Civilization IV

[econ21]

This is probably not the place to ask, but I have mechanics query that is gnawing at me and I wonder if someone here has the answer - I have two cities that are ploughing their food surplus into production. They are both cities that I want to grow, not produce but I can't tell why this is happening or how to stop it. Thanks for any advice!

[doc_bean]

This is probably not the place to ask, but I have mechanics query that is gnawing at me and I wonder if someone here has the answer - I have two cities that are ploughing their food surplus into production. They are both cities that I want to grow, not produce but I can't tell why this is happening or how to stop it. Thanks for any advice!

If you are producing settlers or workers, your food is used (additionally) to produce them. HTH

[The_Doctor]

Ooooh! My eyes! My poor eyes! I don't like staring at a screen for this long. But I found these nice clumps of resources which just begged for a city or two, and then I found these barbarians, and some barbarian cities, and then I got into a war with the barbarians, and ...

I know what you mean. I just won the American War of Indepence as the Americans.