serious frustration with feeding

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I really think that Civ 4 has to get rid of the feeding. By this I mean
that every time I take my eyes off my Civ, the cities start to default to
feeding and re-arrange the population so as to produce the maximum number
of citizens as quickly as possible.

This may be what I want to do but often it is not. This is where it has
just annoyed me. I am running a democracy, and a fascism has just
viciously attacked me. I had forgotten to check 20 or so cities every
turn as I am fighting for my survival, so some cities have grown fat and
large too fast, and without colisseums etc. have just descended into
rebellion. Result, no production at all, and severe risk for my Civ.

Very annoying. I had set them to produce, produce, produce, but all they
want to do is feed. I wish I could stop this - why can't the game leave
my populations where I leave them, for good reasons of my own.

Sid, if you are listening, please stop them feeding.

Boris.

 

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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:02:16 -0000, Boris Borisovich <boris@home.com>
wrote:

>I really think that Civ 4 has to get rid of the feeding. By this I mean
>that every time I take my eyes off my Civ, the cities start to default to
>feeding and re-arrange the population so as to produce the maximum number
>of citizens as quickly as possible.
>
>This may be what I want to do but often it is not. This is where it has
>just annoyed me. I am running a democracy, and a fascism has just
>viciously attacked me. I had forgotten to check 20 or so cities every
>turn as I am fighting for my survival, so some cities have grown fat and
>large too fast, and without colisseums etc. have just descended into
>rebellion. Result, no production at all, and severe risk for my Civ.
>
>Very annoying. I had set them to produce, produce, produce, but all they
>want to do is feed. I wish I could stop this - why can't the game leave
>my populations where I leave them, for good reasons of my own.
>
>Sid, if you are listening, please stop them feeding.
>
>Boris.

The most annoying part for me are coastal cities which go to all sea
squares and grow huge while producing nothing. Then they are all
pissed off at me because their city is too big.

Their are only two minor actions I know of to scale this down. One
is to pop up the governor and tell them to do what you want for all
cities. This is usually necessary after Anarchy where all cities have
switched to food only squares. They will switch back every turn if
they feel like it though. The other thing I do is to not build
aqueducts and hospitals until they have enough in the city to keep
them happy. That puts a cap on their growth. As soon as you remove
the cap they can't wait to grow again.

They only other thing I do is build terrain which slows down growth.
They AI floods their cities with irrigation. I watch my squares so
they balance out to an average of two food per person. So If I have a
couple of flood plains I mine everything else. I mostly mine
grassland unless it is near mountains. Then I can irrigate the
grassland to get a balance between the mountains and lowlands.
Sometimes I have to make corrections as the city grows to either curb
or speed the cities growth.

 

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> Their are only two minor actions I know of to scale this down. One
> is to pop up the governor and tell them to do what you want for all
> cities. This is usually necessary after Anarchy where all cities have
> switched to food only squares. They will switch back every turn if
> they feel like it though. The other thing I do is to not build
> aqueducts and hospitals until they have enough in the city to keep
> them happy. That puts a cap on their growth. As soon as you remove
> the cap they can't wait to grow again.
>
> They only other thing I do is build terrain which slows down growth.
> They AI floods their cities with irrigation. I watch my squares so
> they balance out to an average of two food per person. So If I have a
> couple of flood plains I mine everything else. I mostly mine
> grassland unless it is near mountains. Then I can irrigate the
> grassland to get a balance between the mountains and lowlands.
> Sometimes I have to make corrections as the city grows to either curb
> or speed the cities growth.
>
>
>
>
>

I don't like the Governor - usually the defaults don't work in the same way
that the original game doesn't work.

I like your second suggestion, I hadn't thought of that. Good ploy!

Boris