City beyond size 20??? Why do I want it ?

[liupang]

Is it me, or is it really pointless to have any city beyond size 20? I mean, 1) despite rumor, city radius are still limited to 20;
2) all specialist give a lousy number of 1 tax or science, which is useless anyway.

Plus all the trouble with overpopulation and pollution, didn't it's wiser to keep ur city size 20?

The only reason I can see is to keep all 20+ to entertainers, so keep your city a "WLTK" state. But then again, with the nice marketplace , luxury, cathe and sistine(if you are lucky to build it), collesum, etc, etc, I figure it's really easy to keep people happy without overpopulation. Hence you can mine more grasslands. to get that all important productivity.

so CIVIII = say no to big apple? (instead of civ2's "super science city(usually with a size of 35+)" is every thing?")

What's your guys' idea?

[Lawrence of Arabia]

In civ3, you need to have cities over size 20. Why? The bigger your cities, the less the corruption and the higher the culture which translates into more production and more respect for you from other nations hence better trade and diplomacy deals.

[SerapisIV]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
In civ3, you need to have cities over size 20. Why? The bigger your cities, the less the corruption and the higher the culture which translates into more production and more respect for you from other nations hence better trade and diplomacy deals.

Culture is raised by population? I thought it was only by buildings?

[Capt Dizle]

Population equals culture! Of course! Look at the real life example of the Chinese. They wanted to get more cultural so they started to **** a lot and they got good at it and then had to build a great wall to keep out all of the hordes that wanted to join their culture so that they could **** a lot too!

Then when they got too many kids they developed the high cultural art of squashing students with tanks. Now thats class man, class.

[Dida]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
Population equals culture! Of course! Look at the real life example of the Chinese. They wanted to get more cultural so they started to **** a lot and they got good at it and then had to build a great wall to keep out all of the hordes that wanted to join their culture so that they could **** a lot too!

Then when they got too many kids they developed the high cultural art of squashing students with tanks. Now thats class man, class.

people, please understand, this forum is for the discussion of Civ3, and not for shamelessly attacking other cultural groups. Idiots like you make me feel disgusted.

[Capt Dizle]

You consider that a shameless attack? And call me an idiot?

Talk about a cultural divide.

I am impressed by your sense of humor and obvious devotion to communist oppression.

[marcuspeddle]

I'm impressed by your nonsensical answers to valid questions and attacks on other cultures and forum members.
Not favourably impressed, of course . . . .
Go to Off-topic if you want to spout crap. There's a lot of people posting hate over there so maybe you can find a good friend.

[Dimension]

Dida:

First off, it was a joke. Second, it was actually kinda funny.

The only part that could possibly be seen as "disgusting" was a reference to an actual event. If it disgusts you, you should be disgusted at the Chinese government.

You're a complete idiot.

[J10]

Originally posted by Dimension
Dida:

First off, it was a joke. Second, it was actually kinda funny.

The only part that could possibly be seen as "disgusting" was a reference to an actual event. If it disgusts you, you should be disgusted at the Chinese government.

You're a complete idiot.

I agree wholeheartly, except that there's another part that could possibly be seen as "disgusting". Your face.

Okay, it was a "joke", and it was "actually kinda funny" (subject to the poster's own opinion). And with that in mind, I can say whatever the hell I want, cuz it was a "joke", and it was "kinda funny".

[Dimension]

J10:

Unfortunately, your post doesn't even make any sense.

Jimmytrick was obviously making a joking comment about people who "**** a lot to develop culture." That's not exactly something that can be taken seriously.

You, on the other hand, are making a childish personal attack and trying to relate it to the original joke. It doesn't work. Simply saying, "Your face is disgusting," is obviously not an attempt at humor, at least not in the context you gave.

There's really no use in me bothering to explain. If people like you and Dida were capable of understanding such things, you wouldn't have made those kinds of whining posts to begin with. I'm sure you're both just trying to entertain yourself by pissing on random threads, so it'd be better to just not acknowledge you.

[Skanky Burns]

You know what they say about jokes. If you need to explain it, its just not funny.

On the other hand, i thought it was funny .

But bringing this back on topic: Has anyone had a useful size 20+ city?? What did the extra people add to the city, or were they all used up as entertainers to keep the others in-line??

[SerapisIV]

Getting back to my question and off the tangent it took:

Is the game mechanism titled culture in the computer game Civ 3 a function of population as well of city-improvements, or is it solely a function of the city improvements built

[DaFokka]

As far as I know a city's culture value is not directly affected by it's population. Larger cities produce more shields, however, and therefore produce city improvements and wonders more quickly.

[MaSsConFUsi0n]

i've had cities over 30. i had acces to all the luzuries so my citites were somewhat happy. granted, some of the extra people were entertainers but most of em i turned into tax dudes. more money makes me happy and allowed me to increase the luxury rates so that almost every city in africa (MY EMPIRE) was having wltkd. btw, i had a size 37 city on the nile.

MaSsConFUsi0n

[Hipshot]

I somehow like cities the bigger the better, had a city in Civ 2 that was like 42, and I always try to make them as big as possible, cause its fun...