Death waves

[GGreenie]

Anyone else getting death waves in their city? It is a relatively new thing so was wondering if this is because of the update changing the ageing?

Thanks

[gcfgcf]

Yes

[martinolund]

indeed. don't worry, new cims will arrive to take their place.

[edwinc18838]

yes i needed to put many crematoriums

[wdbxny411]

YES! And it's extremely frustrating! This wasn't happening until recently. I reinstalled the game and everything and still getting death waves and high unemployment... Someone posted something about letting the game run for a few months but that hasn't worked for me smh...

[sternenstaub70]

yes, and if I look at the infoloom demographics it seems I have now an extreme birth rate as well.

[LemonToni]

Its a new gameplay Feature called "covid"

[sakage]

After the 1.2.3f1 patch, there was a temporary spike in deaths, which then stabilized at a low level, but two years after the patch there was a spike in deaths.
In my city with a population of 1.3M, nearly 20,000 people die daily and the body disposal is unmanageable.

[martinolund]

maybe try to boost their health so they don't die?

[Jim999]

It's in the patch notes; to be expected, give it a read.

[sakage]

They rejuvenated the elderly into adults to avoid the death wave caused by the patch.
However, this only postponed the problem, and the Death Wave will arrive when the rejuvenated citizens reach the end of their lifespan.
It will come two years after the patch was applied.

[Fenris]

Cims .. Sims .. whatever, also die soon after moving in as well. Build a bunch of medium or high density residential areas and your citizens who just moved in will die within days. Build a few blocks of row houses, throw in a couple of high density buildings and watch as dozens of "waiting for a hearse" icons pop up in a lot of the new buildings.

I get a death wave every time I build new residential areas, even low density ones. It is just more obvious with medium and high density, I guess because of the amount of people moving in. After all the bodies are finally collected the rate of death seems to stabilize to something you'd expect. It's like they wait to die until after they move into a new city. Maybe they just really hate my city.

[joewagner501]

There is definitely a cycle of death waves in my city as well. Especially in newly zoned areas. People move in and die in quick succession. Not sure what's going on there but they apparently "fixed" something.

[Major Kudos™]

Yes, it's the curse of the Hearse all over again.
In all my cities big and small it's rotting dead bodies everywhere.

It all started the day of the Eastern pack. I have not even loaded it.

Here we go again, another user made pack breaks the game again. And again can't be avoided by ignoring the option.

[br0]

I dont even have any packs, 100% vanilla, and getting these death waves too. city only 500k tho, not 4M haha

[sakage]

I thought it was a death wave caused by the patch, but this is a death tsunami. The death toll has not decreased over time.
This is speculation, but the patch has limited the life expectancy of citizens to a maximum of 120 months.
Therefore, even if all citizens lived to the maximum of their life expectancy, they would all die within 120 months.
This is at least 1k deaths per month in a city with a population of 120k, and 10k per month in a city with a population of 1.2M.
The crematorium processing rate is only 100/month at one location.
Cities will be overflowing with corpses.