posted March 28, 2000 16:12

I think that covers the options.

	posted April 04, 2000 23:54

I should be able to asign cities 1 to 6 to produce enough food for the rest of the country. Cities 7 and 8 will concentrate on science. City 9 will provide the luxuries for the nation. City 10 through 15 will provide the resources for my nation. Cities 16 through 25 will be primarily factories and industrial centers. There will have to be balance, but every city should not function the same.

	posted April 05, 2000 11:39

Since ancient Egypt and Rome were able to transport vast quantities of food to the required sites it needs to be practical and desirable before the advent of modern farming methods, railroads and trucks. However perhaps it should be limited to flowing into the capitol until those inventions arrive. A well researched post somewhere on this forum showed how virtually no non-capital cities exceeded 40,000 population until industrialisation. Food flow to the capitol could be set by controlling a nationwide limit of how many surplus food units would be held locally per turn before the excess was shipped. Unfortunately this would mean that the happiness rules would need to be adjusted because the current Civ model would just make your vast capital city a sinkhole of unproductive misery and rebellion.