Squalor

[Veridious]

Three of my cities have about an 80% happiness penalty due to squalor. I have all the public baths that I can build, what more can I do to reduce this?

[Slimshoom]

u can not reduce squalor in a city without reducing the population, I recommend pulling all of your troops out, letting the city revolt, then retake the city and exterminate the population. That should solve ur problem for a while.

[Veridious]

Exterminate the- ...Man are you out of your mind, I'm not going to massacre my capitol, and my biggest city! By the way, the squalor just went up from 80% to 100%. These rats just keep multiplying, and my people get more and more angry no matter how often I hold games in the town and how often I lower the taxes.

[Dragosani]

Whats the Population? I'm pretty sure in older versions of RTW you can give an enemy faction the overpopulated settlement, and take it back in the same year. Extermination seriously works... if it has a population of like 12,000 or so, you'll still have a few thousand left after. Cause its your capitol, you can just make another settlement your Capitol and then swap it back after its exterminated

[Slimshoom]

the only way to do it is to exterminate them, there is no other way to reduce the squalor in your settlements. By the way, im not out of your mind...everyone on this site would give you the same advice.

[COTLOD]

^^^

Yep thats basically the only way to solve Squalor. Gives you a modest appreciation for how dirty life probably was back in those ancient cities. God bless technology!

[Samson]

when you are going to take a city first burn it do the ground then exterminate population, then put a heavy garrison and rebuild in your own culture you should be fine

[Slimshoom]

we're talking about retaking a settlement after it has rebelled, not taking it from another faction....no offense

[Veridious]

Okay my two main towns have 100%+ squalor. Not only that, just this turn, my capitol got the plague, and 7000 citizens died. I have 23000 population at the moment. The only problem with exterminating my people, is the fact they I can't justify murdering all those innocent people. Not only that, but it will take dozens of turns before my population increases enough to get the next settlement size. Even if I wanted to exterminate them, how can I? It's in the middle of my entire civilization, it's guarded by many towns ahead of it, and many armies guarding the perimeter, even if the computer was stupid enough to attack, they can't bypass my defensive perimeters...

[Omnipotent-Q]

Okay my two main towns have 100%+ squalor. Not only that, just this turn, my capitol got the plague, and 7000 citizens died. I have 23000 population at the moment. The only problem with exterminating my people, is the fact they I can't justify murdering all those innocent people. Not only that, but it will take dozens of turns before my population increases enough to get the next settlement size. Even if I wanted to exterminate them, how can I? It's in the middle of my entire civilization, it's guarded by many towns ahead of it, and many armies guarding the perimeter, even if the computer was stupid enough to attack, they can't bypass my defensive perimeters...

I must be the only one who likes getting the plague in Rome Total War. There is nothing like training a load of spies and deliberately spreading the plague throughout all the cities of my enemies.

On squalor, the only ways to go about it are exterminating the city, or creating lots of peasants and transporting them some place else (Perhaps conquering an enemy settlement, exterminating the population, then taking a stack of peasants from an overcrowded city, and disbanding them in the recently exterminated city).

[Ghoulem]

No, you're not alone. I'm a big fan of biological warfare too. Excellent for removing rival familymembers from the senate offices and bring your own chaps to the top of roman politics.

[Slimshoom]

ok first of all remember this is a game...second of all, if u continue to let the population grow, u will get the plague again and again and eventually it will spread to the cities u dont want to have the population reduced in.

[John I Tzimisces]

Bah, thats the easy way out. The INTELLIGENT way to prevent squalor is to build health improvements to your city before it gets overpopulated. The earlier you build such structures as aqueducts, the lower squalor will be in the future.

[Veridious]

Bah, thats the easy way out. The INTELLIGENT way to prevent squalor is to build health improvements to your city before it gets overpopulated. The earlier you build such structures as aqueducts, the lower squalor will be in the future.

The first thing I always build is a health improving building... When my town increases it's size, the first thing I build is an aqueduct or whatever.

Okay my plague just killed my governer, and one of my generals is now infected whatever that means. So I've decided to exterminate the population. I still have the question of how I am to accomplish that though... I can't just order the town guard to slaughter them, I can't force the enemy to take it...

Double-post merged. -eXc

[John I Tzimisces]

The first thing I always build is a health improving building... When my town increases it's size, the first thing I build is an aqueduct or whatever.

Okay my plague just killed my governer, and one of my generals is now infected whatever that means. So I've decided to exterminate the population. I still have the question of how I am to accomplish that though... I can't just order the town guard to slaughter them, I can't force the enemy to take it...

Double-post merged. -eXc

Force it to rebel. That is to say, raise taxes, and remove the garrison. Unrest will be high, and hopefully, it will revolt. "Hopefully", I guess.

[Veridious]

Revolting only kills a few hundred civilians though, I need them all to die to remove the plague right?

[John I Tzimisces]

Revolting only kills a few hundred civilians though, I need them all to die to remove the plague right?

No, I mean a civil revolt, when rebels occupy the city and you no longer have control over it, and you need to take the city back with a siege.

[Veridious]

Okay I tried that, they revolted, but rebels didn't occupy it...

[John I Tzimisces]

Okay I tried that, they revolted, but rebels didn't occupy it...

The message is civil revolt...You lose possession of the city. If that message didn't happen, you didn't have what I was talking about.

[Veridious]

Okay I just did another turn, and the settlements are all under rebel command... So I should send in men to kill the rebels and then as soon as I beat them, I exterminate the population?