How to manage plagues?

About every half hour or so, a plague sweeps through the village. It costs 5 medicine to stop, which is crazy expensive. I cannot figure out how to possibly produce enough medicine to keep up with the plagues.

It almost doesn't matter because within two minutes of the plague passing, I'm almost back up to my current max (80).

So is it pointless to devote 100% of your efforts to medicine production?

It really kind of ruins the magic to just let everyone die, but the cost is so small compared to the cost of saving them.

a-dark-room

Best Answer

Agreed - I don't like this event either. It's not balanced and feels much too powerful. It was not part of the original game. It was added by a volunteer at some point.

I would vote to fix it by sending a pull request changing the number. Personally I'd remove the event entirely, but if the event only cost 1 medicine, that would at least be more balanced.

edit: Looks like the scenes are here:

https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom/blob/9e3874bc8ee1dffe7625015ab24b5131588a7251/script/events/outside.js#L94

'Sickness' and 'Plague'.

If you have more than 10 villagers, it takes 1 medicine to cure, or kills up to half your villagers. If you have more than 50 villagers, it takes 5 medicine to cure, or kills up to 90. ouch. Even if you do pay 5 medicine, it still kills 3-7.

I'd vote to lower the price to 1 in both cases, and/or delete 'Plague' entirely.