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[balon!]

www.addictinggames.com/doodledefender.html

One of the greatest games of all time. It's basically asteroids, but you can DRAW you're OWN SHIP. It's AWESOME.

[[Syl]]

I am aware of all internet traditions

[Chrysalis]

English gone slightly wrong in translation:

www.engrish.com/category_index.php?category=CHINGLISH

[magickmaker17]

haha! I love that website!

[Chrysalis]

Garden gnome...the norm...now comes the Garden Zombie:
www.ohgizmo.com/2008/07/08/replace-that ... en-zombie/

[Damelon]

Pro wrestling, a sport where fans participate:

www.break.com/index/wrestlers-need-a-ch ... iverb.html

[CovenantJr]

This is proving surprisingly addictive. Getting a wide enough spread before people develop the vaccine is my main stumbling block.

EDIT: Ha! Success! I managed to hit everywhere but Madagascar and Cuba. Now I just need to stop them curing the thing...

[magickmaker17]

haha, you're right, it is addictive. I've just started playing it. I'm playing the easier version first to get a feel for it. We'll see how it goes...

[CovenantJr]

I'm playing the easy one too, and it's hard enough for me at the moment.

Also, be careful not to accidentally click on the banner just below the map. It'll finish your game. I've done it in four consecutive games this evening.

[magickmaker17]

I'm playing the easy one too, and it's hard enough for me at the moment.

Also, be careful not to accidentally click on the banner just below the map. It'll finish your game. I've done it in four consecutive games this evening.

yes, I did that on my first game. I've found a way to avoid that though, I scroll down just far enough so I can see the whole game window, but I can't see any of the banner below that. Ergo, I can't click on in accidentally.
I'm playing a game in the hard version right now. I've managed to infect everywhere but Greenland, Madagascar, and New Zealand. And the bloody vaccine worked, so there'll be people left alive in about half the infected countries as well. bummer.
I'm using the middle type of virus, and I've found that the trick with that particular type(this may hold true for all of them, we'll see...) is to not add any symptoms, to first work on getting the disease to spread. Because its when people start dying that other countries close up their borders really quick.

[CovenantJr]

That's become my strategy too. To hit as many regions as possible as quickly as possible, then come in with the heavy-duty symptoms. I seem to have the most success with parasites. Must suit my playing style or something.

[I'm Murrin]

I exterminated all life on earth.

Took quite a few tries. Key is to go low visibility--first thing I do is remove my only symptom, then I add in the transmission methods as I can. After that, fill in some resistances, and wait. Takes a bit of luck to hit all the regions before they close up. Once they start developing vaccine, start adding high-transmission symptoms while keeping it non-lethal (coughing, sneezing, vomiting, etc) then ramp it up as much as it takes to shut down the hospitals. I had 100% infection long before I got the hospitals down, so it doesn't matter so much then. I think I was using Virus that time, though I usually went Parasite for the low visibility.
The main stumbling blocks seem to be hitting Madagscar before it closes, and getting the last couple of hospitals shut in time.

Also, it's very fun buying Fatigue, Hypersensitivity or Fever late in the game and immediately seeing a whole list of "first death reported" go flying past, hehe.


Edit: and the very next attempt I infect the entirety of mainland Asia, Europe and Africa and nothing else. Vaccine developed in record time. Gah.

[magickmaker17]

one thing I've done(I don't know if it does any good or not...)is to wait until the vaccine is developed, and they're shipping it out, and then to buy the next level of drug resistance right away.

[I'm Murrin]

The only difference I've noticed between Realistic and Relaxed mode, by the way, is that Realistic mode takes longer to get the first 100 infections. There's no difference in symptoms available, or as far as I can tell the spread of the disease once it gets past that first difficult bit.

[aliantha]

So...none of you is a terrorist, right?

I mean, I can vouch for Magickmaker. I think.

[CovenantJr]

The only difference I've noticed between Realistic and Relaxed mode, by the way, is that Realistic mode takes longer to get the first 100 infections. There's no difference in symptoms available, or as far as I can tell the spread of the disease once it gets past that first difficult bit.

You occasionally get different traits in Realistic mode; for instance, I got Bloody Vomit on one occasion, which makes the Vomiting symptom more visible but also more dangerous.

[I'm Murrin]

I guess I don't see many of those because I spend the majority of the time with no symptoms, heh. (Funny the lengths these coutries go to to combat a symptomless disease, eh?)

[I'm Murrin]

Getting sick of this: Shut down all hospitals, and got 100% infection rate everywhere--except Madagascar, which has 0 infected and is the only palce with healthy people in the world. They haven't even closed their borders, but I still can't get the disease across.

[Avatar]

Damn you.

Oh, I just got bloody vomiting on relaxed. *shrug* Great tips Murrin.

--A

[Sorus]

I am not even going to try this, because I can see it's the kind of thing I could get addicted to.

On a side note, wandering into this conversation by clicking the 'view latest post' tab was a little disconcerting.