Welcome to another Tinto Talks, the Happy Wednesday where we discuss details from our secret upcoming top secret game with the codename of Project Caesar.
This week we will talk about our disease system.
This is the tooltip of an outbreak together with the spread...
We have 2 types of diseases, environmental, which does not spread through movement of trade nor movement of people, and those that spread. A disease does not just infect the pops in a location, but can also infect armies.
Each disease has many different attributes, all of which can be complex calculations, and this is a very flexible system entirely modeled through script.
When diseases are present in a location, the resistance to it builds up, making further outbreaks less effective. Pops, locations and sub units can have resistances. So if pops move around they can bring diseases they have with them that they themselves are immune to. Likewise, a unit carrying disease may spread it to any locations it travels through.
There is a big Smallpox outbreak here in Saint-Marcellin, but the resistance is already nice.
So let's take a detailed look at the different diseases we have.
Bubonic Plague
With the default options, this will happen in 1346, start somewhere in Central Asia, and spread throughout the Old World.
It spreads relatively quickly and the mortality rate for pops is between 30% to 60%.
A great pestilence that sweeps through busy trade routes, sparing neither low nor high. Those infected suffer black swellings in the groin and armpits, terrible fever, and death. Some believe it is carried by the vermin that scurry in our streets and fields, spreading foul sickness from one poor soul to another.
Great Pestilence
This will spawn in the New World whenever someone from the Old World colonizes a location, and spreads from there. It represents the collection of diseases that the European colonizers brought to the Americas. It can and will spawn at multiple places. It doesn’t impact pops from the Old World as they are immune to most of these.
This has a gigantic mortality effect, killing between 75% to 90% of all pops.
Terrible news reaches us from abroad. Misery and plague sweep the lands, and death runs with them, apparently brought by mysterious bearded foreigners. This plague is not something our elders have ever heard of, and no answers in our ancestors' memories could help us face the catastrophe if it reaches our settlements. Will our people perish, or will we somehow resist when this walking death reaches us?
Malaria
This is an environmental disease that is pretty much permanent in most Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the local people have limited resistance to it, but any colonizers from abroad will die.
There will be regular outbreaks that can kill 10% to 20% of the pops that do not have resistance in a location.
The ancient bane of humankind, Malaria, is an infectious disease transmitted from person to person by the bite of an infected mosquito. This illness produces chills, headaches, sweating, and a very intense fever that repeats every three to four days.
Typhus
Outbreaks will appear in the areas of the old world where one of the three types of Typhus are endemic. It will also spawn in forest, woods or jungle locations, spreading from there.
It spreads relatively slowly, but the mortality is between 4% to 40%.
This deathly sickness creates on those stricken by it a great deal of fever, a big red rash that might extend over the entire body, and a confusion of the mind that might get worse, to the point of full-on delirium. Those poor souls that reach that point would develop gangrenous lesions and invariably die
Influenza
This will spawn during winter and spread in a relatively short period of time. It will not appear in the Americas until the Great Pestilence has ravaged the continent fully.
This kills off on average about 1 in 1000 people, so it is not the most lethal of diseases.
Known by the common folk as the Flu, it is a widely spread sickness with usually mild symptoms like a runny nose or a fever in healthy individuals, but that might be extremely dangerous for those that are too young or too old or already weakened by injury or another malady.
Measles
This will spawn in most locations around the world, and it's far more likely to spread in towns or cities.It will not appear in the Americas until the Great Pestilence has ravaged the continent fully.
It is a bit more deadly than Influenza, but about 2 in 1000 people will die from it.
Measles, also known as morbili, rubeola, and red measles, is a plague that spreads extremely fast from person to person, causing fever, coughs, sneezes, and a great flat rash that eventually covers the entire body. It preys most eagerly on children, who are at great risk of death if they fall on its claws.
Smallpox
This keeps spawning in most locations around the world, but not in arid or arctic climates. It will spread in a small region and is highly contagious. It's far more likely to spread in locations with a lot of trade.It will not appear in the Americas until the Great Pestilence has ravaged the continent fully.
The mortality is between 5% and 30%, so an outbreak where there is low resistance can be deadly.
Smallpox is a terrible disease that produces on the sad victim fever, vomits, and finally an enormous amount of liquid-filled blisters that cover their entire body. The outbreaks of this plague are very deathly and those that survive are commonly left blind for life.
There are ways to reduce the impact of disease in your country. First of all there are medical advances in most ages, and there are also buildings you can build.
First there is the Hospital that you can build in any town or city with at least 20 development. This is available at the start of the game for more advanced countries.
Then after the Scientific Revolution you can research the advance for Medical Schools and build them in your town and cities.
Next week we will talk about how forming new countries will work…
This week we will talk about our disease system.
This is the tooltip of an outbreak together with the spread...
