make disease more fun?

[SimpleTease]

The sickness you get is fun to suffer through, but you have to intentionally infect yourself with it. No bots will do it and most humans won't either.

I was wondering if maybe the gameplay could be changed to make it more usable?

• Have it affect 1 random player, instead of person who picks it up.
• Have a few mystery bonus icons that hide what the powerup is. If unlucky, you got the diseased one.

I think either idea would make it more valuable for bots and players alike. With some added danger and new strategy.

[frranck]

there is still a bunch of use cases:

• players that don't know about them
• when you really want to go somewhere or need to run away
• if you self contaminate in order to infect a stronger player and go for a draw
• it's used as a brick in the cloud level

That's part of the minimalistic gameplay which I liked in early versions (i.e. Dynablaster) that made the game more skills focused versus some more "random shit is happening" elements (that I associate with the SNES versions)

[SimpleTease]

if you self contaminate in order to infect a stronger player and go for a draw

Didn't know that was possible. :)

That's part of the minimalistic gameplay which I liked in early versions (i.e. Dynablaster) that made the game more skills focused versus some more "random shit is happening" elements (that I associate with the SNES versions)

I do see the appeal of the non-randomness.