@database SB_Manual.Guide @rem @rem **** HOLD IT!!... You're not using AmigaGuide! **** @rem @rem This is an AmigaGuide document. Workbench 3.0 (and higher) users @rem should view this document with the SYS:Utilities/MultiView program @rem that came with their systems. Other users should find a copy @rem of AmigaGuide, and use that. @rem @index INDEX @macro HIGH "@{b}@{FG highlight}$1@{ub}@{FG text}" @node MAIN "Welcome to STARBASE V1.2" @{b}@{FG highlight} #### #### ### # # # # ### ##### # # # # # # # # #### # # # #### #### # # # #### # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # ##### # # # # ##### ### # # # # # # # #### # # # # ### # # # # # # #### # # _ #### # # | / | _| # #### |/ |.|_ ##### @{ub}@{FG text} I hope you read this first. This doesn't mean this is a very difficult game and needs a great introduction and practise time to play. No, you are completely wrong. But there are some important things you may need to play STARBASE without problems. After the double-click onto the STARBASE icon you will see a title page with this options: (I hope you read them all - one by one) 1.) @{" Start New Game " link GAME_MAIN} 2.) @{" Load Game " link GAME_LOAD} 3.) @{"View Hall Of Fame" link HALLFAME} 4.) @{" Quit To DOS " link QUIT} That's all about it. Now other important informations about this game: 5.) @{" Requirements " link REQUIRE} 6.) @{" Installation " link INSTALL} 5.) @{" HOW TO REGISTER " link REGISTER} 6.) @{"?? Legal stuff ??" link LEGAL} Finally I hope you have fun with it and contact @{"me" link INFOS} if you have new ideas for this game or find some tricky errors. @endnode @node GAME_MAIN "Start a new game" At first you can see a processing panel while creating a new planet. @{fg highlight}This doen't take much time so please hold on.@{fg text} Then you can see the game screen. At the top left corner you see the date (day, month and year) and your money. At the bottom left corner you see your colonists and your selected house to build. The big area in the centre is the @{"building side" link MAP_DISPLAY}. This is a 9 by 9 square cut out of the whole map which counts 64 by 64 squares. If you move your mouse pointer into it, an animated cursor appears instead of the mouse pointer. You can now normally move your mouse. There is also a small scrolling pad. Only Click onto the arrows to scroll the map into the selected direction. You can also use the right mouse button. Then the display scrolls two fields with one click. If you have a middle mouse button you can also use that. The 'C' in the centre will display the centre of the map at once. The screen under the game screen is the menu panel. The four little button indicates the playing speed. The 'Zz' symbol pauses the game, and the '1', '2' and '3' buttons sets the game speed to slow (1), medium (2) and fast (3). The long area above the menu buttons is the message line. Here you can see important messages about the game. The menu buttons controls all actions for the game. Please select a button to read more about this menu functions: 1.) @{" Build Houses " link BUILD} 2.) @{" Trading " link TRADE} 3.) @{" Map & Graphs " link MAP_GRAPHS} 4.) @{"See Production" link PRODUCTION} 5.) @{" View Defense " link DEFENSE} 6.) @{" View Report " link REPORT} 7.) @{" Load Game " link GAME_LOAD} 8.) @{" Save Game " link GAME_SAVE} 9.) @{" Quit Game " link GAME_QUIT} 10.) @{" Strategies " link STRATEGY} Your aim is to destroy the bases of all four enemies and reach lots of of score with much money and colonists. Therefore you have to attack their bases with military units which must be produced by the appropriate buildings. You can buy tanks if you haven't enough, but space ships must be built. No, it is not enough only to build these houses. You also need colonists to support your base (mainly with the tax rate). So you also need some hydroponics and apartments for your colonists. And all buildings need electricity to work, so solar generators may also be built. And stores are needed to trade with your produced goods. For all this you have 150 years till the year 2340. If you can't reach this line you will be asked if you want to continue up to the year 2500. But then everything scores only 50 per cent. After it the game asks if you want to quit with your reached score or play until the end without scoring. Don't worry now. It sounds more difficult than it is. NO, I DIDN'T USE ANY CHEST KEYS TO REACH THIS AIM WHILE TESTING !!! If you don't believe me read the @{"Strategies" link STRATEGY} option. I don't think that this is too difficult. Now I only wish you good luck. @endnode @node MAP_DISPLAY "The map display area" I think you want to know how to build houses, right? Fine. Here we go... At first you require three things to build a house: money, granite and tools. (see menu @{"Build Houses" link BUILD} for required amount.) And then you need a free place to build, except OXYGEN PUMPS. They may only be built on a full field with oxygen moos. (see menu @{" Map & Graphs " link MAP_GRAPHS}) Now move your curser to the desired position and click with left mouse button. If you have all required things a building site appears. Otherwise you