Horrible Event

[Bear Connors Paradiso]

I've just been pissed off this whole weekend because of this event due to the horrible choices the devs made this year.

Researching cure does nothing to help your nation - WHY??? This makes zero sense, at the very least stop new zombies from generating. At high levels slightly diminishing the zombie population!!

AFK to go to sleep with 1B (out of 12B) zombies - wake up with no attacks/cures and 8B of my citizens are dead and 4B are zombies. WTF??? Did they all just decide to kill themselves because of this terrible event??? In a region of hundreds of thousands of nations, it is just unrealistic to expect them to monitor every nation for increasing zombie count. Hell, I posted in our RMB many times during the event and still didn't get the time of day to be put on any sort of watch list.

USING CURES/MISSILES/HOARDS SHOULD INCREASE RESEARCH PERCENT. This is the part that blows my mind. What kind of fucking moron decides that the research level should depend of the region as a whole and only update once an hour?? At the absolute minimum, let us earn exp towards research by being active in the event. Then consider our nations population - more people = more research. Then toss on some bonuses (or hindrances) for our accomplishments in scientific advancement/military/healthcare/weaponization/whatever to increase the speed in which we research.

I think next year I'm just going to give Max Barry the finger and go do something else.

[Republic Of Varra]

I've just been pissed off this whole weekend because of this event due to the horrible choices the devs made this year.

Researching cure does nothing to help your nation - WHY??? This makes zero sense, at the very least stop new zombies from generating. At high levels slightly diminishing the zombie population!!

AFK to go to sleep with 1B (out of 12B) zombies - wake up with no attacks/cures and 8B of my citizens are dead and 4B are zombies. WTF??? Did they all just decide to kill themselves because of this terrible event??? In a region of hundreds of thousands of nations, it is just unrealistic to expect them to monitor every nation for increasing zombie count. Hell, I posted in our RMB many times during the event and still didn't get the time of day to be put on any sort of watch list.

USING CURES/MISSILES/HOARDS SHOULD INCREASE RESEARCH PERCENT. This is the part that blows my mind. What kind of fucking moron decides that the research level should depend of the region as a whole and only update once an hour?? At the absolute minimum, let us earn exp towards research by being active in the event. Then consider our nations population - more people = more research. Then toss on some bonuses (or hindrances) for our accomplishments in scientific advancement/military/healthcare/weaponization/whatever to increase the speed in which we research.

I think next year I'm just going to give Max Barry the finger and go do something else.

I... kind of have to agree. Last year, doing it yourself, you could cure yourself without killing anyone. Did the exact same this year, and my main nation is almost all dead. It seems this year the only way to get cured is from missiles, which ruins the whole concept of making a cure in the first place.

[Neutrality United]

I've just been pissed off this whole weekend because of this event due to the horrible choices the devs made this year.

Researching cure does nothing to help your nation - WHY??? This makes zero sense, at the very least stop new zombies from generating. At high levels slightly diminishing the zombie population!!

AFK to go to sleep with 1B (out of 12B) zombies - wake up with no attacks/cures and 8B of my citizens are dead and 4B are zombies. WTF??? Did they all just decide to kill themselves because of this terrible event??? In a region of hundreds of thousands of nations, it is just unrealistic to expect them to monitor every nation for increasing zombie count. Hell, I posted in our RMB many times during the event and still didn't get the time of day to be put on any sort of watch list.

USING CURES/MISSILES/HOARDS SHOULD INCREASE RESEARCH PERCENT. This is the part that blows my mind. What kind of fucking moron decides that the research level should depend of the region as a whole and only update once an hour?? At the absolute minimum, let us earn exp towards research by being active in the event. Then consider our nations population - more people = more research. Then toss on some bonuses (or hindrances) for our accomplishments in scientific advancement/military/healthcare/weaponization/whatever to increase the speed in which we research.

I think next year I'm just going to give Max Barry the finger and go do something else.

I... kind of have to agree. Last year, doing it yourself, you could cure yourself without killing anyone. Did the exact same this year, and my main nation is almost all dead. It seems this year the only way to get cured is from missiles, which ruins the whole concept of making a cure in the first place.

Same. I kind of thought that's what I was choosing when I picked cure. I didn't realize I'd be dependent on others to keep me alive, although my region has been keeping up with everyone really well, even us little guys. It'd be nice to be capable of curing yourself.

[House of Judah]

Wait wait wait, are you saying that noodniks that programmed this travesty somehow found a way to make an unfun event less fun? This just doesn't make sense. Surely they couldn't possibly have made it worse. /snark

[Jutsa]

Huh, that's odd...
we actually naturally healed over time, down to 0 and no deaths, after looking up a cure - and we didn't even kill anyone!

Admittedly we were hit by about 8 cure missiles or so, before it rose a fair bit again, but we seemed to be fine in the end...

Maybe that changes due to the population?
Plus, I did read that the zombies were supposedly getting smarter - maybe we just lucked out.

[Jersey Republic]

They nerfed the curing definitely, last year I could clear nations and millions of people with a moderate and fair speed, this year I would only get 1 million cured with a mk4 cure missile.

[St Salvador]

Weird my nation gradually cured it self over time. Though I do admit it was annoying curing 1 million people at a time.