Squalor question

**Krauser** · 07-07-2005, 19:46

Does buying the sewers/aqueducts actually reduce squalor or just increase public health or both?

The description just says that it increase public health. I just wonder because it seems like squalor stays the same even after building them but public health goes up sort of countering it.

**player1** · 07-07-2005, 20:44

True,
Only governor buildings reduce squalor.

**The Stranger** · 07-07-2005, 21:41

best way to reduce squalor is Genocide

**Marcellus** · 07-07-2005, 21:48

A city's squalor is sort of self-regulating: when squalor gets too great it firstly reduces population growth, so reducing the increase in squalor, and secondly, the people start rebelling, leading to your troops slaughtering a couple of thousand of them, reducing squalor.

**Kekvit Irae** · 07-07-2005, 21:57

Feh, I do it the easy and cheap way. I give the city to an enemy of mine (which will move my troops out), and I move those troops back in the (now-undefended) enemy city and slaughter everyone. Quick, easy, and doesnt take several turns to start a rebellion.