will get a message if something is missing. There are three other functions with the left mouse button. If you click on a building site you get an information about the built house and how long it will take to finish the building. You can also click on built houses. Then you get these special informations with the crime rate: *) WATER PUMP: amount of produced water (80% - 105%) *) OXYGEN PUMP: amount of produced oxygen (80% - 105%) *) STORE HOUSE: set up new military (see below...) *) GRANITE MINE: effeciency (0% -> no granite; else 66% - 100%) *) ORE MINE: effeciency (0% -> no ore; else 66% - 100%) *) FUEL PUMP: effeciency (0% -> no fuel; else 66% - 100%) *) SHIP YARD: initialize new construction order if ship yard is free or you get a message of space ship type and how much has already been done. All other houses will only display the crime rate. And finally you can click on activated military units. Then you see the left amount of fuel and its shield strength. You may select a new destination field or abort by moving the mouse to the menu panel. The right mouse button clears houses. Move your cursor to a built house and click on the right mouse button to remove it. This only requires 1% of the building price. If you click with the right mouse button on a activated military unit, you can destroy it. You had to confirm this action, but I think it will be better to attack your enemies than to destroy your units. The last thing I mention here is how to operate with activated military. Therefore you click onto a STORE HOUSE. Then a small menu screen appears and you can set the amount and type of a @{"military unit" link MILITARY} you wish to activate. You can see the currently active type and the stored amount. Use the '+' and '-' buttons to change to the next/previous type. At the right of the displayed units you can set your amount of stored units you wish to activate. Also use the '+' and '-' buttons. Finally you can see the amount of stored fuel and required fuel for your unit. Click on 'SET UP' to activate your new units or 'CANCEL' to abort. Now your military units will be set up on the map. If you click on it with the left mouse button you can set a destination field. Click on the edge of the map to attack your enemy. (also read page @{"Strategies" link STRATEGY}) If you've destroyed the last house of your enemies' base, you will get a message and you capture 5 per cent of his earned money and some of his left goods, excatly 25 to 50 per cent. Therefore check the @{"spies report" link DEFENSE}. @endnode @node BUILD "Select building house" There you select your building. Use the 'PREV' and 'NEXT' buttons to scroll through all houses. A double click onto your choosen house will select it and quit back to the game screen. Read the following list for all informations about the houses: *) @{high "SOLAR GENERATOR"}: Cost: $2800 - Granite: 260 - Tools: 140 - Built: 18 - Crime: medium Produces 20 megawatt (MW) of electricity. You need it to support your houses with it. No electricity production makes your colonists move away. It's possible that a meteorite hides the sun rays and then the SOLAR GENERATOR stops the production. *) @{high "NUCLEAR PLANT"}: Cost:$24600 - Granite:2400 - Tools:1260 - Built: 68 - Crime: medium Produces 160 MW of energy. See SOLAR GENERATOR for main information. There is no risk because of meteorites. *) @{high "FISSON REACTOR"}: Cost:$92200 - Granite:8600 - Tools:4800 - Built:124 - Crime: medium Produces 800 MW of energy. See SOLAR GENERATOR for main information. There is no risk of meteorites. Built it, if you can affort it. *) @{high "ENERGY STORAGE"}: Cost: $8200 - Granite: 400 - Tools: 240 - Built: 38 - Crime: low Here you can store 80 MW of energy. This energy will be used if your base require more electricity than you can produce. Always built at least two ENERGY STORAGES !!! Build more, if you use many SOLAR GENERATORS, because of meteorites. *) @{high "WATER PUMP"}: Cost:$12600 - Granite: 800 - Tools: 380 - Built: 30 - Crime: high Also very important is a good water supply. You can build the pump anywhere, but near water field the production increases. On plain land you can produce 100 units of water, on a water field 175 units. The pump reaches the land around it in a 5 by 5 fields square. If you build another water pump into this area the production of both pumps is reduced by 600 units. You need water for your colonists and the HYDROPONICS. One colonist needs 4 units per month, the hydroponics needs 3 units to produce 10 units of food per month. Finally one water pump requires 5 MW of electricity and must be supported with $30 per month (see @{" View Report " link REPORT}). NOTE: If required, 1 unit of water could be about 100 liters. (?) *) @{high "WATER STORE"}: Cost: $4200 - Granite: 220 - Tools: 100 - Built: 22 - Crime: low This building stores 1600 units of water. Don't forget to build some of this storages, otherwise you can't trade with water and your colonists aren't lucky if they are thirsty. This building needs 1 MW of energy. *) @{high "OXYGEN PUMP"} Cost:$16200 - Granite:1360 - Tools: 780 - Built: 42 - Crime: high As you can imagine your colonists