[comp.sys.amiga.games] Populus & the worlds...

amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan) (07/22/90)

Well, I think reason some people were skipping over worlds is dependant on
the score of the game you won before.  I won world 17 with like 100,000
points (does that sound right?) and was given the password to world 21 (which
is CORPEHAM)


AMH

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liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) (07/24/90)

In <51683@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan) writes:

>Well, I think reason some people were skipping over worlds is dependant on
>the score of the game you won before.  I won world 17 with like 100,000
>points (does that sound right?) and was given the password to world 21 (which
>is CORPEHAM)

Yes, you go up (score/25,000) worlds each time, so scoring
between 100,000 and 124,999 would take you up 4 worlds, hence
the leap from 17 to 21.

You aren't forced to start again from Genesis, so whoever said
that probably just keyed things in wrong or fiddled with the
controls! Just quit the game and type in the name of the
highest wrold number.

The way the machine addresses you after a win changes as you go
up: you start as "mortal", then "eternal", then "immortal" and
so on.

I don't know about worlds up to number 500, but they get pretty
vicious in the low hundreds. The world EOAQUEED seems to me to
be unwinnable, so I went back to the previous world and won it
differently in order to side-step the awkward one...
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