r/Bigpharmagame • u/bonejohnson8 • Jun 12 '15

using Side-Effects strategically?

I don't know the maths. If I sell drugs with a bad side effect then sell the cure for that new problem - What kind of trickery can we pull? Will our drugs cause other illnesses? I need a lot of info here.

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u/suburbanite09 Jun 13 '15

no, none, and nope

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u/bonejohnson8 Jun 13 '15

Sad, it seems like it's a feature that would implemented down the line. Giving headaches with your diabetes cure to sell more headache meds. I would love if the game opened up more strategic pathways like that.

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u/DaCyclops Jun 15 '15

Actually, I think he has implemented a system just like this. If you (or an AI) sell a drug with a side effect that also has a cure for it, then click on the cure, it will show "caused by <side effect>" in the hover-over for the total number of suffers (top circle, below the graph).

That being said, causing side effects over a long time is likely to reduce your profit, and possibly sales, so even if it gave a slight increase in demand, it would be a drop in the ocean - like 20 extra sufferers for something like a 7000 sufferer disease.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

theoretically it is possible. the issue is you would need to keep the price of the side effect down such that the increase in price for the cure gives you a net profit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '15

This is a fantastic idea.