Cottage won't upgrade

[Thrull]

Hi,

I suspect this gets asked often, but I found no references to it on this website. My apologies if this has been asked dozens of times before.

When I build a Cottage it is supposed to upgrade to a Hamlet it 10 turns. However, often times if I scroll over it, I'll see something alongs the lines of "City needs to work in order to grow."

What exactly is "working" for a city? And how do I make that happen?

Thanks

[0d!n3oo3|Broad]

the city has to work the tile on which the cottage is on. in other words: in the city-screen there must be a white circle on the tile with the cottage

[Zoid]

Exactly. You have to assign a workforce (the small icons in the city screen) to the cottage tile.

[Prussia]

A tip: completely industrializing your civ (e.g. building improvements on every piece of land) is not always such a smart thing to do, especially with low growth. Keep some forests and jungles if you can to make the population happier and healthier, and then switch to enviromentalism for uber-domination.

[Will9]

I will always keep 2-3 a city forests for the health bonus. Also so I can make lumbermills and later with Enviromentalism the happiness bonus. I also keep them incase I am in a race for a wonder and I find out someone else isahesd of me I will get max production out of the city and if that still isn't enough I will cut down a forest.

[Dauphin]

Make sure the forests you leave aren't adjacent to your city if you can help it. Don't want any enemy forces that are laying siege to have a nice defencive position to do it from.

[Thrull]

Excellent, thank you. Should have realized that in the first place.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Prussia
Keep some forests and jungles if you can to make the population happier and healthier, and then switch to enviromentalism for uber-domination.

Jungles are bad to keep for that long, esp. given their minuses. Just keep forests in groups of 3. I tend to keep my forests unless there is a much better reason of chopping them down - I am not a fan of chop rushing. I much prefer pop rushing.

[Grandpa Troll]

I learned yet another lesson

So I guess thats why when having no forest I often see a sickly green looking ICON when viewing cities within Map?

Thanks

GT

[snoopy369]

Indeed, though there are other ways to deal with that Particularly building granary/aqueduct/grocer, and building cities on rivers, and grabbing plenty of food resources

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Indeed, though there are other ways to deal with that Particularly building granary/aqueduct/grocer, and building cities on rivers, and grabbing plenty of food resources

Thanks for the assistance

[Prussia]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger

I am not a fan of chop rushing. I much prefer pop rushing.

[Urban Ranger]

Esp when chopping got nerfed in 1.61.

[Prussia]

Yeah, but the other additions of 1.61 made it worth it.

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
So I guess thats why when having no forest I often see a sickly green looking ICON when viewing cities within Map?

I almost never have that problem (huge marathon continents @ noble). That's what I get for playing as Rome all the time.

Just have to keep an eye on it with my globe theater city.