Z-day guide

(The Z-day is soon over I suppose ... but I will try to remember to repost this next year).

Welcome to Z-day!

Participating in the Z-day basically means to sit like a zombie in front of your device, stare at a countdown timer and press a button every 20s. If you think you have better things to devote your time for, then maybe you should ignore the whole zombie thing. Anyway, your participation is appreciated even if you don't have a full 24 hours available for doing so.

If you want to participate, you have three options, you'll find them via your nation page, choose the new bio-tab. The region needs a handful of exterminators doing research on how to kill the zombies most efficiently, but most of the region should focus on researching a cure. The third option is to try and coexist with the zombies - your full population will eventually become zombified, you'll end up exporting zombies, and you will either become very unpopular or outright killed by the exterminators in the region.

If you research for a cure, you will eventually end up with "curing missiles" that you can send on other nations in the region. You cannot cure your own population directly.

Cure strategy:
* Prioritizing sending missiles to countries with more zombies than your alive non-zombie population, this will give the best yield of the weapons. In the beginning choose people from the most zombiefied nation list - page=list_nations/mode=g/region=10000_islands/censusid=82 (but be aware that the list is reordered infrequently, so the top one on the list is not always the one with most zombies).
* In general, don't send missiles towards other nations that are actively working - when struck, they will have a two minute cooldown timer, that's uncool.
* Don't try to eliminate all zombies in a target country.
* Pay attention to the RMB. Be helpful when people ask for help. Follow up when people come with suggested targets for curing missiles.
* There is the zombie target page on page=zombies/region=10000_islands - it's the most useful resource for finding targets. Look for countries that are unintentionally exporting, they really need cures (but if they have become permanent exporters or are willingfully exporting, better to ask the exterminators for help). When those are sufficiently cleaned to stop exporting, look for countries that are doing research, have at least twice as many zombies as your active population, and sort that list by zombification, prioritize the countries with highest percentage of zombies.

Extermination (TZE) strategy:
* Don't send termination squads to your friends, reserve them for the nations that are either willingly exporting zombies, and eventually nations that have become permanent zombie exporters.
* Don't stop until the population has become zero in your target nation. Send hordes to zombiefy the live population so you can kill them quicker. Ask on the RMB for others to send hordes.
* Look out for people entering the region, they may be up for no good, and in that case they have to be dealt with before they leave the region again.
* There is the zombie target page on page=zombies/region=10000_islands - it's the most useful resource for finding targets. Filter on exporters, and prioritize according to the amount of zombies.

Generally:
* Do pay attention to the RMB. There is probably no need to read everything there, just the last few minutes of action.
* Do inform on the RMB when you are leaving - so people can target you with cure missiles while you're gone.
* Don't allow more than 50% of the population to become zombies - ask for help on the RMB.
* The more live population you have, the better your attacks - so when you come online and find that more than 15% of your population is zombies, then ask for help. Specify how much help you're looking for.
* When you find targets you think should be prioritized, post on the RMB. It's nice to include how many zombies there is and how big the percentage of zombies there is, and why this target should be prioritized.
* Some of the stats, like percentage research, is updated every hour or less frequently, so no point to whine on the RMB that your stats are frozen.