1 Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.
3 Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
4 Copyright (C) 1986-2013, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
5 Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
7 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License (in file
10 `COPYING'), or (at your option) any later version.
12 See file `CREDITS' for a list of contributors.
14 Directory `doc' has additional information. File `doc/README'
15 describes the files there and what they talk about.
17 To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below.
19 (1) Unpacking the source tree
21 If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
23 If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires
24 recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
28 Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001), GNU make, a
29 curses library, Perl, and either nroff or GNU troff (`groff').
31 See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
32 instructions. Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
33 make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine
34 right from the build tree.
36 If configure reports "terminfo: no" in its configuration summary,
37 highlighting doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by not
38 having development libraries installed. On Linux, try installing
41 If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
42 GNU make. Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.
44 Solaris supports POSIX.1-2001, but you need to set up your
45 environment for that. Try passing
46 SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
47 to make. See standards(5) for details.
51 * Create a configuration for your game. make install installs one
52 in $prefix/etc/empire/econfig ($prefix is /usr/local unless you
53 chose something else with configure). You can use pconfig to
56 * Edit your configuration file. See doc/econfig for more
59 Unless you put your configuration file in the default location
60 (where make install installs it), you have to use -e with all
61 programs to make them use your configuration.
63 * Run files to set up your data directory.
65 * Run fairland to create a world. For a sample world, try
66 `fairland 10 30'. This creates file ./newcap_script, which will
67 be used below. You can edit it to change country names and
70 Check out fairland's manual page for more information.
72 * Start the server. For development, you want to run it with -d
73 in a debugger, see doc/debugging. Do not use -d for a real
76 * Log in as deity POGO with password peter. This guide assumes
77 you use the included client `empire', but other clients should
82 To change the deity password, use `change re <password>'.
84 * Create countries with `exec newcap_script'.
88 Naturally, there's more to running a real game than that, but that's
89 beyond the scope of this file.
91 Please report bugs to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> or via SourceForge
92 http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver (registration required).
94 For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send
95 e-mail to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> and we'll try to answer if we
96 can. Also check out our web site at "http://www.wolfpackempire.com".