DemonFiren wrote:I guess remove infected blood as vector, and it should be reasonably balanced?
Actually, I can't. Well, can and can't.
Can't - smart people can still spray/splash infected blood and infect people that walk near it.
Can - remove the virus causing blood vomiting.
Steelpoint wrote:So why is this virus so devastating? I know I've failed to play the game a lot recently but wouldn't people just put on their internals the moment the word "virus" was uttered into a radio?
Even if its a combination of Airborne and other transmissions like Blood you just need to exercise caution. If you run around without Internals, get infected, then die from it then you have no one to blame but yourself for being careless.
Blood splatters and blood vomiting cause mass infection since people run around in public during a pandemic and get themselves infected, rather than secluding themselves to safe environments.
Steelpoint wrote:What does consumption even mean? If its just there as a ggnore way of infecting everyone no matter what then I concede that.
If that's the case then remove the consumption portion and go from there.
DemonFiren wrote:As far as I know it means "you ingested something containing the virus". That is to say, it went directly into your body through your mouth and stomach.
Correct, consumption involves getting the vector into your body in some way. By food, drink, injection, blood donation, being shot by a infected dart/syringe.
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I think the biggest factor must be the blood vomiting, which causes landmines of infection in the form of blood splatters on the floor (which the janitor should be cleaning up. that's why he has a biosuit).
This quite accurately reflects the mass panic people have during a bioterror attack and reminds me of the corrupted blood incident in WoW. It's really interesting to see how a simple shout over the radio has most people (that are unaware of what actually do to) charge into public locations where they're more likely to be infected than to lock down their workplaces and create a containment plan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident