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I don't know why everyone has so much trouble with Madagascar... for me it was Greenland that wouldn't friggin go down...
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I came so close. I started in Madagascar. Immediately a great start. I infected EVERYONE-- except those in Indonesia. And now I can't infect them. This is depressing.
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A disease with 0 visibility, no symptoms, and no lethality... the doctor's visit must sound like this:
"Doc, I think I've got something. I feel completely okay."
"Do you? Well, we can give you a check up."
"That'd be great, Doc."
"Well, looks like you're completely healthy."
"Wonderful! I'll go write an article about how people being completely healthy might secretly be infected with a disease that won't hurt them and isn't at all noticable or even infectuous. I'll be doing the world a favor!"
The guy then proceeds to create global panic about how everyone is infected with a deadly virus that they won't ever know they have and does no damage to their bodies at all. We'll call him Alex Jones.
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How do you spot a disease with no symptoms that isn't hurting anyone. Also, if the 'disease' isn't doing ANYTHING, why are you closing your borders and enforcing martial law like,,,, chill
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Ok... seriously?!? I make my disease waterborne and what happens? EVERY SINGLE FLIPPIN' COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS A DROUGHT
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its funny watching a boat just sailing around because everything is closed then watching it die in the middle of the ocean saying WHY GOD WHY!!!
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How to infect Madagascar: Sell your first sydrome. Get all transmittions other then waterborne (that'll make Madagascar close it's port). When a ship sails into Madagascar (rare), that'll infect it.
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Realistic Mode 2nd time i played this game... i get Madagascar... and have to wait FOREVER for one stupid boat to get there *sees one* OMG HERE IT COMES :D *turns away* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! WHY YOU CRUEL BOAT!
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All this talk of Plague Inc. Evolved . . . you do realize Pandemic 2 came out in 2008, right? Thus, I'm pretty sure it didn't copy Plague Inc -- additionally, Plague Inc. Evolved SHOULD be much better as it had many great predecessors to imitate. Unfortunately P.I.E. isn't offering the badge of the day though. :)
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The US closed airports and shipyards before it even arrived in the US and before a single person died from it. We all know now that wouldn't happen.
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The biggest problem I have with the realism is that countries wouldn't easily shut down borders. The common cold has been around and yet most borders are open (the closed ones for other reasons). So really until someone dies, it's hard to imagine borders being shut down. Even swine flu and ebola didn't fully shut down borders. Just one specific country had screenings into the other.
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Rene, when the Martial Law is declared, it means that the military becomes the government. The leaders of the military now become the leaders of the country.
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"Government of Madagascar shuts down airports due to safety concerns." Anyone else see what's wrong with this sentence?
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you have to feel bad for those few ships and planes who got stuck just zipping around the map because all the ports are closed
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Wow, I wasn't even expecting to get this again. I was just going for the Apocalyptic Optimist badge.
But, using Nauto's guide, I got both badges on my second try on Realistic. :D
Congratulations! You just won the President Madagascar Assassin Badge and 60 points!
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1.) Pick Virus. 2) Start in Canada, New Zealand, Cuba, Greenland, West Europe, or Madagascar. If you do not get there restart. 3) Sell the starting symptoms, and buy sneezing (unless it is what you started with, just keep it). 4) Buy 1-1-1-0 resistances but no transmissions (they trigger closures). 5) Once four countries are infected, sell sneezing to get rid of visibility. 6) Wait until all countries are infected. If Madagascar closes its shipyards/borders or is not infected in 30 days, restart. 7) Buy all four drug resistances AND sneezing, coughing, and vomiting. 8) After a few days, unlock tiers 2-3, (do not buy tier 4 ever!) keeping whatever symptoms it gives you. 9) Buy fever, fatigue, diarrhea, pulmonary edema, and hypersensitivity. Then save for kidney failure and ataxia. 10) keep this comment alive. (this comment was originally posted by Nauto98001, I'm just trying to keep it alive. Give him your thanks and gratitude, not me!)
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It would be cool if you added another direction for countries. Such as looting, rioting, the goverment collasping into chaos, ect. It would add a good twist, and help make it more realistic.