{"id":2850,"date":"2014-12-04T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kezune.com\/sim\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2014-11-30T00:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T08:26:34","slug":"species-potato-beasts-image-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kezune.com\/sim\/2014\/12\/04\/species-potato-beasts-image-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"Species – Potato Beasts (Image Heavy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Also, this was originally intended to be a 1 part entry but it’s been split up for easier reading.<\/p>\n

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\"Species<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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?<\/p>\n

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