We have 2 types of diseases, environmental, which does not spread through movement of trade nor movement of people, and those that spread. A disease does not just infect the pops in a location, but can also infect armies.
Each disease has many different attributes, all of which can be complex calculations, and this is a very flexible system entirely modeled through script.
- A chance for it to spawn each month.
- How often the disease processes, i.e. how fast it ticks.
- How quickly it spreads to other pops.
- How it spreads between location and pops.
- How quickly it stagnates in a location or unit.
- How many pops and/or soldiers die or become resistant, each tick.
- How many pops and/or soldiers die each tick (of the above).
- The mortality for characters.
- How quickly resistances decay.
- How much presence is needed before it spreads to adjacent locations.
- If you want specific pop types affected…
- And more…
When diseases are present in a location, the resistance to it builds up, making further outbreaks less effective. Pops, locations and sub units can have resistances. So if pops move around they can bring diseases they have with them that they themselves are immune to. Likewise, a unit carrying disease may spread it to any locations it travels through.
There is a big Smallpox outbreak here in Saint-Marcellin, but the resistance is already nice.
So let's take a detailed look at the different diseases we have.
With the default options, this will happen in 1346, start somewhere in Central Asia, and spread throughout the Old World.
It spreads relatively quickly and the mortality rate for pops is between 30% to 60%.
A great pestilence that sweeps through busy trade routes, sparing neither low nor high. Those infected suffer black swellings in the groin and armpits, terrible fever, and death. Some believe it is carried by the vermin that scurry in our streets and fields, spreading foul sickness from one poor soul to another.
This will spawn in the New World whenever someone from the Old World colonizes a location, and spreads from there. It represents the collection of diseases that the European colonizers brought to the Americas. It can and will spawn at multiple places. It doesn’t impact pops from the Old World as they are immune to most of these.
This has a gigantic mortality effect, killing between 75% to 90% of all pops.
Terrible news reaches us from abroad. Misery and plague sweep the lands, and death runs with them, apparently brought by mysterious bearded foreigners. This plague is not something our elders have ever heard of, and no answers in our ancestors' memories could help us face the catastrophe if it reaches our settlements. Will our people perish, or will we somehow resist when this walking death reaches us?
This is an environmental disease that is pretty much permanent in most Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the local people have limited resistance to it, but any colonizers from abroad will die.
There will be regular outbreaks that can kill 10% to 20% of the pops that do not have resistance in a location.
The ancient bane of humankind, Malaria, is an infectious disease transmitted from person to person by the bite of an infected mosquito. This illness produces chills, headaches, sweating, and a very intense fever that repeats every three to four days.
Outbreaks will appear in the areas of the old world where one of the three types of Typhus are endemic. It will also spawn in forest, woods or jungle locations, spreading from there.
It spreads relatively slowly, but the mortality is between 4% to 40%.
This deathly sickness creates on those stricken by it a great deal of fever, a big red rash that might extend over the entire body, and a confusion of the mind that might get worse, to the point of full-on delirium. Those poor souls that reach that point would develop gangrenous lesions and invariably die
This will spawn during winter and spread in a relatively short period of time. It will not appear in the Americas until the Great Pestilence has ravaged the continent fully.
This kills off on average about 1 in 1000 people, so it is not the most lethal of diseases.
Known by the common folk as the Flu, it is a widely spread sickness with usually mild symptoms like a runny nose or a fever in healthy individuals, but that might be extremely dangerous for those that are too young or too old or already weakened by injury or another malady.
This will spawn in most locations around the world, and it's far more likely to spread in towns or cities.It will not appear in the Americas until the Great Pestilence has ravaged the continent fully.
It is a bit more deadly than Influenza, but about 2 in 1000 people will die from it.
Measles, also known as morbili, rubeola, and red measles, is a plague that spreads extremely fast from person to person, causing fever, coughs, sneezes, and a great flat rash that eventually covers the entire body. It preys most eagerly on children, who are at great risk of death if they fall on its claws.
This keeps spawning in most locations around the world, but not in arid or arctic climates. It will spread in a small region and is highly contagious. It's far more likely to spread in locations with a lot of trade.It will not appear in the Americas until the Great Pestilence has ravaged the continent fully.
The mortality is between 5% and 30%, so an outbreak where there is low resistance can be deadly.
Smallpox is a terrible disease that produces on the sad victim fever, vomits, and finally an enormous amount of liquid-filled blisters that cover their entire body. The outbreaks of this plague are very deathly and those that survive are commonly left blind for life.
There are ways to reduce the impact of disease in your country. First of all there are medical advances in most ages, and there are also buildings you can build.
First there is the Hospital that you can build in any town or city with at least 20 development. This is available at the start of the game for more advanced countries.
Then after the Scientific Revolution you can research the advance for Medical Schools and build them in your town and cities.
Next week we will talk about how forming new countries will work…
