I just found this game, it's so awesome. You create a virus/bacteria/parasite and unleash it onto the world. Your mission? To infect and eventually kill every human on the face of the earth. It's called Pandemic II. There's actually a fair bit of strategy involved, as you have to work around vaccines and border closings, but as long as you infect their water before that happens, you're set. :D
Here's the link to it:
http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html (http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html)
Anyone else play this game?
Also, Cuba, Madagascar, New Zealand and Japan suck in this game. :(
Interesting concept, but not one that interests me.
Meh, this is just a simulation.
That's why I have an easy button.
The music is awesome.
*raises hand*
[spoiler=Extremely Easy strategy :O]This has such a basic strategy, it's not even funny.
Pick Parasite, buy airborne transportation, and until the governments start handing out masks to the public, keep buying the resistances, when they do start handing out masks, buy insect-spreading, continue buying resistances. Once you've bought them all, buy symptoms. It'll take a little while, but it does work, seeing as I just did it on Realistic.[/spoiler]
When everybody in the entire world already has the disease, governments still hand out masks and bottled water. In reality that'd be a waste of money. ::)
They also close schools.
When a disease has absolutely zero visibility and no symptoms, for some reason governents still will take action.
Oh, and after every single person in the world has the disease and one symptom is blindness, airports and such will generally continue to run.
It's kinda funny how when an entire country is so close to being eliminated, the thing the government does is obvious: close down the hospitals.
Nice game, pretty fun.
Edit: I noticed if there's even one ship out in the water, and the entire world closes their shipyards, that ship will stay out there, forever. Also kinda funny.
No and lame.
That looks like a pretty interesting game actually...
Quote from: sonicdude164 on July 20, 2008, 07:57:18 AM
That looks like a pretty interesting game actually...
Its boring.
Quote from: Riosan on July 20, 2008, 04:31:36 AM
It's kinda funny how when an entire country is so close to being eliminated, the thing the government does is obvious: close down the hospitals.
Nice game, pretty fun.
Edit: I noticed if there's even one ship out in the water, and the entire world closes their shipyards, that ship will stay out there, forever. Also kinda funny.
They probably closed them down because there were so many people that needed to be treated that they couldn't handle them all.
I noticed that too. XD
Oh, and when I played the original Pandemic, I managed to wipe out the entire human population, this version is a lot more difficult.
i played the original pandemic, but it wasn't too exciting.
Quote from: Jono2 on July 20, 2008, 10:03:02 AM
i played the original pandemic, but it wasn't too exciting.
This one is a lot more interesting.
This looks interesting. I'll play. :)
i couldn't infect canada, peru, brasil, or madagascar... i killed the rest of the planet though :P
Quote from: Jono2 on July 20, 2008, 12:07:09 PM
i couldn't infect canada, peru, brasil, or madagascar... i killed the rest of the planet though :P
The islands are the hardest to infect...
You want to make your disease deadly yet unnoticeable and able to infect water supplies, that way you can infect all the parts before they close themselves off.
well, that was 5 minutes of fun
I couldn't infect Japan or Madagascar. :(
Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on July 20, 2008, 03:01:44 PM
I couldn't infect Japan or Madagascar. :(
Pretty much the only ways to infect those two is if it starts there.
This time my disease is AIDS 2. I HAVE to win! :P
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on July 20, 2008, 03:05:22 PM
Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on July 20, 2008, 03:01:44 PM
I couldn't infect Japan or Madagascar. :(
Pretty much the only ways to infect those two is if it starts there.
I started in South America once and infected every region relatively fast, eventually having every single person in the world infected and not a single person dead. I gave up then because evolution points would take numerous hours to get enough of at the rate I was getting them.
Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on July 20, 2008, 03:13:58 PM
This time my disease is AIDS 2. I HAVE to win! :P
Except it's really not AIDS at all. "Sexual transmission" is not one of the things you can upgrade for methods of contracting.
Quote from: bluaki on July 20, 2008, 04:21:00 PM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on July 20, 2008, 03:05:22 PM
Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on July 20, 2008, 03:01:44 PM
I couldn't infect Japan or Madagascar. :(
Pretty much the only ways to infect those two is if it starts there.
I started in South America once and infected every region relatively fast, eventually having every single person in the world infected and not a single person dead. I gave up then because evolution points would take numerous hours to get enough of at the rate I was getting them.
Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on July 20, 2008, 03:13:58 PM
This time my disease is AIDS 2. I HAVE to win! :P
Except it's really not AIDS at all. "Sexual transmission" is not one of the things you can upgrade for methods of contracting.
I always assumed how that was the only way for the disease to spread before you chose waterborne or airborne.