also need some oxygen to breath. The oxygen pump may only be build on a full field with oxygen moos, and produces 100 units on edges, 125 units on nearly full field with oxygen and 150 units on full fields. As the water pump the oxygen pump also reaches a 5 by 5 fields square. And a new pump into this are also reduced the production of both pumps by 600 units. One colonist needs 2 units of oxygen, and a HYDROPONICS only uses 1 unit of oxygen for 10 units of food. The oxygen pump requires 7 MW of energy and must be supported with $30 per month. *) @{high "OXYGEN STORAGE"}: Cost: $5200 - Granite: 260 - Tools: 120 - Built: 20 - Crime: low This building stores 1600 units of oxygen. Don't foreget to build at least two oxygen storages. You don't want your people to suffocate. You also need oxygen storages to trade with oxygen. This building requires 2 MW of energy to store oxygen. *) @{high "HYDROPONICS"}: Cost: $7200 - Granite: 540 - Tools: 280 - Built: 32 - Crime: medium Produces 1600 units of food. Therefore the building needs 480 liters of water and 160 units of oxygen to produce a maximum of 1600 units of food. In detail the building produces 10 units of food with 3 units of water and 1 unit oxygen. One hydroponics requires 5 MW of energy and costs $50 per month. Coordinate these buildings with the food rate (see @{" View Report " link REPORT}) that your people have always enough to eat. NOTE: A high food production and food rate encourage more people to join your base !!! *) @{high "APARTMENT"}: Cost: $9600 - Granite: 780 - Tools: 360 - Built: 36 - Crime: medium This building offers apartments for 200 colonists. Make sure that there are always enough APARTMENTS. Otherwise your colonists leave your base very early. You need 10 MW to support this colonists with energy. *) @{high "SECURITY FORCE"}: Cost: $6800 - Granite: 640 - Tools: 300 - Built: 34 - Crime: none You need a SECURITY FORCE to protect you colonists against crime. One SECURITY FORCE works in a circle with a radius of 4 fields around the building. With increasing distance the protection reduces. Use the 'SECURITY' button at the @{" Map & Graphs " link MAP_GRAPHS} menu to see the effeciency of your security forces. One security force needs 6 MW of energy and costs $50 per month. *) @{high "STORE HOUSE"}: Cost: $2400 - Granite: 160 - Tools: 100 - Built: 14 - Crime: low These important building stores all goods except energy, water, oxygen and fuel. You need it if you want to sell goods. Only previously stored good can be sold !!! You also need 1 MW of energy to support this building. One STORE HOUSE can hold: 2400 food, 40 gems, 2000 granite, 1600 ore, 1200 tools, 600 arms and 20 tanks. *) @{high "FUEL PUMP"}: Cost: $9800 - Granite:1160 - Tools: 480 - Built: 37 - Crime: high There you can produce from 132 to 200 fuel. You need them to support your military units with fuel. If they have no fuel anymore they stop moving and will be refilled automatically at the end of the month. Remember that you need a fuel resource under the building to produce something. Use the 'RAW MAT.' button at the @{" Map & Graphs " link MAP_GRAPHS} menu to locate some fuel. A fuel pump also needs 7 MW of energy and costs $40 per month. *) @{high "FUEL STORAGE"}: Cost: $5600 - Granite: 400 - Tools: 160 - Built: 24 - Crime: low This building stores 1200 units of fuel. Don't forget to build at least two fuel storages. I think you want your tanks to move and fuel pumps can't support them. All your tanks get the required fuel from the fuel storages. You also need fuel storages to trade with fuel. This building requires 3 MW of energy to store fuel. *) @{high "GEM FACTORY"}: Cost:$23400 - Granite:1780 - Tools: 840 - Built: 60 - Crime: very high A special smelting procedure with fuel makes it possible to produce gems. This factory smelts 50 fuel into 1 gem. They are very useful for trading. But be sure that all your tanks still get enough fuel. Also remember to support your gem factories with 13 MW of energy and $80 per month. *) @{high "GRANITE MINE"}: Cost: $8800 - Granite: 920 - Tools: 420 - Built: 31 - Crime: high There you can produce from 132 to 200 granite per month, depending on the workers effeciency. This is a very important raw material. You need it to build new houses. You can built GRANITE MINES anywhere, but it will only produce something over an granite field. (Use the 'RAW MAT.' button at the @{" Map & Graphs " link MAP_GRAPHS} menu) This building requires 4 MW of energy and costs $40 per month. *) @{high "ORE MINE"}: Cost: $9400 - Granite:1220 - Tools: 580 - Built: 35 - Crime: high There you can produce from 132 to 200 ore per month, depending on the workers effeciency. This is a very important raw material. You need it to produce tools, and the ship yards require ore to work on the space ships. You can built them anywhere, but it will only produce something over an ore field. (See 'RAW MAT.' button at the @{" Map & Graphs " link MAP_GRAPHS} menu) This building requires 8 MW of energy and costs $40 per month. *) @{high "TOOL FACTORY"}: Cost:$11200 - Granite:1840 - Tools: 880 - Built: 41 - Crime: very high The most important building. There you