28-03-2000 08:57									#1
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How large cities have u managed to get in honest play? Im at 32.

	28-03-2000 19:58									#2
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I think I had 132 something...but that was way back...now I am playing borg style and rarely gets any cities above the size of 7-8.


Christopher
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	29-03-2000 00:15									#3
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How did you get 132????

	29-03-2000 06:46									#4
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Wait! Are we talking the largest # of cities, or the largest city (i.e. # of citizens in one city)?

How the heck could you get a hundred and thirty some-odd citizens?

-flomp

	03-04-2000 14:40									#5
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I was talking about the number on the largest city. Not count of cities.

	05-04-2000 00:52									#7
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Alternatively and much simpler I might add (pop boom via SE choices for +6 growth or cloning vats)

Hab complex
Hab Domes

Food from Kelp farms yields ~80 nutrients matched with 80 hydro sattelites yields base population of 80 (160 nutrients). Crawler in additional nutrient resources to allow total nutrients in excess of 260 (no upper limit on amunt of crawlered resources) bingo self sustaining population of 130+. This will be time consuming as best population growth will be one per turn (assuming you are not adding colony pods to help growth rate i.e. pod booming).

or

All squares within the base are condensored/farmed/soil enrichers yielding 6 per square (excluding nutrient specials) or 120 nutrients matched by sattelites and/or crawlers to bring in requisite nutrients above 260.

This is a late game strategy obviously after Hab domes.