Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!levin
From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Populous and PowerMonger
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.194132.7135@world.std.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 19:41:32 GMT
References: <1990Nov10.025250.27365@cs.ucla.edu> <1990Nov12.161003.6442@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1990Nov14.154932.1976@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Nov14.154932.1976@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) writes:
>
>I haven't seen a worm-like creature, but I've seen a wizard on a flying carpet
>that leaves a wake in its path.  I think this is for population control --
>ie. there are too many people in the game, and this is the game's way of
>reducing the population.
>

First, with your name it seems like you should spend your time playing
BAAL.

In populous, there's something that leaves swamps behind, too.  I think
it is a big green frog.

The man on the carpet leaves a line of trees behind him.  I've never known
what the effect of trees was; someone said they had an effect, but didn't
say what it was.

Someone was saying they got stuck in the 100s with this game.  I'm stuck
in a firey world where I start of with a population strewn about a very
unflat bunch of mountains, with a whole lot of permanent stones in all 
my walkers' ways.  By the time I get any reasonable territory flattened,
the computer has 6 or 8 castles, and it's too late.

I've tried a few strategies, and none worked.  However, in earlier
games, set-ups that seemed equally hopeless turned soluble when I figured
out the gimmick.  Has anyone got significantly beyond, say, level 115?

I also came to believe that the level you advance to depends on the
number of points you get in a victory, about 1 level for every 25000 
points.  Anyone able to confirm?  Are there some impossible levels
that you can back out of and win the previous one by a greater margin
to get past?