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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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Great job president.
You have eradicated Swine Flue from the US
Now we have some population and economic problems since well ya know 30% of the population died.
(Great game)
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So, am i missing something or is it just a glitch? I won on Normal mode by erradicating the virus. now i tried on hard mode. By day 35 i erradicated the virus, but the ''win'' screen didn't show up. then, i thought it could be something i had running, so i ended all operations, waited for the media to stop, opened all ports/seaports, hospitals and borders, waited for the Panic bar to empty... now i'm sitting here at day 50+ still waiting for my game to end.
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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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Quality game. I would pay for a much more complex world-wide simulator.
This particular game could be improved by adding uncertainty to the numbers (since government agencies can't know exactly how many people are infected/immune).
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A strategy which might work: close all seaports and airports as soon as you start...use money to research spin, hand out masks in infected areas...when vaccine is almost complete, stop handing out masks and enforce military HEALTHY states to deploy vaccine asap...quarantine highly infected cities and nuke if necessary...immunize all the states with healthiest ones first...rate this up if it works for you!!
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So I saw that one of my orange areas suddenly turned dark green... Then I realized it was becuase all the infected people died.
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Win any difficulty: First, close all access (seaports, airports, Mexican and Canadian borders), and keep them closed. Before the vaccine is discovered, distribute masks to infected states and spin the media if panic is too high. After the vaccine is discovered, spend exclusively on vaccine distribution. Use the population panel (monument icon, upper-left) to find the states with the largest healthy populations; distribute to these states. Run the operation for a day or two, then cancel. Bounce state to state, always immunizing largest healthy population.
Pro-tip 1: when nearly everyone in the hospital's state is immunized (this could be 500k, 100k, 0, depending on the size of the healthy populations elsewhere), close the hospital to save money
Pro-tip 2: launch vaccination campaigns between 1 and 3 according to the in-game clock and cancel them between 10 and 12 to maximize the number of people immunized per dollar spent
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Nuking cities doesn't seem very useful at all. The only times I've done it is on healthy cities because it sounded evil and fun and I'd get a badge because rewarding people for killing millions makes sense. The newspapers didn't seem to notice how the city (or even the state) wasn't infected to begin with.
It might be interesting if you received donations if you have done several good things previously. These donations would be more common if there was a lot of panic.
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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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*Swine Flu Discovered* "Oh, seems pretty dangerous!" *One month later* "OMG ITS EVERYWHERRE EVERRYBODY SEND NUKES TO ALL PLACES AND DO MASSIVE RIOTS! WE HAVE TO END THIS!!!!!"