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- The game length option in fact gives you the following choices, in years:
- 20, 40, 60, 80, 100
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- As described in the manual, you can turn the ENN video segments off if you
- find them distracting. If they are off you will still get necessary
- information - but via quicker, still-pictures. You can switch ENN off, on, or
- set it to "MIX". This setting will play full ENN video for occasional news
- stories only, and will usually give you a static picture.
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- The "End Turn Save" option increases the time taken up by the computer
- between turns. If you want the fastest processing between turns, make sure
- this option is off.
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- For the toughest challenge, set difficulty to "Hardest" from the 'Set The
- Challenge' box, and/or give yourself less starting cash. Difficulty level
- affects the cleverness of the AI players, and sets whether you first, second,
- third or fourth each turn.
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- There is a display toward the bottom right of the main screen (just under the
- spinning E-mail 'e'). It serves as a rough guide to how well the four
- Powerhouses are doing, in three different areas. These areas are: current
- cash, energy supplied and environmental damage caused. Switch between these 3
- areas by clicking on the icon to the left of the horizontal bar chart. The
- bar chart now displays performance levels of all Powerhouses in the area
- chosen. The number to the right of the chart is your standing in the chosen
- area.
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- The manual states that, when you build a transformer, the computer will
- decide which other transformer to connect the new one to. In fact, you can
- manually specify where energy from each transformer should go. Right-click on
- a transformer and use the new Connect button to do this. When you build a
- transformer, you MUST use Connect to specify where energy should go. If you
- don't, your transformer will do nothing.
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- There is also a new overlay - the Power Network - which you can use to check
- out how your transformers are connected.
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- If you are having trouble getting PowerHouse to run, use Notepad to edit a file
- called POWSYS.DAT, which you will find in the directory you installed PowerHouse
- to. Edit the last number to be 7
- For example you might see D:\2
- Change it to D:\7
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- If this does not cure it change the number to 0.
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