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- Lost Empires Of Arcadia
- Documentation
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- General Information :
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- Writer/Creator : SunStriker
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- BBS Info :
- The Solar Realm
- [713]855-1665
- Sysop : SunStriker
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- Other Games Written at The Solar Realm :
- Solar Realms Elite
- Alpha Colony VI
- Planetary Conquest
- Solar Conquests Elite
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- Other Utilities Written at The Solar Realm :
- Telegard External Editor
- Telegard QUICK Post-Call Ratio Manager
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- Registration :
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- This game is FREE. PLEASE please please give this game to friends and
- other Sysops. I'm not going to say 'THIS GAME CANNOT BE USED FOR MORE THAN
- XX DAYS' or anything....And you are in NO WAY obligated to register this game.
- But I am encouraging Registration of this game anyway...:)
- Registration costs $15 and you will gain these benefits :
- A Registration Number for current and future versions
- Personalized BBS Title/Sysop at the End of the game
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- After I recieve your Registration Form (read REGISTER.TXT), I will send you a
- Coded Registration Number and Name and instructions on what to do next.
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- NOTE : THE REGISTERED VERSION OF THIS GAME SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN OUT TO ANYONE!!
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- The Game Itself :
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- This game is based on a Medieval Setting. There are 5 turns(Configurable
- in the Registered Version) per day, based in many stages...Here they are:
- 1)Status Screen
- 2)Pay to maintain your Empire
- 3)Feed your Empire
- 4)Use Theives
- 5)Use Assassins
- 6)Use Wizards
- 7)Build your Empire
- SubStages :
- 1)Buy Land
- 2)Build on Land
- 3)Hire Human Forces
- 4)Hire Non-Human Forces
- 5)Build Castle
- 9)Battle
- 10)Another Status/Random Events
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- NOTE : * = Important Stages
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- Stage 1 : Status
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- This is just a screen showing the player how many forces, land, buildings, etc
- that he has at the time. It also contains your earnings for that turn.
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- Stage 2 : Pay to Maintain Empire
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- This stage is where you must pay to maintain your empire...Ex : Paying for
- your land, forces, etc..
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- Stage 3 : Feed your Empire
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- In this Stage, you must feed your People/Forces...
- There is also a Food Market where you may buy/sell food for varying prices
- depending on the amount of food the market has.
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- Stage 4 : Use Thieves
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- In this stage you can use your thieves for various purposes..
- 1)Rob Another Empire : This allows you to take a portion of the other
- empire's Crystals(Money Supply). This is only useful if the other
- empire has alot of money left at the time you're playing. Chances
- of success depend on the number of thieves you have and the number
- of scouts your target has.
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- 2)Bomb Another Empire : This is the same as Robbing, EXCEPT for two
- things : 1)You recieve nothing from it. 2)Your Target loses more money
- than from a robbery. This is if your target has alot of money which
- you wish to get rid of in any way possible.
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- 3)High-Level Rob : This is the same as Robbery, except you get more money
- out of it, but it is more planned out so it costs more. It is risky
- because you'll lose alot of money if your target didn't have any...
- Then again, you could become VERY rich...
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- 4)Rob Peasants : This is like Robbery, except instead of robbing the enemy
- treasury, you rob their peasants. This is more useful if the other
- empire is large because he normally would have more people.
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- Stage 5 : Use Assassins
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- This stage is similar to the Thievery Stage but it is more Murder-Related.
- It contains 7 choices. They are all Various Murder Stages :
- Murder Barons
- Murder Soldiers
- Murder Archers
- Murder Knights
- Murder Clerics
- Murder Wizards
- Murder Peasants
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- Each one is an attempt to kill off part of the target's empire. Especially
- useful if the enemy has a powerful force in one of the above types and you
- wish to weaken it.
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- Stage 6 : Use Wizards
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- This is the 'Different' stage....You have these 7 options :
- 1)Create Food - Your wizards will attempt to create food. The more you
- ask for, the less chances of success. The more Wizards you have, the
- more chances of success... This is useful if you are low on food and the
- food market is out or low and you need food the next turn.
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- 2)Destroy Enemy Food - This is the opposite of Create food(WOW!). You can
- attempt to destroy a portion of your target's food supply. This is useful
- if the Food Market is low on food because you can force your target's empire
- into Chaos if they do not have food...
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- 3)Crystal Generation - Well, this is for all you risky people out there..
- Your Wizards will ATTEMPT to create crystals -- but they may not be
- successful thus draining you out of money..But you CAN earn alot of money
- if you are lucky enough!
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- 4)Population Boom! - Your wizards will attempt to 'create' people thus
- enlarging your population and TAX EARNINGS.. This is useful if you want
- alot of money and you have the food to take care of the large population.
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- 5)Destroy Enemy Peasants - This is the opposite of Pop. Boom(WOW!) except
- that you are destroying your target's peasents to ruin his Tax Earnings
- and making his people mad.
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- 6)Raise Castle - Not Yet Implemented
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- 7)Create Land - Not Yet Implemented
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- Stage 7 : Build your empire
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- Each substage of this has various types of equipment to buy...
- 1)Buy Land -- To enlarge your empire.
- Demi-Humans, markets, factories, mines, etc. all use some land of different
- types.
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- 2)Hire Humans -- To add to your Human army which can defend your castle as
- well as attack/defend.
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- 3)Hire Demi-Humans -- Thess creatures, often stronger and cheaper than Humans,
- can only defend/attack, and cannot protect your castle. They all take up
- various amounts of land depending on the size of their villages, etc...
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- 4)Build on Land -- What you build on your land will determine the amounts of
- money you make....But you also must pay to maintain these things.
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- 5)Build Castle -- Not yet useful....Will be VERY IMPORTANT when Castle attacks
- are implemented.
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- Stage 9 : Battle
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- This is self explanatory in the game....
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- Stage 10 : Status End
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- This screen currently only has population change....More to be added soon.
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- This documentation is VERY simple so you can figure tricks and ideas out by
- yourself.....So Enjoy!!!
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