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Path: uunet!mcsun!chsun!pega!dr_who From: dr_who@pegasus.ch (Sysop of PEGASUS) Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.games Subject: VMS-SpcEmp Docfile Message-ID: <1993Jun7.092637.120@pegasus.ch> Date: 7 Jun 93 09:26:37 +0200 Organization: Pegasus BBS, Switzerland Lines: 280 Xref: uunet vmsnet.sources.games:732 copy this file into the SPCEMP: directory and rename it to SPCEMP.DOC ---CUT HERE--- . . . + SUPER + * * ##### ##### ### ###### ###### ## ## # ## ## ## ## * * ## ###### ####### ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## . #### ## ## ## #### ###### * . ##### #### ### ###### ## ##### ##### + ## ## ## ## ## # ## ## # ## . . #### ## ## ###### ## ##### ### . + ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## * . ##### ## ## ## ## ## ## ##### . . . VAX/OPEN VMS Version 0.98 (27.02.93-20.05.93) (c)'93 R.Sieber & N.Kuemin For suggestions or BugReports: Email to DR_WHO@PEGASUS.CH or call ++41 [0]71715577 or (x.25) ++228 475212574 dedicated to Eveline Rudigier Thanks to BIG_ONE and FERX for debugging and bugreports. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction II. Running Your Empire III. Battle IV. Missile Attacks V. Spies and Pirats VI. Trading / Bank-Stage / Lottery VII. Hints and Tips A. Appendix -A- RACES I. Introduction The object of Space Empire is simple. You are the absolute ruler of a set of worlds. Your goal is to be the most powerful empire through diplomacy, economic ploys, and most of all, war. The first person to be "Space Lord" for seven days in a row ascends the uridium throne of the galaxy and becomes Lord of the Universe. To be Space Lord, you must have at least 150,000 points and be the highest scorer if there is more than one empire with 150,000 points. II. Running Your Empire At the beginning of each turn, you collect money in the form of taxes from your people and ore mined from planets. You also get a stock of food from agricultural worlds and a flow of weaponry from defense planets. Additionally there are some other kinds of planets, you can earn most with tourism planets, but you can only buy a limited amount. Otherwise you will earn nothing at all. You can buy aprox. 1 tourism planet for 100 mil. of our population. Moreover the people dont like to travel if they are unhappy. If you want to trade you could buy trade planets they wont give you much more money than mine-planets, but you can increase that amount if you buy freighters and pilots. Your governing planets, which are purely administrative worlds, don't do you any good and just sap your funds -- but you need one of them for every 25 other planets. After collecting this money, you are allowed to budget your money as you see fit. Certain amounts will be requested which you are advised to stay close to. Your people will also require food -- make sure you either buy enough food each round or have enough agricultural worlds to support your people! Additionally you will be asked to spend money for health research, and technology research. Remember healthy people are happy people! Soon, you'll be able to buy extra things, including more weaponry, planets, etc. Spend wisely. Don't use up all your money, or buy things which could sap all your money away in the future. The higher your technology level is, the more weapons you can chose to buy and the stronger your defense are. The money suggested to spend for those points are the minimum amounts to keep the level. Spend more to increase the level and less to decrease, but who wants that ? You must keep your populace happy! Abusing them by not giving them enough food and not allocating enough money to your planets will stir up unrest. There are many factors which modify how happy your people are. Make sure you learn these and keep them that way. Internal unrest is worse than the most powerful of enemy armies! HINTS: People by nature are happier when they are well fed. The food levels suggested by the program are the MINIMUM levels required to keep them at their present status. Same with money needed for the planets the suggested amount is the minimum required to maintain the Status QUO. To build planets and defenses effectively during your first rounds in the game. Start off by buying NOTHING BUT ORE PLANETS for the first ten turns on turn one you should buy all ore planets except for about 2 or three agricultural planets always keep the agricultural planets producing more than the minimum required of food. Planet costs start to esculate rapidly but ore planets are the best investment. Each planet requires 10K credits to maintain and each governing planet requires 20K credits each. Since ORE planets produce 21K credits of income you profit 10K credits for every ORE planet you have. KEEP the levels of governing planets up to the minimum of 1 gov planet for every 25 plus fraction thereof of the other planets. Lack government representation is extremely bad for your people. After round ten or fifteen start buying Defense Planets but make sure that for every defense or agricultural planet you buy you alway buy at least one ore planet to support it. (Two ore planet to support the governing planets.) III. Battle Battle is an integral part of the game -- this is how you weaken your enemies and sieze planets from them. The victor in battle depends on many factors. Each unit of battle force works a little differently. Soldiers are the base unit of your military -- they have the weakest firepower in battle, but you need them to back up all your other forces. If you don't back up your other weaponry with troops of soldiers, you are surely doomed. Fighter craft (X-wings) are offense only weapons, and are about twice as effective as soldiers when attacking. The cost a little more, and for every 100 fighters you have, you need a carrier to transport them. Defense stations cost about the same as fighters, and are defense only and the power increases when your techlevel goes up. Cruisers are both offensive and defensive, have more firepower than either X-wings or soilders, but cost about twice as much. The Y-wing fighters don't need carriers to be transported to the battlefield. Moreover they're slightly more powerfull than X-wings but less then cruisers. They are offensive and defensive they are