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The original was posted on /r/citiesskylines by /u/Odd-Independence-384 on 2024-11-26 21:34:55+00:00.

I posted to the sub reddit a couple days ago after encountering a mysterious problem that had appeared. Both of my bustling colleges suddenly dropped to 0 students. Bewildered, I asked reddit what the cause could possibly be. See the below post:

Nobody seemed to know the cause, until one redditor pointed out my hadron collider in the background of the image, warning me of an impending “bumpy ride”. Now i had earned most of the monuments, just thinking that they were cool looking tourist attractions. In my hubris, I placed them all down in an area of the city I was building as a tourist hotspot, not knowing the almighty power each one brought.

I informed myself of the monuments effects, and I knew a shit storm was brewing. The hadron collider, for those who dont know, basically makes all of your citizens professors over night. That combined with the eden project, which drastically increases land value, turned all the residential mid rises into skyscrapers. And the medical research centre extended everyone’s lifespan. Now these are great buffs, but I didnt want them in my city.

Since everyone was Einstein now, everyone dropped out of the colleges, and my industrial sector collapsed due to a shortage of low skill workers.

Since land value (and hence residential vacancy) and medical care increased, suddenly there was a massive baby boom. but only briefly…

As the years passed in game, the population grew old, but didnt die. Elderly, educated people arent known for their libido, so birth rates hit the floor. Population declined, and building stopped.

I wanted my city back to the way it was. But that would cost me. I turned off the hadron collider, medical research centre and eden project, and prepared for the medical shit storm that was about to hit the city.

The massively inflated old population all suddenly realised they were old and thousands died instantly. But that wasnt the worst part. I knew id face a death wave like never before and my crematoriums would not be able to handle it. I cleared entire city blocks to make room for hundreds of crematoriums, to dispose of dead people at an industrial level. Taxes had to be raised to account for the army of hearses I had to bank roll. And I had to block off main streets to medical vehicle only.

The death wave hit like a tsunami, and many many buildings were abandoned. But through my army of hearses, I weathered the storm.

Im calling the event " Black 47’ " in reference to the 1947 Irish famine that killed millions. Except its in a video game. And only a few thousand died. And its in 2047.

Lesson of the day, don’t place monuments unless you are prepared.