N00b question: how do I use pop rush?

[Urban Ranger]

Can't find it on the city screen.

So how do you do it?

TIA

[Cort Haus]

Top left button on the panel west of the mini-map. Requires Slavery Civic.

[Cort Haus]

Got the load game working yet, UR?

[Dis]

so have we argued the merits of pop rushing yet? I'm still not convinced it's worth it. Unless you are under attack and need troops in a hurry.

[Bill3000]

Actually, I found it to be pretty nice when my cities are flourishing in population, but have sucky production.

[xxFlukexx]

Pop-rushing is widely considered as being great on medium and lower difficulties. On Emperor+ difficulty, well you need to use pop-rushing very sparingly and you better know what you are doing.

Best use of pop-rushing imo is to create an axeman army very quickly. Take a size 4 city, build an axeman to 6/35 hammers, rush him, wait a turn or two to get around 6/35 hammers, rush again and keep repeating until you are at size 1, then grow, once you get to size 2, rush another axeman, should get about 5 axeman in under 10 turns.

[Enigma_Nova]

You'll run out of gold to support the army as soon as it leaves your borders with all your size 1 cities, fluke.
I find pop-rushing quite useful for those large seafood cities that do little except feed themselves.

[star mouse]

I find the Pop-rush to be wonderful for building health-boosting city improvements, especially when the city already has health problems. At one stroke, the health problems are reduced in two ways - there's fewer people to be unhealthy, and the city has a shiny new improvement that boosts the health of the people that are left.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Top left button on the panel west of the mini-map. Requires Slavery Civic.

Inside the city screen or outside? I found a button with a tool tip that said "Need 9 (max avail: 4)" and was greyed out in the city screen to the left of the "rush buy" button. Is that it?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Got the load game working yet, UR?

Sort of, thanks to Hark's memory patch

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Inside the city screen or outside? I found a button with a tool tip that said "Need 9 (max avail: 4)" and was greyed out in the city screen to the left of the "rush buy" button. Is that it?

Yes, that's it.

ACK!

[Enigma_Nova]

Late night / Early morning / Drugs / Annoying Children again, UR?

[Bill3000]

I'm betting on the drugs.

[Urban Ranger]

Pah, why would it need 9 pop points to complete a Settler? That's what threw me off.

[Bill3000]

30 production per point of population. Gold hurry is 3 gold per production. Moddible too. (GameInfo\CIV4HurryInfo.xml)