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WELCOME TO..... ╥────╥ ╥────╥ ────── ╓─────╖ ╓─────╖ ╥╥ ╥ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╙ ║ ║ ║╨╥ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╨╥ ║ ║ ║ ╟────╢ ╟──────╢ ║ ───╖ ║ ║ ║ ╨╥ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╨╥╜ ╙────╜ ╙ ╙ ╙ ╙ ╨─────╨ ╙─────╨ ╙ ╙ ╥ ╥ ────── ╥────╥ ╥─────╥ ║ ╥ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╨╥ ╨ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╨╥ ║ ║ ║ ╟──────╢ ╟────╢ ╨╥ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╥ ╨╥ \───/ \───/ ╙ ╙ ╙ ╙ ╙─────╨ Version 1.05 (1,234,567,890) REGISTERED To: A HAPPY SYSOP DRAGON WARZ! User Documentation ------------------------------- CopyRight 1991 by Bruce R. Ruona, Documentation edited by Ivar G. Petersen SoftSpot SoftWare Inc. Bytes -r- Us BBS, FIDO 1:2280/1, 906-228-6517 I. INTRODUCTION Welcome to the world of DRAGON WARZ! Your main objective in DRAGON WARZ! is to gain strength and power by accumulating cities, cubits, points, soldiers, fighting equipment, and doing your best to wipe out your opponents. You attain this by building your empire craftily, forming the right alliances with other players, and attacking with force and strategy. Your ultimate objective is to be the new "Dragon Lord", and be entered into the "Dragon Lords Hall Of Fame" at the end of the month. In addition to other human players, you have one other big problem to worry about - The MALACHI empire. The MALACHIs are a computer controlled empire that will wreak havoc on your realm, stealing cities, destroying food stores, and other dastardly deeds. The MALACHIs can, of course, be defeated just like any other empire - if you are man (or woman) enough to take them on! That is Dragon Warz! in a nutshell. II. GAME HISTORY The game of DRAGON WARZ! is based loosely on a FANTASTIC game currently played all over the US and Europe on the ATARI ST system calling itself SPACE EMPIRE ELITE (SEE for short)...I can only hope that my adaption of this game meets with as much approval as the original. The original Space Realm was conceived and programmed by Jon Radoff of Middle Earth BBS in the USA a few years ago. With later revisions by Jurgen Van Den Handel, Steve Reed and currently by Carlis Darby, who amongst other things has been responsible for adding the marvellous inter-galactic features. III. GAME OVERVIEW Dragon Warz! (hereafter referred to as DWARZ) is a simple, yet intricate game featuring strategy, tactics and a good bit of pure GUTS! The actual "play" of the game is quite easy, everything follows a simple pattern of menus that for all intents and purposes are virtually identical each turn. However, what you decide to do at each menu can greatly affect your empire, the empires of others, and other game options that you will be faced with. DWARZ is almost entirely pure strategy with deceptively simple options each turn. Cities - There are three types of Cities: FOOD, COMMERCIAL, and INDUSTRIAL. FOOD Cities are absolutely essential to the functioning of your empire - you have to feed your hungry population and your fighting forces! You can to some extend purchase food rather than produce it, but you might find this puts you into a situation where you are to vulnerable to the whimps of other players. COMMERCIAL Cities are your income-producers. Without a doubt you will generally have 3 or more times COMMERCIAL Cities than any other type, because if you do not, your empire will collapse in poverty. INDUSTRIAL Cities, are used to produce goods such as WARRIORS, DRAGONS, THIEVES, CASTLES and others. You will have the option of setting your industrial production percentages at the beginning of each day. All commodities produced are automatically added to what the player has on hand at the beginning of each turn. One Important fact you MUST keep in mind at all times if You wish to become a successful DWARZ player...Cities Cost CUBITS to both purchase and maintain each turn!...if you have too many of one type city such as food, and not enough Commercial, the cost of maintaining your food cities may be far to much to bear and result in a collapse of your empire!...Remember that all commodities are available individually within the game. WARRIORS - The "backbone" of your fighting army, WARRIORS are essential to a successful empire. Too many at once, however, and you may not be able to feed or pay them all. Too few, and you'll be a weak target for other players. (Used for offense and defense) DRAGONS - Dragons are useful when attacking other players. (Offensive only) CASTLES - Help to protect you from enemy attacks. They are relatively inexpensive, and you can't have too many. (Defensive Only) GENERALS- One general commands a squad of 50 warriors. In order to use your warriors, you MUST have enough generals. THIEVES - These are your "Agents of the Night" which you use to perform acts of spying, backstabbing, and of course theft! With the proper usage of these you can wreck havoc on an opponents empire! You can never have too many of these, and you must have at LEAST 100 to perform any of the covert actions available later. MAGES - You also can not have enough of these!! not only do they help in your attacks but also in the defense of your empire!...You can send these along with attack forces or let them