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From: ericg@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Eric Goodman)
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Subject: Re: (Long) Populus answers
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Date: 9 Aug 90 21:12:35 GMT
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> The bad side effect of this
> is that when a knight burns down a building, it is treated as a "rock"
> and makes for bad growth if you desire to colonize an area near it.
> To make matters worse, the land which was providing the enemie's
> building with food is *ravaged* and turns just a *slight* difference
> in it's pattern

Burned down castles don't really act as rocks, though they look like they 
should, the terrain is ravaged, however. 

>  Computer knigts are very
> stupid in that you can lower land around them and drown them our
> easily, removing all problems associated with them. :-)

Not once the computer's reaction time gets up.  At around 100 or so (I'm 
stuck at 114) the computer gets fast.  At 114  I am totally overwhelmed 
(its been suggested that I go back to the previous game and win by a 
different score so I can miss world 114, as it may be "flukily" hard.

> And last but not least, there is an undocumented wandering monster
> creeping the plains of the game!  

He's *one* of the undocumented nasties.   Yeah, he ate up a good number of 
my guys one game (not by leaving a trail -- he just slurped them up 
whole).  There's at least one other.  A magician on a flying carpet from 
Earth First has been seen several times planting long rows of trees.  If 
one of your settlements happens to be in his way, Oh Well.

Other notes.  The computer cheats.  It never digs out rocks (at least not 
in the higher levels).  If it moves the land level the rock is gone.  As 
to my being stuck at world 114: The computer there is TOUGH.  I can't 
rebuild the land fast enough to keep away from earthquakes.  Swamps appear 
under my leader before I can dig them out.  After I hold my own against 
the computer for about 20 minutes, he goes knight crazy.  You can't drown 
'em, and even if you manage to, that  #$@!  holy noise happens every 2 
minutes or so.  I honestly don't see how I'm going to defeat it.

Well, just my thoughts.

Eric Goodman, UC Santa Cruz

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