Population Control & City Ecomonic's

[Didz]

Just curious how other people are managing their cities.

I'm just expanding my colonies in the middle east and things are getting worse and worse in this respect. None of my middle eastern cities are bringing in any revenue, most are running at a deficit of at least -1000.

Whats worse as the populations grow the peasants get completely uncontrollable even with all the happy buildings, low tax and daily games they are still revolting.

Last turn three cities rose in gladatorial revolt, two in the middle east and one in Turkey and at least three more look dodgy in Greece. They have essentially drained an 80,000+ treasury so I now have no money to buy anything.

I tried making peasant units and getting them slaughtered but that takes too long, they breed faster than I can kill them. So, what else can I do apart from let them have the city, then retake it and kill every man woman and child in retribution. EVen that doesn't work very well as they always seem to hire a bunch of Spartacus look alikes that trash my poor city guard units.

I've already lost thousands of troops trying to take these cities back and its getting embarrassing.