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MAIN-MENU
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NEW GAME
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Starts new single/hotseat/multiplayer game.
JOIN GAME
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Opens connect to server menu.
Connect to remote server running Great Nations.
LOAD SAVED GAME
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Loads saved game and enters to lobby-screen.
OPTIONS
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Change screen resolution, multiplayer machine name and new game session
name.(you can't change machine name at lobby-screen!)
HELP
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Goto help screen
QUIT
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Quit Great Nations
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LOBBY AREAS GREY BUTTONS
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POWERCHART
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Visitors/players can look nations' statistics. Only active when game
is running. If visitor/player double clicks one of statistics screen,
screen zooms larger.
WORLD
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EXIT
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Close world/server/start options menu.
LOAD
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Load saved config.
SAVE
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Save present config.
DELETE
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Delete old config(s).
NEXT/PREV
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PAGE 1/3
Select world paramaters. (only player who have superuser privileges,
or started the game is able to change parameters)
button with world name: select pre-drawn maps or random map.
WIDTH : width of map (random only)
HEIGHT : height of map (random only)
LAND : percentage of land (random only)
CONTINENTS : number of big continents
TEMPERAT. : temperature of world (smaller=colder)
HUMIDITY : humidity of world (smaller=dryer)
RIVERS : percentage of rivers
MOUNTAIN : percentage of mountains
VILLAGE : percentage of villages
EXTRA : percentage of gems, gold, oil etc..
START POS : select between random or map's build-in start positions
TERRAIN : Map terrain=use map file's terrain, RANDOM=randomly generate terrain
PAGE 2/3
server options. (only player who have superuser privileges
or started the game is able to change parameters)
NAME :change session name
MAIN PASSWORD :change/add/remove connection password
ACCEPT CONNECTIONS :client connection accept/denied
STOP TIME IN... :is time stopped on players list or not
SERVER PORT :network port (default=26000)
ADMIN PASSWORD :password for superuser privileges
ALLOW COOPERATIVE MODE :not implemented yet
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New Game starting parameters (only player who have superuser privileges,
or started the game is able to change parameters)
TIME LIMIT :max time per turn
LAST PLAYER'S TIME LIMIT :max time for last non-ready player
4xBUILDING/INVENTION SLOT :starting buildings and inventions
4xENDING SLOT :game ending selection
6xSTART UNIT SLOT :starting unit selection
OPTIONS
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SCREEN MODE
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Change resolution
NEW GAME
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Starts new game without removing visitors from lobby-screen
LOAD
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Loads saved game.
SAVE
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Save running game. Only active when game is running.
(only player who have superuser privileges, or started
the game is able to save game)
HELP
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Goto help screen
START
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Starts terrain generator or start the game if terrain is already
generated. Game starts when all players' ready-flags (green color) are active.
RETURN
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Back to game-screen.
QUIT
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Disconnect all players if selected from server machine or
only players in this machine if connected to remote server
and returns to main menu.
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LOBBY NATION SELECTION AREA
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This area shows all free nation slots, their names, nations and
local, ready and active -flags.
Use left mouse button to edit your name, color and nation (only allowed
before game has been started)
GREEN ORB BUTTON
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Green color means free nation slot (max. 8 players).
When taken control of nation button's color changes to red.
Player can leave the nation by pressing button again
color changes back to green and any other visitor can take control of nation.
YELLOW ORB BUTTON
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Server can't start the game without all yellow buttons have been pressed.
When player is ready to start and pressed the button color chages to green.
PASSWORD
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Nation password. Player can set password by pressing the button
and writing the passcode twice. When password is active
button color changes to red. player can cancel password by pressing
return twice in empty password qestion menu (server can also cancel passwords)
NATION COLOR
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Player can change nation color.
LEADER NAME
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Player can change nation leaders name.
NATION NAME
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Player can change nation.
TIME SLOT
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Shows player game turn time.
Meaning of three boxes at right of screen:
1: LOCAL-flag. Players which have this flag active are playing
in this machine.
2: READY-flag. Players which have this flag active are ready
to start game or ready for next game turn.
3: ACTIVE-flag. Player(s) which have this flag active are currently
controlling their nation(s). (Useful in hotseat games)
TEAM MODE
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Players can select team by pressing left mouse button(max 1-8 times).
All players that have a same team number will belong to same team.
Nations at same team see each others terrain, units and towns and they
can't attack each other or change their relation.
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LOBBY PLAYERS/VISITORS MACHINE NAME AREA
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YELLOW ARROW BUTTONS
Scroll visitor list.
RED X-BUTTON
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Player with superuser privileges can kick any machine from the
lobby/game screens. When machine is kicked from game it can join
back to lobby, but only if server have "accept connections" set
YELLOW/GREEN SQARE BUTTON
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Server can add/remove superuser privileges to another client, when pressed
color changes to green, then client have all the same rights as server,
but client can't kick the server!
If "admin password" is set, any player can get superuser privileges by typing
correct password.
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GAME-screen
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See ingame HELP for keys