Fungus

Description

• Like the previous two plague types, the Fungus plague type has all the same Transmissions, Symptoms, and Standard Abilities, as well as the same possible Genes.
• The disease spreads through the spores it releases which are generally poor in traveling.
• One Unique ability, Spore Burst, allows it to infect a random, uninfected country.
• Another ability, Spore Hardening, allows spores to ignore a good portion of climates which makes the Fungus very infectious late in the game.
• Spore Eruption, a unique ability, allows multiple uninfected countries to be infected at once.

Special Abilities

• Spore Burst (1) Releases a small amount of spores that will infect a random, uninfected country.
• Spore Eruption (2): Releases a huge amount of spores that will infect multiple, uninfected countries.
• Spore Hardening: Spores become more climate resilient and will continuously infect uninfected countries.

Advantages

• Fairly easy to win on Casual and Normal difficulties.
• Can infect healthy hard-to-reach countries using its special abilities which is extremely useful in the following scenarios:
  • Xenophobia
  • Shut Down Everything
  • Pirate Plague
  • Volcanic Ash
• Considerable bonus to effectiveness in humid countries.

Disadvantage

• Cannot inherently infect other countries without carriers or Spore Burst/Eruption/Hardening abilities.
• Extremely slow transmission rate (1/10000th of a regular plague air/sea/land base rate).
• Relying too much on Disease spreading traits may not allow evolution of high tier symptoms. Using the gene Patho-Stasis can reduce this which makes it easier to evolve all the Spore Bursts without draining DNA Points. However, using Patho-Stasis increases the chance that you won't be able to get that much-needed lethality after you've infected almost everyone.
• This plague type is one of the longest and most frustrating plague types to beat due to how slowly it spreads even with the use of Spore Burst/Eruption/Hardening abilities.
• Considerable penalty to effectiveness in arid countries.
• This pathogen is arguably the most luck-based plague in the game, as the Spore Bursts infect countries in a 100% random manner. If you are unlucky, you may not infect island countries before the cure progress reaches 100%.

Stages of Evolution

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Final stage 1 de 5

Standard Plague Types
Bacteria • Virus • Fungus • Parasite • Prion • Nano-Virus • Bio-Weapon