City population seems stuck

[Hyfrydle]

I have now tried two games in a row and my population seems to get stuck. In my current game city population is 199 with a max pop of 700. I should have 16 births per turn but when I click end turn the city pop stays at 199.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but this doesn't seem right, has anyone else had this issue?

[ptarth]

You need:
Meals - Meals need crops, water, and restaurants.
Living Space - Apartments, Condo, etcs.
Jobs - There has to be buildings with places to work.

In the mantis save you posted you were missing restaurants.

[Hyfrydle]

I did have a diner but it perhaps wasn't good enough. Think I have the hang of it now pop is growing in my current game thanks for your help.

I have a question on how embassies work, clicking on target cities doesn't seem to be doing anything, any thoughts?

Also how do I build more cities?

[mrhanman]

If those things are needed for the population to grow when the game claims you have a positive population change, then information isn't being conveyed to the player well enough.  When I see my population should increase by 12 per turn, and it doesn't increase by 12 next turn (assuming zero death rate), then I'm naturally going to think something is wrong.  I think there is already a mantis ticket about this.

I haven't gotten Embassies to work, either.  I'm not sure if it's on mantis or not.

I don't think you can build cities at this point.  The City Center is for that, but I think it's bugged at the moment.  There is a mantis ticket on this.

[Hyfrydle]

Now that I know I watch the pop and if it stops increasing I pop a food generating place down, but I didn't find this very intuitive.

[ptarth]

If you guys haven't already, mouse over all of the information on the GUI. It tells you lots of stuff you may not be seeing these days.

The big project Chris is working on is to change the GUI, so I've not been complaining about it since it will all change soon.

The Embassy, Thief, Spy, and other related diplomacy isn't working yet.