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My biggest issue with this game, aside from Madagascar shutting down way too quick no matter what gets done, is that a disease with no outward symptoms is capable of causing widespread panic and shutting down all the airports, etc. around the world without any fatalities, etc. Having that happen is far less likely than a bad outbreak of the flu in some backwater town in middle America causing a global breakdown of transportation. 3/5 for now.. but good game otherwise.
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The total inability to infect a country that doesn't let people in in any way (borders, air, sea) doesn't make any sense when your disease transmits through all known means.
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Good fun, but same annoyance about Madagascar. Would also be nice to be able to look around once the game is over and see the country stats and stuff
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the game is super easy get rid of all ur symptons get al transmissions all restinces then when the whole world is infected which noone will even know they are make your disease lethal example heart failure
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If Madagascare closes its seaports or whatever they are called cant they still get infected through the air, insects or water supply???
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DAM! i was foiled by japan it seems their life sorce is very high... when there's a neucular war! *puts straw hat on* i'm going to japan!
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Hmm. Killed everyone in greenland... and yet still they're working on a vaccine.
Impossible to win, though. Japan, Madagascar just close up and it's game over.
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i pwn the game. u should get rid of all symptomps except one. the one u start out with. here's my guide on how to win.
1. just get enough points and make it airborne, water borne then wait about 3 mins then make it insect and rodent. then wait about an hour go do something else. when u come back there should be all areas infected soz then wat u do iz make it have cold heat moisture and drug full when it says they've made a vaccine for your disease. then wait about 1 whole day or wait til it reaches 500 evoulution points! then you want to buy all the tiers and then wait til it has 600 evoulution points then... BUY ALL THE SYMPTOMPS IN ONE WHOLE BLAST AND WHIPE THE EARTH OUT!
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The "Disease" menu doesn't give enough information for a real strategy to be possible. More [b]quantitative[/b] info about symtoms is required, not just vague descriptions.
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As soon as Madagascar closes their ports that's it, game over. This rather grievous discrepancy ruins the whole game. There should be more ways to get into countries if the game is to be winnable, or the governments' shut-downs should be less effective. Sure, this isolation makes the game more realistic, but the point of a game is to be fun. This problem ruins both modes of play, too, not just "realistic".
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as far as i can tell Madagascar only has one boat going to and out of it like once every 40'ish days. and by then your disease probably fully infected one country which means if it jumps once then tons of airports and harbors will close.
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Yeaitsme, are you Will Smith? lol. But seriously, the only problem with the game is Madagascar. Sometimes Aussie or Japan. Can you make it so that there ar airports or something?
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the reason madagascar is never infected is because apparently there is never any boat that goes to or out of there in this game. i dunno if they fudged the programming or just made the chance that a boat goes to or out of madasgar is really really low. it's a serious problem.
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Pretty easy with some patience. I waited about 80 days before giving my parasite any symptoms at all, putting 1 point in each resist and transmission, then increasing drug resist. Started with cysts, let it spread everywhere, and dumped everything else into fatal symptoms.
Apparently, spreading to Madagascar is tough if you don't start there. I started in Mexico (on my first win, 3rd game overall). I guess I just got lucky.
Greenland was the last country to have a hospital, and the first to get wiped out. Heh.
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This game is good! 5/5. Maybe some pointers so you can make Pandemic 3 better?
1) COuntries should open airports/borders/dockls once the disease has become invisible for some time. Otherwise, there's no way to win the game!
2) Factor in natural death rate and natural birth rate into the world population
3) Parasites should be subgrouped as fungi, helminths (worms) and protozoa (like the one that causes malaria). Prions could be added too for fun.
4) War between countries as an event
5) Transmission via soil contact/ livestock/ STD.
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OMG you need a way to get, somehow, into countries that lock out early. "Jump Species" to use birds as carriers or something - as soon as you start jumping countries the damn islands all close down.