HIV and noncommunicable diseases

[ashleygrof90]

Right. In the current version, countries (but not users) can change the course of the epidemic by closing their borders, etc. My background is in international relations and public administration, so I'm interested in the effects of policies and their implementation. In a noncommunicable diseases version, the player could decide to change gun control policies (in the case of violence), change the proportion of fast food restaurants in a geographic area (in the case of obesity), etc. Even for a version with an infectious disease like HIV it would be interesting to allow the player to make changes in policy or social areas like sex education in schools, legal status of same-sex relationships, criminalization/enforcement of laws against sex work, stigma, and so on.

(13-11-2015 05:42 AM)The Psycho Pathol Wrote:  Newcomer here as well, just joined. I only play on mobile ATM.

So do I understand correctly; what you are basically suggesting are plagues that must be influenced indirectly by altering the world in order to spread them? I think that sounds like a neat idea! It would certainly put a new gameplay "perspective" twist on Plague Inc.