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Clues & Hints
The following walk-through assumes you have started a
Complete Game, but most of it still applies if you have
choosen a different scenario.
There are three things on screen at start: Map View, Globe
View, and Creature Command.
Map View
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Shows an area of terrain, with vegetation, rocks,
etc
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Your starting creature appears at center
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Right-click in the Map View to recenter it where you click
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CTRL-C to recenter it on your selected creature
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CTRL-T to "track" the selected creature,
recentering each time it moves off screen
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Globe View
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Shows the whole Globe
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Color indicates terrain type
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Left-click anywhere to recenter the active Map View
where you click
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Map view is the white rectangle on the globe. The Globe
View is a Fuller projection of a spherical world; the "saw
teeth" are voids.
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Right-Click on Globe View to pop up menu; change to
Feeding. This changes the Globe View to show how
well the selected creature feeds. Red is bad, green
is good, yellow is in between.
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Creature Command
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Shows selected creature
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Bar graphs show creature's population, and how well
it is feeding. Red means it's losing population,
yellow means it's stable, green means it's growing
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Buttons allow you to give creature orders
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At the start of the game, the "selected" creature is the
only one you own (don't let it go extinct!). Its species
name and a number (001 at start, because it's the first of
its species) are also shown.
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Select any creature by clicking on it in the Map View
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Deselect all creatures with ESC
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Move your creature where it can feed better!
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Find a better feeding location. Look at the Globe
View; green is best, yellow is moderate, red is
bad.
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Recenter the Map View to that location. By clicking
on the Globe View.
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Click the Move button The cursor changes to arrows.
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Click on the Map View location to tell your
creature to move. The cursor turns back to
selection brackets.
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Use CTRL-T to track your creature's movement The
Map View will follow it as it moves.
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"Move" orders can also be given by pressing M, or via the
Orders menu, or by right-clicking on a selected creature.
Species Info Tells More About Feeding
Bring up the Species Info window-use the Info menu, or
press F2.
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Bar graphs show how well the creature feeds in
different terrain types.
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Drop-down box lets you see how other creatures
feed.
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Optimal temperature is indicated.
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The further a square is from a creature's optimal
temperature, the less well it feeds there. Ideally, you
want to send your creature someplace in its best terrain
type at its best temperature.
Status Bar Indicates Terrain Type and Temperature Move your
cursor over the Map View; the status bar at lower left
tells you the terrain type and temperature of the square
where the cursor is currently located.
Turn On Feeding Radii
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Click "All Feeding Radii" on View menu
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Blue tint shows area your creature feeds from
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Yellow indicates overlap with other creature's
feeding
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Red indicates overlap with two or more other
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Ideally, you want your creature in an area of optimal
terrain at optimal temperature with no overlap.
When a Creature Splits, Move One
Hopefully, your creature is feeding well now.
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Its population bar increases each feeding update
until it's all green
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Your creature will split into two, each with half
maximum population
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Their radii will overlap, because they start in the
same square
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If you leave them alone, they will gradually drift apart,
looking for better feeding. But you can speed the process
by moving one away.
Evolve a New Species
Open the Evolution Info window from the Info menu, or press
F3.
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Drop down the "Evolve To" list box; select one
creature listed.
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Click on the image that appears to check that
creature's Species Info.
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Do this with all possible targets.
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Decide which creature you'd like and select it in
the drop-down box.
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Slide the blue pointer to the left to allocate 50%
of your evolution points to evolving.
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Your creatures are generating evolution points. The more
creatures in a species, the more points. At start, these
points are devoted to improving feeding; if the Globe View
is set to Feeding, you may see the results as more of the
globe turns green. You can also use them to evolve a new
species, or to improve defense against predators (or, for
predators, the ability to prey). The Evolution Info window
lets you do this.
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