Plague cure - easy way to make money

I dont share it, it often cripples a couple of opponents, which makes them very very easy to take over in a year or two.

Let them rot.

I understand that that "bug" has been fixed in TA.

Now the AI considers it a "100" priority.

Does anyone know the rate at which a population decreases if a cure isn't researched?

Even if it's a 100% priority, in my last game it took ages for the AI to research it. It didn't even bother to put 100% spending on research. Industry didn't even take a drop on the graphs until way after when half the population was dead.

Ya. The plague that wipes out abilities is still hard to deal with without decommisioning ships.

If you don't research it in that first turn, it can be very painfull. I've had a few games where the AIs never recovered. (and they didn't even try to research the cure)

It actually ruined those games...

For me who cares about the money... Let em rot as some one above said....

"let them rot"

...But you guys are just exploiting a bug/poor programming.

Any reasonable race would research a cure ASAP if droves of their population were dropping dead in the streets.

In TA, that bug will be fixed, so a new approach will have to be considered.

I like the money option.

Maybe not the evil ones...

Yep, even the evil ones.

Each dead citizen could have been a potential soldier used in the evil races expansion plans.

I got the loss of ability plague once. it really surprised me what i saw my numbers do. It was pretty cool, my income was like -3000, my moral was 1% (not a typo) on almost all of my planets, all of my higher end ships where gone from the starbase list (as if they forgot some of the tech needed to build them). Luckily my research ability was high enough to get the cure in one week.

It was very late game and i controlled about 99% of the galaxy with only the Korath remaining. I checked and it was going to take them 51 weeks to get the cure (still good that they were researching it in the first place, smart AI). So they were all but useless. The best part was when my transports got to their planets; their soldiering was about 0. And their moral was around 30%. So using information warfare, for free with the evil improvemnet builing i had, i actually ended the invasion with MORE people that i had on the transposts. It was good clean fun. Surrender came soon after.


With the population plague, i do sell it but i wait,,, and wait ... and wait... then i let my mini-soldiers deliver the cure. Ok i do sell it to some but only fter they lose a lot of people.

In a tough TA no tech trade game, I had both plagues happen once, practically back to back too. I only had the cure for the killer version a few weeks before the ablity one hit.

I believe the drengin must have been researching something huge (or the conquests they were undertaking left them recovering from massive debt) cause they never got either cure. It was funny to see them go from gobbling several Civs up to only having a bit over 500 million on each of their worlds.