I really really like the idea but I have yet to get very far when playing this mod. My cities get stuck at 1 or 2 population while the AI civs achieve a much more reasonable 4-10 in the same time span. My cities claim they will increase in population in _ turns, but at the start of the next turn it always resets back to the same number. After nearly 100 turns without growth I couldn't handle it anymore.

There's no plague in my cities, I'm not building settlers, and I have high happiness and I haven't selected the 'avoid growth' option. I deactivated all other mods. I've tried numerous civs (king difficulty, starting in ancient era). I've even had population in the city freeze within the first 16 turns.

Is this intentional, a bug, or am I doing something wrong?