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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0016810Stars Beyond ReachBug - GameplayJun 5, 2015 2:30 pm
ReporterCyborg Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Severitymajor 
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version0.840 (Pollution/Crime/Teleporters/Blueshirts) 
Summary0016810: Crime death spiral
DescriptionMy city is stuck. I have placed a ton of police and birthing stations, but crime keeps killing my whole city.
* I didn't get enough warning or indication that this was happening until it was too late. I see icons for infection and disease on the right-hand side of my screen, but I don't see any crime caper icons.

I have been following along the forum conversations for some time, and the death spiral issue has been around. If you intend for this to mean, "you lose", okay the game should be over. But if you want for this to continue, you might want to think about all of these different variables by using economic parallels. For example, what happens when you get into debt in real-life, where your interest is greater than your income? what are your options?

We can do the same thing here:
implement edicts (akin to bankruptcy, with penalties such as losing constructed buildings, diplomatic penalties, Income penalties, etc.) that would allow you to basically put a population growth *floor* For some amount of turns. This floor would give the player a chance to get rid of some buildings, change where the population should be focusing on, etc.


I'm attaching my game file.
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Cyborg

May 23, 2015 1:53 pm

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Cyborg

May 23, 2015 1:55 pm

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Crime death spiral.save (890,057 bytes)

Cyborg

May 23, 2015 2:35 pm

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Crime death spiral2.save (633,833 bytes)

Cyborg

May 23, 2015 2:37 pm

reporter   ~0041098

I started another game and tried again. The same thing happened. I'm noticing that my police stations can only handle -11 crime per tile while my holo resorts are producing over 100 crime all by themselves. That looks like a big part of the problem.

jerith

May 23, 2015 3:43 pm

reporter   ~0041101

Is this maybe a problem with the new crime-based-on-building-count logic?

Chris_McElligottPark

Jun 5, 2015 2:30 pm

administrator   ~0041808

Fixed in recent releases, thanks!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
May 23, 2015 1:53 pm Cyborg New Issue
May 23, 2015 1:53 pm Cyborg File Added: StarsBeyondReach 2015-05-23 13-44-12-89.bmp
May 23, 2015 1:55 pm Cyborg File Added: Crime death spiral.save
May 23, 2015 2:35 pm Cyborg File Added: Crime death spiral2.save
May 23, 2015 2:37 pm Cyborg Note Added: 0041098
May 23, 2015 3:43 pm jerith Note Added: 0041101
Jun 5, 2015 2:30 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0041808
Jun 5, 2015 2:30 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => resolved
Jun 5, 2015 2:30 pm Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => fixed
Jun 5, 2015 2:30 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark