Important to take "Base oxidization" trait which lets you mutate transmissions.
You intentionally begin in a rich country, which will heavily supress your spread.
While you wait around for people to get infected, your disease is evolving massive amounts of symptoms and diseases completely for free.
By the time it reaches other countries, it's already unstoppable.
This was on mega brutal
Spoilers ahead
This is going to be rambly, i just wanted to get my thoughts out there somewhere
I finished the game months ago, and it had an extremely profound effect on me, i don't think i have been the same ever since then.
I strongly remember during the last loop that i hesitated a lot before removing the warp core from the ATP. I understood that it was necessary to progress the story, but i also didn't want to do so, because i didn't want to die. I had my own space ship, music from friends, a beautiful solar system to travel around and look at, and a peaceful existence on timber hearth as the hatchling. Why choose to discard it? After hesitating for a few minutes while looking at the warp core, i inevitably decided to grab it.
I cried really hard during the ending and was in a depressed state for 2-3 days afterwards.
It feels like most days that have passed since then have been underscored by the clear understanding that i am temporary. But i don't want to be. It feels like instead of helping me accept death, the game just more heavily reinforced my fear of it. Just like in outer wilds, there's a lot of good stuff around. Despite the game's ending showing that the end gives birth to something new and beautiful, i don't want to accept that an end is inevitable
I've been listening a lot to the soundtrack too.
Basically title.
I wonder how many people choose to mine ore and transport the ore to their base, and then process it there, VS how many people choose to process the ore into plates directly within their mining outposts with electric furnaces, adding complexity but gaining more train throughput
I tried doing this in mega brutal, but it feels impossible. Even when successfully bypassing safety, you then get bottlenecked by the production.
I've tried every optimization i can think of, and the highest i could get it was 70% production before censorship and fake news had run out
Let me know what you think or ask any questions you might have
I really like the menders/pilgrims' heatsuits, and i also really like heatlamps. I tend to think about them a LOT, and thus i have a lot of mental reasoning of how and why they look and work as they do