Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!swatsun!hirai From: hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: SimEarth & the IIsi.. Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 22:38:49 GMT References: <27418613.10309@ics.uci.edu> <7015@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Medieval Metaphysics Dept., Miskatonic U., Arkham, MA Lines: 42 moyer@vax1.udel.edu (Eric Moyer) writes: > > I pumped up the science in year 350 and had complete exodus by year 400. > interesting, eh? It seems like if you leave the the game alone from the start, you can have a sentient species evolve and complete Exodus without touching your keyboard much. So the challenge of having less omega points is no challenge at all. The real challenge is to complete Exodus as quickly as you can. What's the fastest time frame in which you folks reached Exodus? Hmm, maybe a highscore for each of the appropriate stages would've been a good addition to the game. Each stage could have multiple highscores, with fastest time, most content folks, most content Gaia, etc as criteria. Oh well. OBstupidity: One night, I was so brain-dead from playing the game that I started up Venus and just pummelled the surface with ice meteors, enjoying the sounds it made. Then after seeing a planet surface 100% covered with water, I proceeded to erect volcanoes everywhere. To make sure that life didn't evolve, I kept the temperature at lowest possible in the game. What, life? Who cares? I just wanted to play in my sandbox. :-) One time, I made the mistake of placing a eucaryote(?) on the surface just so I could kill it with extreme temperatures and meteors. Well, after placing a species, the game will try its best to place others even after you've killed the first one. They just spontaneously appear! Stupid buggers. I shouldn't have created life in the first place. What a bunch of annoying things, these lifeforms. :-) So the next time you play in your sandbox, be sure not to sneeze or leave a little potty. It might just evolve and take over your sanbox. -- Eiji Hirai @ Mathematics Dept., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu | hirai@swarthmr.bitnet | uunet!hirai%cs.swarthmore.edu Copyright 1990 by Eiji Hirai. All Rights Reserved. Permission to reproduce or quote explicitly denied except on Usenet. I don't speak for Swarthmore College.