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- Monolith
- Addon by Shmitz (Mark Major)
- e-mail: mmajor@dibbs.net
- Version 1.0
-
- [The Concept]
- The object in Monolith is to prevent at all costs the monolith that is shared by the four
- players, while seeking to destroy the monolith of the AI in your quadrant of the map.
- The four players are neutral to each other, which means that they won't attack each other,
- but there is no sharing of LOS, units, or resources. There is only one winner, but if the
- AI's destroy your monolith, there will be no winner. To make matters more difficult, the
- AI's can repair their monolith, but the players cannot repair theirs. This addon thus
- requires a strange mix of teamwork and competition alike. You must protect your monolith,
- and thus you must communicate with the other players as well as spread into their
- quadrants to get LOS and help protect your monolith. However, if you want to be the winner,
- you must be the first to destroy your target. Also, it is not wise to attack another player
- to prevent them from winning. To do so would be to invite their opponent AI even closer
- to threaten your monolith. It won't neccesarily be the player with the most units that wins,
- rather the player who can use his or her units most efficiently to reach their goal faster
- than everyone else.
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- [Goals put simply]
- Each player exists in a quadrant:
- +-----+-----+
- |a1 | a2|
- | p1|p2 |
- +-----+-----+
- | p3|p4 |
- |a3 | a4|
- +-----+-----+
- Each player must destroy the monolith of the AI in the same quadrant.
- In other words, p1 must destroy a1's monolith, p2 must destroy a2's monolith, p3 must
- destroy a3's monolith, and p4 must destroy a4's monolith. Also, if the AIs destroy
- the monolith in the center (shared by the players) then everyone loses.
-
- [What You Get]
- One large map comes with Monolith.
-
- [How to Install]
- You MUST place KOTH.zip in your "Dark Reign\dark" directory. Then use Winzip to unzip the
- file. If you use DOS pkunzip, you must use the -d option when unzipping. All appropriate
- directories will be created.
-
- [Getting the game started]
- There are several things that, due to the way the multiplayer interface is set up, MUST be
- set by the person who hosts the game. You must set units to DEFAULT, not three rigs.
- Otherwise the monoliths will not appear and all goals will immediately be accomplished.
- The game MUST be set for ALLIANCES, not teams. Finally, there MUST be 8 players set. If you
- try a three player game, use an AI player for the fourth side. Two player games are not
- recommended as you will spend most of your time rooting the AI from your water wells.
- If all 8 player slots are not filled with a player or AI, then the addon will not work.
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- DARK REIGN: THE FUTURE OF WAR
- Copyright (c) 1997 Activision Studios. All rights reserved.
- Dark Reign is a trademark of Activision Studios.