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From: hounsell@chekov.UU.NET (Rob Hounsell)
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Subject: Re: Playing Populous with IBM's
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Date: 18 Sep 90 21:02:03 GMT
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In article <1990Sep14.191643.29804@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) writes:
>
>    A friend and I tried, tried and tried to play Populous over 2400bd modems
>I have an Ami and he has a 286. 
>
>    AND WE COUDLN'T GET THE %%$$##@@??? THING TO WORK.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions....

A friend and I both own Amiga 1000's, and have successfully played several
sessions of Populous back-to-back. The only problems we had were in the modem
setup (our company supplies us with error-correcting 9600-baud modems with lots
of options which we had to get in line...).
 
In terms of play, back-to-back tended to cause the mouse pointer to become a
bit "jerky", but otherwise there wasn't any problem once we got it going.

A couple more strategy points: To create lots of walkers once I have an area
filled out with castles, I raise the ground one level near the castles, which
forces them back to the smaller castle size and generates a walker. As soon as
the walkers leave, I lower the ground I raised and restore the castles to full
size. You can create LOTS of walkers this way.

Second point: to raise ground out of a flat area like water, it is much quicker
to raise the same point twice and then lower the peak (which produces a unit
of level land 4 squares in area) than it is to click on 4 adjacent points. I
suspect that it uses a tad more manna, though.

One of my favourite games!

Rob
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