also quite cheap. But you can't get them if your technolgy level is to low. The Y-wings do not have the power to destroy enemies defense stations, the only weapon against them are the X-Wings. If your technology level is very high you will get the possibilty to buy Imperial Starfighters, they are about twice as strong as Y-Wings. (Pay attention the Starfighters need 100 soldiers each to operate). In the future you might even get Death Stars, who knows.... The morale of your military is a very important factor. If you continuously lose battles, their morale will go down. It will go up if you win battles and allocate them extra money. It is also changed by various other factors. For instance, domestic unrest tends to demoralize your army. Be sure that you never attack an enemy with less then 50 soldiers, otherwise you will surly loose the battle and so the army get demoralised. There is always an element of chance. A lesser enemy always has a slight chance of winning a battle if the two battle forces are close enough in size. If the attacking battle force emerges the victor, he will gain 10% of his enemy's planets (rounded up). His enemy will be wiped out of the game if you take all of his planets. This is one of the greatest moral boosters your army can get. Moreover you will get 10 % of the enemie's bank account. New players are protected from being attacked for a period of 20 turns, unless they attack someone else first (note 20 turns ends at the beginning of turn 21.) If you fail to logon to the game for 7 days you will lose your protection and made open game for the rest of the players. This is done to benefit those who are actively playing the game and to clear room for other players to join the game. HINTS: The best way to attack is to spy on the player you are about to attack if they are not part of an alliance send slightly more of troops, fighters (against defense stations), and heavy cruisers than your opponent has. If he has an alliance send your best guess or what you think his allaince has to support in addition to the normal required forces. Note: Alliances are not yet included in the VMS Version. IV. Missile Attacks Additionaly to the battle option you can fight your enemys with different types of heavy missiles. They are more powerfull than a normal battle attack. They are 4 missile types all of them will cause one major problem to your enemy. 1) Anti-Matter - these are the cheapest missiles availble and they destroy exactly one governing planet. (attention there's a second type quite like this one and that one destroys 50% of that type of plantes) 2) Thermo-Nuclear - these will cause severe health problems to the enemys population. Moreover your enemy will lose aprox. 30 % of his citizen 3) Chemical - If this missile hits your enemy he will lose all agricultural planets and all food in stock. Moreover his harmony will decrease. 4) Conventional - very dangerous weapon, if you succed your enemy will lose half of his army. ( Therefore it's the most expansive ) But what can you do against a missile attack ? The more defense planets you own the higher the chance to reject a missile attack. Moreover you could buy missile-defense stations to get saver. V. Spies and Pirats Spying can be very useful during the game. If you want to attack someone but you dont know how strong his army is, you could use this option. The possibilities so far: 1) Covert Mission: Spy on Military and/or Government 2) Covert Mission: Spy on the Army strength 3) Pirating: Steal enemy's Y-Wing starfighters 4) Pirating: Steal enemy's Mk-Freighters 5) Pirating: Attack enemy's TradePlanets [NOT YET INCLUDED} 6) Show own Army strength (offense and defense) 7) Secret Public Poll under your people 2-5] You have to send more spy-power than your enemy owns, to succed ! 3/4] To steal one ship you have to send 2 soldiers and one Y-Wing Fighter. Reason: A Y-Wing can transport only 2 people and you need the flight the stolen ship back to your region. By the way if you just press return or enter 0, the max. availble amount of soldiers or fighters will be sent to the mission. Good luck, 007 !! :-) VI. Trading / Bank-Stage / Lottery Trading is one more chance to earn more money. In the Bank you can put money on your account or withdraw it. You will earn intrest. Moreover you can send money to another player. In the lottery you can win money what else. VII. Hints and Tips 1) Be sure you spend enough money in research. 1 or 2 credits more than suggested by the computer is never enough. Try to spend twice or 3 times the amount asked. 2) A higher Techlevel will increase your defense stations power up to 4 times! (That's twice as strong as the stronges offensive weapon !) 3) Bank accounts are usefull to save money espacialy to protect it against pirate attacks. But on the other hand you could loose it when you get attack by an enemy. 4) Never give 0 credits when asked some money ! This would be a fatal mistake and maybe your last one. 5) It's worth trying to trade. A. Appendix -A- RACES Race |Dexterity|Knowledge|Mechanical|Perception|Strength|Technical| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ewok | 14 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 8 | Gamorrean | 18 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 6 | Ithorian | 12 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 8 | Jawa | 12 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 18 | M.Calamari | 12 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 13 | Quarren | 12 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 8 | Sand People| 13 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 6 | Sullustan | 12 | 7 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 8 | Twi'lek | 12 | 12 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 12 | Wookie | 12 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 25 | 8 | Human | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 6 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Datas have been taken from the Star-Wars Sourcebook. Docfile by Roger Sieber. ---CUT HERE--- -- Internet: Dr_who@pegasus.ch __ Phone : ++41-71-71 70 42 /// FAX : ++41-71-71 27 87 __ /// "I'M THE DOCTORE BECAUSE \\\/// IT'S FUN FUN FUN ! " BBS Phone: ++41-71-71 55 77 \XX/ - TOM BAKER X.25 : +228 4752 1 2574