use their combined mystic abilities to wreck (un)holy havoc on an opponent. (Used for offense and defense) IV. GAME PLAY When you first enter the Game, You will be asked what alias you wish to use. Please note that the game is limited to a total of 25 players, and if the game is already full, you will be instructed to try again tomorrow! If you don't use your player for a period of 10 days, the game will automatically delete you to make room for others who wish to play!... also as a new player, if you QUIT the game with 3 or more turns remaining, your player will be deleted to prevent using up a valuable player slot! The very first thing you will see upon entry to the game are a number of messages either sent by other players or notification of occurrences since you last played. You will be able to read these at the present time, but you will not be able to respond. These messages could be like: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following has happened to you since you last played: Your attempt to SLEEP of MALACHI(ANOTHER BOARD) Was at least an indeterminate success!!... A GROUP Returned from MALACHI at ANOTHER BOARD Your attack was an success!!! 3,920 Soldiers, 2,940 Dragons, 245 Mages and 78 Generals returned Safely home Your 14% Share earned you 7 Cities! ANOTHER NICE PLAYER shipped you 500 warriors The first thing you'll see when entering the actual game is a screen similar to the following, which allows you to review both todays and yesterdays news files of significant occurrences, view player listings for inter-Realm data etc... (more on the Inter-Realm functions later!) It is very advisable to read the news in order for you to keep up to date about what goes on in the realm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [A] TODAYS News in Brief [B] YESTERDAYS News in Brief [C] DISPLAY UPDATE Information [D] VIEW Recon Data [E] SHOW PLAYER Scores [F] Read PLAYER Documentation <1> SYSOP LOG ========================================================================== OPTION [A,B,C,D,E,F,'RETURN'] INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION ALLOCATION: Now you get to set the percentage of each item that is allocated to your total production of your Industrial Cities. You will get the following menu: ----------------------------------- Current Production Percentages ----------------------------------- Warriors 6% Dragons 4% Castles 5% Thieves 48% Magic-Users 37% ----------------------------------- You currently own 17 industrial cities Adjust Production Percentages [y/N] Change Allocation - You will be able to adjust the amount of effort going into each item produced. Choosing 50% for an item means that 50% of your industrial cities are devoted solely to producing the desired item. The more expensive an item is generally means that less of that item will be produced per turn. You can allocate any percentage you want, as long as the total allocation does not exceed 100%. The next screen will show the actual production of the round: ----------------------------------- Current turn Industrial Production ----------------------------------- Warriors 6 Dragons 2 Castles 3 Thieves 4 Magic-Users 5 ----------------------------------- This is a status screen showing the current turn industrial production and it is followed by information about food grown, commercial fees raised, 'donations', and other sources including general taxes raised by taxing your population. The amount of production (other then industrial!) can be dramatically affected by the PEACEFULNESS (or lack thereof!) of your empire each turn, so it is vital to have a PEACEFUL empire each turn!! You Raise 2,861,123 Cubits in Commercial Fees Your Population GAINED 47 People! You Collect 506,952 Cubits in Taxes 206,349 Tons of FOOD were Raised THE MAN! Current Empire Statistics ___________________________________________________________________________ Remaining Turns: 3 Cubits: 58,412,375 Cities: 255 Population: 2,347 Warriors: 9,959 Magic Users: 1,634 (180 Pts/18 Spells) Dragons: 5,955 Thieves: 38 Castles: 2,642 Generals: 393 ---CITIES CONTROLLED--- Commerce: 201 Industrial: 17 Food: 37 Forces are at 98% Effectiveness EMPIRE STATUS: PEACEFUL Empire Food Reserves Are: 409,276 TONS Most of this screen is pretty self-explanatory, however there are a few things that have not previously been mentioned including: ARMY EFFECTIVENESS: This is a rating of the general performance of your armies, and is affected by a number of different factors including losses in battles, lack of defensive forces, underpayment etc... EMPIRE STATUS: This is a general rating of the contentment of your population and ranges from PEACEFUL, via DISSENSION, REVOLUTION and UNDER COUP to CIVIL WAR. The more discontent your empire is, the lower your per turn production, the more you will have to pay for your cities until under CIVIL WAR, revolutionaries may even capture a number of your most valuable cities! PROTECTION: New players are protected by law for 20 turns (4 days worth) to allow them to build their empire. While under protection, you may not attack, nor may you be attacked! After coming out of the status screen you will get the first in a series of questions you have to answer regarding payment of funds and the purchase/allocation of food supplies. The number in brackets at each prompt