process 100 ore into 100 tools. You need tools for all buildings, so look forward and build many tool factories. But remember that you need 10 MW of energy and that you need $50 per month to support it. *) @{high "ARMS MANUFACTORER"}: Cost:$14400 - Granite:1620 - Tools: 760 - Built: 46 - Crime: very high Here you can process 100 Tools into 25 arms. You need arms to produce tanks for fighting with your enemies. Don't process all your tools. You may need some for new buildings. One arms manufactorer needs 12 MW of energy and costs $60 per month. *) @{high "TANK FACTORY"}: Cost:$18800 - Granite:2100 - Tools: 940 - Built: 55 - Crime: very high This factory processes 50 arms into 1 tank. Use them to attack your enemies. Always keep some tanks stored in case of an counter attack of an enemy. You need 14 MW of energy and $80 per month to support a tank factory. *) @{high "SHIP YARD"}: Cost:$20600 - Granite:2240 - Tools:1060 - Built: 62 - Crime: very high There you built your space ships. One SHIP YARD uses 32 ore per month to work on a space ship. If your space ship has been finished, you get a message and it will be stored in a STORE HOUSE. Then the SHIP YARD is free to build a new space ship. You need 15 MW of energy and $100 per month to support a ship yard. You are limited to 32 ship yards for the whole game. (Don't worry !!! Each computer player is limited to 16 ship yards.) So that's all. Finally you find under each building the amount you have already built. Use the @{"index" link INDEX} if you only need a short information about all houses. @endnode @node TRADE "Trading screen" There you can buy or sell goods. At the left side you can see all goods, then the price for buying, the price for selling and finally the amount of your stored goods. With the last column you set the number of units you want to trade with. Click with the left mouse button to change units by one, the right mouse button changes the value by 10, a middle button will change the value by 100. On the right side are 3 buttons: *) @{b}BUY@{ub}: Here you buy the amount of units you entered before. Be sure that you have enough store houses for the goods. You can't buy more units than you are able to store. I hope you are familiar with the basics of economic. Then you know that the price will raise if you buy many goods. *) @{b}SELL@{ub}: This button sells the amount of units you entered before. Remember that the price will fall if you sell too many units. But the minimum you can get is $1 per good per unit. *) @{b}OK@{ub}: Quits the screen without any actions. I think this is a very important option. If you sell many units at once you'll get lots of money to build new houses. Surely the price falls then, but you can be sure that the price will raise slowly. @endnode @node MAP_GRAPHS "Map & Graphs - Overview about the base" This is also a very important and useful menu. At the left side you have the whole map and can select 5 different displays. The right side contains 15 graphic displays for the last 5 years. Here is a short introduction to all buttons: *) left side: *) @{b}RAW MAT.@{ub}: This button displays all available raw materials on the planet. The different raw materials will be show with these colours: GRANITE -> grey, ORE -> red, FUEL -> cyan *) @{b}BASE@{ub}: Displays all houses of your base with different colours. I'm sorry, but I can't display a colour list here, so it's on your own to find them out. I hope I've chosen the colours so that they will match with the appropriate house. *) @{b}MILITARY@{ub}: Shows you all military units on map. Your tanks will be displayed in dark red, your space ships with light red. All enemies' tanks are shown in dark green, and their space ships with light green. Explosions are shown in yellow, And finally your base will be displayed with light brown. *) @{b}SECURITY@{ub}: displays the working area of the security forces. The lighter the colour the better the security is working. *) @{b}CRIME@{ub}: displays the crime for every used field. The lighter the colour the higher the crime rate is there. And your colonists don't like it if the crime rate for the whole base raises 5 per cent. *) @{b}OKAY@{ub}: leaves this page and return to the game screen. All display modes shows water (blue), oxygen (yellow), hills (light brown) and unused land (dark brown). If you click onto the map you can directly move to another area. *) right side: *) @{b}MONEY@{ub}: Shows your development of your money. Sometimes it's very useful to know when you have spent lots of money on building new houses or sold lots of goods. *) @{b}COLONISTS@{ub}: Shows you the amount of your colonists. With a little study combinated with other buttons here, this could be very useful. *) @{b}BUILDINGS@{ub}: Shows you the amount of your build houses. This graph only dislays the size of your base that your can compare it with your enemies. *) @{b}MILITARY@{ub}: here you can see the strength of all active units. Check this graph if you have been attacked by an enemy to see the left strength of your military. *) @{b}CRIME@{ub}: also very useful is the crime rate graph. The display shows the relative percentage of crime at your