Didn't someone try this already a few months back? Based on the Warcraft 3 engine. I hear it didn't impress, though it was a good bit of programming.
I reckon that the only way to get meetles is to catch meetle larva in the wild. Then the natives feed them on plants and they grow up into meetles. The industrialists feed them meat products and they grow up into mugs.
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