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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) Watch Madagascar burn to the ground. Laugh. 11) Keep this comment alive.
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Oh Madagascar, how weird you are. When a single person is found to be infected outside of your country, you shut everything down. But when people in your country are infected, you couldn't give enough Sh*ts.
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Finally after looking a bazillion comments, i managed to bring this back.
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. Make sure to bring this back to top comments!
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3 ships caught outside shipyards when every port was closed. For 134 days, so far, they have sailed aimlessly around the world.
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I haven't played this game since July 2008. Today, I ran across the news headline "Bubonic plague killed 20 villagers in Madagascar, health experts confirm;" and for some reason, I immediately thought of this game. Weird how the brain works....
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all of the countries were infected(including madagascar) and everyone shut down everything, except Cuba. i guess they didn't even care.
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.) 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 Thanks for the comment! I got 13th of all time by using this method.
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In 2009, a boat departed from America. Within the next few days, all shipyards on the atlantic ocean were shut down. That same boat proceded to sail around the atlantic in little circles, looking for a shipyard, for the rest of the game.
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I like the game but it is annoying how much infectivity affects boarder closure. The entire world has shut down because people are getting a barely noticable fever... Also, there are a lot of updates about natural disasters but they don't seem to have any real effect on the game - it would be more interesting if a country affected by a natural disaster had a chance of being forced to reopen boarders for relief aid, or something similar.
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How to infect the whole world in Relaxed:
Choose Bacteria
Any Name
Evolve:
Heat 1
Cold 1
Moisture 1
Drug 1
All transmissions then wait until it spreads then upgrade until drug 3 and wait for the world to be infected
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I have to wonder, the people on that last ship that doesn't have anywhere to dock, they've been out there a few years now, how do they eat?
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A tip (even if you don't want one): buy airborne and water resistance as soon as you can. Then buy all four moisture resistances. I usually win because it spreads to the other countries through the water/docks, usually getting that ever elusive Madagascar. P.S. Every time I put in my disease name, I always put in 'TWERKING.' It makes me laugh each time to see that 'TWERKING has gotten rid of all life on earth' or whatever.
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Well, that was a new one...I got everything infected, the last being Madagascar, so I immediately hit all 4 Drug Resistance and bought up the symptoms including Kidney Failure, making it deadly. I instantly killed the one person in Madagascar before they infected anyone else