base. Check this graph regularly. Did I mention the 5 per cent limit of your colonists which makes them feel secure ? The other 10 buttons displays the price development. If you watch them carefully you can sell or buy units more effective. @endnode @node PRODUCTION "See base production" This screen displays your production. The first column shows the current production for this month. The second column display the stored goods. And the third column shown the maximum of stored goods. The production graph at the right side displays your production of the last five years. Only click onto the line of the good you wish to view the graph. This line is surrounded with a red box. The graph displays positive production with green bars up, are negative production with red bars down. And you can also see the maximum and minimum production. The last line displays your stored space ships: amount of fighter (Fi), amount of cruiser (Cr) and amount of warships (Wa). Click on this line and you will see a list of your ship yards, with the following infos: or Ready. Where are the (x,y) coordinates, type is actually the type of space ship your are building there, contains already used ore and is the required month to finish with the current budget setting for your ship yards. If there is no space ship order you get the 'Ready.' message. Make sure that you always have enough granite and tools. You need them to build houses! Also have enough ore! You need ore for your ship yards and tools. Click on the 'OKAY' button to quit back to the game. @endnode @node DEFENSE "Contact with enemies" Here you get some information (all you need) about your enemies. At first use the four arrows to select an enemy. If you own some spies there you get a report. You can also see if you have some military units which attacks the base at the top right corner. (the crossing swords) With the 'BUY' button you can buy a new spy at the base. The more spies you have the more informations you get. You can see your number of spies at the top left corner. The number next to the 'BUY' button displays the cost for the next spy. You can only buy 9 spies per base. Under the first line are two big areas. On the left you can see 5 basic informations: *) @{b}CASH@{ub}: displays the enemy's money *) @{b}COLONISTS@{ub}: display number of colonists *) @{b}BUILDINGS@{ub}: display number of enemy's buildings *) @{b}SECURITY@{ub}: display number of security forces *) @{b}MILITARY@{ub}: displays amount of owned military strength You can activate this 5 informations by buying 1 to 5 spies. The first displays your enemies money, the second displays the colonists and so on. Then you can buy another 4 spies. The sixth spy reports all building actions, the seventh spy reports if your enemy trades, the eighth spy shows you the enemies production and the nineth spy reports when the enemy plans to attack your base or builds new space ship. All 4 spies displays their report at the right side of the screen. There are only 8 lines to display this informations, so check these reports more often the more spies you own there. Use the @{b}OK@{ub} button to return to the game screen. NOTE: All houses are also built by the computer but with no building sites. The computer also sells goods to get more money, so don't be surprised when the price suddenly falls and you havn't sold any goods! (But space ships must be built like you do.) NOTE: It's more difficult to destroy a house if there are more security forces. Don't wait too long to attack your enemies. Start with the easierst base to destroy about 2210. You will need several years if there are also more than 5 tank factories. @endnode @node REPORT "View base report" This option displays the base report. There you can see how many costs you have and the current cash flow. With the '-' and '+' buttons you can set the support and with it the effeciency. Now a list of the costs: *) @{b}WATER PUMP@{ub}s costs $30 per month and building *) @{b}OXYGEN PUMP@{ub}s costs $30 per month and building *) @{b}HYDROPONICS@{ub} costs $50 per month and building *) @{b}SECUTRITY FORCE@{ub}s costs $50 per month and building *) @{b}FUEL PUMP@{ub}s costs $40 per month and building *) @{b}GEM FACTORY@{ub} costs $80 per month and building *) @{b}GRANITE MINE@{ub}s costs $40 per month and building *) @{b}ORE MINE@{ub}s costs $40 per month and building *) @{b}TOOL FACTORY@{ub} costs $50 per month and building *) @{b}ARMS MANUFACTORER@{ub} costs $60 per month and building *) @{b}TANK FACTORY@{ub} costs $80 per month and building *) @{b}SHIP YARD@{ub} costs $90 per month and building *) Spies costs 1 per cent of their next buy costs per month There are also two ways you get money back: *) The tax of your colonists. One colonist would pay 25 money with 100 per cent tax rate. You can set the tax rate from 0 to 50 per cent. Don't set it too high for a long time. The colonists don't like that. (eg. 5000 colonists pays $22500 with 18 per cent tax rate. Alright?) *) Trading (will be added at once, so it isn't displayed here) Then you can set the food rate for you colonists from 5 to 50 units of food per colonist. The higher this value the more colonists wants