Exact effects of blight?

[Alzara]

Hey guys

Blight hit me the other day... a crazy new experience it was. NEVER seen a city with almost 60

How much unhealthiness is actually added during blight? Also how quickly does it fade?

Thanks

Al

 

[rusty217]

Well the unhealthiness is based on city size, and I beleive that it goes down by 1 per turn.

 

[Alzara]

OMG thats harsh lol. My cities usually grow massive by the time the AC hits 40 (usually because of me ). Because of this, even with sacrafice the weak, my cities suffer pretty badly

I must say this blight effect is far cooler than the last one. All that desert and destruction of resources was plain aweful! lol

Al

 

[Randolph]

Yeah, it's a huge improvement. A pretty similar effect without the hour of micromanaging druids/other vitalizers and workers.

 

[Arcite36575]

Yes, and after blight hits, pestilence hits at random intervals, which is just as bad as the effects of blight.

That's probably why you have 60 unhealthiness. I think the last time I got blight, I got 15 unhealthiness, while pestilence adding another 15 at random intervals giving me around 30-40 unhealthiness at any given time.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Yes, and after blight hits, pestilence hits at random intervals, which is just as bad as the effects of blight.

Not true; pestilence causes only half of the health problems of Blight. It can many time though.

 

[Alzara]

Well my capital was like size 31 at this point and already had about 10 unhealthiness. It shot up to the 50's with blight. Is this normal?

Thanks

Al

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Well, the unhealthiness is based on city size and the blight and pestilence effects do stack. It seems a little high, but is quite reasonable if blight hit more than once.

 

[Alzara]

Blight can hit more than once?

Thought it only hit once at AC 40... pestilence can reoccur if I'm right?

Al

 

[Monkeyfinger]

Blight's unhealthiness addition is 10 + (city size/2) I'm pretty sure.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Not quite. It is: pCity.changeEspionageHealthCounter(CyGame().getSorenRandNum(5, "Pestilence") + (pCity.getPopulation() / 2))

Blight is: pCity.changeEspionageHealthCounter(CyGame().getSorenRandNum(11, "Blight") + pCity.getPopulation())

 

[·Imhotep·]

Blight can hit more than once?

Thought it only hit once at AC 40... pestilence can reoccur if I'm right?

Al

Yeah, blight can hit more than once - and with each time it gets worse in my experience. In my recent game I had an AC which was always at the magic "40" threshold. Blight hit 5 times until now and added 24

to my size 23 capital the last time...