Your largest city?

[Rodrig0]

Hey guys! I finally managed to build a +35 city This has been so far my largest in years playing.

Initially it was founded on the tile northeast, floodplains with wheat... Gilgamesh doesn't know what's best for him So I drained and abandoned the city (it had the Temple of Artemis ) and settled on a better spot.

So what's been your largest city? Anyone has a screen? I mean, for regular play, not custom map full of floodplains + wheat...

 

[Theov]

Yup, that's one large city. Interesting that you put the guys to work.
Isn't it going to culture flip, BTW??
Don't know my largest. Will take a look, but I doubt any comes over 25.

 

[Rodrig0]

I don't think it will flip, it isn't the original Ur, the actual sumerian city was founded on the adjacent tile, but I abandoned it to settle there where I would have more food. Only 2 citizens are sumerians which I joined by mistake, the rest are carthaginians. But it already has some culture, a courthouse and they love the king, so there isn't much chance of it flipping.

 

[Desertsnow]

The largest city that I definitely remember was Alexandria at size 38.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I never got past 30.

 

[Core Imposter]

mine bout tree fitty

 

[Omni314]

I've had ones get to about 40 something, that may have been on a mod though

 

[WWTVICTOR]

Nearly 30 for me, numbers like 28 or 29...

What's your difficulty in that game?

 

[jtb1127]

I rarely get above 25 or so.

 

[Raliuven]

This is my largest - 45, though I forgot to irriagate a tile 1 W, 1SW from the capital, which would have made it 46. This was either a warlord or regent game on PTW that I was just kicking around for fun.

 

[AnthonyIII]

Wow, that is one.big.city, Railuven!

 

[Theov]

Sitting at a cosy 83% corruption.

 

[Aabraxan]

Yeah, but those specialists don't care about corruption. . . . or the bank, for that matter.

 

[Rodrig0]

we have a winner!

Wow, that's A LOT of food!

 

[Desertsnow]

45 AND still growing!

 

[Lanzelot]

Raliuven: isn't it "odd" that the number of food units in these cities always tends to be "odd", so that the city always "oscillates" between +1f and -1f... (In your case, even irrigating that one tile that you forgot, wouldn't help, it would give 2 more food and the total number remains odd...)

Rodrig0: why aren't all the rails and irrigations displayed in the city view screen?!

 

[Elephantium]

Lanz: Clean-map mode, I think. CTRL-SHIFT-N and CTRL-SHIFT-M or something similar.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Lanz: Clean-map mode, I think. CTRL-SHIFT-N and CTRL-SHIFT-M or something similar.

Both actually. The first one is for the clean map preferences, the other for the clean map display itself.

 

[Raliuven]

Raliuven: isn't it "odd" that the number of food units in these cities always tends to be "odd", so that the city always "oscillates" between +1f and -1f... (In your case, even irrigating that one tile that you forgot, wouldn't help, it would give 2 more food and the total number remains odd...)

Rodrig0: why aren't all the rails and irrigations displayed in the city view screen?!

I hate this almost as much as I hate the longevity wonder. Let's grow those cities at +1fpt so that the city jumps by two population that it can't possibly feed. I guess we filp a coin and decide which babies we leave by the river.

I'm actually quickly growing annoyed at the agricultural trait which, by all appearances, makes it nearly impossible not to waste food all the time in the mid-to-late game. You would think the two would even everything out.

 

[dhokarena56]

I actually did a quick mod for this where I had a Sumerian city with a granary, hospital, the works, smack-dab on top of a wheat-filled floodplain, surrounded by wheat-filled floodplains, with railroads and irrigation on all of them. I think I got up to...maybe 63 or 64 citizens? That's the highest theoretically possible, at least...but of course it's cheating, and I don't know what the limit is in terms of what the game would ever give you.