to join your base. But remember that you need lots of hydroponics to produce that much food. And with it more water pumps and oxygen pumps. The best values are 12 at the begining and 8 later in the game. And at the right side is a comparative graph. Here you can see how good you are working relative to the enemies. There are four types: MONEY, COLONISTS, BUILDINGS and MILITARY. Your value is displayed in white. Your enemies are red, yellow, green and blue. The four little button with the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 5 on it sets the displayed range in years. And finally there are 10 lines which display all 10 per cent values. Remember that you will see this report at the end of every month. Then the cash flow will be added to your money. If you change your settings before this day you can watch the effects at the @{"See Production" link PRODUCTION} menu. NOTE: You, the player, has always 100 per cent at the graphs. The values of the enemies will be subtracted from your 100 per cent rate. This looks at little bit funny at the MILITARY graph, especially at the begining of the game. I tried to avoid rounding problems with integer values, so if you add all values together, you maybe get values of 99 or 101 per cent. Sorry. @endnode @node GAME_LOAD "Load a base" There only a file requester appears and asks you to select a base to load. There are several checks that the file is really a STARBASE file so don't try to load another file. Otherwise the game won't work correctly, which can crash your Amiga! (Oops) All displays will be updated at once and the game continues as normal. If you load a game from the main menu the display will appear after the loading process. NOTE: This is not the system file requester. As you noticed it is reduced to a single directory. This directory must be loacted in the source directory from where you start the game and must be called 'SavedGames'. If the program can't find this directory it will be automatically created. You also can't edit your entered file name with the arrow keys. And finally only files with '.BASE' at the end are displayed. @endnode @node GAME_SAVE "Save a base" Here you can save a base. Only enter a file name and click onto the 'OKAY' button to save your base. If you file already exists you have to confirm your action to overwrite it. NOTE: Please also read the @{"Load Game" link GAME_LOAD} describtion for more details about the file selector. @endnode @node GAME_QUIT "Quit a base" Quits the game. You can either quit to main screen and let the game check for a hiscore. Then a scoring will appear first. Or you can quit directly to workbench without hiscore test. If you have reached a new hiscore you can enter your name afterwards, which is limited to 24 characters. @endnode @node STRATEGY "Some hints to get started" The last time: THERE ARE NO CHEAT KEYS !!! Alright ??? Fine !!! As you realized you can sell more when you build more granite mines, ore mines, fuel pumps and factories. I think that's the most important thing to remember. The more you invest into raw materials and factories the more goods you can sell. (But not too much !) And therefore you can extend your base and buy tanks (many tanks !!!) to attack your enemies. You don't need any special economic tricks to built up a good base and defeat your enemies, really. There is only some things I will tell you: build many TOOL FACTORIES. At least enough to produce about 1200 tools per month. This also requires more ORE MINES (about 16 or 20). Before you start a base check the map if all raw materials (granite, ore, fuel), water and oxygen are quite good placed in the centre of the map. It could be very frustrating if you can't protect your OXYGEN PUMPS or ORE MINES if they are placed very close to the edge and your enemy destroyes them always at first. You also don't need to build up a base with 20000 colonists or more. Earn lot of money, defeat your enemies very early (start about 2205) and protect your base. Just have a look at 'Tutorial.BASE'. NOTE: I really played this game! No cheats and no extra money. I also didn't change the computer to silly players. Just produce enough goods to sell, especially granite and tools to build houses. This isn't @{i}SIM CITY 2000 @{ui}nor @{i}A-TRAIN @{ui}!!! Yes, a little bit of @{i}UTOPIA @{ui}. Which was the basic reason, because 'UTOPIA' didn't work on my A4000. @endnode @node MILITARY "All about military units" The most important part of the game are military units. There are four types available: TANKS: ~~~~~~ These are the most comfortable (and expensive ?) units to produce. You need to build TOOL FACTORIES, ARMS MANUFACTORER and finally TANK FACTORIES. Tanks will be produced every month! You can also buy some tanks, if you have room to store them in your STORE HOUSES before activating them. FIGHTER: ~~~~~~~~ This is only a small space ship, which is not very good in fighting with other space ships, but you can use it to break through a tank barrier in the last stage of your attacks. CRUISER: ~~~~~~~~ A larger space ship than a fighter. Very good for defense, because it takes a acceptable time to build. But there is also no