## ## ## ## . _____ ## ## / / \ #### #### ####### | Sim | ################### | Ant | #### #### ####### \_____/ ## ## \ ## ## . ## ## By Funky Lizard Sim Ant Windows/SNES/Macintosh v. 1.0 3/16/99 FunkyLizard (flizard64@yahoo.com) ---------------------- Table of Contents ---------------------- 1. Introduction 2. How to Play 3. Tips / Strategies a. The spider, our friend b. Mass shipment of green stuff c. Beam me up, Scotty! d. They're attacking- alot of 'em, too 4. Codes 5. End ---------------------- Introduction ---------------------- An old Sim-game... and even funner than the last! Unlike the others, you don't build citis or anything, you build ant colonies. The object is (if you are on the full game) to destroy all Red ant colonies and drive the humans out of the house. On a quick game, all you do is kill all the black ants in your colony. Obviously, the full game is long and more challenging, but not if you read on. In fact (or opinion), the quick game is so easy that it won't be included in the "How to Play" section. Oh yeah, this game is mostly based on the Windows version, so some of stuff here may not be accurate for Macintosh or SNES. So anyway, its a pretty freakin' fun game! So let's read on and get done with the Sim Ant training! ---------------------- How to Play ---------------------- This is about the Full Game, because Quick Game is too easy. You start as a single queen ant. Now check around and find the food. Double-Click around the food to dig a nest. Now dig down and then click on yourself and press start brood. Now you are a worker ant. Now go and click on that green stuff. It is food. Pick it up and bring back to your nest. Set it right in front of that lazy queens face. Repeat until about 8 black ants are there (check the top-right corner). Now this is when you try to either thin down the red population or just get more black ants than red. For an easy way to do this see "The Spider, our friend." Also get some food for your nest. Right here you can do one of two things: 1. Go ahead to the next paragraph or 2. Kill the red queen in that colony. This will kill off all the red ants eventually. Now go back and do step #1. After you get about 20 ants, lowered the rate of red ants, and gotten food for your nest, go to caste contol. It is in the bottom left of the control panel thingy. Now move the dot until you get about 30% breeders and 40% workers. Wait a while (see "Beam me up, Scotty!") and then click on yard in the control panel. Now press strategic. You are in the grey square, meaning that both red and black ants are in it. Click on mate a few times on the control panel. Later, it will say a number under queens. Press place and pick a spot around your square. It will be black, meaning you are dominant over that square. Now you have more than one colony. To move to another one, place a queen there and double-click on that space! Kill off as many of the red colonies as you can, or kill the red ants inside the grey colonies. Repeat the mating/placing, then killing/dominating process and you (along with time) will win! P.S.- It is EASY to run the humans out of the house. Don't let that be your main goal. Your main goal should be mating/ placing, and killing/ dominating. ---------------------- Tips / Strategies ---------------------- "The spider, our friend" For once, you can be something other than an ant! First find the spider. Now press X on the keyboard and click on him. Now you can eat ants! If you go over to the red colony and then click on yourself and press "Hunt", you will go on a red ant eating rampage! This is GREAT for thinning out the red population. "Mass shipment of green stuff" Sometimes, you just want to stock up on food. To do this, wait until you have at least 30 black ants. The more, the better. Press 2 on the keyboard a few times. Ants should be totally surrounding you. Now walk over to the food on the surface. Get beside the pile and press four. All the ants should go back to the nest, but on their way they will pick up a piece of food. Considering how you usually get one piece at a time, that is mass shipment! "Beam me up, Scotty" If you have a slow computer, this is a lifesaver. If you have a fast one, it still is good if you are low on time. Turn the speed on fast or ultra (control bar) and you can do many things faster. "They're attacking- alot of 'em, too" The best way to defeat a red ant colony is to do it in groups. First call some ants and then go to the red ant nest. They act as a protection squad on the way. You could fight the queen yourself, but is'nt that why you called your friend ants? ---------------------- Codes ---------------------- These codes were taken from Gamesages.com **********SNES Codes********** Easier Fighting When you get into a fight with a red ant, keep pressing A. Every time you press it your chances of winning increase by 1%. Scaredy Cat In the Full Game, select the Graph Icon and press A. Select the House option and press A. If the cat appears on the fence while you are on the House screen, point the cursor at it, then press A to watch the cat freak out and fall off the fence. Scenario Select This code requires an SNES Mouse. When you start the game, place the SNES Mouse into Controller Port 2. With Controller 1, select the Scenario Mode and press the Start Button. Click the Mouse button, then select any scenario with controller 1. **********Windows Codes********** Cheat Codes Enter these codes while playing (they are case sensitive): erad Starve yourself fred View ending hole Dig lots of holes jeff Start a colony in every patch jenn Unlimited health for black colony joke Read a joke just Get 10 Queen ants mick Puts spider in reverse rand Restores yellow ants health to 100% Qeen Add another red queen qeen Add another black queen susi Unlimited health for yellow ant will Never loose a fight FUND 10,000 dollars! **********Macintosh Codes********** Cheat Codes Enter these codes while playing (they are case sensitive): erad Starve yourself fred View ending hole Dig lots of holes jeff Start a colony in every patch jenn Unlimited health for black colony joke Read a joke just Get 10 Queen ants mick Puts spider in reverse rand Restores yellow ants health to 100% Qeen Add another red queen qeen Add another black queen susi Unlimited health for yellow ant will Never loose a fight FUND 10,000 dollars! Copy Food To do this trick you need to control the yellow ant. Pickup food or a small rock in your mouth, then drop it while holding SHIFT and OPTION. You should still have the item in your mouth and can repeat this as often as desired. Duplicate Ants Press X to exchange bodies then click on the spider. Press X again and select the spider again. You can repeat this again and again to have lots of ants! ---------------------- End ---------------------- A relatively small FAQ, but it IS a cool game. Oh yeah, people, Funky Lizard is getting a web page! It might be on my Contributer Page later this year. Look for it! ___ _ _ _ | _| N _ _ | | |_| ____ __ ___ | | | _| _ 6 _ _____ | |/ / _ _ | | _ |_ / /_ \| | _| __| | | | | |4| || _ | | / \ \/ / | |__ | | / / ||_| | | | | 0 | |_| |_____||_| |_| |_|\_\ |__| |____||_| /___| \___| |_| |____| Funky Lizard This faq is copyright Tony Emerson, 1999 SimAnt is c Maxis, a long time ago "Beam me up, Scotty" is a phrase from Star Trek