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Thanks for the comments, EW. In particular I was wondering whether there was anything that had triggered such a massive outbreak of plague - it didn't "feel" random, the way it suddenly struck 9 cities over 4-5 turns (and may keep spreading - I had to stop playing at that point and haven't yet come back to my game!). It could just be random with a really high probability though.Enkidu_Warrior said:hi satch - plague does increase with population size, but will decrease once you discover sanitation. in my first game on ROC 2.65, germany suffered massive plagues across the empire through the middle ages, and had every city with 6+ population (at least, before the plague struck).
by contrast, in my second game (ROCX, 1.01), china suffered little plague damage, with only two cities being hit, neither of which had a population above 3 at the start. in fact, my largest cities werent touched.
personally, i cant stand the plague feature and (gasp) turn it off in the biq file before starting.
I can see why you might find plague annoying and shut it off, although I have to say it is not nearly as bad as "disease," which was a minor annoyance in Civ and can be completely debilitating in RoC/RoX! Prior to my current France game (my first real RoC/RoX game) I had tried to play as Israel and it was a complete disaster - disease hit Jerusalem just as I was about to produce a settler - I lost all my population and had to start over again - then it happened *again* when I got back to size 4. I quit that game ...