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From: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (Six o'clock News)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimEarth Bug/Feature
Message-ID: <11713@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 91 01:32:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.022456.17481@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: gousha@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <1991Mar3.022456.17481@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> spike@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Corby Page) writes:
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>exodus, I brought robots to sapience. When I received the notice that I
>was entering the Civilization Time Scale, the robots achieved industrial
>revolution! They made exodus without ever reaching the Technology Time Scale
>(according to the game). Is this supposed to happen?
From: gousha@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Gousha)
Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!gousha

>Just Curious,
>Corby

Believe it or not, this is a feature!

Seems the guys reponsible for the game (one of whom I chatted with at
the last MacWorld Expo) decided that if there are all these organic
possibilities for life and intelligence possible - even odd ones like
trichords - then there was no reason that  sentient robots could not
arise!  In order to get them, apparently you have to have a planet
with LOTS of pollution and little art - they start as normal "animals",
and swiftly take over.  Once these guys get in, nothing else has a
chance, aspecially since the things can live ANYWHERE.

Something new for the SimEarth players to try for!


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