Insomnia

Insomnia

General Information

Inability to sleep makes people irritable and less productive.
(Standard Plagues)

Inability to sleep causes irritation and tiredness. Slows future research speed
(Necroa Virus)

Initial DNA Cost

2 (Most Standard Plagues)
0 (Nano-Virus)
5 (Necroa Virus)

Disease	Infectivity	Severity	Lethality
Standard Plagues	0	3	0
Necroa Virus	1	1	0

Cure

+0.03 in Cure Requirement
(Standard Plagues)

+0.01 in Cure Requirement & +0.01 in Research Work
(Necroa Virus)

Order

Next Symptom

Paranoia
(Standard Plagues)

« Inability to sleep makes people irritable and less productive. At least you can stay up late to finish the game »

— Description of the Symptom in Plague Inc.: The Board Game

Insomnia is a symptom found in standard plagues and other types of pathogens such as the Necroa Virus, it makes people unable to sleep, making them less productive, which increases the cure requirement . In addition, this symptom increases in severity rather than infectivity as opposed to other standard plagues initial symptoms.

Government Actions

• In the Necroa Virus DLC, if the player evolves this symptom, the governments will distribute sleeping pills, to reduce the severity and infection of the virus.

Events

In the Artificial Organs scenario, the player can alter the functioning of these by evolving this symptom within a specific country, for this to happen first the country must have more than 100 infected in addition to the public order must be higher than 0.4, in addition the player can not combine Hyper-sensitivity with Madness, because this will cause the game to bounce another different event.

When these conditions are met, the player will unlock the "I never asked for this" achievement in addition to the fact that in such a country, the lethality will increase a bit due to the malfunctioning of the artificial organs used for the infected population.

Event Pop-up when this symtom is evolved in Artificial Organs

Trivia

• This symptom only raises severity a small amount, so it should be safe to evolve even at higher difficulties. With the symptom Anaemia, it can make the Walking Dead symptom combo, which unlocks the Brainzzzz achievement.

Translation

Localization for "Insomnia"

Language	Translation
Spanish (Español)	Insomnio
Portuguese (Português)	Insônia
Italian (Italiano)	Insonnia
French (Français)	Insomnie
Polish (Polski)	Bezsenność
Russian (Русский)	Бессонница
Japanese (日本の)	不眠症
Korean (한국어)	불면증
Norwegian (Norsk)	Søvnløshet
Turkish (Türkçe)	Uykusuzluk
German (Deutsch)	Schlafstörung
Chinese Simplified (简体中文)	失眠症
Chinese Traditional (繁體中文)	失眠症

Gallery

Insomnia Symptom Card from Plague Inc.: The Board Game Source: This image was taken from the digitisation of the Official Cards included in the Plague Inc.: The Board Game Add-On for TableTop Simulator (Original Add-On Link on Steam, respective credits for the digitization of Board Game Cards scanned by them)