Several of my cities dodges the Great Plague

[JohnCommenus]

I am playing a vanilla 1.2 game as the Byzantines. I started out doing what you have to do with the Byzantines: stabbing straight westward.

With Italy long under my control, all of the cities at least have bath houses if not aqueducts. When the Great Plague hit Bologna, Florence and Rome went completely unscathed!!

The only thing I can figure is that all three had high public health ratings. All their neighbors got hit (Naples, Marseilles, Milan, Genoa, Venice). But, throughout the entire course of the Great Plague the avoided it and kept positive growth.

Has anyone seen this happen before?

If there is an easily executable strategy for avoiding the plague, I'd like to try building a smaller, healthier empire and then just wipe all my neighbors out as the plague ends.

[Ged]

You're probably right, I think that higher health in the settlements lessens or even eliminates the plague.

[antaeus]

some cities do miss the plague sometimes.

timbuktu never suffers from it... which is doubly handy as it always has good population growth and earns top $$

i have randomly had other cities miss out too.. kiev seems to miss it a lot.

[The Good]

I noticed once when I was playing as the Scottish, I had the Great Plague happen in Inverness, but not Edinburgh, which is at least a little closer to where the plague originated, wierd. Good news is that Edinburgh is where most of my family members were, and many of them were unaffected by the Great Plague because of this.

[antaeus]

just move your family members and characters out of cities and put them in forts the year before the plague hits and you wont loose any characters... and put off attacks on cities off for 3 turns.

[Mountain_Commander]

Its good to build a northern/southern empire. Reason being is that when the plague sweeps through, you don't want all your cities to come under it at once. As the Moors I was able to jump to the top in rankings because I had some cities unaffected that kept producing. The florins also stayed in the green too.

[Greg89]

Umm what about spies? Dont they help spread that thing into cities?. So you might end up being skipped by plague but still end up being infected.

[SteelKnight]

I agree with antea....right before the plague hits move all your units out of the cities. It will lesson the effects of the plague on you soldiers and in the long run saving you lots of money by not hoving to re-train your units.
Just keep them close in case an enemy comes to close during the plage turns. Also, to keep the cities happy, lower the taxes so they dont revolt.

[Cybugger]

I used the Plague as an opportunity to expand my empire by about 7 regions. Just waited for it to decimate my puny opponents, then marched in with 2-3 stacks i had garrisoned in forts.

[JohnCommenus]

So, the prevailing opinion is that it was dumb luck?

[BTA]

So, the prevailing opinion is that it was dumb luck?

If I remember properly, the locations the Plague hits are scripted (descr_events).

After it has been started, as the AI isn't bothered about plague losses, spies will spread it in the pursuit of their normal actions.

It is possible the health buildings help it clear up quicker.


The reason Edinburgh is not hit - in the script location = 102,74 (In the meditarrean somewhere) whereas Edinburgh is 102,174.

[Magic Man]

Byzantines get aquaducts and bathouses??

Coool......

[eggthief]

so it is a bug?

[BTA]

so it is a bug?

Probably a typo as the location 102,74 is water.

Besides the three the OP mentioned (Bologna, Rome & Florence) there isn't an entry for Nuremburg.

In addition Iconium & Magdeburg get two lots of plague.

Perhaps they show someones preferences or perhaps someones editing skills.

If i get the chance i'll check on all the entries & see if there are any other anomolies.