Procblocked muses in the Reddit post that this is not even quite the largest they could go. Where Civilization V had harsher penalties for settling more cities, throttling your science and culture production, the newest game has lifted a lot of those restrictions, opening up the field for players to experiment with wide strategies like, for instance, taking advantage of the district adjacency bonuses to interlock more diverse arrangements than Procblocked’s neighborhood spam. This shows how that breaks down in Civilization VI, using urban density to prop up an enormous city. In previous Civilization titles, players made a distinction between tall and wide strategies, i.e., building a few very large cities or a sprawling mass of smaller cities. More: Master ‘Civilization VI’ with these starting tips for new players and veterans All in all, it requires 30 neighborhoods, 20 stadiums, 80 trade routes bringing in 750 food per turn, two wonders, and the efforts of a variety of great merchants and engineers to make the city work. Rio itself is almost entirely filled with neighborhood districts to house everyone.

After resetting the map several times to ensure he had enough space, with all of the victory conditions turned off except for points, Procblocked ringed his capital with 20 cities that each have entertainment districts providing the amenities necessary to keep such an enormous population from going stir crazy and rebelling. Procblocked built this monstrosity through a savvy use of its specialized districts, which have stacking effects that benefit nearby cities in addition to its own. That is more than 58 times larger than Delhi, the current most populous metropolitan area on Earth, or twice the population of China. Reddit user Procblocked built his capital city of Rio De Janeiro up to a 200 population, or roughly 2.7 billion people in real-world terms, according to Kotaku. One of the beautiful things about complex games with passionate communities like Civilization VIis that it now takes very little time after release for players to start pushing its systems to the limits and going far beyond the bounds of normal play.

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