chance if you had to fight against several warships. WARSHIP: ~~~~~~~~ The largest space ship your can build. It takes very long to build (nearly 2 years), so it always good to attack your enemies or defeat attacking military of your enemies. Start to build them very early that you have enough by about 2205. After this short introduction read through the following table for all important destails: | shield | strength | requires | max. fuel | fuel usage ---------+--------+----------+----------+-----------+------------ tank | 12 | 2 | 50 ARMS | 60 | 1 fighter | 48 | 6 | 288 ORE | 400 | 4 cruiser | 72 | 11 | 480 ORE | 720 | 10 warship | 108 | 17 | 704 ORE | 1280 | 16 If your SHIP YARD has enough ore every month the space ships requires these production time to finish: (otherwise it takes longer !!) fighter -> 9 months, cruiser -> 15 months, warship -> 22 months Military units on water fields are hovering and therefore require one fuel usage per month. Remember this and have enough fuel to refill these units or they will be destroyed. ( -> sinks into water, causes a short circuit which leads to system malfunctions and finally an explosion! ) At the end of every month all military will be refilled, if they run out of fuel. And damaged space ships will be repaired with 4 shield strength. But I suggest to attack your enemy if a warship is damaged with shield strength of 32, because it would take about 19 months to repair it. So you could also built a new one! NOTE: If you set up new military units remember that every unit needs maximum fuel. The same applies for all enemies too. So the attacks of your enemies starts if they also have enough fuel to support their military units. @endnode @node HALLFAME "View the top ten players" There you see the top ten players. You see the name, the date, number of colonists and the score. Only click on a mouse button to make this screen disappear and return to the main screen again. @endnode @node QUIT "Leave STARBASE" Just guess what this option does. Right ! You can quit the game back to workbench. I don't know why I made this button because you will never need it. (At least I hope that you don't need it.) @endnode @node REQUIRE "What do I need for this game ?" I have no possibility to test this game on different amigas, but if you satisfy this requirement list and the game doesn't work, please contact @{"me" link INFOS}! *) processor: 68000 (68020+ recommended) *) kickstart: 1.3 should be enough (2.04+ recommended) *) memory: 360K chip, 480K fast (512K chip, 512K fast recommended) *) HD-install: 660K free with tutorial games @endnode @node INSTALL "Install to HD or Floppy" Hard disc: ~~~~~~~~~~ Only copy all files into your desired drawer. Floppy disc: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copy all files onto a bootable disc and add the following files: (from your HD or Worbench disc) c/endcli c/loadwb libs/mathtrans.library Finally create s/startup-sequence: loadwb endcli That's it. Contanct @{"me" link INFOS}, if you have problems. @endnode @node REGISTER "A great game, isn't it ???" This is only a limited version. That means the program quits if you reach year 2201. (Don't try to set the year in your saved game to 2201 !) I added 'Tutorial.BASE' that you can figure out all actions, and decide to register for my game. Therefore do the following: 1.) Write down your name, COMPLETE address, e-mail. Or use @{"my form" link REG_FORM}. (add the configuation of your AMIGA if you want) 2.) Put it together with 100 ATS, 15 DM, 10 US-dollar (or 10 EURO) into an empty envelope. 3.) Send it to @{"me" link INFOS} (click here for my address) Add an empty disc and a reply-paid envelope, if you have no e-mail address. So that I only have to copy the keyfile and return it to you as fast as possible. When I get your money, I will do the following: 4.) Create your keyfile with your name, address, etc. (Copy the keyfile to the directory of the game.) 5.) Send it to you via e-mail (uuencoded) or put it on your disc and return it to you by mail. 6.) I'm very happy that you support me and support shareware. Therefore I will continue developing this game, correct errors and add new features. (maybe your ideas ???) 7.) Finally I hope you enjoy my game and look foreward for more on AmiNet. Or contact @{"me" link INFOS} via e-mail. Any questions ? Then contact @{"me" link INFOS}. @endnode @node REG_FORM "Fill this for register" You decided to register for this game ? GREAT !!! Then print this page or take a sheet of paper and fill in this (european ?) form: ×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--× | | | | × FIRST NAME: ________________________ × | | | LAST NAME: ________________________ | × × | STREET: ________________________________________ | | | × POSTCODE: _____ CITY: __________________________ × | | | COUNTRY,STATE: _____________________________________ | × × | *---------------------------------------------* | | | My System Configuration: (optional) | | × | | × | | Amiga: ______ Processor: ____________ | | | | | | × | Chip Ram: ____ MB Fast Ram: ______ MB | × | | | | | | Workbench: ______ Hard Disc: ______ MB | | × | | × | | Extras: ________________________________ | | | | | | × | ________________________________ | × | | | | | | ________________________________ | | × | | × | *---------------------------------------------* | | | ×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--×--× @endnode @node LEGAL "Legal status of this software" This game is copyright 2000. