What are the benefits of an orphanage

[Los]

What are the positives of having orphanages?
Because it seems like a resource drain and it seems it never stops filling up

[tripodalt]

each time a parent die the kid die too excepted if orpheanage
seem their is modifiers that made them criminal if ifif but
if they fill up this because you have lot of death

[Onbird]

Additional population growth, since the kids ending up in the orphanage would just disappear otherwise. Also, if you have sufficiently loyal workers, orphanage upbringing would be a net gain in loyalty, even though early in the game it's invariably the other way around.

I build them just for the added economic challenge, and to roleplay utopian Communism. Nobody is left behind, everyone is cared for.

[MG83]

I dont use orphanages since its only gain is pop growth. I can simply import 3rd world ers and educate them which results in being more profitable in early game due to no need to bother with criminality and loyalty and their average % 10 loyalty is better than the ones comes up from orphanages at early game. At late game i already have population and i do not need pop growth so again orphanages are useless.

imo orphanages should provide unique citizens that their loyalty does not go down like agents of state who owes his life to state thus that would make orphanages useful especially when they be able to provide % 100 loyal citizens. That would be the citizen i would put at university as professor .

[Joman]

For me it seems, that you need a big police station for every orphanage you have. Orphanages nearly made me loose the game.

[Novu]

There is no benefit to having an orphanage other than wanting extra challenge or if your goal is to create a police state with huge prison population.

[Silent_Shadow]

Orphanages are good for population growth, especially if you like to play fast and loose with pollution exposure. Just don't neglect your orphans and they will turn out fine.

[GoRun]

Orphans can be 99% loyal if tutors are loyal enough to give 1-2% loyalty per week. With zero tutors you can get 50% happy 100% alcoholic and 0% loyal criminals. Prison can fix them but again you need loyal wardens...

[Joman]

It's too hard to play with orphanages in realistic mode.

[Silent_Shadow]

Just ensure they have a monument nearby and their caretakers aren't disloyal or unhappy and they will be fine, even on realistic mode. Having a good school for them to go to helps as well.

[Joman]

No, it's a complete desaster. Criminality is the only problem in the city and it is completely unrealisticaly high.

[Tar-Mairon]

lol all you have to do is have enough people in orphanages so they reduce crime. If yo udont have orphanages citizens will have negative happines modifier.

[Joman]

I have 5 orphanages for about 12.000 people.
When I put more workers in orphanages, there are not enough workers to earn money.

[GoRun]

Orphanage is a trap. When you need it there is no loyal tutors. When you have loyals you dont need orphanage. Only for roleplay. There is a script to fix that. Orphans get loyalty at tutors level but if only 1 dies on street everyone gets -25% happiness :)

[Tar-Mairon]

but you have high crime, orphanages needs to be set at the beginning. High mortality and crime results in many orphans

[GoRun]

Good cops and prison wardens makes them 99% loyal 0% criminal in 6 months..