Growth-bug?!

[hetairoi22]

Firstly, I'm sorry if someone has posted this bug before...

Well, I got civ3 yesterday, BTW (YES!), and in my first game one of my cities suddenly said that it would take 9999 turns to grow!Under the city-icon (on the main map) it said "--" next to the city's name. Has anyone experienced something like this, and what can I can do (or maybe firaxis should fix it in the patch...).

The city-display of that city is shown below:

[kailhun]

Your city has probably reached it maximum growth for now.
To grow bigger than 6 a city needs an aqueduct, and to grow bigger than 12 it needs a hospital.
If a city has reached its maximum and can't grow any further the city growthrate is put at 9999 and --, 'cos as things are it'll never happen.

Robert

[wisecat]

Actually if your city is located on the riverside it does not need Aqueduct and will happily grow up to 12 without any extra improvements. So: building cities near rivers not only adds to commerse, defence and ease of irrigation (it is a pain to have to stretch some kind of irrigation belt across empty squares outside the city radiuses to irrigate some remote city), but also saves time&shields on construction and cash on maintenance of aqueducts.
However to grow beyong 12 you will still need a hospital

[Bloodaxe]

Fresh water lakes also gives you this benefit.

[hetairoi22]

Thanx. But I knew the aqueduct-thingie. Just thought it was wierd with 9999 turns... It looks odd... It should say (IMHO) -Zero Growth-. Looks better...