Quick question on Starvation - I am not sure I saw what happened correctly, but here's what I remember:
I had a size 13 city with about 19 food tiles to work (water & grassland) and 5 hills (iirr). I was rushing to get a wonder, so moved 5 of my food producers to the mines, and had 2 artist specialists, and got the "starvation" message. I figured it was fine if my pop dropped by 1 or 2 so I could get that wonder. The problem is, one turn late my city dropped to 8 and all I was left with was my population on food tiles (and the two specialists). All of my workers on the hills/mines died!
...at least - that's what I thought happened. My city may have been smaller than I thought (although I don't think I could have worked all those tiles with a lower pop). What is the effect of starvation? I thought you'd lose one pop per turn until you weren't starving, but it seems that you lose all non-food workers die until you get a +ve food/population ratio.... Does anyone know?
I had a size 13 city with about 19 food tiles to work (water & grassland) and 5 hills (iirr). I was rushing to get a wonder, so moved 5 of my food producers to the mines, and had 2 artist specialists, and got the "starvation" message. I figured it was fine if my pop dropped by 1 or 2 so I could get that wonder. The problem is, one turn late my city dropped to 8 and all I was left with was my population on food tiles (and the two specialists). All of my workers on the hills/mines died!
...at least - that's what I thought happened. My city may have been smaller than I thought (although I don't think I could have worked all those tiles with a lower pop). What is the effect of starvation? I thought you'd lose one pop per turn until you weren't starving, but it seems that you lose all non-food workers die until you get a +ve food/population ratio.... Does anyone know?