Max city population?

[bobbin]

I remember having cities of 60000+ in vanilla RTW.

In my current KH game Nikaia has a population of around 42000 but this is with me conciously trying to keep city populations low (no granary building once a city reaches huge size, only the first level of farms built) and seems to be the result of a particularly effective governor. Generally I like to have my cities between 20-30k to keep the unrest under control without having to rely on governors.

[Macilrille]

I had either 49.500 or 54.500 on Sardinia of all places in the same campaign that was the only to ever see Marian units. Then the Govenor died. City was still happy under the new guy, but they dropped like flies no matter what I did and eventually levelled out in mid-30Ks Until that my max ever was about 48K.

[Unintended BM]

I've had Corsica at ~45000 before. Sardinia and Corsica always grow crazy fast in my games.

[lionhard]

how much money are we looking at for minting a population that size?

[Macilrille]

I never checked, I was rich anyway.

[Cute Wolf]

Oh... if this 40k is hit and I lack decent governors (and didn't want to massacre my own, nice subject, except when it was Barbaropolis), I usually get add_population -10000, to keep them under control.

[stratigos vasilios]

Are we talking population with or without a govenor?

I'll try upload a screen shot (I think I got Rome relatively high) but I am not the best with computers, its just print screen + throw into paint + save + then upload on forums right?

Or should I post the image as a link?

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Ugh, though I do not have photo evidence becuase I kept forgetting to paste the photo after I shut down the game, I got Gerrha up to 45,000 population.

Yes, Gerrha, a desert backwater. Had to do with an outstanding governer who added a whopping 6, yes 6% to population growth. Of course when he died, the poor city was overcome with squalor and revolted from me within two turns.