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As an addendum to ShinodaII's strategy (which was indeed helpful)... I found that closing the hospitals in the states that have a ~100% Vaccinated Living population can give you more daily funds to disburse vaccines in states that do not have them and have healthy > infected pop.s. As after the vaccine's been developed, the states that have them will be automatically disbursing them 'til that point.
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So easy with open government. Just spam masks at everything that moves and use info campaign on recharge. And deport foreigners, which really doesn't fit with open government. Oh well.
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If you want a lazy win on the hard modes...
Don't even bother with borders, airports etc.
1. Rapidly hand out masks as fast as you can (initially) and stack money until vaccine is researched.
2. Hand out vaccine to all infected zones.
3. Go completely broke from handing out a wild amount of vaccines.
4. Stop handing out vaccines to everyone.
5. Stack about 50k
6. Hand out vaccines again to a few states at a time I liked to pick the highest population of "healthy" ones and keep handing out vaccines until I was in the mid to low 300,000's.
Occasionally you might need to throw out some masks to lower panic
you should win around 25-35 this way.
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Defeat by time?! So after 40 days, when I immunilized 80% of the population, brought the infected portion down to 12,000, I lose? So what happens? Dose the virus go "Mwahahaha! It has been 40 days! Now the planet explodes!!!!!" Seriously?!
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Pandemic 1 and 2: Destroy the entire world. Pandemic 3: Save the world. Hey! Don't ruin the series! Give us back our apocalypse! We're heartless, we don't want to save, we want to kill! You should have called it Anti-Pandemic!
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Make sure you can contain the virus early. Curfew or hand out masks to Texas, California, and Florida. Close all seaports and airports in clean regions. Keep them open in infected regions. Once the vaccine is available, start in Florida and contain the virus in New Mexico and Nevada. Keep borders open unless it reaches 5% chance of infection or so. If you use Curfew and Masks effectively, this game should be no problem to beat at all.
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Henrik, if you can't even spell 'release' right, then you're in no position to have your jokes laughed at.
This game is awesome, though I wish there were loans!
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in order for a land to be cleansed 90% of the population must die. the other ten either are immune or just plain lucky.
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I shut down all airports and seaports and closed all borders. So how does Wyoming get infected when it's NOT EVEN NEAR AN INFECTED STATE?!
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The swine flu is not to deadly if you have nothing other than it but I am not going for the details saying one little mistake makes everything in it unrealistic, but still in the first few weeks after it hit only one person died but he/she had something else along with it.
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News Reporter: Live at the scene, the vaccine has just been handed out. People are now immune to the disease! (Puts hand on ear mic) What?.... Oh... This just in, the player has not yet got the easy badge. I don't know what this has to do with us, but... AHH WHAT IS FALLING FROM THE SK..
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News: it seems the governement has taken extreme measures of reducing the swine flu by nuking Las Vegas
Me: Wait, it was infected? I just wanted to push the red button.
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When you're trying to eradicate the flu completely from a region, close the airports and ports completely there until it's gone (normally you'll want foreign travel enabled)- curfews can help keep the population at 100% immunised vs 99.9%.
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Why does everyone is Vermont suddenly start looting and rioting when all of the infected states are all the way across the country?
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So somehow knowing that a state was completely wiped out thus ending infected people in the area is comforting?If you say so.....
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Freaking Panic.... Needed 1% of immunity to win.. OUT OF NOWHERE the media goes on a rampage and starts attacking!!! Filled the bar in 25 seconds -_-
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Woot saved 90% of US population on second hard mode attempt! Closing seaports and airports on day one and using masks and curfews on California and Texas until the vaccine was finished seemed to help a lot. Virus never made it to the eastern seaboard :D
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I'm only blowing New jersey ... sorry if you live there... but...tell Jersey shore's people to stay there and leave the city
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How I won Surgeon General Badge: Open Gov. Only hand out masks & do info campaign until vaccine is found. Give vaccine to states with highest healthy population that does not have hospitals (= highest # of ppl getting vaccine = fast increase in immuned), stop giving vaccine once it stops or # of healthy ppl is low enough (500k, for me) then give vaccine to other states with highest healthy ppl. Rinse and repeat, while stopping hospitals when the number of healthy ppl in its state is also low enough to save $1000 per day. Also, use money efficiently by starting operations at the beginning of the day and end them at the end of the day. In this strategy, nation window (white house icon) is your best friend: it shows # of immune, healthy, and infected people in each state and allows to jump right into those states by clicking magnifying glass icon. I finished the game almost entirely in fast speed and with dead population still in 0%, so there should be enough room for mistakes.
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Basicly, the easiest thing to do is isolate states that are infected, pass out mask to them, and pass the vacine out to the neighboring states before re-opening the interstates. Then you can slowly give the shots to the rest of the US without fear. Albiet, it cost me three quarters of florida but I saved almost all the rest of the nation.
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10.8m immune, 1 healthy, 0 infected, and 5m dead in Texas.
I wonder why that one healthy guy never got the vaccine...
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Easy even on the hardest level. Simply buy masks in all infected states and keep going until you're about 1 day from vaccine. Then save the money, and when the vaccine hits you should have 100k+. Then just vaccinate everything; obviously start with already infected states and limit the spread as much as possible. After a while you'll have 85%+ done. Simples.
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If you saw my other comment, Here Is How To Win: Hand out masks to each infected state until Vaccine is developed. Then hit infected states with vaccine. If a state is REALLY BAD hand out masks. I got the underachiver trohpy. :)
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Hmmmm, it appears that, in order to gain the 'Operation Iceburg' I must complete the game on any difficulty on April 1st.
What's the date today? April 2nd...ah...
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I see that ONE person that ISN'T immune in Kansas. Welp, time to make Kansas suffer... All because of that ONE person... I'll see you in HELL
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I think there is a problem with chance of introducing more infected into the country decimal. I've seen it go from a 0.9% chance to a 0.10% chance. This could be that it jumped way down, but I think you are treating the decimal in the wrong way. (I think I've also seen 0.1% chance which just increases my suspicions of this)
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No infected, everyone immune, but 29% have died. Unwinnable or bug? I have my 70% of population completely immune. Is there any way to win, as it won't let me. I had 65% at hour one and by hour two and half I worked the kinks out. Is this a bug? I am really not enjoying winning and then slowly losing to panic over doing nothing.
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8 million people in New Jersey successfully immunized --> riots occur. Either the 3 infected people left qualify as a riot or these people are really ungrateful