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without the written permission of @{"the programmer" link INFOS}. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE OF ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR SYSTEM. IF YOU WANT TO USE ANYTHING OF THIS GAME FOR YOUR CREATIONS, PLEASE CONTACT @{"ME" link INFOS} AND TELL ME ABOUT IT. I AM HAPPY IF YOU WILL MENTION ME IN YOUR CREATIONS. If someone wants to put this game onto a disc or CD-ROM of any Amiga magazine, please inform me and send me a copy of this magazine. I just want to be informed and honored for my work if somebody wants to make money with my game !!! If there exists any other type of game with same name and/or graphics please contact @{"me" link INFOS}. It was really hard work to draw all this graphics (buildings, military, menu screens, etc.) and to create good computer players. I hope you support the idea of shareware and @{"register" link REGISTER}. The keyfile is part of the game and may also not be reproduced in any form, execpt ONE backup copy. The keyfile and its backup must be deleted with the game. Passing on the keyfile to third parties are forbidden. @endnode @node INFOS "More about the programmer" At first, I had to excuse my poor english. It's not my native language. Here's my address if you found some really tricky errors, tell me what you think about my game or want to @{"register" link REGISTER} your copy: @{b} KARGL CHRISTIAN WIENERSTRASSE 58 A-8605 KAPFENBERG AUSTRIA - STYRIA email: karglch@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (university till about 2002) @{ub} @{fg highlight} Are there any music composers out there ? I want to add some addictive tunes to the title and playing screen. Anybody contact me via e-mail if you have/know some music. @{fg text} History: ~~~~~~~~ - 21.4.1997: finished version 1.0; did some testing - 11.6.1998: finished version 1.1; did some major changes: *) redo all graphics of the menu screens *) complete new colour font (ASCII code 33 to 127) *) map creating improved (every type used with limit) *) add raw material 'granite' for building (& trading) *) add buildings GRANITE MINE, FUEL STORAGE, SHIP YARD *) display activated tanks on map. Adding space ships. *) added production graph and comparative graph *) redo final scoring (all types nearly equal) *) file selector replaced by the a smaller one started great final testing (if time) to set the computer players, price calculation,... - May 1999: added keyfile to version 1.1 and first upload to AmiNet - 03.12.1999: finished version1.2; did some small changes: *) optimized whole game code *) new way to store and save military *) added shield to military units *) added ship yard list to production *) redo keyfile checking @{fg highlight}!!NEW!!@{fg text} start of the final, complete game test... - 10.01.2000: final test almost finished; new upload to Aminet Future Updates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *) improve fighting of military *) improve simulated computer enemies (may add difficulty levels) *) try to display complete planet with enemies' bases *) add building 'hospital' and health graph for colonists *) add building 'laboratory' with discoveries (any ideas ??) *) finally always speed up program routines if possible @endnode @node INDEX "House list" This is not really an index as you may think. It contains a table with all informations about the houses. | Money |Granite|Tools |Built | Crime | MW | Support -------------------+-------\\\\------+------+-----//--------\\\\----\\\\------- SOLAR GENERATOR | $2800 | 260 | 120 | 18 | medium | 20 | -- NUCLEAR PLANT | $24600 | 2400 | 1260 | 68 | medium | 200 | -- FISSION REACTOR | $92200 | 8600 | 4800 | 124 | medium | 800 | -- ENERGY STORAGE | $8200 | 400 | 240 | 38 | low | 80 | -- WATER PUMP | $12600 | 800 | 380 | 30 | high | -5 | $30 WATER STORE | $4200 | 220 | 100 | 22 | low | -1 | -- OXYGEN PUMP | $16200 | 1360 | 780 | 42 | high | -7 | $30 OXYGEN STORAGE | $5200 | 260 | 120 | 20 | low | -2 | -- HYDROPONICS | $7200 | 540 | 280 | 32 | medium | -5 | $50 APARTMENT | $9600 | 780 | 360 | 36 | medium | -10 | -- SECURITY FORCE | $6800 | 640 | 300 | 34 | none | -6 | $50 STORE HOUSE | $2400 | 160 | 100 | 14 | low | -1 | -- FUEL PUMP | $9800 | 1160 | 480 | 37 | high | -7 | $40 FUEL STORAGE | $5600 | 400 | 160 | 24 | low | -3 | -- GEM FACTORY | $23400 | 1780 | 840 | 60 | very high | -13 | $80 GRANITE MINE | $8800 | 920 | 420 | 31 | high | -4 | $40 ORE MINE | $9400 | 1220 | 580 | 35 | high | -8 | $40 TOOL FACTORY | $11200 | 1840 | 880 | 41 | very high | -10 | $50 ARMS MANUFACTORER | $14400 | 1620 | 760 | 46 | very high | -12 | $60 TANK FACTORY | $18800 | 2100 | 940 | 55 | very high | -14 | $80 SHIP YARD | $20600 | 2240 | 1060 | 62 | very high | -15 | $90 /\\ || negative values means that building needs that amount @endnode