Aharpo.613 net.games.emp utzoo!decvax!harpo!ber Fri May 7 07:43:50 1982 Re: Re: who else is running empire? - from a notesfile #R:u1100a:-13800:harpo:15500004:040:1186 harpo!ber May 7 07:30:00 1982 land masses, (continental drift was too complicated), and then pseudo-randomly places veins of gold and iron ore, fertility, rivers, etc. New countries may join the game at any time; upon entry into the game a new country is given two adjacent sectors. These sectors are initially designated "sanctuaries" and are inviolable. (Each country uses its own coordinate system with sector 0,0 being the current capital, a sanctuary, initially. The initial two sectors are always numbered 0,0 and 2,0.) The new nation may stay in these two sectors for any length of time and thereby be safe from attack. However, in order to build or expand it is necessary to leave the safety of the sanctuary. The sector of land that was a sanctuary can then be redesignated as one of a multitude of other land-use types ranging from weather stations to gold mines to munitions plants. For further information, here are a few "info" command topics that are basic to the understanding of the game: bye designate map spy update census food move syntax weather country info sector-types time {commands} ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.