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[Outsider]

I downloaded the zip of the top game on diety level and took a look at it. I am wondering how (without cheating) one gets a city to size 60. After all, the best food terrain setup possible is
4 Wheat (or oasis) farmed for 6 ea (24)
17 Grassland farmed for 4 ea. (68)
for a total of 92 food (or 46 population)
Am I missing something? (other than caravan food (1))

[Black Bart]

caravan food I suppose. I never bothered myself.

[Smash]

by sending food caravans you can take cities over size 100 if you want.I think the max is 127.2 caravans per turn or 1 with granary.

[Krusty]

127.2 caravans?

*looks confused*

[Smash]

hehehe-by sending food caravans you can take cities over size 100 if you want.I think the max is 127.-----(insert buffer)---2 caravans per turn or 1 with granary.

[edgecrusher]

after that the numbers 'roll over' because of how many bits are used in the number.

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[Jeff B]

It will not contribute to your war effort to increase your city size beyound 20+16=36. The numbers come from:

20 = Max number of citizens that can all be at work on terrain, with no excess (eg, entertainers, taxmen, scientists).

16 = Max number of Scientists + Taxmen

All citizens in excess of 36 will be entertainers.

46 is max number of citizens a optimumally configured city can support without food caravans or the food caravan 'trick' (a cheat whose origin is a game bug).

Generally, in the last third of the game or so, entertainers are a great flag that a city needs your attention (use Attitude Advisor to spot them)... maybe a colisieum, maybe they should be changed to taxmen or scientists or engineers. If you have entertainers you can't use in any other way (eg, you already have 16 scientists/taxmen), pop them off as an Engineer!

[Sten Sture]

Also your 17th specialist will have no specialist effect. Even though he might be an Elvis, he will not make anyone happy. You cannot make your 17th specialist a taxman or scientist, so that part is easy, but don't think that Elvis at the end is going to help with anything except 1 pt in the game score.

[Smash]

I think you'll find most or at least many players here are experienced deity players.Its not hard so much as just re-arranging the order in which you do things on lower levels.

On the lower levels I just build settlers for the first part of the game.Can't do that at deity.Gotta get the people content.Plus you get "extra" unhappy citizens after a certain amount of cities.

Its the same on deity for high scores as any other level.
1.Pound the ai down to 1 city.

2.have your way

[general_charles]

Have you really tried levels more than King? It is impossible, your people get unhppy when your cities are up to 2 population, I mean come one. If you change the rules.txt it is possible but I don't think that it is in reality, using the default options that are in the game, agree???