Just as an FYI (lost the user's post to reply to). The Osaka Flu character-cloud in your town does not infect tourists walking around in your town. Watched it meet with a couple tourists and nothing happened.
No, severity increases with the number of pins (shields) that you tap in your own town. I was infected this AM. I visited towns and tapped. Nothing on severity increase. Eventually those people came back to my town and tapped 3 buidlings and left pins (shields). THEN I tapped those and my severity increased one tick with each shield. EVERY pin shield at that point so far tapped from a neighbor visit increases my severity.
OK so I'm thinking...perhaps we don't do anything to spread it. Like hit a button or something. Maybe it's spread by the frequency of neighbor visits. Like the more neighbors you visit/visit you, the faster the numbers of infected rise. Random...everyone is not guaranteed to give the infection, but the higher the number of neighbor visits, the better your chances.
Did I state that clearly? If so, what does everyone else think?
Here's my guess - the higher your severity, the more contagious you are and the more people you can infect. So, you can probably still spread it at a lower severity, but you will not infect as many of your neighbours.
Also, once you have gotten the flu - I think the severity might increase with the amount of tourists you clear in your town (not sure if tapping buildings in neighbours towns increases it - haven't gotten to today's neighbours visits).
Not sure if I have gotten that right. But I think it sounds somewhat logical.
Yes - I was wrong about the tapping tourists in my own town increasing the severity. I checked and it does seem that clearing the pins left by neighbours increased the severity
Just as an FYI (lost the user's post to reply to). The Osaka Flu character-cloud in your town does not infect tourists walking around in your town. Watched it meet with a couple tourists and nothing happened.
Just as an FYI (lost the user's post to reply to). The Osaka Flu character-cloud in your town does not infect tourists walking around in your town. Watched it meet with a couple tourists and nothing happened.
Thanks
Curious.
I watched that happen as well but it actually does. Just not very often. I had a tourist infected earlier today. When I tapped him I got extra pins.
Still nothing. This seems like a massive balls up on EA's part. Surely they can't expect every player to rely on their neighbours to activate part of the event.
Edit: I have no effin' clue how to add a pic from my iPhone.
Anyway - I received +1 Osaka flu as well as the 1 skycredit. This added to the tally on the germ map
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So we learn a hard lesson here don't visit neighbors this way you won't become a zombie.
This is nuts.. I have done two full days of neighbor visits and NADA!
I blame getting blood in the UK during the Mad cow scare. damn it.
2.39% of the world is infected by the Osaka Flu
Yes - I was wrong about the tapping tourists in my own town increasing the severity. I checked and it does seem that clearing the pins left by neighbours increased the severity
Curious.
I watched that happen as well but it actually does. Just not very often. I had a tourist infected earlier today. When I tapped him I got extra pins.
Town name DigitalBaggins
It begins!
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Edit: I have no effin' clue how to add a pic from my iPhone.
Anyway - I received +1 Osaka flu as well as the 1 skycredit. This added to the tally on the germ map