Quote Originally Posted by BrandonM
Someone released a mod called SloMod that drastically lowers population growth. I have to build farms just to make cities grow and usually it's at 1 to 2 percent even with level 3 or 4 farms.

I'm sorry I forget who made it but if you search for it you should find it. If you only want to have the growth changes and nothing else, just copy the descr_regions.txt file from the mod to your base campaign directory (backup the original). I think you will also have to delete the map.rwm file, not sure, but it won't hurt.
Hey, in case anyone's interested, the link is in my sig. Much better experience in my opinion, for my prefered play style anyway.