Simcity 5, Does Radiation ever go away?
Had a meltdown, and its been over a year. Does the Radiation ever go away?
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had same prob not w/ a meltdown but with a meteor (or maybe ufo?) ... never seems to go away. I finally just said screw it and built a park over it. (fortunately it was a small area).
this is pretty ridiculous that cities get destroyed permanently by the lizard: there should be a non DLC way to clean it up at extremely great cost--maybe university research + some really expensive hospital addon that you need to keep running (radiation intensive care center)
MaxisBazajayteeEA Staff
You can disable random disasters in the in game options.
If someone in your region has Cities of Tomorrow you can also use some of their tech to help clean up your city even if you don't own Cities of Tomorrow yourself.
Trees do help, turn off random disasters (does that mean its impossible to have a meltdown, even with unskilled workers ?)
Ground scrubbers is the new tech to clean up ground pollution (and turn it into air pollution)
I read about the disabling disasters, for some reason I thought that was sandbox mode only, either it was never true, or it was changed/added, either way, thanks, I feel like an idiot, so much so that I almost slinked away from this thread in shame, but decided to just tough it out and admit my ignorance.
Also, yeah, I realize it's become Maxis/EA practice to allow broken things to remain so then they can charge us for DLC to "fix" it. So to the person posting about the scrubbers, thanks for the info, but IMO some form of EFFECTIVE cleanup should have been included with the base game.
