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GREEN.DOC Rev: 30 Mar 1992 Contents: SUMMARY STARTING THE GAME PLANTERS PAVERS SETTING MODES SCORING DETAILS CUSTOM MAPS SHAREWARE & THE ASP --------- SUMMARY: --------- GREEN is a strategy game in which you support your planters as they work to prevent the pavers from turning farms into parking lots. There are several different maps, of varying difficulty. You have the ability to plant hedges, add walls, and to destroy pavement. GREEN requires a MS compatible mouse and EGA or better graphics. STARTING THE GAME: ------------------ To start the game, choose Play from the main menu. This will use the default map. (Later use the Map command to select alternate maps). Start with Difficulty 1 and clumps. This will give you the easiest setup and let you become acquainted with the commands while playing the first game. The map initially shows the pavers, who start all in one place because you chose 'clump'. Press F4 to get the global map, and you'll see the pavers position on the overall map. You'll also see the clump of planters (A-D). Move the mouse to the planters, and press the button. The new map will show you the planters. This is the fastest way of jumping from one area to another. You can also scroll the map. Right click near a map edge (cursor keys work, too) scrolls the map in any direction (including diagonally. Centered under the map are icons showing the types of terrain you can select: * Hedge * Window * Wall * Rubble * Waypoint marker Left click on the terrain you want to use. Then move the mouse to the map and left click on the area to place it. There are some restrictions to where terrain can be placed. See details below, or experiment. Function keys: F1: Help F3: Unit map F4: Global map F5: Set individual modes F6: Set all planter modes You get income from all greens, more for trees and hedgerows than for hedges, bushes or clear. You pay maintenance for walls and windows. You also lose income for land taken out of production to form paved areas, and for rubble left behind by the pavers. Income is calculated about every 10 seconds. The numbers are updated at that time. Costs: 75 to plant a hedge 100 to move the marker 150 to build a wall 200 to turn a wall into a window 400 to turn an area into rubble Building restrictions: Window can be placed only on existing walls. Hedges cannot be planted on walls or floors. Walls can't be built on pavement. Pavement, walls, windows can be turned to rubble. The waypoint marker can be placed in any green area. Any planter with 'Move' orders will make their way to that marker. You can move the marker whenever you like, at a cost of 100 per move. Winning: There are several ways to win: * achieve your savings goal. You need to accumulate 48000 in funds, plus 2000 for each degree of difficulty. * Eliminate all pavers There are several ways to lose, too: * Let total funds go negative. * Lose all planters and let maintenance & development costs exceed income. Various bonuses are calculated, depending on the difficulty and ending conditions. Your score can increase or decrease tremendously at the end. Difficulty determines both number & activity of pavers, and relative payoff for a win. That is, you will score much higher if you win a more difficult game. PLANTERS: --------- Planters include farmers, foresters, environmentalists and others whose primary goals are for the preservation of the earth and the renewable resources they can extract from it. Planters clear paver rubble, plant bushes in clear terrain, and change bushes to trees. They also raise the low hedges you plant into taller, stronger, hedgerows. You can plant hedges in any green area other than green rubble (grubble). You can put walls in any non-pavement, non-rubble, non-water area. You can also put windows in walls, to ease movement. You may even want to provide occasional windows for pavers, in order to guide them into some unprofitable areas or devious traps. Finally, you can change walls and pavement into rubble. This hurts your income, and is costly to do, but is sometimes useful, since your planters may be able to return paved areas to more beneficial uses. Planters need energy to plant, and lose energy when they traverse pavement or get blocked by walls. They are re-invigorated when they move thru their lush plantings, especially hedgerows and trees. The energy display (upper right hand part of screen) shows planter and paver status by color: green or blue planters are vigorous and energetic. Magenta and brown show a loss of interest. Finally, red planters are in danger of being co-opted by the pavers. (Rest is the best mode to try to rescue these overworked people.) PAVERS: --------- Pavers include mall developers, real estate agents, clear-cut loggers and other exploiters of the environment. (Obviously, this is just a game. There may indeed be a non-exploitative developer somewhere.) Pavers turn your well tended farms and greenswards into parking lots. When water is present, they also delight in flooding the area to make deep water playgrounds. Walls slow them down, as do hedgerows. Pavers are frustrated (lose energy) when they move to green areas and fail to destroy them. They also lose if they get blocked by injunctions (legal walls) and other impediments placed there by you or your planter allies. Pavers gain energy when they visit their wide expanses of parking lot, or go through water. Paver colors are shown in the reverse order from planters: Red pavers are the most energetic. Next come brown, then magenta and blue. When a paver turns green, it means s/he is about to retire. SETTING MODES: ------------------ Setting modes is an advanced feature that you can invoke when you are comfortable with the rest of the game functions. It lets you assign