Bacteria and Sicknesses

[hhyyrylainen]

Here’s the existing thread on this topic:

Virus playthrough?

I was thinking, what if you could play as a virus instead of a cell, maybe as a special game mode, or something, but how it would work is you can chose to (instead of going mobile) infect other cells and control them, causing them to self destruct after a time, and instead of mutating movement, you could mutate more syringe types for infecting cells. Let me know what you think about it.

Viruses?

My English teacher has oddly mentioned Ebola every day for the last 3 days of being in her class whenever a kid coughs. I was thinking about that while checking my email and re-discovering the Thrive Community Forums. This got me thinking… Will viruses ever be a threat that players will encounter in the game? I’m not sure how tricky this would be to install but I know that it seems to me to be achievable.

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Viruses aren’t alive so if you played as them you would be basically playing an editor simulator + waiting simulator, which would be a totally different gameplay loop than the main Thrive gameplay loop. And as viruses aren’t technically alive, why should you be allowed to play as something that’s not alive?