indicates the exact required amount - pressing a bare <Return> will allocate this amount for you. In the first block of questions, you will have to pay your armies, pay to raise your military's effectiveness level (if needed and if you so desire), pay to maintain your cities, pay your Crime Prevention Agencies and pay to raise the abilities of your mages. Note that if you do not pay your Cities/Forces enough, you will be given a message and an opportunity to reenter your amounts. Failure to pay your forces might result in the loss of some of them. Failure to pay your cities might result in a CIVIL WAR! You will now enter the Food Common Market: Welcome to the common market where food is bought and sold... there are currently 10,003,000 tons of food available FOOD is currently in a LOW DEMAND state. We are BUYING @ 2 Cubit/Ton, and SELLING @ 2 Cubit/Ton Your Empire food reserves are 409,276 Tons. [B]uy food, [S]ell Food, [C]ontinue The Food Common Market works very simply: You can buy or sell food, or just bypass it if you desire. Note however, that the food market comes JUST BEFORE you have to feed your military and your population. MAKE SURE you either have enough food on hand, or that you purchase enough to feed everyone. Prices in the common market will fluctuate with supply and demand, and at times food may even run out entirely. In that case, you will have to rely on your own food stores to feed your empire. If you do not feed your armies or your population enough they will starve, some might die, and you will quickly become unpopular to the extent of causing dissension. You will be asked to reconsider if you do not feed your empire sufficiently. After you have paid for everything and fed everyone, you will then be given the opportunity to purchase a number of different commodities. ========================================================================== # Commodity Price You Have Maximum Purchase -------------------------------------------------------------------------- {0} DONE! {1} WARRIOR 1,321 9,959 26,198 {2} DRAGONS 1,434 5,955 24,133 {3} CASTLES 2,227 2,642 15,540 {4} GENERALS 10,133 393 3,415 {5} CITYS 99,686 255 347 {6} THIEVES 13,411 38 2,580 {7} MAGIC USERS 6,367 1,634 5,435 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You Have 34,607,819 Cubits, and 3 Turns left Buy [0..9] or [S] to SELL items at 1/2 price... This is entirely self-explanatory and very simple to use. Note that the column on the far right indicates how many of each item you may purchase, the middle column is the number of that item you already own, and the left column is the cost of each. Make your selections and spend your cubits wisely! Prices will go up/down in accordance with the size of your empire and other factors. What you purchase, when, and in what amounts, will greatly determine the fate of your empire and how well you perform in battle. The maximum purchase is not only determined by your wealth, but is also a question of availability and other market forces. A word about purchasing cities: There are a certain number of cities available for purchase at the beginning of the game. A small amount of new cities are generated daily, however shortly after the game begins, it is likely that all the cities will be bought up, and it is at this point that your only option may be to find someone to attack and steal cities from (successful attacks yield cities). AND NOW, HEED THE CALL TO BATTLE...!! You will not be given the attack menu until your empire has exceeded 200 cities or your protection has expired. Until then your empire is not considered advanced enough for combat. After you have purchased all your desired commodities, you will be given an opportunity to engage in BATTLE with other local players, if you answer YES to this question, you will have an opportunity to engage in local covert activities such as spying, etc. Attacking local players might be fun, but remember you might find yourself fighting along side them against a common enemy later, so do consider if it is actually worth it. THE INTER-BBS FEATURES OF DRAGON WARZ! Do you wish to perform any Inter-Realm type Attacks? [y/N] YES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTER REALM ATTACK/SABOTAGE OPTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <A.> Send RECON Scouts <B.> Select Target Realm <C.> Individual Attack <D.> FORM a Battle Group <E.> JOIN a Battle Group <F.> Send THIEFS <G.> MAGICAL Attacks <H.> Send Message <Z.> Done -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPTION [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,Z] You may not perform any of these operations until you are out of NEW REALM PROTECTION. In addition, failure to pay your forces, or an extremely low force effectiveness will prevent you from entering this menu. A) Send Reconnaissance Scout. You can send a RECON to either spy on an entire BBS or a particular player. Just sending a RECON group to spy on an entire BBS (to see "who's who" in a Galaxy), costs NOTHING and always works. If you send a RECON group to spy on a particular player in a Galaxy, the result is a normal SPY covert operation, and the usual 10 pct of your thieves thieves be sent. The chances of getting caught are the same as with normal covert operations. Also, spying on a certain player will cost 100,000 Cubits! B) Select