[Virology changes]

1 hour ago, DGamerL said:

They already can, they can add oculine and salbutamol, that is how the enhanced sense and breathless symptoms work

 

This would be kind of interesting as a secondary way to make death viruses, but it would have to be done delicately because 24/7 toxic chemical buildup in a body is just unfun to play against

True I didn't consider that, I was just thinking about makign a virus that makes people explode and I lost focus on anything else.

[Virology changes]

If viruses could synthesize chemicals in the body I think that opens up a lot of interesting gameplay with mechanics that are already established in the game.

Transferring virus effects into reagents would also mean the adding of interesting negative chemicals that arent jsut sarin gas or some other neurotoxin. It would also allow, similar to botany, the ability to attach unique reagents/chemicals to a department/job. Using Monkeys with specific viruses to synthesize chemicals for extraction via dialysis would add, if nothing else, more things for the virologist to do.