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From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Populous and PowerMonger
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.201505.28282@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:15:05 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.161003.6442@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1990Nov14.154932.1976@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Nov27.120541.28103@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
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In article <1990Nov27.120541.28103@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> d0micke@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Andersson) writes:
>
>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......

I think (I read the manual quite a long time ago) these are time constraint
devices. 
The header of the first article mentioned Powermonger; have you guys in the
states got Powermonger? When the hell is it coming out?


 
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