posted 04-08-99 03:00 AM ET            

That game I had the levels rise over 2000 meters in 24 years. Almost each year I would get a new message saying the levels were rising. It was kind of entertaining, that is until most of my cities starved due to lack of farms.

posted 04-08-99 05:49 AM ET            

What was left of the world after the seas raised for 2'000 m. ? A few scattered islands ?

posted 04-08-99 12:40 PM ET            

I didn't know Planet had so many supporters.

umbra1: You can control outbreaks slightly by having "rare" native life as an option in the random map settings. I however do not know of another way. If you knew already about this, I apologize for the redundancy.

Aredhran: That game I was playing Yang. That should alone tell you something about my mindset. It was one of my better games up until mindworm mania kicked in. That was the game I decided to use the epithet Gardener, because I learned painfully a lot of ways to cull and handle fungus and mindworm outbreaks. After that I started posting them to the boards as solution.

And as a tribute to Chris Pine, I do so love alliteration.

After about 2000 meters of sea level rising, I was decently off. It was a huge map of planet, and I started off on the middle continent, with the crater and the uranium flats. Most of that is already high in terms of elevation, and what wasn't I used my flotilla of super fungal formers (support is great when your cities are 25+) to raise tons and tons of land. Best yet, it didn't cost much, because the cost is based on how high you want to raise it above sea level, not on how much it's been raised.

However, this was not as possible, or desired (I was Yang, after all), on the rest of the islands, where I had conquered pretty much everything. The small island to my north was gone after 1000 m, the L-shaped island had only most of the north and some of pholus ridge left ,along with Mount Planet (or at least it's caldera), and the Monsoon Jungle area was completely gone.

Which was nice, because Dierdre was there, and was completely unprepared for the tides to be a coming. I didn't have to root her forces out.

I normally play on the side of good - Lal, Zakharov, Dierdre, and occasionally Morgan - and don't employ this sort of tactic on a regular basis.

Still, I occasionally rub my hands together and cackle with glee when I think of Yang ruling over waterworld.

posted 04-08-99 10:59 PM ET            

I don't think that this will affect pollut -*ahem* eco-damage rising; however it does lead to an interesting workaround. There is an analagous parameter for the multiplier for how much the sea level DROPS for the council action to launch the solar shade.

Sooo, one could jack up the multiplier for the solar shade; then when the sea starts to swell like a big bruise, just lance it with a super-powerful solar shade. =]