by bluesheep
Luck didn't really factor into it that much, most of the time you could simply abuse the character powers and relationships to game the system. If I remember correctly, one vor two C0dA cards in the entire team together with a binocular gadget you can equip in Atlanta and the "competing" relationship (I don't know whether it is called like that because we player the german version) werde enough to garantue a completed search after 3-4turns at most.Regarding managing the threat of diseases at the same time: quarantine specialist usually can take care of at least two 3-cube cities in one turn and by the time we search quests started to appear, we already had built a sufficient infrastructure for travel.
The only factor I would really account to luck would have been C0dA beging blue in out case.