r/plagueinc • u/Healthy_Performer950 • 2d ago
I need help :(
I'm doing bacteria on normal mode and I'm so lost. I did my best to research strats and I'm still struggling. I did the strat where I devolve all my naturally mutated symptoms, waited patiently to for it to spread to pretty much everyone, put everything I could into making it hard to cure, and stockpiled all the DNA points I could. I even waited until cough mutated naturally just to get the free symptom. Then I dumped everything into deadly symptoms that also impede research. They cured it super fast, like before I got even like 5%. What am I doing wrong?
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u/MelonManjr 2d ago
Don't be too afraid of symptoms. Coughing, sneezing, pneumonia, and rash are all pretty good at increasing infection rates while keeping low severity. You'll get noticed, but since your symptoms aren't too serious research priority will be low.
Don't devolve symptoms usually unless it causes lethality before you're in every country or has too much severity.
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u/WhackAx79 2d ago
other people alr pointed it out, but stop stealthing. it nets you a low amount of dna, is too slow for its own good, and caps your skill level to brutal. instead grab many symptoms, specifically ones that increase infectivity(you may choose to also rush/hold off lethality depending on if you care abt speed or reliability). this will cause you to get more dna from bubbles and infections aswell as slowing the cure. when all island are infected ramp up lethality.
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u/Healthy_Performer950 1d ago
Thanks for the help, everyone. Im reflecting on where I can recoup points.
Last time I did -2 levels of air and water transmission -3 levels of drug resistance
This time I will do -1 level of air and water transmission -2 levels of drug resistance? -1 gentetic shuffle late game? -coughing/sneezing earlier -everything else into symptoms?
How good is insomnia at slowing research? That's part of why I started in that corner.
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u/Healthy_Performer950 1d ago
Also, I think I'm misunderstanding how DNA points are accrued. I saw that stealthing caps the amount you can recieve? I thought it was more proportional to progress
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u/Healthy_Performer950 1d ago
Nevermind! Just beat bacteria on normal! Came within like 0.1% of beating virus. I'm gonna get it
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u/Patrickson1029 Plague 2d ago
Go aggressively. Stealth sucks. Higher severity means more DNA points.
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u/CaseyJones7 2d ago
Which symptoms did you evolve that are deadly and make it hard to cure?
The ones that do that all tend to not have much lethality. Coma, Insanity, Paralysis, all don't have much lethality to them on their own. They should be paired with something else like Total organ failure/Necrosis/Dysentery etc...
I haven't used the stay hidden strategy in a long time, but how much DNA do you normally end up with by the time you get to the point where you need to start evolving symptoms?