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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (6.0) VICTORY CONDITIONS It is best if everyone playing the game agrees on what the exact victory conditions are before starting the game. You could play a game so that when a player emerges as the most powerful and no other player has any hope of winning the players can call the game. You can play a timed game. Set a date when the game will end. The player with the highest score at that date is declared The winner. The score is based on the number of planets, ships and bases you own. Here is a break down of the points for each item owned. Freighters : 1 point each Planets : 10 points each Capital Ships : 10 points each Starbases : 120 points each (6.1) LIST OF STARSHIP TYPES ( * stolen ship design from another race ) Solar Federation ships: Tech Level: 1 Outrider Class Scout Tech Level: 2 Nocturne Class Destroyer Tech Level: 3 Bohemian Class Survey Ship Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 4 Eros Class Research Vessel Tech Level: 5 Vendetta Class Frigate Tech Level: 6 Nebula Class Cruiser Tech Level: 6 Banshee Class Cruiser Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 7 Brynhild Class Escort Tech Level: 8 Loki Class Destroyer Tech Level: 8 Arkham Class Frigate Tech Level: 8 Missouri Class Battleship Tech Level: 9 Thor Class Frigate Tech Level: 9 Diplomacy Class Cruiser Tech Level: 9 Kittyhawk Class Carrier Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Nova Class Super-Dreadnought Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Lizard ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 1 Serpent Class Escort * Tech Level: 1 Outrider Class Scout Tech Level: 3 Reptile Class Destroyer Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 4 Lizard Class Cruiser * Tech Level: 4 Eros Class Research Vessel * Tech Level: 5 Vendetta Class Frigate Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 7 Saurian Class Light Cruiser * Tech Level: 8 Loki Class Destroyer Tech Level: 9 Madonnzila Class Carrier Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 T-Rex Class Battleship Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Bird Men ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 1 Swift Heart Class Scout Tech Level: 3 White Falcon Class Cruiser Tech Level: 3 Bright Heart Class Destroyer Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter * Tech Level: 4 Small Transport Tech Level: 5 Fearless Wing Class Cruiser Tech Level: 6 White Wind Class Carrier Tech Level: 6 Deth Specula Class Frigate Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 7 Resolute Class Battlecruiser Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Dark Wing Class Battleship Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Fascist ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 2 D7a Painmaker Class Cruiser Tech Level: 2 Little Pest Class Escort Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 4 D7 Coldpain Class Cruiser * Tech Level: 4 Small Transport Tech Level: 5 Ill Wind Battlecruiser Tech Level: 5 D3 Thorn Class Destroyer Tech Level: 6 D19b Nefarious Class Destroyer * Tech Level: 6 Whitewind Class Carrier * Tech Level: 6 Deth Specula Class Frigate Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 8 Saber Class Frigate Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Victorious Class Battleship Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Privateer ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter * Tech Level: 1 Outrider Class Scout Tech Level: 1 BR4 Gunship * Tech Level: 2 D7a Painmaker Class Cruiser * Tech Level: 2 Little Pest Class Escort Tech Level: 3 Dwarfstar Class Transport Tech Level: 3 BR5 Kaye Class Torpedo Boat Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier * Tech Level: 4 Small Transport Tech Level: 5 Meteor Class Blockade Runner Tech Level: 5 Skyfire Class Cruiser Tech Level: 5 Lady Royale Class Cruiser * Tech Level: 5 D3 Thorn Class Destroyer Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 8 Red Wind Class Carrier Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Bloodfang Class Carrier Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Cyborg ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 1 B200 Class Probe Tech Level: 1 Watcher Class Scout Tech Level: 2 B41 Explorer * Tech Level: 2 Iron Slave Class Baseship Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 5 B222 Destroyer Tech Level: 5 Quietus Class Cruiser Tech Level: 6 Firecloud Class Cruiser Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 9 Biocide Class Carrier Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Annihilation Class Battleship Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Crystalline ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 2 Opal Class Torpedo Boat Tech Level: 3 Ruby Class Light Cruiser Tech Level: 3 Topez Class Gunboat Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 4 Small Transport Tech Level: 5 Sky Garnet Class Destroyer Tech Level: 6 Emerald Class Battlecruiser Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 8 Onyx Class Frigate Tech Level: 9 Diamond Flame Class Battleship Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Crystal Thunder Class Carrier Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter The Evil Empire's Ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 1 RU25 Gunboat Tech Level: 1 Mig Class Scout Tech Level: 1 PL21 Probe Tech Level: 2 H-Ross Class LT Carrier Tech Level: 3 Moscow Class Star Escort Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 4 Super Star Frigate Tech Level: 5 Super Star Carrier Tech Level: 6 Super Star Destroyer Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 9 Super Star Cruiser Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Gorbie Class Battlecarrier Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Robot ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 2 Cat's Paw Class Destroyer Tech Level: 2 Iron Slave Class Baseship Tech