Target Realm. This operation simply allows you to declare a TARGET for your operations for the current turn. You may change at any time by reselecting this operation. C) Individual attack. This operation will allow you to attack another BBS, or a single player alone and without assistance from other players. There is a charge for each attack and each deployed warrior, dragon and mage will have to bring food supplies for the march against the enemy. You will also have to pay them their outstanding wages. You are only allowed to make one individual attack a day. D) Form A Battle Group. This operation will allow you to form an 'Attack Group' against either 'ALL' or an individual player on another BBS. You will also be given an option of how many days (1 to 5) before the actual battle group departs for the target. If the group successfully defeats their opponent, they will grab some of the victims cities and return with them! When you join, or form a Battle Group, you will have a certain percentage of the party and will loose or gain according to your share! You form a group by answering another simple series of questions like: With 43 Generals, You can command 2,150 Warriors, You have 2,000 WARRIORS. You have 14,963 DRAGONS, and 4,154 MAGES Your CUBITS are 8,529,837, You have 5,886,450 tons of FOOD Available Deploy how many WARRIORS? [1] 1000 Deploy how many MAGIC USERS? [1] 1000 Deploy how many DRAGONS? [1] 7400 Total cost of this mission: 1,261,200 Cubits, total food supplies necessary are 128,400 Tons! You have 8,529,837 Cubits, & 5,886,450 Tons of Food Deploy these Forces? [Y/n] YES Deployment in how many days? [1 to 5]: 1 You now have a 100% share in this mission...GOOD LUCK! E) Join a Battle Group. This will allow you to add forces to existing Battle groups thus increasing your share of the party. NOTE: You do not have to pay or feed forces while in outgoing Groups, but you will have to pay and feed them a little at the time of deployment. You can also withdraw your forces from a battle group, but it is very bad for morale of your troops in general and the deployed forces in particular. F) SEND Thieves. Selecting this function will allow you to send 10% of your agents on covert operations to another empire or realm. Note that you must send a minimum of 10 thieves on each mission, so you must have AT LEAST 100 agents before you can perform any of these functions. Each mission will cost a number of cubits, and you can only perform 10 covert operations per day. G) MAGICAL ATTACKS. Selecting this function will allow you to use the MAGIC POINTS your mages have accumulated in arcane attacks against your favourite targets. Magic Spells do not cost any cubits to cast. H) SEND a Message. This function will allow you to send messages to either a single player, or the entire BBS in another Realm, each message is limited to 10 lines or less. This costs you a small amount of Cubits. COVERT OPERATIONS: -------------------- Selecting to Send Thieves to another Realm will bring up a sub-menu of covert operations as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTER REALM SABOTAGE OPTIONS Current OP's target: SURF BOARD BBS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIEF Function: Cost -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <A.> Sabotage COMMON food Market 1,250,000 Cubits <B.> Destroy Food Supplies in Realm varies <C.> Demoralize Troops varies <D.> Aid Insurgencies varies <E.> Assassinate Generals varies <F.> Assassinate Thieves varies <G.> Steal From Realm Treasury varies <H.> Blow up D'bridge between realms 5,000,000 <Z.> Done -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have 870,915 Cubits, & 1,095 Thieves OPTION [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,Z] A) Sabotage common Food market. Selecting this function will tell your thieves to attempt to blow up or otherwise destroy the common market food supplies in another realm, depending on how successful you are, you will destroy anywhere from 0 to 100% of the available supplies. B) Destroy Food Supplies in realm. This is identical to (A) above, but simply attempts to blow up the food supplies in an INDIVIDUAL players empire. C) Demoralize Troops. This function will send wine, loose women, and disease to troops of enemies' empire, thereby lowering their force effectiveness by a certain amount. D) Aid Insurgents. This function will send covert aid to an opponents population in an effort to lower their empire peacefulness status. (similar to the Iran-Contra fiasco GRIN) E) Assassinate Generals. This function does just what it says, your agents will attempt to infiltrate your opponents military HQ and kill off a number of their vital generals. Can be particularly effective against opponents keeping a tight 50 warriors per general ratio. F) Assassinate Thieves By sending your thieves out to assassinate your opponents thieves you can try and prevent him from sending thieves to cause havoc in your own empire! G) Steal from Treasury. This function will tell your agents to attempt to steal from an opponents treasury. If they are successful, you will receive the proceeds of this ill-gotten gain!!...Depending on how successful they were, you will steal anywhere from 0 to 100% of the opponents Cubits. H) Blow up bridge between realms This option will cost all your thieves and will, if successful, make all movements of forces between your realm and that of the opponents impossible until the bridge is repaired. Repair time is typically between 1 and 7 days. MAGICAL SPELLS: --------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ye OLE BOOK OF SPELLS AND MAYHEM Current OP's target: THE SUB ETHA NET -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Magical Spell: Desc: Magic Points -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <A.