I have been playing Big Pharma for the last few days and have noticed a strange occurrence in my 7-8 hours of play.
Generally how I play was create a small machine that generates profit, forget about it and go on to new projects elsewhere.
However it seems like every 30 or so minutes I hear of a new hyper-dangerous sugar pill that I must name. These pills not only do nothing but cause 3-4 bad effects but they grind my entire machine to a halt. The drug is different drugs to the ones I intend to import but yet somehow make it onto enclosed circuits. This just meant I had to delete the tile the deadly sugar pill sat on and then buy a new one and business becomes as usual, slightly annoying but I didn’t really mind.
Later in the game I found an increased amount of these drugs accompanied with random deadly invisible drugs. These invisible drugs acted slightly differently yet caused many more problems. My observations led me to these characteristics
- The invisible drugs did in fact come from the import hole.
- The invisible drugs did not cost any money to import unlike other drugs.
- The invisible drugs never made it past a pill maker.
Instead of treading through making deadly invisible pills the invisible drugs would enter the pill maker and stay inside them, clicking on the pill creator would give me the details of the drugs and claim they were being processed however they would never exit the machine. After finding this (accompanied with many minutes of anger yelling “Why are you refusing to move?!”) it ended up that many machines along the system would clog up with malicious invisible drugs bent on destroying my production. This ended up much more devastating than the first deadly sugar pills as this glitch did not prompt me with a “Hey you’re making a deadly super pill… would you like to name it?” instead I would look down and see my income plummet into the negative numbers and my stockpile of cash drain away before I could perform any sort of remedy (Which ended up just being to pick up and place down every infected machine to delete the material inside)
I’m not really sure if this is happening to other people, but it became very common nearing the end of my company’s years.