disease and weather effect?

[virus2]

just cuious whether their will be different plagues and weather effects in the city.
if you keep your city overcrowded and dirty, a disease might be hard to control and kill many people. more healer/doctors or hospital would lessen the problem.
also weather effects would be cool. if it's raining a lot some places might get flooded. on the other hand if it's very hot for a few days your water reserve might be drowned and people would be thristy. also cold temperaature = people will yell for more woods for fire/heating

[Keith]

I believe I saw mention somewhere that if the people don't feel well they may seek out a physician. So I am assuming there is illness of some kind in the game. We haven't heard much about what the weather will be.
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[Celebithil Dae]

Sunny, with a couple fluffy clouds with a high around 85-90 degrees :cool:

[ramuhotep]

Sunny, with a couple fluffy clouds with a high around 85-90 degrees :cool:

We're talking about Egypt here. 85-90 degrees is downright cool! :D

[wodinoneeye]

just cuious whether their will be different plagues and weather effects in the city.
if you keep your city overcrowded and dirty, a disease might be hard to control and kill many people. more healer/doctors or hospital would lessen the problem.
also weather effects would be cool. if it's raining a lot some places might get flooded. on the other hand if it's very hot for a few days your water reserve might be drowned and people would be thristy. also cold temperaature = people will yell for more woods for fire/heating


Droughts wont effect the city much (being on river after all) but would impact some of the off river external sites (wells arent as impacted as much, but not all sites would have wells??).

Plagues hopefully will be proceded with news (coming up or down river) that would give the player time to take precautions (those edict thingees??) or to minimize the impact.

I suppose crop failures (besides weather caused) from blights could also happen.

[Miut]

Egypt rarely got rain then. That's why it depended on the Nile flooding. ;) Weather would be yet another hot, hot, hot day..
I don't think they even got sandstorms coming in that close to the Nile - they were out in the desert. I know they are caused by particular wind currents interacting, but that's all.

Keith, Jayhawk, you've both been there afaik. (lucky people!) Tell is what the weather is like, pretty please. ;)

[EmperorJay]

One of the TM guys said a while ago that simple mud bricks by the poor were used because it hardly ever rained in Egypt. While this is no official statement I think this could imply they left out rain; or that you'd better be prepared for a couple of homeless people when it does start to rain :p .

[Cironir]

Here is a bit of information about the weather in Egypt (http://www.ask-aladdin.com/weather.htm). :)

[Miut]

Thanks! Very useful and informative. One day.. one day, I'll get there. ;)

[Lord Keida]

Egypt was not as dry as it is now, a couple of thousand of years ago. While the Nile was the breadbox of Egypt ,then as it is now, rain was more freguent...there was more vegetation..trees..swamps...oasis etc. I doubt anyone living in Egypt now would recognize the Egypt of yesteryear. ( not including pyramids and stuff)

And of 10000 years ago..Egypt was a large grassy savanah with elephants, giraffes, hippos etc.

[Bizkit]

Yes, the climate was a lot more wet 10.000 years ago, with lush vegetation instead of the endless sands of today. The 'water marks' on the Sphinx indicate that it was constructed at that period, but it is commonly known that it was built much later, sometime around the construction of the pyramids (no one knows for sure).