Level: 3 Q Tanker Tech Level: 3 Pawn Class Baseship Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 4 Cybernaut Class Baseship Tech Level: 6 Instrumentality Class Baseship Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 9 Automa Class Baseship Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Golem Class Baseship Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter Rebel ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter * Tech Level: 1 Cygnus Class Destroyer * Tech Level: 1 Taurus Class Scout Tech Level: 2 Falcon Class Escort Tech Level: 3 Rebel Deep Space Scout Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 4 Gaurdian Class Destroyer Tech Level: 4 Armored Transport Tech Level: 5 Sage Class Frigate * Tech Level: 5 Sagittarius Class Transport Tech Level: 6 Tranquillity Class Cruiser Tech Level: 6 Patriot Class Light Carrier * Tech Level: 6 Gemini Class Transport Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 9 Iron Lady Class Frigate Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Rush Class Heavy Carrier Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter The Colonies of Man Ships: Tech Level: 1 Small Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 1 Taurus Class Scout Tech Level: 1 Cygnus Class Destroyer Tech Level: 2 Little Joe Class Escort Tech Level: 3 Medium Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 3 Neutronic Fuel Carrier Tech Level: 4 Cobol Class Research Cruiser Tech Level: 4 Aries Class Transport Tech Level: 5 Sagittarius Class Transport Tech Level: 6 Gemini Class Transport Tech Level: 6 Scorpius Class Light Carrier * Tech Level: 6 Tranquillity Class Cruiser * Tech Level: 6 Patriot Class Light Carrier Tech Level: 6 Large Deep Space Freighter Tech Level: 9 Refinery Ship * Tech Level: 9 Iron Lady Class Frigate Tech Level: 10 Merlin Class Alchemy Ship Tech Level: 10 Virgo Class Battlestar Tech Level: 10 Super Transport Freighter (6.2) A REVIEW OF THE RACE FLEETS The Solar Federation Of Planets: The Feds fleet is made up of many medium size ships that are designed to serve a variety of missions. They have only one ship that can serve as a fighter carrier. The Feds do not like to use fighters except as a last ditch measure when starbases or planets fall under attack. The weapon they most favor is the torpedo. For some unknown reason they like to paint their warships bright white and put external lighting systems on them. This tends to make them easier targets in a fight, but it also has the effect of scaring the daylights out of enemies. After all anyone who would light up their ships so brightly has to be unafraid of all enemies and have a very powerful ship or they are just completely stupid. The Lizards: The Lizards are a very small alliance of large boulder throwing humanoid lizard men with large nasty teeth. There are only a few starships types that they build. They have the plans to one Fed research vessel that the like to use for scouting out minerals. The smaller Lizard ships tend to be solidly built with large cargo holds and medium firepower. All starships with a Lizard crew can withstand 150% damage before exploding. The Bird Men: The Bird Men share several ship designs with the Fascists. Bird Men like to paint their ships to look like giant birds so that they can make low passes over planets and really scare the pants off the native population before landing and jumping out in their armored bird suits to take over the planet. Bird Men ships tend to be solidly armored and pack heavy firepower. They have a tech 6 carrier that can hold up to 80 fighters that can be very dangerous. The Bird Men battleship is even larger then the Lizard battleship and has more firepower. Fascists: The Fascist weapon of choice is the beam weapon. Their ships do better then most when they are attacked by fighters, because of the higher them average number of beam weapons that can be used to destroy the incoming fighters. The tech level 5 Fascist Battlecruiser as much beam weapon firepower as a battleship ( 10 banks! ). Many Fascist ships are of Bird Men design. Three of their ships can cloak. Privateers: The Privateers tend to use very small ships. They have a few ship designs that they stole from the Fascists. Their favorite activity is stealing unescorted freighters. Privateers make very good use of mineral resources because of the small size of their ships, but in a toe to toe war they don't stand much of chance. The Privateers are the only race that can build ships that have gravitonic accelerators. The three ships that have the gravitonic accelerators are the Meteor Class Blockade Runner, the BR4 Gun Boat and the BR5 Kaye Class Torpedo Boat. These three ships travel at a rate of twice that of a normal ship. At warp factor 9 these ships will travel 162 light years in one turn. These ships can also cloak. The major drawback of these ships is their very small size and cargo room. They are also unable to survive even a single impact with a space mine. The Cyborg: The Cyborg are a half humanoid and half machine race. The Cyborgs have many small scout ships and probes. These come in very handy in finding their enemy's home world. The Cyborg battleship is the size of two Bird Men battleships. All damaged Cyborg ships can stop and repair themselves at a rate of 10% per turn. Crystal People: Crystal People are a silicon based life forms about 3 foot tall, with no limbs and a metallic color. They have two large glowing eyes in the middle of their polyhedron form. Larger Crystalline ships are very powerful and tend to favor beam type weapons. They have several small ship types that are useful in exploring planets and capturing freighters. Their main weapon of choice is the dreaded web mine field. They use these fields to trap enemy vessels, drain them of fuel and then tow the victim home after it is out of fuel to force it to surrender. The Evil Empire: The Evil Empire depends heavily on fighters for attacking enemies. They have only one ship type that can