The largest amount of cities ever!

[Jamesds]

I have been wondering what the biggest amount of cities anyone has ever had.

My personal amount is 118, or somwhere round there. I went onto democracy, after destroying all but one of the civs and put my luxeries RIGHT UP! I got scores of 100 added each turn! WOW!

Anyway, I would be pleased if you could tell me how to get lots of cities. I usually build atleast 20, if I can! I make sure I am Supreme too!

Thats what I do anyway, you might be totally different!

 

[willemvanoranje]

I'm not sure, I think I was at New New New Berlin.

 

[Smash]

Please don't post multiple threads on the same subject.Also post in the appropriate forum.I get very upset when I need to perform adminstrative stuff on Saturdays.

back to topic.

256 cities.Eventually,you get a popup saying "too many ciities" and no more can be built.

 

[Ren]

Somewhere between 220 (last count) and the limit, but this is 3000 AD +

 

[duke o' york]

My max is only 120 or so because the Playstation has a limit of about half the PC's.

 

[monkeyman116]

I got to the limit before 1AD once

 

[Dell19]

I cannot remember my limit although I believe it was nearing 200 cities or maybe over so I will vote for the 200 city option...

 

[unknown_spirit]

Originally posted by duke o' york
My max is only 120 or so because the Playstation has a limit of about half the PC's.

And you actually took the time to build that many without killing all enemies off? Why? It defies all logic... :slay:

 

[unknown_spirit]

Originally posted by monkeyman116
I got to the limit before 1AD once

Now THAT's good going. THUNDERFALL, GIVE THIS GUY AN AWARD! Is there an award for expansion? There'd better be...

 

[rysingsun]

255 is the max allowed on a pc and that includes the ai's cities.

 

[kmad]

I got 216 once, when I was on a continent on a large map that took up over 3/4 of the entire map by itself

 

[Marlos]

My credo is to expand all of the time. As a result, I will build on basically any arable land on the map. After engineers, I build on non-arable land, too!

More cities = more trade = more trade, science, units! Build, build, build!

 

[ferenginar]

I'm not sure of the answer to this but I suspect it was 200+, I have had 150+ at 1AD, but I find the time taken to manage them and the difficulty in thinking of more city names too much trouble to push to the limit.

ferenginar 95

 

[rysingsun]

last thing i need distracting me. so this is what i did. there is a file named city.txt which can be edited. you guessed it .. it has the city names for each civ and a list of "spare" city names. if you append all your personal city name choices to the spares you dont have to come up with them each and every game. but i wasnt so clever. i just named my "spare" cities "city000, city001, city002 ...." ... made a few hundred of them. its not a complete solution. there remains the problem of multiple civs having cities with the same name in some games and that creates bugs in the routines for scrolling thru the city list. and so cities end up needing to be renamed while playing to get rid of this problem. if i werent so lazy id append to the individual city lists for each civ but i never got around to thinking of and typing all those lists

 

[rysingsun]

oh i didnt notice i could attach a file. where here is a city.txt file that works decently

 

[duke o' york]

Yeah, but the AI will build these cities too, and that will still give you trouble when you capture two versions of City000 (used to be Vienna, say) and have to fit them into your naming system.

 

[Ace]

Speaking of the Duke of Marlbrough, he showed me a neat trick for keeping track of lots of cities. your capital city is A1. rest of the cities on that continent are A2, A3, etc. next continent is B1 etc. than Island 1 etc. this has the added advantage of just looking at a city "name" and being able to tell which continental group it belongs to. Its especially handy when checking the demand for freight. you know automatically if the demand city is on a different continent.

Oh yeah, I have maxed out at 256 cities. but only by conquest, I've never actually built that many at civ II. Used to do it all the time in civ I.

 

[ferenginar]

Its a good idea about the city names, I have tried something similar by naming them after cities from particular countries, but my knowledge usually falls short of my expansion.

The biggest problem for me is the mangement of all those cities, the deployment of so many caravans each turn, having to change production on 40-50 cities per turn, it takes almost as long as CIV III.

ferenginar 94

 

[starlifter]

You can speed it up drastically by using a combination of things, including a Standard Naming Convention. I use 3-character names, once the empire hits about mid game (typically at or shortly after 1 AD).

I use a whole set of codes (e.g., sleep, fortify, wake units) to flag what needs to be done, and where things go (e.g, C/F for delivery).

Also, I scroll thru city status screens at warp speed with the arrows. I also use the City Status screen and building codes, esp. when the # of cities exceeds 100.

Radio speeds the game drastically, and simplifies it, too. Every city, bar none, gets an Airport. Most get it without delay (e.g., rushed). Trade is conducted at least one day in the future.... new freight is airlifted directly to (or near, in busy areas) the demand, and stored with codes to await delivery when needed.

I've got longer explanations in the Stories & Tales thread, as well as other places if you want more details. The Search button can find them, but I don't remember the thread names because this sort of thing usually comes up in the middle of an unrelated thread .

I did notince these threads when just searching:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=7652#post7652

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=388032#post388032

 

[Old n Slow]

It is more than a memory game & it is more than a geography game. I usually type in city names rather than use the defaults -- wrapping around some key. If I am in formerly French territory, then I may add a few “French-like” names for new cities. More frequently I’ll just use city names for a particular U. S. state -- so a southern continent could have a dozen Florida names, a dry area might pick up names from out west & the initial cities around my capital will often have: city names from around the DC area with a different first letter up through the first twenty or so. Sometimes the geography will also match up with the place names as well.

I think that Starlifter (I, too, have links to Arlington, TX) uses his renames for another reason. Somehow I think he’s set up a spreadsheet with macros fed by a database -- the handy dandy upkeep tool for micro managers!