Starvation

[lcorinth]

I've got granaries. I've got irrigation. Why do I keep getting starvation? I've got it in several cities now. I did have it in one of my Arctic cities pretty consistently, but I could live with that in the one town. But now it's spread to other parts of the country!

 

[Mordack]

are you in anarchy perhaps?

 

[lcorinth]

I just got out of it. I'm now in Republic. How long does it take for things to normalize? And how long does the high corruption rate last? I've still got it pretty bad in some of my cities...

 

[Mordack]

cycle through each city and reset production - you can to this by clicking on the center of the city in the city view screen

can't help you with republic - never use it

there are others on this forum that promote republic - I'm sure they will respond (Tomoyo?)

 

[Tomoyo]

Well, if you used a lot of specialists, raising the lux slider will get more citizens to work on your food tiles...

It's all in the working of the tiles.

(I don't promote Republic that much; I just defend it)

 

[Mordack]

btw today is not April 10

civ has that effect on me too

 

[Tomoyo]

Yeah, I'm 14 days off, I'm too lazy to change it.

 

[DBear]

Each citizen consumes 2 food. Look in your starving cities and move your people around to grow more food.

 

[Renata]

Are you using city governors? If you have them set to handle happiness, they will automatically make entertainers in any city that's not happy, even to the point of losing population due to insufficient citizens producing food.

If so, the easiest solution is to raise the lux slider a notch or two and watch to see that most of the entertainers go back to work.

Renata

 

[Zakharov]

It definitely sounds to me as if your citizens were hired as entertainers during the anarchy period. As Mordack said, you should re-check the tile allocations for each city. Do this every time you change governments.

 

[sabo]

Well, if you used a lot of specialists, raising the lux slider will get more citizens to work on your food tiles...

It's all in the working of the tiles.

(I don't promote Republic that much; I just defend it)

to the poster:
Micromanage is the key

Tomoyo, I just discovered the joy of Democracy, they must have fixed it from earlier versions of civ, you could not war for more than an couple of turns back then without your whole civ going into chaos. It seems to me that WW isn't so bad in Demo anymore.

 

[tR1cKy]

Yeah he's probaly using governors. Those cretins change productive citizens into clowns and if the town starves it's ok for them.

My advice: ditch the governors. They are all cretins. Micromanage your cities. You won't regret it.

@sabo: Democracy has its set of rules, unchanged in every civ version and update so far. WW too has its rules on how it raises and lowers. You probably have learned to wage war more effectively (in regard to WW points). Or you've become used in building the Universal Suffrage somewhere.

 

[Tomoyo]

Tomoyo, I just discovered the joy of Democracy, they must have fixed it from earlier versions of civ, you could not war for more than an couple of turns back then without your whole civ going into chaos. It seems to me that WW isn't so bad in Demo anymore.

Maybe I'll try it sometime.

 

[lcorinth]

Yeah he's probaly using governors. Those cretins change productive citizens into clowns and if the town starves it's ok for them.

Actually, I haven't bothered using governors. They seem too stiff to me. But I have fixed the problem by re-allocating a few tiles.

Thanks for the advice, all.