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It has an airport and two sea ports. I'm pretty sure it has boats to the UK, the US, south america, Australia, and some asian islands. As well as direct last access to africa as to spread fast there.
I alternate between air and water upgrades, with air first as Egypt is arid.
So the starting location...
In single player mode : Saudi Arabia
In coop (normal playing) : China for the killer (with bio weapon or fungus) ; Turkey for the support (with parasite & urbophobe gene)
In coop (world record playing) : Libya for the killer (with fungus) ; Turkey for the support (with parasite & urbophobe gene)
In VS :
1) NEVER start in China or India (a very good player would be able to eradicate you in a few seconds / minutes)
2) For infecting strategy : Libya
3) For curing strategy : Sweden, Japan, New Zealand...
Egypt has 2 harbors because the developers had to, as Egypt is on 2 oceans.
But if you look into the scenario editor, you will see that the links from Egypt are mostly not to key countries. It provides many connexions, but rarely the problematic ones.
And it's not good to start in a poor country.
Why is it not good to start in poor countries? I'd assume it's easier to spread early and I don't need to buy meds right away.
When you start somewhere, you get a bonus on every characteristic of the country, and also a penalty over their contrary.
Starting in Egypt gives you a bonus over poor countries (that is not really important as they are weak countries) and a penalty in rich countries (that is a much bigger issue, as they are harder countries).
Egypt has an airport, but the traffic is very extensive. The flights are frequent enough only to South Africa, but by boat Egypt gives South Africa even much faster.
So when you start in Egypt, there is almost nothing to win at paying for air transmission.
Harbors have more intensive activity in Egypt, but they go to :
- India : India can send boats to Australia and New Guinea, but these boats are quite rare (25 days between each in average), and India is usually very long to infect. Also India is wet, and by starting in Egypt you have a penalty in wet countries.
- Saudi Arabia : can send boats to Madagascar, but these boats are quite rare, and South Africa will very probably have taken Madagascar before.
- South Africa : can give Madagascar quite efficiently.
- Spain : Absolutly nothing, spanish harbor only send boats to Egypt.
- United Kingdom : can send boats to Iceland BUT as it is rich, wet and cold, whereas Egypt is poor, arid and hot, it will be extremely long and hard to spread in it, then it will hardly provide Iceland, or very late in the game.
- USA : can send boats to Caraibean, but as the USA are rich and Egypt poor, it will be long to spread in the USA because of the penalty over rich countries. So caraibean will probably be taken very late.
So if we list all the islands :
* Greenland is critical : no way to get it in 2 steps, and its only connexions are Norway (3 penalties : rich, cold, wet) and Russia (2 penalties : cold, wet)
* Philippines is critical : no way to get it in 2 steps, but still probably less critical than Greenland.
* Iceland is critical : the only way to get it in 2 steps needs to infect a country (UK) with 3 penalties (rich, wet, cold) what will be extremely long. And the only other entry also needs to infect a country (Norway) with the same 3 penalties.
* Caraibean is not easy to take, as the 2 step way passes by the USA, that will be long to infect because of the penalty in rich countries.
* New Guinea is not easy to take, as the 2 step way passes by India, that is usually long to infect, and the boats from India to New Guinea are not frequent.
* New Zealand is critical by boats (3 steps), so that air transmission will be necessary to take it by plane from Saudi Arabia.
* Australia can be taken in 2 steps by South Africa
* Madagascar can be taken in 2 steps by South Africa
Also the whole South American continent is long to get in, has it takes 2 steps to go in Brazil from South Africa (the fastest way).
Also their is no connexion from Egypt to northern Europe, except from UK that is a 3 penalty country to infect.
CONCLUSION :
Starting in Egypt is a bad choice.
I don't understand what you mean.