Additions to the Game Manual for V1.4

[Eric Moreau]

If you look in the All About Combat section of the current manual you will notice under Planetary Defense Orders there is a reference to an Enemy List. I forgot to add that into the manual.

So anyway, the Enemy List will start appearing at the bottom of your Empire Turn Sheet starting this turn. To add Empires to the Enemy List simply give the following command on the turnsheet:

Command: Add Enemy
Details: Bob's Empire

If you wish to remove an Empire from your Enemy List simply give the following command:

Command:Remove Enemy
Details: Bob's Empire

[Eric Moreau]

Starting next turn, if the manufactured resources run into the negatives the empire will be charged 200,000cr for every 100 of the resources that it is under.

Updated: Changed amount to be higher. New number will be in effect starting next turn.

[Rak Ash'ir]

Ouch! That is quite a penalty. I will have to pay closer attention.

[Eric Moreau]

This will be coming into effect on this turn most likely. It might take a little while to update all the cities with this.

City Update

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Okay cities will now have Levels to represent their size, the higher the level the physically bigger the city is. There will be 7 levels and they will be color coded on the Planet Report. The levels are as follows:

Level 1 = Light Grey
Level 2 = Orange
Level 3 = Red
Level 4 = Green
Level 5 = Yellow
Level 6 = Purple
Level 7 = Black

This picture shows a Level 3 city as it will appear on the Planet Report:




Cities will expand to the next level once a certain amount of population is reached. Higher level cities will grant bonuses to the planet's birth rate.

Level1: Cities under 250,000 population, No Bonus
Level2: 250,000 to 399,000 population, +20 to Birth Rate
Level3: 400,000 to 999,999 population, +100 to Birth Rate
Level4: 1,000,000 to 4,999,999 population, +150 to Birth Rate
Level5: 5,000,000 to 19,999,999 population, +200 to Birth Rate
Level6: 20,000,000 to 39,999,999 population, +250 to Birth Rate
Level7: 40,000,000 and up, +300 to Birth Rate


But if you do not want to wait for the population to grow to upgrade your cities you can order the city upgraded, but it's gonna cost you some money but you will get the bonuses.

Level 2:[/u]
Build Cost: 1,500,000 credits
And you will be charged 50,000 credits a month until the population hits 250,000 as this is the cost to maintain and secure a large section of empty city.


Level 3:[/u]
Build Cost: 3,000,000 credits
And you will be charged 90,000 credits a month until the population hits 400,000 as this is the cost to maintain and secure a large section of empty city.


Level 4:[/u]
Build Cost: 6,500,000 credits
And you will be charged 100,000 credits a month until the population hits 1,000,000 as this is the cost to maintain and secure a large section of empty city.


Level 5:[/u]
Build Cost: 9,000,000 credits
And you will be charged 150,000 credits a month until the population hits 5,000,000 as this is the cost to maintain and secure a large section of empty city.


Level 6:[/u]
Build Cost: 15,000,000 credits
And you will be charged 250,000 credits a month until the population hits 20,000,000 as this is the cost to maintain and secure a large section of empty city.


Level 7:[/u]
Build Cost: 25,000,000 credits
And you will be charged 300,000 credits a month until the population hits 40,000,000 as this is the cost to maintain and secure a large section of empty city.




About the Birth Bonus:

If your city's population drops below the amount needed for the level the bonus will not be received. For example, if you have a Level 2 city and the population drops below 250,000 for any reason the bonus will not be applied until the population reaches 250,000 again.

[Eric Moreau]

This will take effect on this turn.

New Planetary Building

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Advanced Training Center
Resources: Iron = 600, Titanium = 800, Carbon = 300, Copper = 100, Silicon = 50, Synthetic-3 = 50, Electronics = 200
Build Time: 3 Turns
Build Cost: 800,000cr
Student Capacity: 50
An advanced training center that can provide additional training for Officers, Soldiers and Spies.