a specific function to each of your planters. You may set them to Plant, Grow, Clear, Rest or Move. The advantages of each mode are outlined below. While the change mode selection screen is displayed, the game is suspended. The selection screen also shows the current status of the pavers, but you can't affect them. The default mode for all planters is Plant. Plant -- seek out clear areas and plant bushes Grow -- seek out bushes and hedges and help them grow Clear -- seek out rubble and clear it Rest -- avoid expending energy Move -- move to the waypoint. SCORING: --------- Each planter and paver has an energy rating. This changes during the game, as they move and terraform. In general, when they move on friendly terrain, they gain points, when they plant or destroy, they burn points. You can't control any of the workers directly, but you can give them general directions (See 'Setting Modes'). If energy goes to zero, that worker retires. If it goes over 100, half that energy is given to a new worker who appears to assist that side. Maximum number of both factions of workers is 26. DETAILS: --------- These sections are furnished for players who wish to know a little more about the innards of the program. You don't need to read any of this to play the game. Starting positions: (in order of relative difficulty and increasing bonus). Clumps -- both sides start in tight clusters Edges -- both sides start along the border areas Random -- both sides distributed randomly The starting position determines the bonus factor applied at the end of the game. This varies from 25% for clumps to 75% for random. You also get a bonus based on the time it takes you to rid the world of pavers. This bonus is added to your base score, and then the starting position bonus is applied: final score = ( basic score + time bonus) * starting bonus Income, Maintenance & developed area costs: Most funds are calculated as a function of the difficulty level chosen. Once built, it costs income to maintain both your walls and floors, and the structures built by the pavers. Income is produced in the following relative order: hedgerows > trees > floors > hedges > bushes > clear > deep water Walls require maintenance, and windows about twice that of walls. Pavement and rubble account for development costs. Rubble is approximately 10 times as expensive as pavement. Thus, while you can use rubble to attack the pavers, it will cost you if you do not have planters nearby to turn it into flooring. Terrain and movement: ------------------ Planters and pavers are controlled by probability, modified based on their current mode. They are most likely to move straight ahead, slightly less likely to move to either side. There is also a slight chance they will turn around. When they move to new terrain, the chances that they can modify it are based on their energy and the difficulty level. Thus a paver is quite likely to change a clear area to rubble, but less likely to change a hedge or tree. They have a reasonable chance to destroy walls, but only a small chance of reducing hedgerows. The movement algorithm is a combination of things. The algorithm looks at 5 squares -- forward & 2 on each side. Each is given an evaluation number. This number then has a random number added to it, based on direction. Thus if you're going forward it will be a random number between 1 and 20, if 2 to the left, a random number between 1 & 5. If all the evaluations are equal, then you will usually go straight, but there's still a chance to turn. The actual evaluations are variable too -- Eg, a paver at 30 or less, will try not to attack walls, looking preferentially for pavement. A paver at 60 and above will ignore pavement and attack walls and forests. The modes let you control some of these evaluations. CUSTOM MAPS: You can modify any of the maps, using an ascii editor. Each map must consist of 40 rows of 60 characters each. Each map must have a border of o's. Other symbols used are: - = window # = wall n = hedge h = large hedgerow @ = bush & = tree ~ = water = = deep water % = rubble b = pavement ' = planter floor You can also make new maps from scratch, and substitute them for existing maps by copying the old map to a temp file and renaming your new map. *************************************************************************** * REGISTERING SHAREWARE * *************************************************************************** Shareware is a means of distributing software. Under the shareware concept, software may be freely copied and passed along to others, or distributed through bulletin board systems or national networks. As a recipient of a shareware program, you may use the software for a short trial period to determine if it meets your needs. If the software is not suitable, then you can discard it. If you decide to use it, you must pay by registering. When you register a Cascoly shareware program, you receive: * A copy of the latest version of the program * A bonus of any other Cascoly program of equal or lesser value (see REGISTER.FRM for details) * A free introductory account on CompuServe including a private User ID number and password, $15 introductory usage credit, and a complimentary subscription to CompuServe Magazine, - a $30 value! * A minimum of 90 days online support via CompuServe or by telephone. Support by mail is also available, if accompanied by a SASE. * You will also receive bonus maps To register a program, enter the following command: COPY REGISTER.FRM LPT1: and the order form will be copied to your printer. Check off the program you wish to register, and check the program you wish to receive as a bonus. Cascoly Software is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. You can contact the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536