it's probably not a good idea to rely on these automatics.
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-Bureaucratic Time Units (BTU's)
+Bureaucratic Time Units (BTUs)
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To prevent the more fanatical Empire players
(usually at midnight).
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The other control on the number of commands that you may issue
-are called ``Bureaucratic Time Units'' or BTU's.
+are called ``Bureaucratic Time Units'' or BTUs.
A BTU is an arbitrary amount of bureaucratic bookkeeping that
your government must spend to perform a certain function.
-Most commands that are not merely informative cost BTU's.
+Most commands that are not merely informative cost BTUs.
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-BTU's are generated by your country's capital.
-The more efficient your capital, the more BTU's that are generated.
-The number of BTU's also depend on the game's settings.. See the
+BTUs are generated by your country's capital.
+The more efficient your capital, the more BTUs that are generated.
+The number of BTUs also depend on the game's settings.. See the
output of the 'version' command for an estimate of BTU generation speeds.
-However, you may have a maximum of 512 BTU's at any one time.
-And once your BTU's reach zero, you may not issue any commands
-that use BTU's.
+However, you may have a maximum of 512 BTUs at any one time.
+And once your BTUs reach zero, you may not issue any commands
+that use BTUs.
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-Three things to note about BTU's:
+Three things to note about BTUs:
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.L 1)
-Since commands use up BTU's,
+Since commands use up BTUs,
this limits the number of commands
that a player may issue over a particular time period.
This has the effect of preventing the Empire fanatic
from overruning other players with less free time to log on.
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.L 2)
-The build-up of BTU's is constant and does not depend on being
+The build-up of BTUs is constant and does not depend on being
logged in.
This allows players to participate when it is convenient rather
than at some fixed time
your country is effectively in stasis.
Nothing will change until you actually log in and
force a change
-(such as designating a capital to begin accumulating BTU's).
+(such as designating a capital to begin accumulating BTUs).
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The absolutely minimal set of information pages you should read are:
break, map, ann, wire, tel, read, expl, move, res, cen, dist, thresh, lev,
by Peter Langston with invaluable goading from
Joe Stetson, Robert Bradbury, Nat Howard, Brian Redman, Adam Buchsbaum,
and a myriad of others.
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Since Langston never released source code for his version,
Dave Pare and friends de-compiled it in that same year and have
created this version
added many configurable options in the KSU distribution, Thomas
Ruschak added land units and missions in 1992-1993 and released the
"Chainsaw" server, and Ken Stevens rewrote much of the server code in
-1995 and released the "Empire2" server, and Steve McClure and the Wolfpack
-made lots
-of other changes and released the "Empire4" server in August of 1996.
+1995 and released the "Empire 2" server.
+Steve McClure and the Wolfpack made lots
+of other changes and released "Empire 4" in August of 1996.
+The game is still maintained by the Wolfpack team. Markus Armbruster
+serves as technical lead since 2004.
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.SA "Novice, Expert, Introduction"