Start of the cure in multiplayer mode?

[Nightstalker]

Sorry but I can't understand how it works.

Start situation:
Me: I try to hide and infect as slower as I can
My opponent: spreads faster than me

After a while:
Me: as soon as I infect completely my starting country, the cure starts.
My opponent: has infected 70 million people, cure hasn't started yet.

Where's the trick?

[Borker]

Your opponent started in a country that is basically the world doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about. That means they have many symptoms and nobody would really care. You probably started in China, USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, ect. A single cough can break your cover if you infected the wrong countries.

[Nightstalker]

You mean that starting in a Third World country delays the start of the cure? That's a good point...I forgot how the game resembles real world. ;-)

[Borker]

Gyro Gearloose původně napsal:

You mean that starting in a Third World country delays the start of the cure? That's a good point...I forgot how the game resembles real world. ;-)

Yeah.
Ebola existed for quite the time. And Zika.
But once a wealthy country is infected, everyone loses their ♥♥♥♥. But remember, you will get discovered eventually.

[Nightstalker]

Mmm I've just tried it, unsuccesfully.
I started in Central Africa. My cure started when I infected all the country, at that time my opponent had infected 1.5 billion people and cure hadn't started yet...?

[Borker]

Gyro Gearloose původně napsal:

Mmm I've just tried it, unsuccesfully.
I started in Central Africa. My cure started when I infected all the country, at that time my opponent had infected 1.5 billion people and cure hadn't started yet...?

Did you evolve lethality?
Every single country freaks out if there is lethality.

[Nightstalker]

No lethality, but actually I moved to other countries. I thought that it was safe to move abroad if the "poor" country was the only one totally infected, but it is not. I assume that if I totally infect a poor countries, as soon as I start to infect a rich one, the cure starts.

[Borker]

Gyro Gearloose původně napsal:

No lethality, but actually I moved to other countries. I thought that it was safe to move abroad if the "poor" country was the only one totally infected, but it is not. I assume that if I totally infect a poor countries, as soon as I start to infect a rich one, the cure starts.

Every country has an importance meter. Africa is not cared about (Except Morocco and Algeria), but combined that number becomes pretty high.
West Africa has about 0.25
Morocco has about 0.75
East Africa is about 0.50

America is 1.50
Those 3 countries are more important to the world if combined.

[Nightstalker]

Thanks! Where have you got those values? Is there a manual or something?

[Borker]

Gyro Gearloose původně napsal:

Thanks! Where have you got those values? Is there a manual or something?

I tried to make a scenario. I looked at Africa's values and apparently: People don't care about Africa.