23-11-2000 03:01									#31
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Jim - to keep your cities from starving all you need to do is make sure the amount of food generated is an even number. Only if it's an odd number can it grow too large and cause a -1 food deficit. (Assuming you don't support another settler, and ignoring food caravans.) So control your settler improvements so that when your done improving a city's squares you have an even number of food. Then when it grows to its maximum size there should be 0 extra food, and it will stabilize at that size.

	23-11-2000 06:09									#32
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I used to be a "perfectionist", and to a large degree I still am.
Looking for good science sites, I build by cities stretching out, each city using all city squares.
When I run out of land available to continue, I will go back and put secondary cities on sites halfway between 1st groups of cities. Only on acceptable sites.

	23-11-2000 18:05									#35
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Very nice point, Dino. And not an idea I've seen before.

Blaupanzer. What you can do is start a settler mining but then found on that square before the work is complete. When the mine appears it stays there.

You have to take a view as to whether this is a legitimate ploy or a programming glitch.

I only fairly rarely found mountain eyries so my own experience is limited to hills. I'd expect it to be the same on mountains though.

The extra shield improves the city square further when railroads come along.