Monthly Archives: December 2014

It was starting to look like the number of species I had on my hands was increasing but it’s important to note that early species often only reach a population of 2 before dying off in this game.

More interesting is that the dominant species, Primum specium has more variety in its members than in the world as a whole at the time of taking these pictures.

  These animals are all Primum specium.

I didn’t stop at observing the native species, however. I also took some time to toy with the environment. The first two pictures above show a machine I used to increase the fertility of the land around it to 0.75, just enough to gradually increase the fertility and maintain a reasonable level of food and on the right is a picture of a lake I flooded by increasing the water level by 0.1.

 

I took to sight seeing for a while and took some screenshots of some interesting animals I’d spotted. The bottom right picture is of the fertile patch I’d created with that machine from earlier. With 28 resident species and a population easily over 600, I decided to reduce the land’s average fertility by 0.1.

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Foreword – I’ve already donated $10 for the preorder and I encourage you to try this sim out for yourself. If you like it, help the devs out – the full release is supposed to be much more costly.

Also, this was originally intended to be a 1 part entry but it’s been split up for easier reading.

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I know I’ve been at least aware of this game for a long, long time but I’d never actually loaded up the game in my computer before. Curious, I decided to finally give it a shot.

I’d already messed around with the game for a few hours on the default settings but I decided to try something different for this particular entry. This time, I’ve given myself a goal. I increased the benefit from grazing and reduced the aging rate to .25. Just to see what would happen. I really don’t know what I’m doing.

I’m going to try to encourage the artificial life in this game to grow as big as possible. My tools were pretty limited but Rovers, I think, are going to prove more useful in the future.

 

 

These are my initial shots. With the aging rate slowed a bit, I can take more time to document what I see. Even in x1 speed, the population quickly capped but the game still didn’t seem to have any performance issues.

In a very short period, I had creatures with legs, some with eyes and many others still were a different color than the yellow potato color we’d started with.

 

The last two thumbnails above are of the rover and its settings. Since bigger animals were my goal, I decided to have a rover feed all the larger animals. I don’t think size has anything to do with how well they can survive in this particular world but heck, why not?

 

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