What do strikes do in SimCity 4?

[WeBuiltThisCityOnSimCity 40]

I have been playing SC4 for years now, but I never really understood what a strike does.  All I know is that your advisors get mad and it occurs when the capacity is exceeded for a few months.  What effect does it have on the game?

[Prophet42 1,501]

It reduces the effectiveness of the facility to 20% for the duration of the strike.  It also hurts mayor approval.  To end a strike you can either 1.) Restore funding to at least 90% of optimal, 2) Wait it out.  Strikes last from 1 year to 18 months depending on the facility 3) Destroy every building in the department and rebuild.  I find it is better to restore funding to end the strike.  It keeps the sims happier.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I've never explored that facet.  I run a benevolent dictatorship.

[The Right Excellent Mayor 5]

Yeah pretty much what the first guy said. I address them immediately because I'm just a socialist leader.   Actually I sort of am but also I like my sims to be happy. But sometimes they do not stop protesting after I have raised funing and I show my divine wrath and strike the place with lightning---which does nothing except cause a fire perhas. They still protest with the place on fire and the hoses going.

 

One thing I do is build training grounds for my military bases. And I put schools and hosptials and reduce funding to 0. I get protests still! But it gives me a chance to drop bombs on them, shoot them with the tank and take them out with the helicopter. The helicopter can be really hard to shoot accurately so I need practice. Every time i do that mission to take out the villain's factory I end up blowing up a couple other places first.

 

So bomb em if you feel like it. Otherwise just raise funing. Raise taxes a little to help with the cost. School tax.....

[jmsepe 2,038]

Wow, I never actually know what those strikes do. Thanks for the inputs. 

[CaterpillarKing 52]

For me they last forever. For 70 years the Great Hospital Strike has raged on, as nurses now in wheelchairs still wait for their extra dolla per hour.

[kschmidt 6,163]

Civic Worker´s Riot´s Out !

Some civil action I can not place. Policeman, Fireman, Teacher.s Doctor´s paid exceed of 115 prct still demand more money be spent ? Public health not improving very fast, 150 prct coverage of hosptals and clinics. Same with schools, are some more effective than others more candy. Utilies underfunded there be energy blackouts or water sudden shortage; creating well´s seem to be renewed every few year´s. There some game mechanics wich are beyond comparison, some I rather ignore afther several mesages. Traffic yams are in half of the cases necesary to adres. Pollution is a easy one or it´s a business, industry or agricultural lot, just destroy these lot´s and clear it up !

Kschmidt