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From: ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM (Robert Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: SimEarth and industrial fish?
Summary: Crashes??
Message-ID: <14726@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 90 00:55:48 GMT
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Reply-To: ebert@arisia.UUCP (Bob Ebert)
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Has anyone been able to evolve fish into the industrial revolution in
SimEarth?  I attempted to do this once with the monolith, and the game
"unexpectedly quit".  When I later got them to evolve more naturally,
the game also unexpectedly quit.  It's only crashed on me twice, and both
times it was immediately after moving fish into the industrial era.

The "more natural" time I got intelligent fish was after I got my
intelligent reptiles to go into exodus, after seriously trashing the
planet.  (The oceans boiled away, they nuked all the land first, and
then entire planet was lifeless rock after they left...)  Anyway,
to get more life, I lobbed a bunch of ice meteors onto the planet,
which unfortunately covered it with water totally, and I couldn't
get the oceans to boil away in the geologic age... so, let the planet
cool so that ice caps form, and the fish evolved!

Anyway, I've got the planet saved and I'll be calling Maxis, but I was
wondering if anyone else had gotten industrial fish on an ocean planet.

			--Bob