Death Rate Problem

[Maggix]

So I just ran into the problem of my death care rising into the 2-3k range (~70k city) for no apparent reason. It just started to skyrocket at some point.

Any ideas what I could do?

 

[Setari]

Honestly, I just spam hospitals somewhere. Just make sure they're covering the problem area and they're at the least, 100% funded. (Clinics not hospitals. The cheap ones)

 

[AmpsterMan]

I had something similar happen me. In my case it was inadequate access to care.

 

[MarkJohnson]

I have a similar issue happening right now.

I'm at 120k and notice I have a huge death bloom. Almost every single residential has a dead person at the same time. (20k). Then as the incineraters slowly pick them up, all of the buildings go abandoned. (now I'm 70k pop)

It slowly recovers and as soon as I get bavck to 120k pop, another death blooms hits and it drops to around 70k again. it repoeats over and over for some bizarre reason.

My health and death coverage is 100% of the map. Two hospitals and a dozen or two clinics.

What would cause a building with one dead person make the whole building abandon? Does he sit there too long. I have 3k dead removal a day total. with 1k dying at a time. It should pick them up as soon as they die, but apparently they don't.

They start off with a round circle with skull, then turn dark with a square with a skull.

It's really odd they all die at once though.

 

[magitsu]

It's because your elders drop dead.
So spread out your building effort, slow and steady. If you plop down a huge chunk of zoning at once you're going to have a lot of trouble once all of them get old at the same time.

 

[MarkJohnson]

It's because your elders drop dead.
So spread out your building effort, slow and steady. If you plop down a huge chunk of zoning at once you're going to have a lot of trouble once all of them get old at the same time.

It's the whole map. All 4 tiles get dead all at the same time. weird.

So far this third time's a charm. for now anyway. lol

I see the buildings. it says there are several seniors in the building, but only one or two has died. All I can think is the one didn't get picked up in time and the whole bukilding went abandoned. I can't think of any other causes anyway.

 

[jq371]

yeah im finding that my city at the moment may as well be just about collecting dead people and putting out fires.... the amount of fires in one city is terribly high, and the amount of people dying also very high.......

 

[alexanderpas]

Check the capacity of your healthcare. If all beds are full, people won't get treatment, and they die.

You might have enough beds to care for 70K, but you probably don't have enough to care for 120K.

 

[charlesnew]

I haven't really had much of a problem with death care yet. But I'm a slow grower, that might be part of it.

 

[Alex_brunius]

It's the whole map. All 4 tiles get dead all at the same time. weird.

First you need to:

- Make sure you have enough healthcare always.
- Make sure death care and healthcare don't get stuck in traffic jams and can reach all areas they need to reach.



If that is not the case then Magistu may be right with this from what I have noticed: "If you plop down a huge chunk of zoning at once you're going to have a lot of trouble once all of them get old at the same time."

The thing is that if you zone a huge residential area and some years down the road these houses all are filled with seniors starting to die off pretty much at the same time. This overloads your deathcare all over the map which means they don't have enough resources to pick up dead all over the rest of the map either.

To mitigate:
- Zone residential areas moderately and spread out both in space and in time when you build them.
- Spread out cemeteries/crematoriums evenly and have them connected so they can work to support local peaks.
- Watch cemeteries and empty them when you have capacity so that you can use them as a buffer to mitigate peaks.
- Raise budget to 150% for healthcare ( including deathcare ) if you see this starting to happen. ( This will increase capacity roughly by 30% while costing 50% more ).




It's similar with the school system, if you zone too big residential zones it will send a shockwave through your school-system where it will need 2-3 times as much capacity first from the elementary schools, then from the High Schools and finally from the Universities. Basically you can follow this population "boom" wrecking havoc through the ages affecting your school and deathcare systems that are population age sensitive. It's a pretty cool feature