Hey guys I'm back from the US and caught up on all the work that was waiting for me! In the next few days - I am going to be working out the next moves on updates - i.e. do I release a minor update which adds breadcrumbs to NAZG + a few other things. Or do I package up a big new 1.6 update. Watch this space... I don't have the code in front of me to check at the moment but off the top of my head - because you don't have the ability to evolve paralysis - it is extremely, extremely hard to get a successful nuke off - the generals will almost always (99.9999%) stop it.
Welcome back James. Just a thought. You could give us a hint to NAZG via this forum and work on 1.6 The sequence of getting POTUS ill so fast in Necroa - was that co-incidence or an "easter egg"?
Welcome back! I hope your trip was exciting and you had a great time. Regarding NAZG... Just give us a hint. A small one. Then you can get back to work Also... Any hints about the next plague type? I don't expect you to answer this but i was just curious
Welcome back James, your commentary on this forum has been sorely missed. Let me congratulate you on your success at the pocket gamer awards. I hope this success will convince you to expand the ndemic team so that you can do much more with this great game! As far as nazg, I personally am not looking for a breadcrumb, however i'm likely a minority in this camp. After all this trouble it would be nice to get the solution on our own. With the plague enthusiasts on this forum, I think a breadcrumb would likely have us find the solution in no time. I would rather get some answers that would allow us to know where to focus our strategies. For example, your answer on potus allowed us to eliminate the nuke theory. A few more answers would help us out greatly. A simple yes or no would suffice. Should we obscure the disease (get people not to pay attention even if noticed)? Should we slow/stop the cure? Is origin start relevant? Can we go zombie mode and still solve nazg? Should we be thinking about something else altogether? I leave the response about how to help with Nazg upto you. Once again, welcome back!
Would be great if the game would act as the trailer presents it. "Genetic instability detected! Cure development on hold" rather than slow it a little.
Based on James's answer, I think Potus is likely code embedded in the game, hence why it appears in neurax and necroa. I don't think James thought much of it, otherwise he would have added a paralysis equivalent if it was meant to be solvable in those disease types. Personally I always assumed as much, however due to the fact we exhausted much of the logical choices, it was time to go illogical. I mean potus to create a world war? It was far fetched! Hell though it would be a sweet way to beat Nazg. I hope the real solution is a creative one!
So what is the general consensus on whether there is any special combo for NAZG or if it is simply a brilliant strategy but standard approach? From what I can tell from previous posts, including the folks who manipulated the game files to get it, it is the latter. Going off that assumption: has there been much experimentation with starting countries? I'm finding Japan, Indonesia. South Africa, and Brazil are great, oft-underrated origins.
I've tried most of them.. Including SE Asia,Philipines... Apparently people get cured even if in the cure menu it says "Currently available to 0% of the population"-Unrealistic I find it really disturbing. I mean come on.. It would take years for mankind to find a cure for something like that and even so,there would be people who would be interested in the virus abilities.
My understanding is a breadcrumb is a pop-up in the game. A hint is an answer on this forum. I favor hint.
There is no general consensus. However we have exhausted many theories. See post 2154 for where we are at. Slow/stop the cure and origin start are only theories not yet disproven. Given James has said solution not sniffable (meaning no pop-up), I'm betting against origin start. A standard approach will not work. That has been disproven. Not enough lethality or severity. We max out at 3.2b dead.
Thanks for the clarification from now on I will use the word hint only. Previous posts edited accordingly. Basically I would prefer a hint that would point me in the right direction of the NAZG journey verses update 1.6 but that is my own opinion, I will go with the majority. Lacking that for now, back to trying to crack Mkesaber's speed scores. Rivalry
H1N1 aka the Swine flu achievement - there is the pop up message about flu. H5N1 aka the bird flu which originated in China - nothing because it is widely listed on the web. The achievement is China, the method is make Spalin believe china started it ( that message is sniffable ) the means is bird 2 transmission. Of course it wasn't that easy back around page 80 ish of this forum, but it is obvious now I'm sure the same applies to NAZG, I know I'm going to slap my head at being so dumb when I find out the clue, because it will be so obvious. I thought people had edited files to hike the severity but still did not get the achievement.
Hehe good luck, challenge accepted. Likewise barring the hint, I'm playing speed too. Truth is, I can't even crack my own scores. I can't get within more than 5 days of any score, so my sense is that extreme luck (the random country infection factor) is needed to top them. The only other way is to find better strategies than ones I provided, as was the case with your worm transmission strategy.
Next plague Type?!? Check the News ingame saying: Script for Episode 7, cloning Mickey. I Thing its about white mice. :-D at next Type.
I just hope that for the next update, we can finally mix the cheats with the diseases. Having unlimited DNA would most definitely help with NAZG or even with other achievements. Or you could just make Necroa go zombie from the beginning and max all the symptoms and see what happens
I think this is actually a joke referring to Lucas Arts being bought by Disney and Disney producing the next 3 Star Wars movies. There is another news item that jokes about this but I can't remember the exact text.
