Merciful 3/Merciful_Release_3.bin/software/b/breed96.dms/breed96.adf/breed6.doc

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{1}                            Editing the scenarios

{2}    Overview

       The scenario file is just a text file which may be editted in a normal
    text editor such as MicroEMACS on your workbench disk. You should look at
    the Breed disk in the scenarios directory and load up a scenario. It is
    easiest just to change an existing file and save it to a new scenario
    name. Please note that the Breed program looks for scenario numbers
    sequentially and therefore if (say) the last scenario is named
    scenario24.scn then you should make your next user defined scenario
    called scenario25.scn.

{2}    File names

    File names are named with this convention
    scenario999.scn    where 999 is the number of the scenario and must
    be the same as in the files scenario number.

{2}    Order of file

    There are 6 sections of the scenario file that you must have in your
    file.
    <Scenario> followed on the next line by the scenario number.
    <Short> followed on the next line by a sort description of the scenario
    (1 line).
    <BeginText> Followed on the next lines by a description of what is
    required of the user in the scenario. The description must be no longer
    than 10 lines and must have columns of no longer that 40 width. You can't
    have any commas in the description.
    <InitVars> must have the variables P,H,A,D,C as described below.
    Each statement occupying one line only.
    <WinVars> using the normal variables each occupyin one line only.
    <LoseVars> doing the same.

    Here is when you need in the file:
    <Scenario>
    ...
    <Short>
    ...
    <BeginText>
    ...
    <InitVars>
    ...
    <WinVars>
    ...
    <LoseVars>
    ...
    <End>

{2}    Variables used

    You can use the planet variable only in the init variables section.
    eg P 2 - Which sets your home planet to Lycan.

        Planets                      Units
      %%%%%%%%%%%                   %%%%%%%
      1.  Sun                 1.  Commerce centre
      2.  Lycan               2.  Observatory
      3.  Denari              3.  Mining station
      4.  Holopox             4.  Residential Unit
      5.  Plenus              5.  Docking port
      6.  Uropa               6.  Food Generator
      7.  Eijo                7.  Law centre
      8.  Pesoek              8.  Power Station
      9.  Easma               9.  Road
     10. Ymeth               10. Disruptor
     11. Belgold             11. Droid
     12. Quantol             12. Alien
     13. Vlech               13. Ore silo
     14. Drusul              14. Food silo
     15. Tralmath            15. Probe
     16. Venitar             16. Cargo Shuttle
                             17. Battle cruiser
     Others Variables for    18. Laser Drone
     Win and lose sections   19. Space station
     %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%   20. Diplomat vessel
     O   Ore                 21. Weapon update
     $   Credits             22. Shield update
     T   Traffic rate        23. Cargo hold update
     R   Rating              24. Ship speed update
     I   Population
     F   Food
     A1  Planets owned by Federation
     A2  Planets owned by Tsepan
     A3  Planets owned by Seraunde
     A4  Planets owned by Mutants
     P   Planets owned by you
     E   Energy on home planet

     For initialsing the variables
     %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     P x (where x is a planet number in the above list)
     H x (where x is hardness from 0 easy to 3 hard)
     A x (where x is the alien you are. 1 = Federation,
                                        2 = Tsepan,
                                        3 = Seraunde,
                                        4 = Mutant)
     D x (where x is the date from 2040. eg 000 = 2040.00, 134 = 2041.34)
     C x (where x is the amount of credits you begin with)

{2}    Operators

    The scenario interpreter recognises these symbols
     Symbol       Meaning
     %%%%%%     %%%%%%%%%%%%
       >        greater than
       <        less than
       =        equal to
       !        not equal to

{2}    Specifying the number of units

    You can specify the number of units in the win and lose sections
    using this convention. For example
    U13 > 4   means you need more than 4 ore silos. Ore silos is gained
    from the table described above with the entry number 13.

{2}    Win and lose variable sections

    In the winvars and losevars section a strict set of rules apply. For
    each line you must specify only 1 rule. For example F < 20 means that
    the amount of food on your planet is less than 20.
    For the warvars to be satisfied all of the rules must be satisfied in
    that section. That means that if you have I > 1000 in your winvars
    section then you can only win the scenario if you have more than 1000
    people in your population.

{2}    Please note

    It is not intended that the "average" user will find making new
    scenarios very useful. The addition of editable scenario files was made
    for the ease of use of the programmer and to allow additional scenario
    files to be emailed around. Please note that I may have left out some
    variables that have been included in the scenario files.
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