Unexplained population drops?

[limao144]

I don't know if anyone has faced something similar, but my city reached a population count of about 84,000. Then suddenly and without any clear reason, it started dropping at an alarming fast rate (-2000, -3000!), only to get to about 70K and start slowly rising again!

Water, electricity, garbage, entertainment, education... all were well above and beyond necessary. Didn't change a thing, just watching the city and then population drops for no reason... And then rises normally again.

Any clues?

 

[Rabiosa]

It's because everyone seems to die at the same time. Run the game for a few more months and your population will rise again

 

[IVIaarten]

Yep. Try to expand and zone in smaller chunks. If all cims move in at the same time, they tend to die at the same time as well.

 

[limao144]

Oh dear... what a horrible tragedy... Thanks for the reply!

 

[trigorin]

Really? They should have added some random factor to decide when a citizen dies because of being old.

 

[limao144]

Yes, that makes sense. People who are born or move to the city at the same time shouldn't really die at the same time... I wonder if there is a mod for that?

 

[Frederico di Mali]

Seems that the day a Cim moves into a new zoned residential is the day of his birth.

 

[Lord KhaZimir]

I also experience population drop but on a smaller scale. High residential demand, energy,water,waste,services ok... I check the info panel and see something like : 150 birth, 99 deaths and still population is dropping by -150 every week. Seems illogical unless cims go away due to land value too high. I think we need a little more feedback over what is happening in the city

 

[Shiggs]

Yep. Try to expand and zone in smaller chunks. If all cims move in at the same time, they tend to die at the same time as well.

I honestly don't think this is the source of the problem. I've tried zoning extremely slowly, just relaxing planning out my city slowly. I never bucket paint zones. I almost always will use the marquee tool and only zone a section large enough for one business/house to grow at a time, then do the next one and so on. I still have had serious issues with everyone dying at the exact same time. The problem is larger.