For an established player like myself I find them frustrating and wasteful. Yes I do know what to do for each, I just don't want to waste the DNA, so one of those messages = a restart. Thus my suggestion to remove them, less restarts, less waste, less frustration = MORE FUN.
About my strategy I'm believing that because I'm only doing 3 into transmission that it will never give 5 biohazard "stars". But if all you care about is a fool proof strategy then stuck with it. Ill modify my strategy and see if I can't get a higher score
My definition of fun is different from yours. I consider fun having to work around obstacles, not shooting a disintegrating ray at them to make them go 'poof'. Then again, you are an established player and I am not... As a matter of fact, what is an established player exactly? Does it involve being an elitist and trying to grow your e-peen to surreal dimensions? If that's what it is, then I guess that I'm not an established player. I used to be like that once a long time ago, but then suddenly, my adolescence ended. Those were dark times...
I did a hybrid between your strategy and the "mutating horde" strategy we discussed a few pages back and got up to 110k. Only transmissions I took were zootonic shift, bird 1, and segmented genome. Didn't need much more once the symptom mutations started going. I'm wondering if the complexity score bonus is based on the sheer number of dna evolutions you have? That may be why the fast mutating one seems to get a good score? I'm not sure. I'll keep experimenting.
Response to celestus87 The developer asked for suggestions, I provided one. Lets leave it at that shall we, and agree to disagree, but carry on enjoying the game in our different ways.
New Necroa high score for me, 137k. Genes: Metabolic Jump (yes it means a lot of tapping but the extra DNA is good for the initial symptom push), Aerocyte, Dopamine Inhibitor, Darwinist, Extremophile Start in Saudi 1. Zootonic Shift 2. Bird 1 3. Segmented Genome 4. Cold 1 5. Drug Resistance 1 6. Cold 2 7. Stockpile DNA, maybe buy one of the symptoms on the right side so you can get lucky and get Cannibalism for free through mutations 8. When cure is at 20%, set playspeed to slow, start the Crazyname symptom strategy of getting everything on the lower righthand side 9. Get 1st horde ability only 10. Use the small hordes to infect remaining healthy countries 11. Continue getting as many symptoms on the bottom half as possible Late in the game you can upgrade the horde size if you want to try to finish Z-com bases off faster. As you can see below, things went fast enough that they didn't even get the cure.
Just got 144k with 75% cure using same strategy and doing gene reshuffle toward the end. Seems like there's some room to go even higher.
NAZG. Still no joy Hide/infect/wait from America, got to 5 billion (but every country was infected) before 1st mutation and discovery. Tried every transmission that was lethal (bats 2, birds 2, rats 2) then devolved "zoonitic shift" to avoid it's cure speed up. Added every lethal and cure slow symptom, achieved 100% infected. Even threw in bonus DNA from so I could gene shuffle. Best I have is 1 billion dead, at which point cure was 100% and curing the infected people. It was never going to be that easy. This achievement is IMHO not about going in the front door with lethality, but perhaps a sequence of events causes the world to nuke itself.
For anyone trying to do the combos, I discovered 4 of them. I'm also on the tracks of 3 of the remaining ones. Still have no idea regarding Boomer and Bath Time. [✔] Tank Combo (by King140196) [Bone Dysplasia] + [Anabolic Boost] [✔] Boomer Combo (by King140196) [Autothysis] + [Liquefactive Necrosis] [✔] Spitter Combo (by King140196) [Enhanced Sensory Integration] + [Naja Mortis] [✔] Runner Combo [Enhanced Motor Control] + [Engorged Quadriceps] [✔] Walking Contradiction Combo [Photophobia] + [Cathemeral Shift] [✔] Vampire Bat Combo [Bat II] + [Vampiric Hunger] [✔] Cranial Dispersion Combo (by King140196) [Cranial Elephantitis] + [Air III] [✔] Blood in the Air Combo [Delirium] + [Hyperosmia] [???] Bath Time Combo -Unknown-
Boomer Combo is [Autothysis] + [Liquefactive Necrosis] Bath Time Combo is [Autophagia] + [Polyphagia] + [Cannibalism] Tank Combo is [Anabolic Boost] + [Bone Dysplasia] Spitter Combo is [Naja Mortis] + [Enhanced Sensory Integration] I don't know about Cranial Dispersion, because it doesn't state the exact symptoms you need in the pop-up.
Interesting. Has anyone got Spalin with Necroa? I got the message about POTUS being sick but then I got cured before I could do anything. Not sure if there is some way of easily triggering it. I think you don't get it until you have symptoms and once you've got symptoms you'll be cured pretty quick. I'm assuming psychosis (and maybe delerium?) would be the equivalent of insanity. There's no paralysis but maybe coma if necessary? Although maybe she will just nuke Russia/China as before, but maybe there is some way of either getting her to go completely mental and nuke everyone, or start some kind of chain reaction where people start nuking each other in retaliation. Also, I still have no clue about Darkwater, Egypt and Chernobyl. Someone suggested maybe a starting country link - I did try Iraq to see if that would get me Darkwater (As I'm assuming it's a reference to Blackwater), but no luck so far. I might try Ukraine a few times to see if I can get anything for Chernobyl. No idea if this is the way to go though as the previous acheivements seemed to be available wherever you start.
I'm not sure why people have found contaminated package so difficult - it is dead easy if you know how. Probably quickest to start in Africa as you'll be using blood (poor) and mosquitos (hot) Devolve any mutations you get. - Anaemia - Haemophilia - Blood 1 - Insect 1 - Blood 2 - Insect 2 - Extreme Hematophagy Give it a moment and then you should get the pop-up. Job done. Seems to work every time. EDIT: After some further testing, I've found you can just get this with extreme hema, blood1+2 and insect 1+2, without any symptoms, but it took much longer for the pop-up box to come up, so I sitll recommend adding anaemia and haemophilia.
Well, my phone's lock button is spoiled, so I can't take a screenshot, but I can type the whole thing out. "Cranial Dispersion symptom combo: Cranial Elephantitis places brain under increased pressure. Heavy head wounds cause aerosoled brain matter to be rapidly ejected - increasing chance of contamination" [Cranial Elephantitis] is specifically mentioned. For symptoms, I had [Cranial Elephantitis] as well as its prerequisites. I had all the Transmissions, but only [Air 3] seems to be of any relation, it mentions aerosoled brain matter, I don't know if it's needed. Also, under Abilities, there is [Regenerative Bio-synthesis] in the Reanimate tree, "allow corpses with severe head wounds to be re-animated". I was using Reanimate at the time of the pop-up, so maybe it's [Cranial Elephantitis] + [Regenerative Bio-synthesis], then using Reanimate, reviving zombies with head wounds? I've gotten a message about a team going into or planning on going into the Giza pyramids or something like that 3 or 4 times, started in Egypt all those times, the developer mentioned something about origin achievements on page 115 of this thread, maybe that's what it means? Sadly Egypt always died out after I got that message, so I haven't really gotten anywhere with that. I was thinking it might have something to do with the [Mummification] ability, because pyramids, mummies, y'know! The It's a Trap! achievement says to wipe out the Giza expedition and the Revenge of Osiris achievement says to invalidate the knowledge of the pharoahs. Maybe if you don't wipe out the Giza expedition, they might find information inside that says how to cure the Necroa virus, then you prove them wrong by evolving a new ability or symptom?
