bvoice360 Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:24pm
Suggestions on dealing with death waves?
Does anyone have any suggestions concerning how to deal with the common problem of death spikes like these[s172.photobucket.com]? They typically lead to the dereliction of a big chunk of the city, a very red budget and the loss of up to 1/2 my population, so any help would be appreciated
Last edited by bvoice360; Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:25pm
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impreza7 Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:27pm 
good, local healthcare and deathcare. Trafffic, traffic, traffic. That's really all I have figured out
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Tsal Vlaxitov Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:35pm 
The problem is that the deathcare and the healthcare share the same budget.

It would be much better if they had separate budgets, that way you could build the facilities and fund or defund accordingly.
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IDerpedYourMom Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:35pm 
You can micro them by clicking them on/off.
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kaffekoppen Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:39pm 
I had massive death waves, but they disappeared when I:

1. Made some graveyards just to get more hearses. Just because your crematorium capacity is high, it doesn't mean you have enough hearses. You can build cemetaries and/or increase funding to get more. They also need to be spread out fairly well.

2. Got rid of my massive traffic jams by building more highways and one-way streets.
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Vandalen Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:40pm 
this huge death-waves are a thing of huge population waves that come in your city. they all have the same age and after a while, they die close to eachother. Only thing to avoid that is very slow growing. Or live with the deaths. after a few weeks, new people get into the abondan buildings. ^^
Last edited by Vandalen; Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:41pm
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kaffekoppen Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:42pm 
Yep, that's why I needed my fleet of hearses. I don't have the patience to grow my city slowly, so I try to deal with it instead.
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impreza7 Mar 16, 2015 @ 1:44pm 
fleet is only as good as traffic. And there is zero need for cemetaries after a while, just build crematoriums with good access to every district.
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kaffekoppen Mar 16, 2015 @ 2:00pm 
My point was just that you can build cheap cemetaries to increase your fleet for a death wave. When you're rolling in cash, you don't need cemetaries.
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MouttonNoir Mar 16, 2015 @ 2:04pm 
The "death waves" as you describe them are EPIDEMICS that have spread through your population- flu etc. You can ride them out empty abandoned buildings are automatically re-occupied in 1 game month. It is all part of the cycle and rythmn of life in the city with so many people living in close proximity they spread disease.
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bvoice360 Mar 17, 2015 @ 1:00am 
And no, i do not have any diseases in my city
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Peter Pan Mar 17, 2015 @ 1:06am 
I read a theory that it is due to the elderly population dying at the same time, because you zoned a large residential zone and they came (and died) at the same time.
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KingyBear Mar 17, 2015 @ 1:53am 
Build a bulk area of cemeteries on the edge of the map, then just turn them on/off when you get a large increase, they will happily drive to the other side of the city for a body. Then when times are slow empty them, but make sure you empty them all at once i have noticed 1 cemetery sending the body's to another cemetery instead of getting them Cremated
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bvoice360 Mar 17, 2015 @ 9:34am 
I suppose they send the bodies (not body's) to the nearest free storage space i.e. the closest graveyard or crematorium upon emptying-so should i demolish a few buildings in between death tsunamis to spread them out?
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Sol Mar 17, 2015 @ 9:47am 
Expand slow. When residential demand goes up, don't zone 1000 sqm of residence. Zone maybe 50 sqm, let them fill in, wait a short bit, then some more. Staggering out the rate at which people join also staggers the rate at which they die.
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hup Mar 17, 2015 @ 10:16am 
Use the mod, then citizen leave longer?
Maybe is spread the death out over time?
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