Those stupid mistakes you make are the point. Because we all have said it, sitting around with our friends "Oh I will survive zombies" But when it comes down to it, a stupid mistake will be your undoing. There is no winning. Just outlasting. I would say the informal victory of PZ would be if you managed to kill the combined populations +10% for Dixie. And if your world has too much progress to let go, load your game after you've been killed, start a new character and then haul ass back to base. I don't do it because it kills the spirit. I've found my base (The med center) and I have built that thing up dozens of times, only to be killed on some fools errand looking for a damn carpentry book. I get WHY you wish you hadn't been infected but play on sandbox with 0 transmission rate for a while. Without the risk of fatal injury the game loses a great deal of the thrill. Sometimes I do like to pull out a gun and just unload, but when I do, I usually don't get away at the end. If the game wasn't lethal you'd have no incentive to start again "Ok this time, that bullshit WILL NOT HAPPEN!" And it begs the question, if you can cure the only real threat in the game, why not just hack max stats, spawn some guns and have your fun. If you want to cheat, nothing is stopping you. I just promise if you take the virus out of your game you will stop playing much sooner. Thanks btw for making me break character in this thread And I really don't want to worry about influenza, polio, the measles... Its zombies, not orgeon trail