DOMINION

Section: Games and Demos (6)
Updated: 18 OCT 1991
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NAME

dominion - a multi-user game of world simulation and conquest

SYNOPSIS

dominion [-n nation_name] [-d dir_path] [-h] [-p] [-c]

: dom_make [-d dir_path]
: dom_add [-m] [-d dir_path] [-f npcs_file]
: dom_update [-b] [-a] [-d dir_path] [-p passwd]
: dom_print [-a] [-d dir_path] [-W] [-b]

WARNING

This man page is an extract of the documentation of Dominion and is limited to the overview and the meaning of the options. It is updated only occasionally, because the GNU project does not use nroff. For complete, current documentation, refer to the Info file Dominion or the DVI file dominion.dvi which are made from the LaTeXinfo source file dominion.texinfo.

OVERVIEW

Dominion is an empire-style multi-player world simulation game. Each player is the leader of a nation, and makes decisions for that nation. The decisions are political, military, diplomatic and economic and all these are extremely important for the well-being of a nation. Some nations can be played by the computer. These nations are called NPCs (Non Player Countries). They play a challenging game, and are quite useful if few human players are available.

Dominion has features from both fantasy role-playing games, educational games, and war games: a user needs to develop a character as leader of a nation, keep a healty economy, and can then develop a strong military force using magic or technology.

Most of the moves you make are not resolved until the end of a turn, when the update is run. This update will incorporate your changes into the world data base, then it will update your economy, handle migration of people, resolve battles and conquest of land, freshen up your armies (restore move points), and a few other things.

The rhythm of the game is set by how much money you have spent, and how much you have moved your armies. If you have spent all your money, you will need to wait until your revenue comes in (after the update) before you can spend more. Similarly, if you have already moved all your armies, and they are overcome by fatigue, then you will have to wait until they have recovered. This will happen in the update. The time elapsed between updates is called a thon.

OPTIONS

: -n nation_name play as nation_name instead of promping for the name
: -d dir_path play the game from the directory dir_path instead of the
default directory
: -h invoke the cinfo documentaion browser
: -p print a list of all participating nations
: -c print the last update time

BUGS

Dominion is an extremely large piece of software. There are certainly many bugs.

AUTHORS

There are many authors. Refer to the complete manual to see the contribution of each one. They appear in the order in which they wrote their first contribution:

: Mark Galassi
Michael Fischer
Doug Novellano
Keith Messing
Alan Saporta
Joanne Rosenshein
Stephen Bae
Chris Coligado
C. Titus Brown
Charles Ofria
Stephen Underwood
Paolo Montrasio
Kevin Hart

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