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There has to be a bug (and not the flu bug), even with 0 visibility and no deaths it's spotted right away and everything gets closed down.
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http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn257/TRiiGGERNOMETRY/Pandemic2.jpg
SUCCESS! I got lucky and got it on my 3rd try. :)
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this could be fun, but as has been stated so many times, its got a lot of bugs, and too much is based on luck
however, while i give it a 4/10, it has potential to become a 10 if all problems are fixed
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I finally got the "impossible" badge, and while luck seems to be a big factor also from what I observe of the game mechanics I think starting position plays a big role too.
Ignore people who say you should start in Madagascar, that way lies madness. I reckon on any given clock tick the chance of a location shutting any one of its amenities is a function of the infection rate in other countries weighted by distance.
This means that starting in New Zealand gives a big advantage. I guess likewise Argentina, but that lacks all the transport links, plus it isn't so well placed to help infect blasted Madagascar.
The way I did it was to use a virus, level one of all resistances except drugs (my theory is that during the infection phase your pathogen should be as weak as possible to keep numbers down), insect transmission and no symptoms. Once everywhere was infected, I cranked drug resist to max and purchased as many lethal symptoms as I could afford.
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i just finished it once on relaxed but didn't do good enogh to get a high score my disease was a parasitic form of gingivitis
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The name of impossible badge made my day.
Sadly, i started from madagasgar but didn't get out of there. The epicness.
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Ultimate Relaxation
Dude! You just completed the Ultimate Relaxation achievement in Pandemic 2 and won the Ultimate Relaxation badge and 30 points! WOOHOO!
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I just got virus and saved like 100 evo points and made the virus as infective as possible, bought lvl 2 water resistance and lvl 1 everything else resistance. Then bought vomitting and all the level one two and three upgrades. Killing the humanrace is a pain but the challenge is easy. Beat it 8 times over infecting new york city :P
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While oddly addictive, this game is incredibly shallow. I was amused at how I could cause panics by spreading slowly, and being harmless. Seriously, doesn't matter what you do; eventually you'll have everything that hasn't sealed itself off. As a sim game, this game fails, I feel more like I'm hexing the planet from the moon or something, with my evil magic.
210 days to kill everyone on realistic after a great start where I had the entire planet red, and I was lethal, in 30 days. You don't mess around with these 'impossible' badges...
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Single-entry islands = suck. Also, I watched a ship sail from Madagascar, around Asia, around Australia, back around Asia, and then finally land in Spain. Realistic, my ass.
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Great news: I started the game in Madagascar!!
Bad news: countries are starting to close their shipyards and I haven't gotten out of the country yet... T___T
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for those having trouble with madagascar just restart until you start in madagascar avoiding that annoyance and I got the badge easily that way.
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Gayness...Madagascar closes everytime now no matter how i play it...Why couldn't they bring the badges yesterday ffs...
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umm anyone else notice how in the Breaking News board, Marshal Law is spelt like that but in the region info it's spelt Martial Law?