by ovis
Crothian wrote:
I see what you are saying about clues but only in retrospect. Going into December we had not searched Johannesburg so didn't know there was a lab there. I don't feel that people would be expected to know it before being told.
Well, you get the hints and the specific coordinates to the labs fairly early on (March?) and at least for us after finding the first lab and seeing the list with the useful abilities, the Johannesburg one was the first thing we did after reconing Africa and that one tells you pretty specifically on the card that a research center there would be crucial.
It might be one reason why the game got fairly easy for us at a certain point, which is why I actually felt the labs were even spelled out maybe a bit too obvious, getting just more subtle hints where they would be would have maybe encouraged more overall searching until you find them. In our case after reconning Africa be pretty much identified Johannesburg and one coastal spot to be crucial to search as we knew and/or expected what we would find in those two spots and that it would help us a lot.