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Even though I try the suggested method (which is supposed to keep visibility low) there's always a country that gets jumpy and closes everything (usually Madagascar, but if I start there another country acts just like them). It's annoying! I once played with a "stealthy" parasite (NO symptoms!) and the only country to survive? Yep...
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it seems kong has been reading comments a lot. i love how they made the badge President Madagascar Assassination badge in honor of how ridiculously hard it is to get a single virus in madagascar....
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Freakshow, it's because there are fewer people left to die. The same proportion of people die each day, assuming you haven't changed anything.
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Twice now I've infected everyone, gotten deadliness to full.. and killed 5 billion people in 4 days. Yet, for the next 74 days I kill only 1.1 billion and the last 100thousand people in the game are giving me the troll face as I don't get the impossible badge...
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Breaking news! 95% of the world has died from a deadly disease... In other news, drought in canada finally coming to an end!!! :P
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dang nauto it was close but even following that exactly and starting in Madagascar russia and japan closed everything.
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This was disappointing, I started in Cuba, and missed Argentina. I hate the efficiency of the pest control in neighboring countries.
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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 Thanks for the comment! I got 13th of all time by using this method.
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kenny, airborne virus doesnt travel throughout the world, it needs people to transfer, so therefore atleast a person needs to get on a boat and go to madagascar...
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The virus is airborne. Nothing can save Madagasc- oh, shit, they shut down their docks. Our evil plan is doomed! Even though airborne viruses don't need docks!
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It's great when your disease starts in Madagascar... until you realise that it's not only difficult to get into, it's difficult to move out as well...