Getting rid of population/decrease

[The Right Excellent Mayor 5]

So I set up a little town and then at about 10k decided to wreck havoc on it. Well half the city of more is in ruins, including downtown. Alien ship, robot, and fire. But how do I get the population to decrease? Can I?  I mean people are supposed ot die for one, but I do not want there to be 10k people after all this anyway. Makes no! logical sense. Will people leave eventually?

Besides the idea/imaginary set up is that this is an Eastern Orthodox community on a distant planet and that the enemies of the Church have destroyed the city, first setting fire to the church and then sending the aliens and robot to do the rest. Now the citizens must go elsewhere to find happiness. Sort of like the Mormons I suppose. Weird perhaps but how do you get the population to greatly decrease? I'd like to keep the town as a sort of abandoned town or mostly abandoned down and rebuild it slowly but I want most of the citizens gone. It just makes sense they should be. TIA.
 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Heh!  The disasters are supposed to set up disaster-recovery scenarios.  Sims are like immune bacteria.  You can't eradicate them, but they can eradicate you.  If you want your Sims to die, try Banished.

[The Right Excellent Mayor 5]

Heh!  The disasters are supposed to set up disaster-recovery scenarios.  Sims are like immune bacteria.  You can't eradicate them, but they can eradicate you.  If you want your Sims to die, try Banished.

Banished? Is that where you get so far in debt that you are no logner mayor? I think that happened to me once! I like getting in some debt to get the extra stuff like the prison, casino, etc if I am not playing with cheats. And I love making the finance advisor mad. But I have managed to get pretty good at keeping in the green. Matter of prudence, skilled taxation (raising the dirty industry way high which invites cleaner factories), and a few other things. In fact I have not even gotten Sim City 5 yet because I do not think I would like it very much. I think the skill required for managing money in Sim City 4 is better than what seems to be easier Sim City 5. I suppose I will try Sim City 5 eventually as some of the stuff looks too cool to pass up, but really I wish they had made it like Sim City 4 with improvements. I am not holding my breath that they will do that on Sim City 6 though. They want to market to a wider audience rather than the devoted nerds who have been playing it since chidhood.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

No, Banished is a different, relatively new 3D game.  You arrive with a small party in the wilderness and must survive and build a settlement which can grow into a town.  Take a look If you think this game is difficult, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

[Prophet42 1,500]

How long did you wait after the disaster's for the population to decrease?  It usually takes a few sim-months before the sims will mover out and/or the simulator records the population decrease.  It can take up to 6 months for a building to become abandoned after losing power or water.  One way to decrease population is to cut power to certain sections of the city.

[SteveMSim 275]

One sure way to get the population to decrease is raise the taxes all the way up to the stifling 20% range.  Another way is simply demolish entire sections of a city.