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I think the main problem with those Fight Fantasy gamebooks on iOS is that you can’t cheat. I could never be bothered actually rolling the dice to fight monsters in the original books, and I definitely can’t be bothered rolling pretend dice now.

Also, you can’t stick your finger in the book as a kind of primitive save game.

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Christ, I'm playing on Normal!I can kill 99.9% of the global population with my Funguses but there's always isolated areas like New Zealand or Canada that have some uninfected remaining and then the cure comes along.

Christ, I'm playing on Normal!I can kill 99.9% of the global population with my Funguses but there's always isolated areas like New Zealand or Canada that have some uninfected remaining and then the cure comes along.

Level 3 (Fungus) is the hardest level really - especially on Brutal as you might expect.

Plague inc fungus spoiler:

Fungus is probably the easiest of all the levels when you've spotted the 'trick', basically, devolve any mutations that cause severity or fatality, and just work on the infection rate (air and water mostly) the aim is to get to 100% infected without even being noticed by the WHO, you can use the spore bursts to help jump into new countries... Keep banking the DNA points and then when you've infected everyone, devolve all the infection stuff (on normal anyway, don't on brutal) and plough it into lethal things, (and anything that aids mutation)....

Once you've learnt this tactic it works on some of the other levels too, virus is by far the hardest IMHO, still it sorted that one...

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Davros sock drawer

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You bastards, after seeing Happy Street mentioned countless times in this thread I downloaded it, expecting to delete in minutes. I spent the full weekend clicking on cars, restocking shops, making birds poo, cooking and crafting required potions and goods, and obsessing how soon I could upgrade my buildings.

It is all hopelessly pointless, and although it rips off animal crossing in many ways, you cant help but fall for its charm.

I think for my own sanity though I will need to limit its time on my phone to around a week. My GF is already getting p*ssed off looking up and catching me doing another quick couple of minutes of management with my villagers.

It's a wonderful game, my gf is level 29 now and her street has robots and all sorts. Wish I hadn't lost my street. :(

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It's working fine for me. Just connected to it now.

But listen, that's not what why we wanted to talk to you. It's okay. Sit down. You're amongst friends. Mostly.

It's this Happy Street thing. It's getting out of control. You know it. Your girlfriend knows it. Everybody knows it. It won't be long before you're setting your alarm to wake up in the middle of the night- just to check on 'your town'. Hygiene's the next to go. Showering, shaving... you're a God. God's have more important things to do. Before long even food's a distraction. You'll be a sweating, shivering husk of a man, mumbling about the need for more flooz and how 'if you have more than one bus stop you can totally get heart points every five minutes...'.

Do the right thing. Press that little icon until it shivers. Whisper a quiet prayer and press x to send it's on it's way. To a happier place.

Nobody's judging you. Much. We just want you to be okay.

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Christ, I'm playing on Normal!I can kill 99.9% of the global population with my Funguses but there's always isolated areas like New Zealand or Canada that have some uninfected remaining and then the cure comes along.

Here's some tips:

1) Start your fungus in Madagascar or Iceland.

2) Upgrade air and sea transmission abilities to max asap.

3) At the same time increase cold and heat resistance by 1&2 notches respectively, depending on your original country of origin

4) MOST IMPORTANT: Keep devolving your fungus the instant it mutates, so that it has no abilities, until you are up to at least 98% infection rates. As soon as you hit that target, evolve to lethal by fastest route.

5) An odd country unaffected is not a problem with fungus, as if you upgrade the spore drop or whatever it's called, you will automatically infect available countries. If you've only a couple left, you're sorted.

Now, with a fair wind (see what I did there?) you can crack it!

EDIT: Ah, I see Strangelite hinted at some of this too.

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I know full well that this has been answered ad infinitum in this thread already, but bear with me. I just got a new iPad 3 and while I'm pretty up to date with iPhone specific games of late, what are some games the iPad really shines at? I've had my eye on Elder Signs: Omens HD for months now, and I'll end up rebuying things like Bad Piggies no doubt, but any other suggestions gratefully received. I'd especially like strategy games - is Total War Battles any good?

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Some strategy games...mostly got iPad specific things.

Call of Cthulhu - Wasted Lands

CivRev

Combat Mission

Dungeon Village (heh)

Great Little/Big Wargame

Kingdom Rush HD

Magnetic Billiards needs to be mentioned anyway

Neuroshima Hex

Outwitters

Rebuild

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I don't think anyone has mentioned that Terry Cavanagh's Don't Look Back just came out on iOS (and I think Android) this week? Free, short but very clever little microgame.

It's utterly horrific to play without proper controls though, especially on an ipad

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I know full well that this has been answered ad infinitum in this thread already, but bear with me. I just got a new iPad 3 and while I'm pretty up to date with iPhone specific games of late, what are some games the iPad really shines at? I've had my eye on Elder Signs: Omens HD for months now, and I'll end up rebuying things like Bad Piggies no doubt, but any other suggestions gratefully received. I'd especially like strategy games - is Total War Battles any good?

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You bastards, after seeing Happy Street mentioned countless times in this thread I downloaded it, expecting to delete in minutes. I spent the full weekend clicking on cars, restocking shops, making birds poo, cooking and crafting required potions and goods, and obsessing how soon I could upgrade my buildings.

It is all hopelessly pointless, and although it rips off animal crossing in many ways, you cant help but fall for its charm.

I think for my own sanity though I will need to limit its time on my phone to around a week. My GF is already getting p*ssed off looking up and catching me doing another quick couple of minutes of management with my villagers.

Guys, its fine, I have moved on.

I am now mainly smashing rocks and cooking different colours of dye!

like an obsessed fucking maniac.

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Distinct muttering

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Yeah, I really regret downloading it. I was only able to knock my tiny tower addiction on the head as I lost my phone and the last backup I had done meant I lost weeks of work on it.

I hope I don’t need to sacrifice another phone for me to get over this latest addiction!

The ray of light is that I am finding the crafting/cooking times to be a bit too long (they could be doing with reducing everything by 50% imo), and thankfully I refuse to do any IAP so this might p*ss me off to the point of deleting it.

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