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From: davoli@natinst.com (Russell Davoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimEarth
Message-ID: <18959@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 19:22:39 GMT
References: <4717@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <4717@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) writes:
> 
> Here's a question for you folks out there...
> I'm playing around with the water world trying to bring a marine life to
> exodus.  Is this possible without land?  Can a marine animal make it to
> exodus, or is it just wishful thinking on my part?
> 
> -- 
> 
> T. Tim Hsu                           UUCP    ...pur-ee!ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

According to the manual, you need to have some amount of land even for
marine life forms to evolve to technology and eventually the exodus.
In my limited experience with the game, this would seem to be the case.
I managed to get radiates to become sapient and they did build a few
cities on land.

Russell Davoli
National Instruments
(davoli@natinst.com)