My Sims Were Killing Themselves on Their Recycled Plastic.....

[TheRaven476 4]

 After finally managing
to get into the game to start playing I had some interesting moments.

 

 So I went department
of sanitation first and had a request to put up a recycling center. I plopped
it down but there were no recyclable materials to be collected in my city, so
after a while I demolished it. Time went on and my sims started to get
unhealthy. So I expanded my clinic to a proper hospital so I can get the “Health
Prevention Van” or whatever it’s called, but people were still complaining that
there were too many deaths. I also saw that there was some pollution that I couldn’t
account for.

 

 So I looked further into
their needs and they were complaining about garbage build up. I also saw the
buildings had overflowing garbage cans and dumpsters. I thought this was odd
because I felt like my sanitation department was adequate. So I expanded my
garbage truck service but the graphics on the buildings weren’t changing. So I
went to the graphs and they didn’t show any piled up garbage, just recycling
bars.

 

 Now I thought that
recycling bar was how much they were recycling. Turned out that was how much
had built up. I don’t know when my Sims started feverishly recycling but I didn’t
have it getting picked up. So after putting a recycling station down for the
second time and waiting a few days things got better. The trash was cleared,
people stopped dying, my hospital was only getting a tenth of the patients it
can handle, and I had done a bunch of unnecessary expansion of my health  care and sanitation department.

 

 So then it hit me,
all these “There are too many deaths” complains were because of a bunch of
built up plastic. Seriously? My Sims were killing themselves on their discarded
recycling……. I guess that’s what I get for having a city with such low
education……

 

Anyone else have any weird quirky tales. 

[PapasGigantes 3]

Not sure this quirky, but I had an earthquake epicenter on my fire house....not. good.

 

I also noticed a delay in garbage collection even though I had plenty of capacity.   Eventually it worked itself out.

[Z0RS 0]

I got a decent sized commercial style city going. I have some difficulty balancing the budget but I discovered the Expo Center in the Culture specialization.  THe Expo allows me to host event for a cost and can return quite a significant profit.  So it was great utilizing the Expo to help offset my budget as in drifted in and out of the red.  In the end, I was actually making a substantial profit.

 

Then I plopped another landmark next to it, I think I spent about 250k on the Expo and the Landmark.  I was making good money and attracting tourist, I paid off my bounds and things were starting to look good.

 

Then GODZILLA shows up, immediately after I paid the 45k to host a concert at the Expo Center.  The giant lizard waste no time destroying my Expo Center and my new landmark right next to it. I was screaming "Nooooo!!!!!!, Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!, why, oh, the horror."  Needless to say, I lost my event hosting fee and my budget was still going in and out of the red.  It took a few more bonds to build a new Expo and get back on my feet.

 

This game is awesome and heartbreaking at the same time.