Natural Selection v1.4b

Creating a New Species Press the New Species button on your toolkit to begin making your creature. Once you have successfully created a species, you can spawn it onto the map by pressing Create for Player. You may then want to create a species for a computer player for your creatures to compete against. Controlling your Species Your creatures are independent and can survive without any help; they will hunt, mate and nest on their own. You can influence your creatures however by using pheromones, or by manually controlling them. Manual control can useful for selectively breeding creatures with useful traits. You can exit manual control at any time by pressing ESC. Saving your Species So you've made a species that can breathe fire and go invisible? Save it! The Save Creature ability in the toolkit can be used to generate a save code. You can then re-use your species by pressing the Load Creature button and entering your code. Remember to select 'to observers' in the chat menu if playing online however, a code that works for you will also be useable by all other players!

Player 1 Red Commands: -fog (Toggles fog of war) -cap ### (Sets the maximum number of creatures per player) -respawn (Toggles creature respawn) -A creature can have upto four abilities, and each ability can go upto level 5 -It is possible to grow colossal creatures of upto 200 in size! -Struggling to survive? Save your species and start a fresh game against un-evolved creatures for an advantage! -Want an evolved species without having to sit around for an hour? Leave the game running for a while and do something else; come back later and see how your creature has evolved! -If the AI is too tough, save the enemy creature and use it for yourself! You can't steal the creation of another player, however

v1.1 - Fixed an issue with loner AI not working properly. Fixed an issue with abilities incorrectly levelling. v1.2 - 5 New abilities, 6 New models added. New save/load system added (An adapted version of TriggerHappy's CodeGen), numerous bug fixes and balance tweaks, made AI more responsive to pheromones. Added pack hunting ability. v1.3 - Numerous bug fixes and AI improvements. v1.4 - New terrain by Saken added.

Special thanks to TriggerHappy for his alphanumeric converter, and to Saken for his awesome terrain! Additional thanks to: Jeremia ShadowOverlord