Old folks home

[MommyDearest]

You know what Banished really needs? An old folks home. Ive got 3 houses occupied with older widows/widowers, and young people who need a house to move into. I dont want to build new houses because the old folks are going to die soon and then I will have extra vacant houses and families will split up. It would be really nice if there was an old folks home, where people would automatically move when they got too old to have more kids. Is it even possible to make a mod like this? Who do I have to bribe to make this happen?

[maiden4meldin]

MM9 has smaller house options for elders, but you pretty much hafta get lucky to get those widows to move in together into them. by destroying their homes, leaving them homeless, and building a small two person household. even a three person household is hand in MM because so many houses have six and seven people options, so you can get explosions of population easily. So building these smaller houses is very handy to control populations. but it is very micromanagy

[mbutton15]

Have you tried the boarding house ?
The old folk won't move in automatically, so you'll have to do some manual manipulation. Force them out of their current houses to make them homeless and they should move into the boarding house.

[maiden4meldin]

Originally posted by mbutton15:

Have you tried the boarding house ?
The old folk won't move in automatically, so you'll have to do some manual manipulation. Force them out of their current houses to make them homeless and they should move into the boarding house.

The homeless and the citizens in boarding houses, have priority when a house is available to move into. So that doesn't usually work out so great eh.

[mbutton15]

Originally posted by maiden4meldin:

The homeless and the citizens in boarding houses, have priority when a house is available to move into. So that doesn't usually work out so great eh.

Ah, that makes sense !! Long time since I've used a boarding house so forgotten how they work. :)

[some moron]

I agree it would fix many of my problems ... and unfortunately make the game easier.
I'm playing the game to test my management skills and to deal with obstructions. So don't remove my obstructions.

You can view it as "don't stuff people away in homes where they go senile and don't get to share their wisdom with the youth".

And, thinking about it, if they were in the retirement home, taking resources but not working, that would actually be a substantial cost.
If they are schooled, they are actually like free labor. But yeah, it would be nice to decide where they live to work...

[dixiechow]

Granted, it is inconvenient and sometimes frustrating to have several old, single people hogging up a house. However, it's not a game breaker. I've tried that demolish (or part way demolish) the house and force them into the boarding house. It doesn't work. If you build a new house they just move back in. If you cancel the demolish they just move back in. Besides, I have found that the old folks work right up to the day they croak.

[olympe]

Well, forcing them out works partially - if there are other singles of the opposite gender around. Then you can get lucky that they move in together once a new house is available.

[MommyDearest]

yeah, Ive tried all these tricks, and they work sometimes, but its annoying.
They can still work when they are in the retirement home, it just opens up space for couples who can start having kids.

[kevinshow]

I haven't tested extensively but I noticed that while kicking out some old people from their home, they seemed to die fairly fast when being homeless.

I'm not sure if that's a thing in the game, but it just seemed like that happened when I had a few older citizens being homeless for a while , let's say a few seasons, before getting a home built up. The idea was to build up a home faster, but due to whatever reason, the home didn't get done quickly, and that's why, by accident, I seemed to notice that something like that happens.

Of course, it could have just been their natural aging and natural death that occurred, and in a normal situation where they died in their homes, i wouldn't have noticed, but because they were being counted as one of the few homeless people, and then that homeless number kept decreasing until it hit 0, then that was one reason I noticed it happening like that.