Growing when stagnant?

[Atomation]

I could be hallucinating, but I am almost positive that I've experienced my city growing when stagnant on a number of occasions. I didn't get any social policies, buildings with food, or any such thing, the city just grew on it's own, and it's really frustrating when trying to micro an empire not to grow. Has anyone else experienced this? I will attempt to replicate the situation and send saves if necessary.

[pdxsean]

Friendship with a maritime city state, perhaps? I don't think I pay enough attention to notice... I'm always clicking those green popups without thinking.

[stbabylon]

The food from friendly/allied CS is part of the growth scheme, so won't be an extra on top of the stagnant.

What makes more sense is the We Love the X for that city. It adds a food boost for a couple of turns.

If that's also not the case, then I suspect a rounding error. Your growth could be 0.4, rounded down to 0, eg. stagnant.

But, you can always tick the 'don't grow' button in the Pop tab.

[pdxsean]

The food from friendly/allied CS is part of the growth scheme, so won't be an extra on top of the stagnant.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of...

Check city X on turn 100, and it shows stagnant.
Kill some barbarians on turn 101, Milan relationship bumps up to 38, you gain 1 food per turn.
On turn 109, your friendship with Milan ends and city stops growing.
Don't check city X again until turn 110, it shows stagnant again and you wonder how it grew.

Things kind of have to fit together pretty well to make that work, but it was the only possibility I could think of. And I agree, We Love the King day makes more sense and requires a lot less coincidence.

[stbabylon]

It's always We Love the King day now right? Real shame they didn't tie that in with the policies. We Love the Dictator or We Love the Son of God (or we'll be shot) sounds so much better

[MxM]

There is also some wonder that gives +1 population to all of your cities (may be more for capital, do not remember)

[binTravkin]

It's always We Love the King day now right? Real shame they didn't tie that in with the policies. We Love the Dictator or We Love the Son of God (or we'll be shot) sounds so much better

Indeed, especially when similar feature ("We love the President", etc) was already present in Civ4 and I think also Civ3..

[Aro]

There is also some wonder that gives +1 population to all of your cities (may be more for capital, do not remember)

Hanging Gardens...

[Atomation]

It might have been WLTKD, I don't know, does that add food that doesn't show up on the screen? It certainly wasn't hanging gardens....don't insult my intelligence :P .