My cities not growing at all?

[Sovereign]

Hiyas guys.

I noticed an odd bug in my first few games of Civ. For some reason after I load the games, my cities refuse to grow in food production.

For example, my capital is size 1, and has 4 food. 2 goes to feed the population, and 2 goes to growth. I should grow in 10 - 11 turns, correct?

However, when I save the game, then load it back up, the capital city food becomes 0, no growth, BUT if I remove the worker, the food goes to minus as it should normally.

Why are my cities refusing to grow or have food growth after load? They do grow normally if I start a new game and play it (save as well) *UNTIL* I do the load up for whatever reason, when I get back to the computer or made a terrible mistake or whatever.

Even after 10 turns, my capital city is size 1 while all my rival capital cities hit size 2 or 3.

For information, I played as the Chinese on Noble (normal) difficulty level.

[Willem]

Are you building a Settler or Worker by any chance? If so, any food surpluses goes towards building those units and your city won't grow until they're completed.

[Sovereign]

Hmm- I'll look into that. I remember in Civ 3, your cities still did grow even though you were building workers and settlers.

This is very interesting if this is actually why my capital city refuses to grow. Keep in mind, I have been playing from 4000 BC to 3500 BC and give up because I thought my capital city (Beijing) got bugged up or something.

[Lordacroyear]

Try this, I have problems when I try to reload a saved game, everything from the screen simply freezes, city name tags moved away from the city, even the game view but with no interface around the screen. But, if I start a new game, run it for 1-3 turns, then go and load the other saved game file, things work fine, no problems. I have to do this for all my saved game files, none of them open directly.. Hope this helps..

[CiverDan]

IIRC cities do not grow in Civ IV during worker/settler production, all food goes to the settler/worker production.

[archermoo]

Correct, during Settler and Worker production excess food gets used for production instead of growth. Counterbalancing that Settler and Worker production doesn't consume any population.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Sovereign
Hmm- I'll look into that. I remember in Civ 3, your cities still did grow even though you were building workers and settlers.

Things have changed. You no longer lose population when the units are built as well.