New, dont laugh...

Awww...@#!* · 10-11-2004, 21:46

Alas, my Empire, lowered in one swift blow from the dreadful plague. Can anyone suggest a way to remove, or at least stop the spread of the plague?

**chemchok** · 10-11-2004, 21:55

Quarantine your cities that have the plague, as in don't move around armies or generals that are in these citites. The plague should eventually burn itself out, and your generals might recover over time, but keep them put for the time being if they're plague bearers.

Awww...@#!* · 10-11-2004, 22:23

I did all that, but the devastaion is horrible. Is there any way to minimize that? Or stop it?

**Lonewarrior** · 10-11-2004, 22:27

Kill them all or spread it on the enemy

**chemchok** · 10-11-2004, 22:28

I remember someone saying that public health buildings have an impact on the length/severity of a plague.

**Tamur** · 10-11-2004, 22:51

Public health buildings will definitely end plague faster. I wish I had hard numbers to quote besides the little I've done, but plague which had been killing about 2000 citizens per turn will go down by 75% if an aqueduct is completed. I wish I could tell you about sewers and public baths definitely, but my guess is that they'll have the same sort of impact on plague deaths, and on how long it lasts.

The more important part, though, is isolate everyone who's infected. I'd suggest something as extreme as getting all your infected army units and generals, and dumping them in one (or two, if you've too many) settlements, where they can all infect each other. Build public health buildings in those two places, and wait it out while churning out peasants in the other still-infected towns.

The plague will burn itself out in 3-8 years, depending on your public health buildings, once you've got it contained and aren't spreading it with infected unit movements.