Quiz Time #2: The Eternal City

[jobe]

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.

[jobe]

The city at its final size. Civ cannot display a size bigger then 1000



The maximum population of 1002 is achieved the following way:

• Globe + National Park: No ; No
• Khmer for its Unique Building, the Baray = +1
• Corporation Cereal Mills : (384 Corn) x (3 food each) = +1152 (requires 1 Great Merchant)
• Supermarket = +1
• City planted on Corn = +3
• Fatcross: 20 irrigated Corn with farms and Biology = +140
• settle 704 Great Merchants = +704
• Build Hanging Gardens the turn the city grows to population 1001

Overall: + 2001 + Hanging Gardens = population 1002

704 settled merchants; 1152 food for 384 Corn from Cereal Mills; 143 food from city

Main export good of the empire is popcorn

[Fistandantilus]

Impressive

[rah]

Yep, I guess it really was time for V to come out.
This is just sick. WAY WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS