I realized this forum is a better place to discuss recommendations for changes to the mod than the comments thread.

Let me start by reiterating what I said recently on the comment thread. First, I like this mod a lot. I'm no fan of vanilla diseases; too easy. And there's no other good disease mod out there. So I have a lot of appreciation for the developers of this mod. If I knew programming, I'd be interested in lending a hand.

Since I don't, I'm limited to sharing what I think would be some great improvements to the mod. After spending several hours in a world with Disease Restored, I feel its current iteration is a bit too challenging.

I discovered that it's possible for dupes and objects to get covered in hundreds of millions of germs. At that point, even a full shower cannot get all the germs off. This requires repeat washing in order to cleanse dupes. But repeat washings burn through sanitary water reserves like crazy. In the early and early-mid game, this can be a bit too much. I think the mod can become awesome with the following changes:

1. Make showering completely eliminate all germs on duplicants, no matter how many.

2. Create a setting so dupes will automatically shower (or sink/basin wash if shower not available) if they're covered in X number germs. This should happen even outside bathtime.

2b. Also, program dupes to continue washing at one sink until they're completely germ-free. It sucks when your dupe washes once, doesn't get all the germs off, then contaminates a "clean room."

3. Make it possible to manually order dupes to shower/wash.

4. Impose limits so germs can't multiply to the scale of hundreds of millions like they did in my game. (Though I would be okay with this if one shower removes all of them and I can manually order the shower.)

5. Probably the best thing is to allow configuration of all these options. You could keep the mod in its current state as a "hard mode." Allowing people to choose their difficulty would address complaints that the mod is too difficult while preserving the extra challenge for those who truly desire it.

Bonus: 6. Also, can you make Zombie Spore disease lethal without treatment? And when a dupe dies of Zombie Spore, can he/she actually turn into a zombie and walk around trying to infect other dupes? So the other dupes would have to attack and kill their undead friend? And impose a HUGE morale penalty on them for doing so? OMG, if you do that I will love you till the end of time!!! :D