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│                         Solar Realms Elite v. 0.980                         │
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Written by Amit Patel and Mehul Patel at the Solar Realms BBS, [phone].

──[ INTRODUCTION ]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

This game is an IBM version of Space Empire Elite (S.E.E.), an Atari ST online
game.  Space Empire, S.E.E.'s ancestor, was written by Jon Radoff.  Then S.E.E.
was written by Jurgen Van Den Handle, and the newer versions of S.E.E. are
updated and maintained by Carlis Darby and David Pence of HyperSpace Software.
They now support S.E.E. for the Atari ST computers.  SRE was originally a clone
of S.E.E., written from scratch on the IBM without the source code to S.E.E.,
and from there it has evolved differently than S.E.E.  Although S.E.E. is (and
probably always will be) superior to SRE, we wrote SRE to give IBM users a
chance to play this game.

SRE is a game in which players build an empire and at the same time build a
military to defend against other empires.  Up to 25 players can build empires
in each Galaxy.  The Galactic Coordinator ("It"), controlled by computer, is
the ruler of the Galaxy.  It offers protection for the empires to build up
without fear of being destroyed by larger empires, and It sells soldiers,
fighters, defense stations, heavy cruisers, carriers, generals, a command
ship, planets, covert agents, lottery tickets, and food to each empire.  In
return, the Galactic Coordinator collects taxes from each empire; It uses most
of the taxes to distribute Galactic funding daily so that each empire may have
spending money outside of its own profits.  Large empires usually make more
money than the funding, but smaller empires make a significant amount of money
from funding.  Empires can attack each other to capture planets for themselves,
or use covert operations to cause internal disorder in opponent empires.  There
is also great potential in peaceful relations between empires:  there are 6
treaty types to encourage either military or peaceful alliances.  Also, empires
can trade with each other to take advantage of reduced prices in smaller
empires and increased money in larger empires:  large empires can buy items
cheaply from smaller empires, and the small empire can make a profit.

──[ SETUP ]────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Setting up SRE should be simple for most SysOps.  First, be sure you have read
SYSOP.DOC.  It explains the steps to configure the game to work with your BBS,
attempts to explain setting up your BBS to run SRE, and most importantly, tells
you to run ─┤SRE RESET├─, because that will set up your game for you.  It also
tells you how to upgrade without erasing your old game.

──[ RUNNING ]──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

SRE has several features that makes it easier for the sysop to run the game:

   1.  SRDOOR is an *external*, not internal, door converter.  If your BBS
       doesn't want to cooperate with SRE, you can do several things to get
       your doorfile converted to DOORFILE.SR.  (They are listed in the
       documentation for SRDOOR.)

   2.  Chat mode is activated by 'F10' and deactived with 'ESC'.  The chat
       has color support (^R followed by a digit 0-9 changes color), and
       when you exit, it will restore the line the user was on before you
       entered chat.

   3.  Auto-deletion of players occurs after 10 days of inactivity.  This
       kills players who aren't playing anymore, so you don't worry about
       the game becoming too full.

   4.  "SRE EDIT" allows you to delete players manually, change their empire
       name, or change the user name (in case the user has changed handles
       on the BBS).

   5.  Numerous hangups/lockups/freezes!  This extraordinary feature of SRE
       is explained in BUGS.LST.

   6.  Help on function keys that you can use is available by pressing F1.
       (Even while a player is playing.)

──[ REWARD ]───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Here's the reward for reading the docs:

If you add the /MENU switch into the batch file, you will get an extra menu
in SRE that lets you read the news files.

──[ CONTACT ]──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

If you have any more questions/comments/problems, you can contact the author
of SRE by snailmail:

    Amit J. Patel
    4851 Cairnsean
    Houston, TX 77084-2541

Please do not send mail one year after the release date of SRE.  You can check
the release date by running SRE; before the title screen, it displays the date
of release.  This is so that you won't send to a non-existent person!

If you are on the Internet, you may email me at [e-mail].  This
account will be open until MARCH 1993, so don't email after that!

You can also call SunStriker's BBS, The Solar Realm, at [phone].  There
is no validation required (full access on first call), so you can download SRE
if you would like to.  The 'N' key in the main menu allows you to leave some
comments to me.

You could send FidoNet mail to The Solar Realm:  1:106/900.  File-requests
of "SRE", "AC6", "PC", and "SCE" are also available.