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From: d0micke@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Populous and PowerMonger
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.120541.28103@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Date: 27 Nov 90 12:05:41 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.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
|> In article <1990Nov12.161003.6442@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> guest@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (BBS user) writes:
|> >
|> >I'm not sure if this was a dream,  or not , because the memory of it is only once
|> >And I seem not able to duplicate it again. While playing populace, a worm-like
|> >creature with a man riding on it's back moved over the grass, and the earth
|> >in it's wake was furrowed.....
|> >
|> 
|> 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.

And I have seen a blob moving around creating a big trail of swamp squares, and
killing LOTS of people......