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GAME OBJECTIVE: --------------- Ultimately, the player wants to gain universal domination, in which he ranks the highest. The concept of the game being multi-player adds to the action because the player is playing against those possibly of greater or lesser skill. The player's progression in this game is proportional to the amount of planning and the efficiency of the player in destroying enemies. Overall, it may take weeks to effectively dominate the universe, even then the player's power can be challenged and overthrown. There are 5 Zones situated througout the universe that create enemy drones. These must be found and destroyed. With each sucessive Zone destroyed, the mechproduction will lighten up, but Zones will regenerate themselves after 10 days. Once all 5 are destroyed, the user who destroys the last one will get his name entered in a top five ranking list and then the game rests itself. ---------------------------------------------------- MAIN COMMANDS ------------- HELP ---- (?) : Gets player help! MOVING ------ [1..9] Make sure that num-lock is on. Use the keypad; the directional keys on the keypad correspond to the possible directions the player can move: (7) Up Left (8) Up (9) Up Right (4) Left (6) Right (1) Down Left (2) Down (3) Down Right FOLDING ------- (F) Folding is another way of moving, but faster for sectors very far apart. Enter an X-fold coordinate [1..100], and a Y-Fold coordinate [1..100] and if you are lucky, you will find yourself in the destined sector. Folding Takes up more energy than moving to an adjacent sector, but it is most efficient when time is on the line or you are jumping 3+sectors distance. ATTACKING --------- (A) If enemies are in the sector this will allow you to attack them via 6 weapon systems. Watch out the enemy will counter attack, both player and drone. Your skill and the other skill is calculated and its a 1:1 shot firing suicide, and whoever looses their shields first looses the game. Differnet Mechs have different stats that can aid or cripple them in attacking. The best way to compensate/boost is the buy mounts, or visit the mech garage* *Mech Garage is only for registered sysops. When attacking enemies you are asked which enemy number to target, the enemy # appears in the text box along with the Enemies name and shields. Just type the corresponding enemy # in which you want to attack and it will blast 'em! MINES ----- (M) In order to drop mines, you must have some. Mines will protect your investments from everyone. Team members may pass through unharmed. PORTING ------- (P) Docks at a base to allow trading. CREATING A PLANET ----------------- (G) Creating a planet takes 200,000. The universe has a 250 planet limit so get them while they last. LANDING ON A PLANET ------------------- (L) Lands on a planet if it is defenseless, if it is not then it will attack your mech unless you have the right password. CLOAKING -------- Players can cloak when they log-off the game, It will take 5000 starvacs to do this. The player will remain hidden until his next logon. SCANNING -------- (Z) - Scans Zone if you have right mount (K) - Scans Planet if you have right mount (S) - Searches for zones if MECHWARS is registered DIVERSIONS ---------- (D) - Diverts power from shields to energy or vice versa if you have the right mount. MISSILE PACK ------------ (X) - Fires missile pack, if you have one, and missiles and your copy of MECHWARS is registered. QUIT ---- (Q) Quits Mechwars COMPUTER SUB MENU ----------------- (C) The Computer is a sub menu that allows users to: MESSAGE(S) ---------- (M) To send a message to a user, the player can type in the displayed user number to send it. A prompt will appear asking them to send the message with an attitude (moral). Then the player can type 5 lines of 70 characters. The message will be displayed to the paged user at his next logs on. RANK ---- (R) This will rank players and show your standing. This gives you an idea of what you need to do to beat another player. Its main purpose is to calculate appreciation, or the money you get when the maintenance is run to help you destroy the drone forces. ANSI TOGGLE ----------- (T) Toggles ansi support. QUIT ---- (Q) Quits computer TEAM SUB MENU ------------- CREATE A TEAM ------------- (C) Allows users band together. Up to 5 players on a team. A name and a password must be picked. JOIN A TEAM ----------- (J) Allows you to join a team. If team is not full, and you enter the correct password, then you will be adopted as a memeber. QUIT A TEAM ----------- (Z) Quits Team. QUIT ---- (Q) Quits Team menu. OTHER INFO: ----------- OPTICAL GATE ------------ Optical Gate is a special base. It allows the player to buy higher lever guns, tactical mounts, energy, and shields. For Registered versions there is the Mech Garage which allows the user to customize his Mech. MECHS: ------ There are 5 types of mechs that the player can choose from BORGMAN ------- A very small and lightweight mech. The borgman moves very efficiently..with considerably less energy units. With the right mounts, he can virtually move across the universe without much energy. His disadvantage is the amour, its very weak. It's shield projection units are also very weak. MIRAGE ------ The Mirage moves very efficiently, and it has better amour. The marage still is one of the least battle-ready mechs. With the right mounts, and a few trips to the garag...who knows. CAVALIER -------- The Cavalier is the well-rounded mech, but booring! This mech is one of the better starter mechs. ORION ----- The orion is the battle-class mech. It's shield strength is its main feature. However, its a energy hog. It requires 30% more energy to move the same distance as the Borgman. DYAMO ----- Anyone want power? The dyamo can spew huge amounts of energy out, but it is not very graceful. This mech is for going in an vaporizing everything in its path, but it cannot do it for very long!! WEAPONS: -------- GUNS ---- #1 PHASER - +1 Damage [ STOCK ] #2 STELLER FIRE - +2 Damage #3 STAR BLASTER - +3 Damage #4 HYPER CANNON - +4 Damage #5 PULSAR NUKE - +5 Damage SECONDARY WEAPONS: ------------------ WEAPONS DAMAGE ------- ------ Yellow Laser 10 Green Laser 15 Re Laser 30 Energy Moiter 75 Plasma Shell 100 Ion Torpedo 150 Sub Nuke Ray 200 MOUNTS: ------- Laser Targeting Sight : ----------------------- If you get nothing else, buy this mount, it will improve your efficiency by at least 10% It helps in targeting enemy and player mechs. Force Field : ------------- Partially blocks out damage...sort of like a small shield. Solar Collector: --------------- Adds Shield and Energy Units per move. This is worth the price....It helps on those margin situations. E.F.S : ------- When you shields reach 0, it will kick in and Fold you to another part of the Universe to keep you alive. Then you had better hot foot it back to Optical Gate and buy more shield units before an enemy mech attacks you. E.F.S.H.S: ---------- When someones E.F.S kicks in while in a 1:1 attack, the E.F.S.H.S will lock on to the E.F.S system and Fold you into the same sector so you can continue attacking. Criuse Missile: --------------- This weapon is primarily for destroying planets, not taking them over. If a planet is to powerful to invade, try using this little hot item...and watch the sparks fly. Scanner ------- This scans planets, usefull when you're ready to attack another players planet. Power Pack 1000 --------------- This device will kick in when your power reaches 0 and refuel your mech energy with 1000 units. Sometimes players with Mirage and Borgman mechs cary these around when they explore deep space. Mine Shield ----------- This device is great for ramming into mines with. When you hit a mine, this device will lower the damage that your shields will sustain by 30 points. Death Charge ------------ This will detonate just before you do to take out shields or mines. Zone Scanner ------------ This will scan the zones and relay valuable info to you. Divertor -------- This enables the user to convert shield and energy units into each other. PLANETS: -------- By investing money in Planets it increases productivity of the mines and energy. You can add defensive measures to your planets by placeing mines in and around your planet, and buying fighters. -- STRATEGY NOTE: The best way to protect a planet is to put it in an acid cloud...it may take a bit off of your energy and shields everytime you access it...but consider the amount of money that you have pumped into it and the damage that can be done by a few cruise missiles. -- STRATEGY NOTE: Familize yourself with your mech, the amount of damage each weapon can inflict. Then surgically take out each enemy with the weapons you have. Don't waste huge sums of energy when using big weapons on tiny enemies. -- STRATEGY NOTE: If your sysop has registered his version, Consider visiting the GARAGE instead of buying a better main weapon. The Garage is a bit expensive for your mech, but the class change puts you in a whole new situation. -- STRATEGY NOTE: It is better when attacking multiple enemies to destroy 1 at a time. Not that it is quicker or anything, but the less enemies in your sector, the less chance of them to counter attack. -- STRATEGY NOTE: Folding is one of the best moving features in the game. Remeber though, it is only efficient to fold when the sector span from point A to point B is 3+ sectors. However, use this option to avoid mines and clouds. ENEMIES: -------- The following is a listing of enemies, and their default shields. Note, these values my vary depending on how the SysOp has configured the game. NAME SHIELDS ---- ------- Albatros 40 Agama 80 Athene 120 Burinok 160 Centrax 200 Galvon 240 Hammer Head 280 Hizak 320 Klatan 360 Larthogy 400 Madox 440 Murkiu 480 Zugock 520 GENERATING CASH: ---------------- The player travels through 10,000 sectors in search of Enemy drones to wipe out. Once he wipes these drones out, then he salvages metals, collects a bounty, and collects pulsar points. Once the player gains a large sum of starvacs, then he/she invest in energy, planets, mines, shields, weapons, mech maintenance....or whatever. The metals he salvages can be sold at one of the 1000 bases located throughout the entire universe. The ratio of drones to sectors is roughly 1 drone to about every 5 sectors. The payoffs for destroying a drone can be up to 2x the invested price. PLANETS: -------- The player can purchase a planet for 200,000 Starvacs. If the player chooses to invest in the planet, the planet will produce energy and mines that will pay for themselves in a short period of time. In order to defend the planet the player can create fighters on the planet to defend it, or protect it with mines. Only the owner and those with the landing password will be allowed to land without being attacked! ZONES: ------ There are 5 zones located throughout the universe that create enemy drones. The game objective is to destroy all of theses zones. The more zones that are destroyed, the less mech production there will be. Every move that the player makes is crutial. The metals that the player sells to the bases are collected by enemy cargo ships and brought back to the zones where the metals are converted back into drones. A destroyed zone will regenerate itself in 10 days. OPTICAL GATE: ------------- Optical Gate located in 1-1 is a special base that sells special items for your mech. These devices will aid your mech in its battle against the zones. APPRECIATION: ------------- Appreciation is calculated every time the maintenance is ran. It varies depending on how the SysOp has configured it. HELP: ----- If you find yourself in need of help, ask other players or the sysop. The rule of thumb is press the '?' mark to get a help menu. They are located throughout the game. If you find any bugs, report them to the sysop, please do not exploit them. (Something bad might happen to you!). In the mean time, do some damage. IDEAS: ----- If you have an idea, or multiple ideas send them to: Dennis R. Alexander c/o MECHTECH Software 32318 Wisconsin Livonia, MI 48150 USA If I implement them, I will credit you in the documentation.