number of food being harvested...Each citizen in civ2 took two food i think... so there is one food income eventually, then it will grow and will have a shortage of 1, the postive and shortage, because one citizen takes two food... Maybe its the same???? 
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