What is the biggest city size you can achieve at least for one turn on a theoretical setup of a Civ IV game with the following rules?
  • Map is duel sized (24x16 tiles), e.g. Inland_Sea

  • Resources on flood plains are not allowed.

  • You can make any tile on the map be whatever you like just it have to be tiles occuring on usual civ maps.

  • You can use the entire map = make it be in your cultural borders (just as if you planted it all)

  • There is no turn limit: You can have your city build anything you like and you can research any technology you want.

  • The number of GPs you can breed is limited to 705.


Think up a theoretical setup (=the land to plant and work) and name what is necessary to achieve maximum population in your city.


P.S. Disregard "overflow growing". Ideas like Shizanu´s "I do 700 merchants at pop 4 and then settle them all at the same time" don´t count.