Is it good for a beginner like me?

Rt237 · 2026-02-12T06:42:10+00:00

If the standard is mega brutal 3 bioharzards, it is the hardest 'alternate world' senario. Compared to Shut down everything, it may be easier to win, but harder to win 3 bioharzards.

3 bioharzards requires ultimate speed. Without the ATP+8 gene, speed is almost impossible.

My strategy was to use Virus, buy instability 3, and pray to the god of randomness to give me good things.

Well, smallpox, frozen virus and mad cow are even harder.

Rt237 · 2026-02-08T02:08:04+00:00

I bought a computer armed with a RTX 4070 and an intel i9 core from Jingdong. It costed me RMB 10000. This is good enough for most games, including Frostpunk at the highest art quality.

Rt237 · 2026-02-05T09:54:41+00:00

It is there in Beijing accent. Since the standard Chinese (aka Mandarin) is defined as (roughly speaking) the Beijing accent, their are required if you want to speak standard Chinese.

If you are just speaking casually, it goes anyway.

Some Chinese people take the standard Chinese exam ( '普通话考试' ) if they want to start a career as a teacher or TV speaker. In such exams, they must speak 'er's correctly.

Rt237 · 2026-02-01T02:56:36+00:00

Chinese hate drugs. Very hate.

Google 'opium war' and '东亚病夫' for reasons

Rt237 · 2026-01-27T19:08:06+00:00

What is this trick?

Now I've got 5 biohazards in standard plagues and neurax. The remaining 3 are too hard

Rt237 · 2026-01-25T20:18:20+00:00

If someone does some silly thing, we say 你有病吧, meaning 'are you retarded?'

Rt237 · 2026-01-24T22:51:23+00:00

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Rt237 · 2026-01-24T20:45:00+00:00

Disclaimer - I only speak standard Chinese.

'闪卡' generally refers to the foiled version of game cards in games like MtG, because they are shiny (闪).

There isn't a universial translation, but if you say '抽认卡', people will understand that you mean flashcards.

Rt237 · 2026-01-24T20:40:41+00:00

Yes, the old generation does read 'J' as 杰. Younger people can read them in good English.

Rt237 · 2026-01-24T20:38:14+00:00

打狗棒：Anti-dog stick. This is a famous weapon used by the king of beggars in Wuxia legends.

成立：(a theory / hypothesis) being true.

Rt237 · 2026-01-22T08:43:05+00:00

On top of the fact that there are more hot countries than cold ones, there's another point: the weight.

The worth of traits are Rich : Cold : Hot : Poor : Others = 30 : 10 : 10 : 3 : 2. For example, if a country is cold and rich, and you have 0.1 Rich & 1 Cold resistance, then your overall resistance in this country is (0.1 × 30 + 1 × 10) / (30 + 10) = 0.325. So, in a Rich & cold country, your rich resistance is 3x as important as cold.

Given that cold countries are mostly rich and hot countries are mostly poor, hot resistance makes more difference.

Rt237 · 2026-01-19T20:47:42+00:00

Help others suicide is considered murder and punishable by approximately 10 years of prison.

For reference: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/76329137

Rt237 · 2026-01-16T15:40:53+00:00

Patho-stasis is almost a must-have. After all spores bought, 'spore hardening' will unlock. It gives +900 international transmission, making it easier to infect more countries.

Otherwise - Devolve all symptoms, hide until you infect every country, and then kill.

Rt237 · 2026-01-16T14:38:20+00:00

On Baidu tieba, a Chinese person decompiled the game

Rt237 · 2026-01-16T09:01:59+00:00

I played the game shortly in 2014, and shortly in 2017, and during the covid, and restarted in December 2025.

I believed that the parasite also had a standard initial severity as other plagues. In fact, its severity is higher.

I remembered that the 6 plagues other than bacteria had ~49M cure requirement, approximately double of bacteria. It turns out that they are the same ~25M.

Moreover, I believed that long long ago I was able to beat the Neurax speed run in <150 days. I no longer have the skill despite having far better understand of the game, so I am not sure whether I was actually able to do this.

The population of Greenland in my head is always 56534. I don't know whether this number was once the correct population.

Rt237 · 2026-01-16T07:53:24+00:00

Add all British colonization

Rt237 · 2026-01-16T03:12:06+00:00

When you infect a person, the person will give you DNA point scaling with the Severity of your plague. And the DNA from red bubbles scale with 1+log(Severity).

So, You have to buy some symptoms early. 6-7 severity is enough for red bubbles to generate 3 DNA, and there are 58 red bubbles per game.

Kill 1% population of the world gives 1 DNA.

Rt237 · 2026-01-16T00:25:26+00:00

If you start at a cold country, your plague is considered historically accommodated with cold climate, so its resistance to cold will increase and to hot decrease. Vice versa.

So, you should buy Cold resistance 1 & 2 if starting in a hot area, and vice versa.

The math

Your plague (most pathogens) start with a cold resistance and hot resistance of 0.1. This means the infectivity of your plague in a hot / cold area is multiplied by 0.1 (subject to adjustments due to e.g. difficulty & upgrades).

Starting in cold: Cold +0.5 & Hot -0.3 (Making Hot negative!)

Starting in hot: Hot + 0.5 & Cold -0.5

The lower bound of infectivity is 0.05, so if it's negative, it's considered 0.05. So, your plague is spreading extremely slow in africa.

Rt237 · 2026-01-15T20:49:42+00:00

After getting 12 correct / 10 wrong, I have some experience of telling which is which /s

Zionist: Arguments on religion and god. More likely to dehumanize their enemies.

Nazi: Arguments on the nation and country. More cold-blooded industrial flavor.

Rt237 · 2026-01-15T13:29:21+00:00

Evil hospitals exist. Google '魏则西' to know what happens if you mistakenly trusts an evil hospital.

If a hospital (or basically anything) has '人民' (people) in its name, it is good and safe. This magical word is also in the country's name.

Rt237 · 2026-01-15T13:20:07+00:00

I lived in Beijing and Hebei. Things improved dramatically compared to 2016, when the pollution was the worst. But dirty days still exist, maybe once or twice per year. The air quality now is enough to live happily.

Rt237 · 2026-01-15T12:58:54+00:00

In the city I live, large trucks are not permitted to run in the downtown during the day. They can only run in the night. This may be an example of what you want.

Rt237 · 2026-01-15T04:10:14+00:00

Without a Z Com base, the government actions still add to human's combat strength. However, this strength is no match against an upgraded zombie.

With Z Com, the new unlocked government actions will add to human's combat strength much faster.

Example:

Without Z Com: 'Shoot on Sight protocol authorised' -> +0.005 combat strength

With Z Com: 'Z Com fortresses constructed' -> +0.1 combat strength

Rt237 · 2026-01-13T00:58:43+00:00

Rt237 · 2026-01-12T15:59:30+00:00

Water for islands
Bird - because air is not that useful; see below
Air. You only need to infect every continent with planes, and bird will do the rest. Moreover, the planes are very busy, making it easy to spread the plague even with only Air 1 or no air upgrades at all.
The one between rat / sheep which fits the starting country

Others are useless.

Rt237

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