Contents • • • • • • Overview [ ] In SimEarth, the player can vary a planet's,,, etc., then place various forms of on the planet and watch them. Since it is a, the game does not have any required goals. The big (and difficult) challenge is to evolve life and an advanced. The development stages of the planet can be restored and repeated, until the planet 'dies' ten billion years after its creation, the estimated time when the will become a and kill off all of the planet's life. The game models the of (who assisted with the design and wrote an introduction to the manual), and one of the options available to the player is the simplified ' model.

SimEarth is a life simulation video game, the second designed by Will Wright, in which the player controls the development of a planet. The game was published in 1990. Go to Advanced Search: SimEarth: 1992, Ocean: SimEarth - Manual. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 What Is SimEarth? The Gaia Theory 4 How to Use the Controller Game Start Planet Scenarios Aquarium Cambrian Earth 7 Modern Earth.

SimEarth screenshot, version. In this simulated planet, have developed and are beginning to form. The player's control of the planet in the game is quite comprehensive; display panels allow the player to regulate everything from atmospheric gases, with percentages to three decimal places, to the rate of, to the rate of reproduction and mutation of lifeforms. In addition, the player is given options to place that interfere with the planet's development, such as Generators, which increase the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, and the, a take on the one found in, which aids in increasing intelligence of a lifeform through extraterrestrial contact. The list of disasters ranges from natural occurrences, such as and wild, to population-dependent disasters, such as and.

Effects on the planet may be minor or major depending on the current conditions. Increased eruptions, for example, increase the amount of dust in the atmosphere, lowering global temperature; in a body of water may produce; and the shortage of nuclear fuel for a nuclear power-dependent civilization may trigger. All player-triggered actions have a cost specified in 'energy units' or 'omega (Ω) units'; for example, 50 energy units are required to lay down a single terrain square, while 500 units are required to lay down a terraforming device. Architrend21 Crack. The energy budget is determined by the level of development of the planet, and the chosen difficulty level; on the lowest difficulty level, the energy budget is unlimited. Gameplay itself can be somewhat mystifying; species may thrive or die out for no apparent reason., however, are often followed by periods of renewed evolutionary diversification, allowing the player to experiment with new sets of species and ecosystems. Taxa [ ] A feature of the game is that all of multicellular animals are on an equal footing, and thus it is possible to evolve, for example, sapient. The two single-celled lifeform taxa, and (or and, in-game respectively) are treated specially.

Some examples of animal taxa include and as well as more well known taxa such as and. As an ', there is also, which can appear if a city of the highest technology level () is destroyed by a nuclear explosion. Machine life can thrive in any biome or environmental conditions, generally out-competing any other lifeforms present, and can itself eventually evolve intelligence and build cities. Additionally, there are Carniferns, which are mutated,, which can occur only naturally. Having an abundance of insects allows for these life-forms to develop. Carniferns are able to develop just as animals can.