> EARTHQUAKE Destroys Cities 175 <B.> WEATHER Elemental Decreases overall food production 125 <C.> ANTI-MAGIC Destroys Magic 100 <D.> FAMINE Elemental Causes Population to Starve 75 <E.> POISON Cloud Kills some population 60 <F.> SLEEP Lowers Troop Effectiveness 50 <G.> MAGIC EYE Magical Spying 10 Defensive Spells: <1.> MAGIC SHIELD Protects against FOUR magic Spells 50 <Z.> Done -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have 5 Magic Attacks Possible, & 245 Magic Points OPTION [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,Z,[RETURN] This is where you'll put all those cubits you have spent on training and supplying your magic users to devastating usage! Results of your attempts to cast a spell are based on the difficulty of the spell, the possible damage done by the spell, and chance herself. However, magic works in strange and mysterious ways not fully understood even by the most practised of mages, so even though a spell is not effective a certain amount of the energy expanded in casting the spell may randomly roam the enemies' realm and cause massive destruction if the amount of free energy reaches a certain point! A) EARTHQUAKE This, the most costly (in terms of magic points) can indiscriminately cause destruction of cities in your opponent's realm. B) WEATHER elemental This can cause devastating and long lasting results to another BBS ability to produce food. This Spell will send a great weather elemental to another realm causing poor crop growing conditions and thus a large decrease in the amount of food grown each day for the common market. This spell if successful, will last for approximately 3 or 4 days. C) ANTI MAGIC Attempts to decrease the magic points and spells available to your opponents mages. D) FAMINE elemental This spell is similar to the WEATHER ELEMENTAL spell, except that it only affects a SINGLE Player. E) POISON CLOUD. This spell causes a cloud of poison gas to cover an opponents empire, and thus to brutally kill hundreds of an opponents populace. F) SLEEP This spell causes an opponents warriors, dragons, watchman in castles, and even commanders to become very lethargic and will result in a large decrease in their effectiveness. G) MAGIC EYE By using this spell your mages might provide you with some vital information on the strength of your opponent. If successful (and it often is) you will be told the number of warriors, dragons and mages your opponents has at his or her disposal. 1) MAGICAL SHIELDS This spell creates a magical 'dome' over your empire which may interfere with incoming magical attacks. however the larger your empire the less effective this becomes. A magic shield is general against all magic attacks from any opponent irrespectively of which opponent was 'chosen' when the shield spell was cast. DWARZ is a game high on the necessity of players to cooperate and form alliances. Occasionally one player in an alliance might find him/her self in a bit of trouble and will look to his or her allies for help. If you want to help an allied in trouble you might do this via the trade menu. Here you can trade most goods to another player, alas at a cost paid by you. If to the question: Do You wish to do any trading? [y/N] You answer Yes you will find yourself presented with the trading menu: Select target by Letter ['?' to List, {ENTER to ABORT}]: A NOTHER has been Targeted! TRADING ESTABLISHED With A NOTHER ========================================================================== # Commodity Cost/Unit You Have Max. Trade -------------------------------------------------------------------------- {1} WARRIOR 100 7,000 1,116 {2} DRAGONS 250 0 0 {3} CASTLES 1,500 3,079 74 {4} GENERALS 300 270 270 {5} THIEVES 125 888 888 {6} MAGIC USERS 575 566 194 {7} Cubits 1 111,699 55,849 {8} Food 450 360,731 248 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You Have 111,699 Cubits, and 2 Turns left You can trade with local players only if they have more than 200 cities. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES: # Even though you may have used up all your turns for the day, you can still log in DRAGON WARZ! to check for messages and send messages. You will also be able to view your Status Screen, and perform any inter-BBS operations you may yet be allowed to and able to afford. # When you are under new realm protection, buy up all the Cities you can, and concentrate on COMMERCIAL cities for the cash you'll need. When you get down to the last few turns under protection, back off on cities purchasing and start building up your military. # You may only form ONE Battle group per day, and may also only send ONE individual attack per day, likewise, You are limited to TEN Covert operations per day! # These instructions are only current up to and including version 1.05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY FIGHTING!