City from size 1 to size 20 in about 16 turns

[ramses II.]

That isn't possible? I use this trick (not a cheat!) often, when I've got SoL and Fundi and enough money:
Found a city - size 1.
Let 7 settlers go into this city - press b - size 8!
The other cities will substitute the lost settlers by rush buying and incremental buying. Let three cities build defensive units for garrison duty in the new city.
So you can have a new city of size 8 every 3-5 turns, if you want (if you have enough cities and enough room to expand).
Have your cities celebrating -> lux rate about 20%
Rush build an aqueduct, and if available, a sewer system.
So you can have a size-20-city in 13-16 turns.
I'm not sure if that was known to this forum. If so, forgive me, please.

[rah]

This is common in points 'record setting games' late in the game if you didn't get all your cities down fast enough.

If you want the quick "big" city in regular games, it's usually just three settlers and celebrate from there since it's a more effecient use of resources.

In MP games it's just two settlers, so one can be an elvis to combat the unhappiness with lots of cities in deity.

But it is common to use settlers to get those gold mountain cities up to three so celebrating can begin.

RAH

[Xin Yu]

Since the game increases population afterl food box full then consider happiness, it may be possible to get a city to increase 2 pops per turn, one by sending food caravans, another by WLTKD. Just a thought.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by rah
RAH

/threadjack ON
New avatar, Rah? A schism within the Muppet ranks?
/threadjack OFF

I tend to celebrate my cities rather than add settlers to grow 'em. Being a rep/demo addict in the mid game, this always seems cheaper than rushing settlers (or food caravans) in fundy. To say nothing of it being less work doing all that incremental buying (A not insignificant consideration in my gigamap games).

The only times I add settlers to grow a city are unusual situations where a city is growing too slowly to work a special (e.g. building on desert) or to quickly increase a SSC or STC's size. It's nice to have two big trade cities in games where the AI isn't building big cities under representative governments.

STYOM

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Xin Yu
Since the game increases population afterl food box full then consider happiness, it may be possible to get a city to increase 2 pops per turn, one by sending food caravans, another by WLTKD. Just a thought.

Sorry, Xin, been there, tried that, and didn't get the Tshirt - you can't successfully combine food caravans and celebration - or to be more accurate... II can't combine food caravans and celebration - can your devious mind come up with a solution?

SG[1]

[Straybow]

The biggest problem is that after you grow via food you workers get moved from high trade tiles in preference for high food tiles. It might work if you can crowd the city with workers from neighbor cities, leaving the computer no choice where to put its workers. But then the cities are so close that growing twice in one turn would just be a footnote.

[La Fayette]

Re: City from size 1 to size 20 in about 16 turns

Originally posted by ramses II.
I use this trick (not a cheat!) often, when I've got SoL and Fundi and enough money:

Do YOUR cities grow when celebrating in Fundy?
I guess you must be using a mod designed by SG1 .

[War4ever]

The natural growth and WLT*D celebration doesn't work either when trying to grow two pop points in one turn...i imagine the game can only handle growth spurts of more than one per turn via add settler as all other attempts to do so have failed for me.....

even primed cities don't grow twice in one turn...which to me seems odd.....your city grows naturally from size three to four, even when celebrating at size four it won't go to five in the same turn.....

anyone know the "real" reason why this happens , or if i am doing something wrong , by all means enlighten me.....

[Scouse Gits]

Like the new avatar, Warz - big smile playing golf?

SG[1]

[War4ever]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Like the new avatar, Warz - big smile playing golf?

SG[1]

SG(1) i came across a smilie site....this was a happy smiley......i wanted a new avatar when i saw rah changed his....but since i have no clue how to make images smaller, i used a smiley...

i would love a boston red sox logo...but alas....i am unable to shrink these things

[War4ever]

Originally posted by War4ever


SG(1) i came across a smiley site....this was a happy smiley......i wanted a new avatar when i saw rah changed his....but since i have no clue how to make images smaller, i used a smiley...

i would love a boston red sox logo...but alas....i am unable to shrink these things

[Smash]

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[War4ever]

Smash if you were female i would give you a big kiss......nothing like a fellow vancouverite helping out his mates

[Smash]

If I was female,I'd be a lesbian

this one should be transparent



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[La Fayette]

Patrolling the sky very far away from Vancouver, I would be very happy if someone could explain the link between Boston and the great British Columbian city.
(maybe also red socks?)