Editing Infections (section)

==Understanding stats==

After you're done mixing your disease, stats from the symptoms are added together to make disease stats. Viruses have a default of 0 in every stat.

* '''Stealth:''' If stealth is 2 or higher your disease will be hidden from medHUD and scanners. Generally it will also hide the warning signs of symptoms before they activate.
* '''Transmission:''' Improves the chance each tick to spread the virus, increases the amount of protection you need to prevent infection, determines the infection vector, and is needed to override other viruses.
** The infection vector is calculated with (disease's transmission - amount of symptoms). 2 or less is blood, 3 is fluid contact, 4 is skin contact, 5 is airbone. The Sneezing symptom forces sporadic airborne spreads, but does not otherwise affect this.
** When infecting someone who already has a virus, if the infecting virus' Transmission is higher than the other virus' Resistance, the latter will be overridden by the former.
* '''Stage speed:''' Increases the chance of advancing a stage each tick. It will be 2% or stage speed, whichever is higher.
* '''Resistance:''' Makes the virus harder to cure; determines the required chemical to cure, decreases the chance of it being cured each tick when in contact with the cure, and defines how resistant the virus is to being overridden by other viruses.
* '''Severity:''' A hidden statistic. The symptom with the highest severity defines the virus' severity; it affects the color of the medHUD icon, ranging from blue for positive viruses, to flashing red for extremely deadly diseases.
** The chance of it being cured every tick is 15 - resistance, but always between 10 and 20.
** The cure is determined by [resistance - (amount of symptoms / 2)]. One chemical from the tier is randomly picked.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|Resistance tier||Possible cures
|-
|1 or less||Copper, Silver, Iodine, Iron, Carbon
|-
|2||Potassium, Ethanol, Lithium, Silicon, Bromine
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|3||Table salt, Sugar, Orange juice, Tomato juice, Milk
|-
|4||Spaceacillin, Saline-glucose solution, Epinephrine, Charcoal
|-
|5||Oil, Synaptizine, Mannitol, Space drugs, Cryptobiolin
|-
|6||Phenol, Inacusiate, Oculine, Antihol
|-
|7||Leporazine, Mindbreaker toxin, Corazone
|-
|8||Pax, Happiness, Ephedrine
|-
|9||Lipolicide, Salicyclic acid
|-
|10||Haloperidol, Aranesp, Diphenhydramine
|-
|11 or more||Modafinil, Anacea
|}