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Ecology

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One of the main characteristics of the Creatures series is the Ecology. By Ecology we'll mean here complax interactions betwenn different life forms, such as flower and bugs.


Creatures 1

Creatures 1 had no real ecology in it. The first time there really was, it was in fact of feature of Life Kit #1 with the Cloud Layer Butterflies.


Creatures 2

Creatures 2 is the first of the series to include a real ecological system. The main categories of lifeforms interacting are [[[plants]]], wich include flowers and fruits, insects, critters and fish. All of them were thought to interact not only with norns, but also between them. For example bats can eat fruits and fungi, Borland the C-monster eats fish once a year, bees pollinize flowers so that they produce fruits then seeds wich later grow as other plants and so on. Having fun with ecology (eg : taking care of plants, helping ants getting food so that they don't disappear...) is good way to ejoy Creatures 2 too ; there are also thousands of cobs on the web that may improve that precise aspect of the game.


Creatures 3

Creatures 3 improved a lot the idea of Creatures 2 concerning ecology. There are much more species and lifeforms, more types of interaction between them, and to make it a little bit more challenging, this time the player really has the opportunity to modify it with tools to maintain all of the species on the Shee spaceship. The thing is that one has to be very careful : biorganics points are counted, and you can't produce as many seeds as you want. This is the main reason why you have to be very careful of what tou do before all your ecological "credit" is gone. It is also important to note that every terrarium has it's very own ecology, with adapted species and climate. You can modify the climate if you find where the device is... The sea terrarium is certainly the most interesting of them. In this room there is a little sand beach for your norns, but the main idea of this room is to provide you a huge aquarium with many types of fish, plancton and seawwed, all of them interacting of course. Gaia is a cool addition if you encounter difficulty maintaining ecology in Creatures 3.


Docking Station

There is also ecology things to do in Docking Station. No more biopoints thus said, and the few species that appeared in the Shee Ark seem to be able to survive by themselves. As there is much less room than in Creatures 3, the possibilities for a complex ecology systems are quite limited. However, you can still add ecological things to play with with the different norn packs that often include new species of plants or critters. The NornGarden also features lots of new cool stuff in that way...