toxic stone
Hi! I really enjoy checking the survivors and I'd like to suggest some things to make it a bit less straightforward, plus some medical stuff.
First:
Make time before infected turns different based on severity of symptoms. It feels strange that people with no symptoms but infected gun in the backpack turn in same two days as a person with 43C temperature and necrosis all over the skin. Makes the game a bit less predictable and forces you to recheck people in quarantine more often.
Second:
Add Immune and Symptomless Carrier types of survivors. Very rarely, you can encounter a person covered in bites, goo, with a necklace of zombie ears, but completely healthy. When put in observation, these people show no symptoms developing at all. If a person is Symptomless Carrier (or Typhoid Mary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon , if you like), they do not turn, but infect every other survivor, so they must be separated from common people. You can have them shot (that would be easier), or you can have them living in a separate block and do jobs for you, like scavenging for resources (that option is profitable). Immune people do not turn and can't infect others, so they are the perfect people to repopulate the planet and their evacuation is #1 priority. The only direct way to distinct between these types are the syringes.
Third:
Give survivors with bad symptoms small chance of beating the infection. If put in quarantine, such person would show a positive dynamic in their symptoms, so the player is faced with a moral dilemma: shot infected on sight for safety and peace of mind or fight for everyone who could be saved.
Fourth:
Infected survivors who made it to block with healthy survivors do not turn same day, but at the same rate as in quarantine, and can infect others at random. So you would need to check survivors in block for symptoms to be sure everything is ok. Also, evacuating an Infected is punished by a giant fine.
Happy development and good luck!
