Suggestion: Auto empty cemetery

[InfidelKiller]

Dead people. Don't we just love the way they come in waves like a zombie attack and fill up your cemeteries?

Once a cemetery is full however you get the choice to empty it. "Bring out your dead!" Or "Dig up your dead!" would be more accurate.

What I normally do is build an crematorium next to the cemetery and then click the empty cemetery icon and wait for the conveyor belt to transport the bodies from the cemetery straight into the furnace.

Problem being, cemeteries tend to fill up before you know it and then it becomes a tedious task to go around to every one of them, click the empty icon and then check a while later if they are empty and then un-click the empty so the place can be refilled with the freshly dead.

What would be a nice option (and this could go for landfills too) is a check box on the facility to "Auto empty" and if checked, once the facility is full it will automatically empty to another nearest facility (cemetery or crematorium) if available and when empty it allows new dead residents to take up lodgings until the next empty cycle.

Edit: I seem to have clumsily not put this in the suggestions forum. If a mod reads this can you kindly move it please?

 

[HomelandAuteur]

There's a mod for that: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407873631&searchtext=automatic

 

[InfidelKiller]

There's a mod for that: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407873631&searchtext=automatic

Awesome! I'll start using mods once I get all the achievements I want. Until then I'll plug away manually.

 

[HomelandAuteur]

Awesome! I'll start using mods once I get all the achievements I want. Until then I'll plug away manually.

There's also a mod for enabling achievements while having mods active.

 

[IVIaarten]

I don't really see the problem. The cemeteries are basically a buffer for corpses until you get crematoriums (a bit morbid I agree, but it describes the mechanic quite well). If you've got your city covered by the crematoriums, there's no reason to empty the graveyards (unless you really need the extra hearses).
I just keep the cemeteries in my more rural/suburban area's for looks, but after unlocking crematoriums there's no real reason for them anymore.

in short; you don't need to empty your graveyards, just build some crematoriums and either keep the graveyards around for looks, or empty and bulldoze them.

or alternatively; you can empty your graveyards and leave them emptied until you run into a 'death-wave'. You can instantly stop emptying them to have a lot more capacity for gathering up the dead.

 

[Illanair]

What Aarten said - Cemeteries and Landfills are a temporary buffer, not longterm services.

 

[dalekirk5885]

There's also a mod for enabling achievements while having mods active.

Seriously?

 

[Illanair]

Seriously?

Several in fact - And I personally think it should be part of the main game. It's a singleplayer game - Who are you going to be cheating anyway?

 

[JetCity Gambler]

Relocating a graveyard is not a job I'd like to have ... running a backhoe to dig up coffins filled with rotting corpses? Anyone see Poltergeist? I don't want zombies in my city. Or maybe I do.

Seems like a weird little offshoot of categorizing corpses as trash. As IVIarrten mentioned, once you get crematoriums it's a non-issue.

 

[InfidelKiller]

What Aarten said - Cemeteries and Landfills are a temporary buffer, not longterm services.

Ha! tell that to your loved ones when they're on their death bed.
"I'll come and visit you every day and put flowers on your temporary buffer storage space until I burn your corpse!"

 

[dalekirk5885]

Several in fact - And I personally think it should be part of the main game. It's a singleplayer game - Who are you going to be cheating anyway?

Thanks for confirming I will look on steam on my next game, oh and totally agree btw