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Markus Armbruster 221324cc10 Clean up rules on where you can scrap stuff
You can now scrap ships in own or friendly, efficient harbors, planes
in own or allied, efficient airfields, and land units in any own or
allied sector.

When something can't be scrapped because of these rules, print a
suitable message.

Before, you could scrap ships regardless of relations to sector owner
(info claimed friendly was required), land units regardless of
relations, but not while on ships, and planes even in friendly
airfields (info claimed allied was required).

When scrapping in a deity sector, scrap claimed it gave the cargo to
POGO, which is somewhat bogus, as POGO can't own such stuff.
2008-09-15 07:49:24 -04:00
doc Update change log again for 4.3.16 2008-08-09 12:10:06 -04:00
include Remove take_plane_off_ship(), take_plane_off_land() 2008-09-14 10:21:27 -04:00
info Clean up rules on where you can scrap stuff 2008-09-15 07:49:24 -04:00
m4 Update from http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ 2007-07-28 13:09:00 +00:00
man New server option -E to choose what to do on oops 2008-04-21 21:52:27 +02:00
scripts Fix mapper to work with current code 2008-07-04 17:31:33 -04:00
src Clean up rules on where you can scrap stuff 2008-09-15 07:49:24 -04:00
.gitignore Fix unintentionally broad patterns in .gitignore 2008-02-07 08:01:53 +01:00
bootstrap Update documentation to talk about git instead of CVS 2008-03-28 20:42:49 +01:00
compile Replace the build process. The new one requires GNU Make, Autoconf 2005-12-20 20:25:35 +00:00
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configure.ac Bump version to 4.3.17 2008-08-15 07:52:36 -04:00
COPYING Update to current version from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt: 2006-01-22 21:29:04 +00:00
CREDITS Update. 2006-03-07 19:06:36 +00:00
depcomp Replace the build process. The new one requires GNU Make, Autoconf 2005-12-20 20:25:35 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Update known contributors comments 2008-03-14 20:25:44 +01:00
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install-sh Replace the build process. The new one requires GNU Make, Autoconf 2005-12-20 20:25:35 +00:00
Make.mk Fix remaking of sources.mk with git 2008-07-25 08:34:35 -04:00
README Update documentation to talk about git instead of CVS 2008-03-28 20:42:49 +01:00

Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.

Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
Copyright (C) 1986-2008, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
Stevens, Steve McClure

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (in file
`COPYING'), or (at your option) any later version.

See file `CREDITS' for a list of contributors.

Directory `doc' has additional information.  File `doc/README'
describes the files there and what they talk about.

To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below.

(1) Unpacking the source tree

    If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.

    If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap.  This requires
    recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.

(2) Building a server

    Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001), GNU make, a
    curses library, Perl, and either nroff or GNU troff (`groff').

    See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
    instructions.  Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
    make install.  The last step is optional; everything runs fine
    right from the build tree.

    If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
    GNU make.  Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.

    Solaris supports POSIX.1-2001, but you need to set up your
    environment for that.  Try passing
        SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
    to make.  See standards(5) for details.

(3) Creating a game

    * Create a configuration for your game.  make install installs one
      in $prefix/etc/empire/econfig ($prefix is /usr/local unless you
      chose something else with configure).  You can use pconfig to
      create another one.

    * Edit your configuration file.  See doc/econfig for more
      information.

      Unless you put your configuration file in the default location
      (where make install installs it), you have to use -e with all
      programs to make them use your configuration.

    * Run files to set up your data directory.

    * Run fairland to create a world.  For a sample world, try
      `fairland 10 30'.  This creates file ./newcap_script, which will
      be used below.  You can edit it to change country names and
      passwords.

      Check out fairland's manual page for more information.

    * Start the server.  For development, you want to run it with -d
      in a debugger, see doc/debugging.  Do not use -d for a real
      game!

    * Log in as deity POGO with password peter.  This guide assumes
      you use the included client `empire', but other clients should
      work as well.

      For help, try `info'.

      To change the deity password, use `change re <password>'.

    * Create countries with `exec newcap_script'.

    Your game is now up!

Naturally, there's more to running a real game than that, but that's
beyond the scope of this file.

Please report bugs to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> or via SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver (registration required).

For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send
e-mail to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> and we'll try to answer if we
can.  Also check out our web site at "http://www.wolfpackempire.com".

Have fun!

Wolfpack!