1 Welcome to Empire 4, codenamed Wolfpack. Congratulations on your choice!
3 See the "LEGAL", "LICENSE", "CREDITS" and "README" files for all the
4 related information and legal notices. It is expected that any future
5 projects/authors will amend these files as needed.
7 For questions and comments, please contact "wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com".
9 If you want to build the server, follow the few simple steps below. If
10 you are looking for more information on the files here, options for
11 the server, etc. take a look in the "doc" directory, then follow the steps
12 below to build and start the server.
14 (1) Unpacking the server
15 If you're building from a tarball, unpack it.
16 If you're building from CVS, check out and run bootstrap. This
17 requires Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
20 Note that you may not have to build a server. If you received the
21 server in binary format, go to the next step, "Creating the world."
23 To build the server, you need to do the following steps:
26 1) Get a copy of the source. Since you're reading this, we assume
28 2) Gunzip the source. Again, since you're reading this . . . ;-)
30 4) Run make. You need GNU make.
32 (3) Creating the world
33 (NOTE: If you received a binary, you must edit the included data/econfig
34 file to represent the paths where your data and info directories are.)
35 1) First, pick the world size you want to use. Once you have chosen
36 a world size, edit the "data/econfig" file (it was either created
37 at build time, or shipped with the binary) and change the WORLD_X
38 and WORLD_Y to be the sizes you want. The default world size is 64x32.
39 IMPORTANT: WORLD_X *MUST* be divisible by 2. In addition, if you
40 change the world size later, you *MUST* re-create the world by
41 running "bin/files" again.
42 2) Go into the "bin" directory, and run "./files".
43 3) If you want to create a new world, run "./fairland 10 30" to create
44 a sample world (read the documentation for fairland for more info on
46 Note that "files" and "fairland" use the world size in the econfig file
47 if it exists in the data directory. If this file doesn't exist, and you
48 don't specify one, it will use the default world size the server was
49 compiled with (Wolfpack binaries ship with a 64x32 world size) You can
50 create an econfig file with default values using the "bin/pconfig"
53 (4) Running the server
54 1) Run the bin/emp_server executable to start the server.
56 That's it. Once running, you can log on to the server using the emp_client
57 program found in the "bin" directory. The initial deity country name/password
60 If you get a "You're not a deity!" message and logged off, check the
61 "data/server.log" file and look at the end for a "NON-AUTH" entry.
62 There should be a "user@host" message in there that failed to log in.
63 Enter this user and host in the auth file, and you should be able to
64 log into the server as a deity now.
66 For more information on options, programs, files and other general hints
67 look in the "doc" directory. The README there describes the files there and
70 For more information or help, send e-mail to "wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com" and
71 we'll try to answer if we can. Also check out our web site at
72 "http://www.wolfpackempire.com"
76 -- The Wolfpack development team...