I'll give it a shot.
Not really interested in the game, but I have felt like wiping out humanity more than once XD
I tried it, but couldnt infect 2 countries.
I dont like this game. Its generally dark and depressing if you think about it, even though its meant for entertainment purposes
The first time I played it my "Happy Fun Virus" go Japan almost right away, the second time it was the only one left
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on July 20, 2008, 03:05:22 PM
Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on July 20, 2008, 03:01:44 PM
I couldn't infect Japan or Madagascar. :(
Pretty much the only ways to infect those two is if it starts there.
mine started in north africa and got to japan almost right away (mice & insects were my first method of spread, next came water, which is when areas started getting infected). the middle-east was second, and south africa took forever to start, but when it did, everything else fell too...
the reason canada, peru & brasil were safe was because I did heat & drug-resistant to everything right away, and didn't bother with cold or wet. madagascar is an island, so naturally it was impossible to get once they shut their borders.
http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/jkf6Tr/pandemic2.swf
The ads annoyed me for the regular page. Here's a direct link to the swf.
Fuck Madagascar.
They closed down their Ports before my starting country even spotted the disease.
Quote from: Byte on July 21, 2008, 04:39:23 AM
f*** Madagascar.
They closed down their Ports before my starting country even spotted the disease.
They usually shut down their ports early for me, but not that early!
Same for Japan, they shut their borders to quick for me to get in. :(
Pandemic is alright, but as a student of microbiology, I can say that it's not remotely close to accurate. Not to mention that "Visibility" is ridiculously b0rked. Which defeats the entire point, because if one were to create a species-wiping virus, it would start out as an extremely durable pathogen with very minor symptoms, and then once spread to all 4 corners of the earth, suddenly kicks it up into high gear with necrosis, liver failure, kidney failure, hemorraging, and other nasty symptoms.
The countries in PanII are so ridiculously paranoid about any germ I make (oh my god it's a common cold with sneezing and fever as symptoms let's close our borders) that it defeats the purpose of trying to win at all.
Quote from: PsychoYoshi on July 21, 2008, 12:09:06 PM
Pandemic is alright, but as a student of microbiology, I can say that it's not remotely close to accurate. Not to mention that "Visibility" is ridiculously b0rked.
Of course it's not accurate, the governments of the world would NEVER react that quickly.
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on July 21, 2008, 12:11:33 PM
Quote from: PsychoYoshi on July 21, 2008, 12:09:06 PM
Pandemic is alright, but as a student of microbiology, I can say that it's not remotely close to accurate. Not to mention that "Visibility" is ridiculously b0rked.
Of course it's not accurate, the governments of the world would NEVER react that quickly.
Especially before the country that the virus started in actually noticed it.
Quote from: Byte on July 21, 2008, 12:12:34 PM
Especially before the country that the virus started in actually noticed it.
Not necessarily. If it started off in a third-world country, another country might notice it first if they have pathologists on the ground in those countries and they realize it's a new type of germ.
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on July 21, 2008, 12:11:33 PM
Quote from: PsychoYoshi on July 21, 2008, 12:09:06 PM
Pandemic is alright, but as a student of microbiology, I can say that it's not remotely close to accurate. Not to mention that "Visibility" is ridiculously b0rked.
Of course it's not accurate, the governments of the world would NEVER react that quickly.
Maybe they would if it started off like Ebola, but if symptoms started off as innocently as I described in my edited post, there's no way that they'd be extraordinarily worried. And from an evolutionary standpoint, Ebola is a terrible virus; it kills people too quickly to effectively spread beyond Africa. Speaking of evolutionary standpoints, PanII fails those criteria, too--pathogens aren't sentient and don't want to wipe out their entire host reservoir, because if the host dies out, so too will the pathogen unless it quickly adapts to a new host. The ideal pathogen wants to simply multiply as much as possible--the best way to do this is to have only minor symptoms (or severe symptoms that take several years to appear, a la HIV) so that the host will continue their normal actions and infect other organisms. Really, the common cold viruses are about as close as one gets to an ideal germ.
Yeah, the germs don't even act realistically.
Madagascar and Japan are too paranoid, they closed their borders before my disease even spread from its nation of origin. :|
Oh, and my diseases tend to start in one place, not kill anyone, spread to another country, and THEN kill someone there before it kills someone in the country of origin.
QuoteThe countries in PanII are so ridiculously paranoid about any germ I make (oh my god it's a common cold with sneezing and fever as symptoms let's close our borders) that it defeats the purpose of trying to win at all.
I know! I gave mine no symptoms and the countries were still shutting down their borders!
Only some of it.
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