launch torpedoes. Most of the Empire's ships are very large and expensive. The Empire's battle carrier is the largest and most heavily armored fighter carrier in the universe it has 10 beam weapon banks, which is most impressive for a carrier. Robots: The Robots are a race of that has survived the death of their makers. It is thought that the makers of the Robots were a race similar to the Lizards only smaller and weaker. The Robots base most their ship designs around the basestar fighter carriers. Robots have only one ship type that can launch torpedoes. Even the Robot's fuel tanker can launch fighters. The favorite ship in the Robotic fleet is the tech 6 Instrumentality class baseship. It is the size of a battleship and can carry up to 80 fighters. The largest basestar can carry more fighters then any other ship ( 300 fighters ). Rebels: The Rebels are a group of warriors who depend on their fighters to provide a low cost offensive power. Their ships follow no standard design. They are mostly converted freighters and armored transports. The ships may not be pretty but they get the job done. Rebel ships have only a few weapon banks at best. They have many small friendly robots on board all their fighter carriers that build fighters when ever they can find 2 tritanium, 3 molybdenum and 5 supply units laying around, whatever the ship's mission. THE COLONIES OF MAN: The Colonies of Man are very similar to the rebels and share many of the same ship designs. The flag ship of their fleet is one of the most powerful ships in the universe. This mighty ship is the tech 10 Virgo class battlestar that can hold up to 40 more fighters then the Evil Empire's battlecarrier and is only about half the size. Even with all those fighters it still has room for beam weapon banks. (6.3) PERSONALIZED RACE NAMES You can change the names of the game's races to fit your personal tastes. When you run NAMERACE, the data file RACE.NM is loaded to allow you to edit all the race names and save them to the hard drive. Each race has three name forms: The Long Name Form ( up to 30 characters ) Example: The Lizard Alliance of Planets Usage: We Are "The Lizard Alliance of Planets!" The Plural Name Form ( up to 20 characters ) Example: The Lizards Usage: Captain! Incoming message from "The Lizards!" The Adjective Form ( up to 12 characters ) Example: Lizard Usage: Scanners show that object to be a "Lizard" ship! (6.4) RACE.NM AND THE HOST The HOST.EXE program reads the data file RACE.NM to figure out what to call the 11 different races when sending messages. The race names that are used in the messages are completely dependent on the RACE.NM data file in the Host game data directory and NOT on the RACE.NM data files in any remote player's directory. Only the person Hosting the game has the power to change the race names that appear in the messages. (6.5) RACE.NM AND THE REMOTE PLAYER You may change the names of the races on your machine, but it will only affect your local game. Outgoing messages only pass player numbers and not player names in the message header. EXAMPLE: "Bob" who is player number 2 is being really mean to you, so you rename his race to be "Bob's Boneheads!". Your local game will from then on refer to ships belonging to Bob to be "Bonehead!" ships. When you send a message, the message will read "TO: Bob's Boneheads!", but when Bob gets the message next turn the Host will have changed the header to read what ever the Host RACE.NM file is set to, such as "TO: The Lizards" (6.6) RACE.NM AND THE LOCAL GAME ( games that are being played on one computer in one directory ) Whatever you set the names to be, that will be the name used everywhere. (6.7) RACE.NM AND BBS SYSOPS When you start up a game you can ask all the players what name they would like to use for their race. You can then run NAMERACE.EXE to input all the race names. The HOST.EXE program will then use the player's name choices when sending messages to the players. If you change the RACE.NM file you should post the RACE.NM file so that the players can download the race names being used by the Host if they wish. Players who download and use the Host's RACE.NM data file will avoid confusion when reading their messages. Leaving RACE.NM in its default form may be the best way to avoid confusion, but I'll leave all this up to you to sort out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (7.3) LIST OF PLAYER FILES UNPACK.EXE : This is a program that decodes RST file from the host program. This program takes information encoded into the RST file and splits it up into several data files used by PLANETS.EXE. You must run UNPACK.EXE before you run PLANETS.EXE. PLANETS.EXE : The main game program used by everyone playing the game. It consists of many screens of controls, pictures, graphics and information. MAKETURN.EXE : This program is run after you are finished with your game turn and exited PLANETS.EXE. This program reads the game data files and looks for any changes. It then encodes the new data into a TRN file that you send back to the host computer. *.DAT : These files that contain all the player's game data. *.DIS : Data files that are formed by UNPACK.EXE these contain all the new information from the host. TECH.MOF : The game's font file. VCR.EXE : A sub program used by PLANETS.EXE to show ship combat. It cannot be run outside PLANETS.EXE and can only be run from PLANETS.EXE after ship combat has taken place. RESOURCE.PLN : All the graphics used in the game. SWEEP.BAT : A batch file that erases nonvital data files, use this batch file to clean up your player directory after you have uploaded your TRN file to the Host. ONLY run SWEEP.BAT <<<BEFORE>>> you run UNPACK.EXE or <<<AFTER>>> you run MAKETURN.EXE RACE.NM : A data file of all the different race names. PLANET.NM : A data file of all the planet names. NAMERACE.EXE : A program used to change the names of the different races to fit your personal tastes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------