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Each Advanced Training Academy will cost you 150,000cr a month even if you do not have students enrolled. Ths is the cost to keep the Academy open. Then it will cost you 100,000cr a month for every student in training. The Academy can train 50 students at a time and the students will be tied up and not available for other duties. So make sure you don't need your people before you send them to the Academy. Each type of personnel can gain levels which will improve their performace. You cannot jump ahead levels, you must train the first level before you can move on to the second.

To send personnel to be trained you give the following command:

Command: Advanced Train
Details: Planet1 = (05/04) Officer13

alternatively:

Command: Advanced Train
Details: Planet1 = (05/04) Squad1

alternatively:

Command: Advanced Train
Details: Planet1 = (05/04) 10 Spies




Officers:
When you train an Officer to a higher rank then every time he receives Respect for something the bonus is applied.

Levels:[/i]
- Experienced = 3 Turns to Train, Respect Bonus = 15%
- Adept = 4 Turns to Train, Respect Bonus = 30%
- Veteran = 4 Turns to Train, Respect Bonus = 50%




Soldiers:
There must be enough room for the whole squad on the planet's training centers.

- Skilled = 3 turns to train, +1 Evade, +10 Health, +1 Accuracy
- Experienced = 3 turns to train, +1 Evade, +10 to Health, +1 Accuracy
- Hardened = 4 Turns to train, +2 Evade, +15 Health, +2 Accuracy
- Veteran = 4 Turns to train, +2 Evade, +15 Health, +2 Accuracy
- Warrior = 5 Turns to train, +3 Evade, +20 Health, +3 Accuracy




Spies:

The bonuses acquired at each level do not stack, when you move to a new level the new level bonuses are used and the old ones are thrown away.

- Experienced = 4 Turns to train, +15% Escaping Detection, +10% Mission Success, +20% Hiding

- Adept = 4 Turns to train, +25% Escaping Detection, +15% Mission Success, +30% Hiding, +5% Combat

- Elite = 4 Turns to train, +35% Escaping Detection, +20% Mission Success, +40% Hiding, +10% Combat



Eventually I plan to add the ability to train Crew and Scientists but these require a little more work than I have time for right now.

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Now seeing as soldiers can now be get advanced training, I'm going to add additional commands for handling Squads.

First we must note that when we disband a squad that has received advanced training the soldiers will be added to pools. These pools will be listed on the Military Reports. Now we need to have the Recruit command modified a bit if we want to recruit advanced soldiers:

Command: Recruit
Details: Planet1 = (02/04) 10 Squad Name using Adept

Notice the level name of the soldier to recruit from is listed. If you just want to recruit regular soldiers don't include the end part.

[Eric Moreau]

This will take effect this turn.


The Transfer Citizen command will need to be modified. Now transfering citizens will take 3 turns to complete and the morale of the destination city will drop.

[Eric Moreau]

Morale's effect on Birth Rate

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Here is a table that will show City Morale's effect on the planet's birthrate. If the birthrate drops below 0 then anything under zero is added to the death rate.

100 = Nothing
90 = -1D5
80 = -1D12
70 = -2D12
60 = -3D12
50 = -4D12
40 = -5D12
30 = -6D12
20 = -7D12
10 = -8D12

[Eric Moreau]

This will take effect this turn.

Business Initiative

A social program for your planets. By investing in Business Initiatives on your planets such as ads and business loans to try and attract civilian businesses. The main goal of this program is to attempt to get some of your people to start up businesses for themselves.

There are several levels of investment in this initiative:

- 100,000cr per month = 30% chance of attracting a business
- 200,000cr per month = 45% chance of attracting 1D2 Businesses.
- 300,000cr per month = 55% chance of attracting 1D3 Businesses.
- 400,000cr per month = 60% chance of attracking 1D4 Businesses


Here is the command to start a Business Initiative, you can only have one running per planet at a time. You can also enter a certain company you prefer. Chances are more likely you will attract a company you prefer.


Command: Business Initiative
Details: Planet1 = 100,000, Prefer Manufacturing Goods



There are several types of business and the exact type of business attracted is random. Each company will have it's unique stats. The stats change depending on how successfull the business is. It is also possible that a company will not be successfull and go out of business. The companies operate in the background independent of the player.

