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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimEarth and industrial fish?
Message-ID: <580@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 00:02:43 GMT
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In article <14726@arisia.Xerox.COM> ebert@arisia.UUCP (Bob Ebert) writes:
>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.
  My sentient fish made it to Exodus!!  I don't know how they managed to avoid
using fire, but they certianly left.  I used the monolith to get them to
acheive intelligence, and they accidently used the monolith again and put them
into the industrial revolution.  Then they took off!!  They managed to
colonize the planet, even land and acheived Exodus faster than any other
species I have played with.  In fact, those suckers breed so fast that I had
to nuke the last 300 million of the planet to get them all to leave and the
time scales to switch back to a faster rate.

  On another note, I have some problems of my own.  Whenever trichords
evolve on my planet (game) the computer immediately crashes.  The computer
will lock up either way of evolution - natural or via monolith.  I like
trichords and I can't have them evolve!!
  The other problem (not really a big problem) I have is concerning the
various suggestions given by Maxis in the manual.  Has any ever played "bumper
continents" like they suggest?  I can't get any continent to move.  If I
set the drift really high, they wander off on their own.  I also can't get
mountains to spring up by setting off earthquakes to smash into each other.
Has any one had some success with these suggestions?  If so, how?

|     John Taggart Gorman Jr.    | "I'm a no rust build up man myself."
|                                |          -Christian Slater
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |             in 'Heathers'