A Plague comes to the city

[Longhaul]

The health of my people is good, i have several clinics and a couple hospitals that are usually under half capacity. At one point people started getting sick...fast. I watched as the sickness spread around the city then people started dying. In the span just over 4 days over Half of the population was dead. A couple days later half the houses, apartments, offices, and some factory lay abandoned. It took a while and some decent recovery options to get my city back up again.

Has anyone?...ever have a mass sickness or plague come to thier city? It was actually pretty scary and wierd,

[Useless Noodle]

water pollution :O ?

[Angela]

Don't poop in the drinking water

[Briseti]

There's this phenomenon in Cities Skylines which is well documented elsewhere, Where if you zone a massive section of residential area people of the same-ish age come in and populate those homes. once those people get to old age they all seem to die at or around the same time. Causing your town to appear to be suffering from a widespread epidemic. To avoid this you zone residential in small chunks at a time, especially when zoning dense residential. Hope this helps.

[Lao Dan]

Originally posted by Briseti:

There's this phenomenon in Cities Skylines which is well documented elsewhere, Where if you zone a massive section of residential area people of the same-ish age come in and populate those homes. once those people get to old age they all seem to die at or around the same time. Causing your town to appear to be suffering from a widespread epidemic. To avoid this you zone residential in small chunks at a time, especially when zoning dense residential. Hope this helps.

That wouldn't explain the health level. There's probably water too close to sewage or industrial. One water tower in an industrial zone can do bad things.

[Sandman1424]

That would be a fun mechanic, actual natural disasters, sickness etc. And it sucks when there is a mass-death empedemic in my city as the pop goes down by about 1000 a week.

[Starwing]

Your citizens can also get sick from too much noise (people already covered water and ground polution in this thread). I had it happen in a house that was too close to the wind turbine--I assume the people were suffering from frequent migraines, anxiety, sleep distress, etc. This might also happen when housing is too close to commercial zones, metro stations, heavy traffic roads/highways, and of course, buildings that produce noise pollution.

[Longhaul]

My water is good i made sure all outflow pipes are waaaay down river. Im pretty sure it was my massive residential area as Briseti said. It did start to happen when i was well on my way to upgrading to high residential from low and i did plop down massive area's at the same time...geez, i had half a city of senior citizens...makes sense. thanx for all the info guys.

[gizmo_kicks_asses]

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/428196161234819907/23A1376CCABF48661CC93E70A68EA3836D40E7F0/

YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN THE PLAGUE? LOOK AT THIS PLACE

[Synergy]

You need to quarantine the area with the military so the plague doesn't spread

[Sapphire Bullets]

One thing that happened in my city was that I had too many sewage outflow pipes in one area and the pollution pooled and spread upstream to one of my fresh water pumps.

[Nohiro]

it's the way life's works :)

[gizmo_kicks_asses]

Thankfully, the city that I've put up a picture of, it was months ago where the game had general trouble collecting bodies and garbage.