
In the meantime, we seem to have a new hit among games for mobile platforms - Plague Inc (first place in the
AppStore among paid applications), with a simple and very addictive plot of destroying all of humanity using a pathogen, the development of which you, in fact, manage .
Advances in the spread of the disease give you DNA points that can be invested in the development of a microorganism, making it more contagious (for example, able to spread better through the air), increasing its danger to life or improving its survival (for example, the ability to survive in cold climates or to adapt to general antibiotics). Realizing the evolving danger, humanity will not sit still, and will try to develop a vaccine, if only ... there is someone left to develop it.
At the initial stage, bacteria are available to you, victories will open access to new microorganisms.
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The absolute success of the game is the physical development of the epidemic, which takes into account not only the medical, but also the economic and geographical aspects of the modern world. For example, the infection of Turkey will affect the acceleration of infection in Germany. The contagion factors in developed countries (where most people wash their hands) are different from the contagion factors of developing ones.
Some tips:
- do not rush to make the disease deadly. High lethality is a natural barrier to the development of an epidemic — an infected person dies before they can transmit the infection.
- from the very beginning think about the developed northern countries - Canada, Sweden, Russia. In these countries, a cold climate, developed medicine and a thin population will all impede the rapid development of the epidemic.
- wait for the infection of all countries - at some point, the countries will begin to close the borders to quarantine, and there will be almost no opportunity to infect (except migratory birds).