This is for a scenario I explained in a post a while ago. You can read it here ( https://www.reddit.com/r/plagueinc/comments/1wepfso/im_making_my_first_scenario_i_need_advice_related/ ), though you're going to find a different symptom tree I had planned.
But for short, you're a non-lethal fungus who has to stop humanity from building two big missiles. You can win by either getting to the countries developing the missiles (you always start in Madagascar) and delaying their work enough so that a specific date comes and you win, or you can go on a rampage infecting most of population (a relatively harder thing to do with the specific stats I'll be doing) and then raising your severity so that most of people in the globe become so miserable that the world-wide collaboration for the missiles just freezes and leaves humanity with a guaranteed defeat. Either way, you have to handle the cure progress bar, and the two progress bars of the missiles
What I need help with right now is the symptoms I'm putting here. You get two starting devolved symptoms: ocular irritation and sneezing.
From ocular infection, you can go to the blue path or the yellow path. The blue path continues with insomnia, paranoia and more stuff that makes people irritable and unfocused. The yellow path continues with pharyngitis, fatigue, fever and more stuff that makes people's lives difficult and at some point almost a living nightmare. The yellow path is supposed to raise severity a lot, affecting the general population. The blue path kinda raises severity too but it slightly slows down the progress of the missiles because it's supposed to affect individual abilities, and once you evolve all of those symptoms you unlock abilities in the abilities tab to properly fight this progress, affecting more the individual abilities of those almost irreplaceable professionals working on humanity's most important project. If you read my previous post, you can pretty much interpretate this as the blue path being the previous dark red path, and the yellow path being the previous yellow path
From sneezing, you can go to the pink path or the cyan path. The pink path continues with stuff that fricks up your nose with moocus, to eventually get to your digestive system, make it produce more content and make the plague adapt and reproduce in said content. The pink path raises general infectivity and effectiveness in urban areas (effectiveness which can only be improved here). The cyan path continues with hiccup, claudication (not enough blood in muscles which makes people suffer with physical effort), and conceptually stuff that affects teamwork abilities and thus big teams of scientists working on the cure to erradicate you. And when you evolve all of the cyan path, you unlock abilities to fight off a cure progress that goes as fricked up as nanovirus'
So my issues are:
1) I don't know what three symptoms I should put to finish the cyan path
2) I don't even know if I'm following the right concepts of affecting TEAMWORK by "making muscular work harder"...
3) I don't know either if I'm following the right concepts with the blue path. Like, paranoia is meant to affect teamwork but I put it to affect individual work and thus the ones working on the missiles, but it probably should go to affect teamwork and thus the ones working on the cure. Heck I don't fricking know how these teams of scientists would actually work. My mind thought of it like "cure guys need to do a lot of things together while missile guys need to do a lot of things alone and just share it to others"
My idea was also that the blue path has symptoms affecting personal senses while the cyan path has symptoms affecting colaborative traits
What do you guys think I should do with the symptoms of the blue and cyan path, and with their respective concepts? I want this thing to make sense but I'm hell of a sucker at anything remotely related to biology in this world, and I don't know about scientists stuff either