Do you make suggestions for ctp2?
Or are you reporting problems? I am a bit confused by your question. Perhaps you must make sure to build the cities where there is food, near to the ocean or on grassland. I try to build the cities where I have both production and food. Mountains and near Ocean is very good. You can increase the production with mines, mills, factories, etc. It is better to have small, highly productive cities than big ones.

My second point was a way for modifiers to fix it. (I suppose that could be considered a suggestion for CTP2 as well)

Population growth occurs when you have built up a certain level in stored food. When your population increases, the stored food goes back to near '0', unless you have a granary. I don't know offhand what the level of stored food goes to with a granary in your city, but I know it is a substantial level - try running a playtest with this info to see, and post the results.

quote: Originally posted by WesW on 03-08-2000 02:28 PM The SLIC group tried this.

We did?

quote: Originally posted by WesW on 03-08-2000 02:28 PM 1)- can be done in the terrain text, like Nord's, or my, terrain mods. 2)- can be set in the const.txt. Default is 175 per pop.

3)- can be set in the Improve.txt. Default is 50 percent.

After reading this tread (right before hexagonian posted) I tested the granaries. The amount of food stored right after a city with granary grew is 50% of what is needed to make the city grow again. I went into Improve.txt and changed the number after the flag IMPROVEMENT_FLAG_SILO to 80 and then 80% of what is needed to make a city grow again was stored. So the granary works exactly as it is supposed to (and can be changed - at least to some extend).

Another question: How can I give them enough food, when I tried everything: Hypotronic farms and so on and the city remains at -1 in the city screen?

Another solution: make your granaries appear later in the game, and lower the starting food-per-citizen requirement. What's the point of the granary if everybody builds them first? In effect, you give every city a "free" granary, and then add another one later, say in the modern era with a "Green Revolution" idea?

And, you can always just add more food. Make your over-crowding improvements also add more food (like Aqueduct); that way, they don't seem so useless after you get the Sensorium. Thus, Hospital adds 25% food, AquaFilter adds 25% food, etc... This will provide for faster growth (but also higher final population).