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- E C O M A S T E R
- Copyright 1989, Cascoly Software
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- ECOMASTER is an ecology simulation in which you try to predict how animals
- will survive in a series of different environments or biomes. Each round,
- players bid for animals, using ecopoints that they have earned. The animals
- are credited to the highest bidder. After calculating new biome factors,
- each animal may increase or decrease in value. Players may then sell their
- animals and use the ecopoints to buy others. The game ends when one player
- gets 900, 700, or 500 points, depending on the number of players.
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- This is a game of skill and chance. Some of the areas where skill comes in
- include learning which animals perform best in various biomes and guessing
- which biome will follow the current one. The amount an animal's value
- changes is related to several things. The biomass, hervbivore and carnivore
- ratings show the total amount of animals present and the relative ratios.
- In an ecology of mostly carnivores, there will be more competition for a
- limited food supply. Similarly, each biome has a maximum biomass it can
- support.
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