Massive epidemic?

[Beloved 2]

haha

[djrules5454 5]

I guess this means i am lucky that when my city had a life expectancy of under ten, the population stayed about where it was(100,000), though this also had massive amounts of crime, and few hospitals.  BTW: this city is approaching the low life expectancy point again because of overcrowded hospitals and a high number of crimes.(now 190,000)

[simmax 0]

All this is weird... During my experiment on education, I had no hospital at all for over 130 years, but my life expectancy never went below 50! But I believe that with garbage and pollution in residential areas, it would have fallen... So life expectancy does not only depend on hospitals!!!

I had never heard of such epidemics...[:0][:0]

[Beloved 2]

Maybe its one of those secret types of things that the Creator wanted us to try to find out or something. Who knows.

[ron01_000_000 1]

Look at the silver lining: You can demolish the whole sections

of the city and Start over !

 

Ala real life Boston and New York City etc when they demolished

entire sections of their cities.

 

Note when you redo a section of your city, place

Fire Stations, Police Stations, Hospitals , Schools , Libraries

in a Public Services Block with any empty space filled with

Parks.

 

Should help

[sloppet 3]

i have never heard of such large loss of population to the city...

my life expextancy is about 35-40 and i had only oce problems with people when i had 275,000 and for 10 years i lost 15,000 poeple (they moved from my city....) but now i have about 428,000 people and i do not have any problems with losing population

i have many hospitals so it's not so bad....

 

[jacqulina 162]

i havnt heard of it either

[Bookworm 1]

NOOOO!! I don't want to have my sims die! *shouts at Health Advisor and builds 20000 Medical Centers*

[your_adress_here 11]

This is a rather interesting part of the game, where you are, in a way, forced to help your sims. Never happened to me though.

[Kaze Progressa 1]

I'd have thought death would strike more gradually, but that's astonishing indeed to have a pandemic like that in your city.

[blackthorn0_7 3]

Never seen it or heard of it!

No even in the manuals and stuff.

 

Anyway i always have good health care all the time.

 

no need to worry...

[ephorex_77 0]

Hmm...this sounds interesting . II don't doubt you, but are you sure it wasn't the same window that pops up whenever the mean life expectancy takes a freefall (like after a sudden massive influx in residents)?? Something like 'bad bugs riddle parts of city' or something similar.

If such things can happen in SC4, my opinion of it suddenly rose a notch or to due to its realism . Really weird though, never ever happened to me.

[Compromise 1]

I never knew you could get a epidemic in Sim City 4. Must be a hiden thing that Maxis wanted us to discover. Must test it and see if I can get it in one of my cities.

[mambomumba 8]

I can already hear my sims running away screaming:

 

Oh My God!        Oh My God!       Oh My God!

[sy 1]

I'll have to test this on my city of 1.3 million residents tonght!

[Mickebear 2]

I have had epidemic a few times, despite having hospitals (but not enough funding), police, fire dept and good education, let alone a plenty of parks - and industry being only hi-tech. For some reason, I have always had this spot of low income habitat which just wouldn't get richer, healthier or better educated, no matter what I did. Mind you, the research facility was every time nearby.

[FavreKev04 13]

Okay it happened again. I started a city and forgot to put in hosptials then everyone left. It is not a fluk or anything. They just leave because there is no medical care.

[nealos101 20]

Wow... this topic can be funny and serious...

I beleive this epidemic is true... your MySims can die of disease too! Mr Redwood died after living in an area of no health coverage... toxic waste dump... coal power plant... and casino either across the street from him or close.  I made the city riot too! My cj says it all lol.

 

Nealos101.

[udriveitmissionsrock 2]

This is AWESOME!  I have a city with 250K people and I am going to try this.  A whole city dropping like flys ought to be hilarious!

udriveitmissionsrocks signing out

[DaMaster_architect 0]

as always, I first want to see screenshots before I can believe things like this

however, I understand that making screens will be difficult in this case.

[bluepg79 0]

Yeahp It happened to me twice I had over 1million people and they all left while i was smoking a cigarrete my radiation level was too high so they all left .

[simzebu 19]

Date: 6/3/2005 10:44:34 PM
Author: bluepg79
Yeahp It happened to me twice I had over 1 million people and they all left while i was smoking a cigarrete my radiation level was too high so they all left .

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I would have thought it would be from pollution! LOL!
But this happened to me once too. Not on a scale nearly as big, but after I had about 100 sims in a large city. It happened in about a month sim time too. one month its all good and nice, the next all my houses are abandoned!

[Sanguine 0]

I got an Epidemic popup message the other day in one of my cities. (pop ~300k on a big tile.) My medical coverage was excellent, so I didn't notice any real hit to the population, but I clicked my disease research center, and its usage doubled for a couple years.