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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.18 13:27:00 -
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Edited by: P''uck on 18/07/2008 13:36:36
Im trying real hard in realistic mode to kill off all of earth, but I have to say it's rather tricky: even a disease without any symptoms, visibilty or lethality at all can be spotted...
Mostly a single small island keeps eluding my grasp, mostly its Madagascar. If you watch the traffic to that island, its clear why. It can ONLY be infected via ships afaik, and it has VERY VERY little ship traffic, compared to the other nations.
I think its definetly easiest to start there.
Also I'm not sure if the water/airborne thing does anything to make them close their harbors/airports any faster. I think, but im not sure, its just related to the visibility and the number of people infected all over the world. My theory when it comes to that is like this:
Once you start hitting other countries, lay low. Sell your symptoms, dont have any resists at hand. dont get extra transmissions (means you have to start the initial growth with symptoms you can sell later on, easily).
Because you want to maximize the chance of being spread out, but minimize growth in the countries that already have high infection ratios, so you dont alarm all the world.
Once the vaccine is getting developed or you have every country infected, its all out war and rapid mutation into a super-killer-virus.
I love this game 
edit: the closing down of ports really being related to population infected all over the world kind of makes sense... if you buy increased trasnmissions like waterborne, you have a higher growth WITHIN nations, triggering the "international alarms" sooner.
edit2: also, i think somebody hacked their highscore page
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Posted - 2008.07.18 16:25:00 -
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Edited by: P''uck on 18/07/2008 16:24:45
Oh btw, you heard that one?
Two planets pass each other orbitting their sun.
Planet 1:"Oh, hai thar, what's up, you don't look so good."
Planet 2:"Yeah, I'm sick. I caught Homo Sapiens."
Planet 1:"Ah, don't worry, it will pass."
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.19 00:26:00 -
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By the way, how you guys calling your diseases?
One of my best was
Shitis Contagiousasufukus
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.19 01:25:00 -
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will have to try to the lethality thing.
actually i just showed up to tell that my bacterium "Madagascar Madness" (which started as a simple flu in greenland) has just managed to infect all of the planet...
now i have 60 EP or so for a nasty, and hopefully quick kill :D
lets get to work !
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.19 02:33:00 -
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I wonder if dementia / insanity and similar symptons increase the chances of borders and such staying open 
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.19 11:54:00 -
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Edited by: P''uck on 19/07/2008 11:54:46
135 (edit: days ) for the whole earth. I suck 
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.20 15:52:00 -
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Edited by: P''uck on 20/07/2008 15:53:14
I think, depending on your type of disease, you mostly dont even want high infectivity, at least not right away.
It's a real pita to pull off, but for a good start you need to grow FAST first, and once you start crossing the borders, you need to lay low. I think. And its really not easy to control for me, I mean, it's growing either to slow or just exploding in numbers, alarming everybody.
I can quite reliably infect the whole world now, I still think there is a LOT of luck involved when it comes to madagascar, but I cant do it FAST. fastest i managed was 135 days (i think everybody was infected at day 60, dead at 135). Id really like to see some "evolutionary reports" on your best diseases out there, and how you did it.
Oh, just to make sure, you're all playing this on realistic or relaxed?
Because killing everybody on relaxed isnt THAT hard
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.07.21 16:16:00 -
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I played it alot and I never saw that. But I'm pretty sure I saw a "late" infection, that didn't come from an air- or seaport but rather crossed the closed borders.
Only once or twice tho.
I think it's safe to say once it's closed, it's closed forever. Unless a late plane or ship is inbound when it closes down. But the timeframe for that is rather narrow.
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