Businesses:[/u]

Survey Company:
Stats:[/i] Survey Capacity, Cost per Square
Can be contracted to do survey work on a planet. The amount of squares the company can survey is determined by the Survey Capactiy stat.


Mining Company:
Stats:[/i] Extraction Capacity, Cost per ore unit
This company does not deplete any resources on the planet gamewise so you don't have to worry about them stealing your resources. They do however extract small amounts of resources only. You can purchase resources from them. The resources they extract is random.



Shipping Company:
Stats:[/i] Shipping Capacity, Cost per item
Can be contracted to do transport items to other planets. The transport capacity is determined by the Shipping Capacity. Transporting items using a shipping company takes 2 turns.



Space Liner Company:
Stats:[/i] Morale Boost
Provides leisure cruises around the space system and to other systems.




Manufactured Goods:
Stats:[/i] Manufacture Capacity, Cost per Item
Can be contracted to manufacture items, the amount is determined by the Manufacture Capacity.




Shipbuilding Company:
Stats:[/i] Ship Size Capacity, Cost per ship
Can be contracted to build ships up to the size listed in the Ship Size Capacity.





Planetary Exploration Company:
Stats:[/i] Exploration Capacity, Cost per Square
Can be contracted to do exploration work on a square, the Exploration Capacity is the number of squares that can be explored each month by the company.





Space Exploration Company:
Stats:[/i] Exploration Capacity, Cost per Map, Range
Can be contracted to do map planets and system maps. Exploration Capacity is the number of maps the company can provide per turn. The Range stat determines how far away from the home system it can acquire maps of.





Research Company:
Stats:[/i] Research Capacity, Cost per Turn, Cost per lab
Can be contracted to do research work, the Research Capacity is how many labs the company has.







Entertainment Company:
Stats:[/i] Morale Boost
Provides entertainment for the people on the planet effectively giving morale a boost.




(More Companies will probably be added later.)


Here is the command to contract companies out.

Command:Contract
Details:Planet1 = Company Name, special info


The special info in the command is to be replaced with any information needed depending on the type of company. For example if you are contracting out a Manufacturing Goods company then you would write down the item you want to have manufacture and how many of them you want.



You can also choose to tax companies. This is the business tax, it's default is set to 0. Bringing this tax too high could tax your companies into extinction. To set or change the Business Tax use the following command:

Command: Set Tax
Details: Planet1 = Business Tax to 3%

Renaming A company

If you would like your companies to have better names than the default. You can give the following command on the turn sheet to change the name.

Command: Rename
Details: Old Company Name to New Company Name

[Eric Moreau]

This will be in effect next turn:

You can request a report that will list all squares surveyed on a planet by using the following command:

Command: Request
Details: Survey Report of Planet1

[Eric Moreau]

Trade Market Delivery

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This service allows you to buy items from the Trade Tri-System without actually going there. You can have the items delivered to your system.

The base cost of delivery is 10,000cr, then 500cr is added to it for every Sector square from the Trade System where the Station is to your system. This covers the first 50 items, if you are getting more than 50 items then add 250cr for each additional item (Ship). And it will takea 2 turns for the items (ships) to arrive.


If you have a Shipping Company on your planet you can also contract them out to do the pickup and delivery. This is a cheaper alternative although Shipping Companies will have a maximum amount they can carry.

[Eric Moreau]

Space Station Sizes

30 Components and under = Orbital Platform
31 to 55 components = Outpost
56 to 100 components = Starport
101 to 175 components = Battlestation
176 to 250 components = StarCity
251 components and up = Planetoid


Towing:[/u]

To tow a station you will require 1 Tractor Beam Generator for each size of the station. For example; to tow a StarCity you would need 5 Tractor Beam Generators.

[Eric Moreau]

Starting next turn this will go into effect:

Officers will now be paid 500cr each
Spies will now be paid 1,000cr each

[kalouma]

Ouch!!!!

[Eric Moreau]

Also the tax rate will now be universal. So when it is set, it will apply to all planets.

There are also a couple more changes coming that will effect the economic side of the game when I have time to type them up.

[leliel]

hehe, guessing the per planet taxrates were too much book keeping