IMP44A1.circ From: DIGGER@AMTRASH.comlink.de (Stephan Grochowina) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000 ~FT~UNCIRCULARS:~un~ft GM: GM: Hallo folks! GM: GM: Welcome to the first official international imperium challenge. I apologize GM: for allowing so much time to pass by, but unfortunately, I had to prepare GM: for an exam and the imperium soft I had wasn't able to generate a new galaxy. GM: But these probs are solved now. GM: GM: Deadline will be each fortnight, so the following deadlines will be the 8th, GM: the 22nd of Dec. and the 5th of Jan.. If there are any problems sending your GM: moves during X-mas. please, don't hesitate to tell me. In that case a dead- GM: line or two can be postponed. GM: GM: Here's some more information about this round: GM: GM: Size: 20 x 25 planets GM: Neutralos: 100 GM: Real players: 31 GM: Winning condition: One player must control all planets GM: Maximal size of alliances: 10 players GM: GM: As this is the first international round I also decided to alter the ship data. GM: The data will be similar to that of 'classical' imperium. People using ImpTurn4 GM: or ImpTest are advised to cut out that data and to save it as 'ImpShips.44' to GM: the directory where ImpTest/Impturn4 are placed. Here's the ship data table: GM: GM: --------------- cut here ---------------------------------------------------- GM: Imp-Flottendaten: GM: ;So, hier in dieser Datei stehen nun also die Flottendaten, das sind GM: ;die Charakteristika der einzelnen Schiffe. Bisher werden allerdings GM: ;nur ein Bruchteil der angegeben Variablen wirklich genutzt. Alle, GM: ;die nicht veraendert werden duerfen, sind mit einem Sternchen vor dem GM: ;Namen markiert. GM: ;Name engl. Name Id Id2 Preis Roh Ind KK *Weg *KOL*KAP*ROH *Muell *Boost *Spio *x1 *x2 GM: Transporter Transport TRN TRN 400 1 40 0 1 10 2000 10 Nein Ja Nein 0 0 GM: Abfangjaeger Fighter AJG FTR 100 0 25 1 3 0 0 0 Ja Nein Nein 0 0 GM: Zerstoerer Destroyer ZST DST 180 0 30 2 3 0 0 0 Ja Nein Nein 0 0 GM: Kreuzer Cruiser KRZ CSR 760 1 40 10 3 0 0 0 Ja Nein Nein 0 0 GM: Schlachtschiff Battleship SCS BSP 6500 2 50 100 3 0 0 0 Ja Nein Nein 0 0 GM: Grosskampfstern Great-Darkstar GKS GDS 22000 5 50 400 3 0 0 0 Ja Nein Nein 0 0 GM: ---------------- cut here ----------------------------------------------------- GM: GM: By the way, If someone is still interested in some Imperium tools (they are not necessary GM: to play but a bit of a help) he/she can order it from my fileserver. All you have to do GM: is sending me a mail with the subject 'fileserver'. The fileserver can interpret the GM: following commands: GM: GM: HELP GM: LIST GM: SEND <file>+ ie. one or more files named <file> will be sent GM: ENDE marks end of command list. All following text will be left uninterpreted. GM: GM: GM: Now some more general stuff: GM: As there are quite a lot of newbies involved in this round, a few questions might occur, GM: so don't hesitate to ask. Secondly, some might do a few mistakes. That's no problem as GM: any occured mistakes will be reported in the receipt, so posting your move in time bears GM: the chance of posting a corrected move. I WILL NOT correct any moves, especially not in the GM: beginning, because I think you should get used to the imperium syntax and a move containing GM: errors in the first few rounds doesn't have such a bad effect on your empire as a move con- GM: taining errors when your home planet is under siege. Thirdly, if you discover any software GM: errors, please report them (please don't cheat by using them). But before, please make sure GM: that they are really software errors. About 90 percent of the errors having been reported to GM: me so far were user errors. Finally, if you are bored of the game or some other reasons force GM: you to quit, please, tell me, so I'll find someone else or Neutralo will take over your Empire. GM: Please do not allow another player to swallow your empire or to control it as a pseudo empire GM: (for example using your empire for joining a rival alliance in order to get their data). This GM: is an extremely unfair act which will result in expelling the player who took over the second GM: empire from this round. You will be on the safe side if you give me a shout that you want to quit GM: and that player xyz wants to take over your empire. GM: GM: Absolutely finally, the subject of your moves is important. The imperium-soft recognizes automa- GM: tically imperium moves with the subject 'imp<game number>p<player number>.bef', but it's not case- GM: sensitive. So, for example, 'IMP44p12.bEf', 'imp44p1.bef', 'IMP44p3.BEF' will be correct subjects GM: for players 12, 1 and 3 for this round (the game number of this round is 44). Using another subject GM: might result in an NMR (no move received) as the move will be undetected by the soft (and possibly GM: by me). GM: GM: Those who wish to have German system output (the messages of participants will not be translated GM: by the software. If this program of a few 100 k could do that the programmer would probably win GM: a Nobel prize and then a bunch of angry scientists would hang him.) should use the DOS-command. GM: An English help text will be enclosed to this update, if you wish to have a German one, change GM: to German and use the HELP-command in your next move. GM: GM: That's all for now. Enjoy the game. GM: ~FT~UNANNOUNCEMENTS:~un~ft This year was peaceful. Swell! Statistics: TRN=31, FTR=62, DST=31, CSR=0, BSP=0, GDS=0 Next year's prices: TRN=$412 FTR=$98 DST=$176 CSR=$745 BSP=$6370 GDS=$21560 ~DE Sl'ain Leat, DIGGER@AMTRASH.COMLINK.DE, Stephan Grochowina@2:240/5811 --------------- To receive public key ask for receipt! --------------------- Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. (Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless) Up