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NAME
xconq - X-based strategy game
SYNOPSIS
xconq [ options ] ...
DESCRIPTION
Xconq is a multi-player strategic wargame. Your goal is to save the
world from the evil empires attempting to take over. You get cities,
armies, airplanes, and ships with which to accomplish your task.
Success is achieved by the neutralization or defeat of the other
sides, by any means available. First you have to find them!
Although the game can get complicated, to start you need only know
about the help command '?', which is valid at any time. You start
with only one city, which makes things even simpler. The city will
automatically produce a military unit, which you will be prompted to
move around. Eventually, you will get more and can attempt to take
over other cities. The game keeps going until only one side is left
in action; this player is then declared the winner.
By default, xconq starts up with one human (on the display in
$DISPLAY) and one machine, playing on a randomly generated 60x30
world. Options are available to set numbers and kinds of players, as
well as the kind of map used. In addition, xconq has extensive and
elaborate facilities for building maps, scenarios, and historical
periods, resulting in a wide variety of games.
OPTIONS
host:display
adds a human player to the game and assigns to the given host and
display. Players get created in the same order as they appear on
the command line, interleaved with the players created via -e and
-A. All of the player adding options may be used any number of
times in any order.
-A host:display
attaches a machine player to the given display. Ideal for those
who like to watch.
-C allows the machine player to play in cheat mode. It will get a
complete update of the screen every turn.
-e number
sets the number of machine players not attached to displays.
Non-displayed machine players form alliance blocks of 5-9
countries.
-m name
reads the map named name and starts up a game on it.
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-M width height
generates a random map of the given size. The size must be at
least 5x5, although some periods will impose additional
constraints on the lower bound. In theory, there is no upper
bound (but 200x100 is huge).
-p name
reads the historical period specified by name, and sets
everything up for that period.
-r resets the list of players on the command line. It is most
useful when placed before other player specifications, to clear
out the default players.
-s name
reads a scenario with the name name. A scenario sets up a
particular situation; it has a fixed number of sides that can
participate.
-t number
toggles a chess-clock-like feature that limits the total time of
play for each side. The amount is number minutes per side. Time
is only counted while actually waiting for input.
-T number
toggles a timeout that limits the length of each turn for all
sides. The amount is number minutes per turn. Time is counted
continuously. The clock will stop updating after you have moved
all possible units, but if you then want to see how much time is
left for the other players, press ^L.
-v make the entire world seen by all players at the outset. This is
useful if exploration is deemed to be time-consuming, or if the
map is already known to everybody. Some maps already have this
enabled. In addition, -B and -D are recognized; see the
customization document for more details.
EXAMPLES
xconq One human on local display, one machine, 60x30 random map
xconq -m crater
One human vs one machine, on the "crater lake" map
xconq -e 0 blitzen:0 kzin.eel:0
Three humans. One on the local display, one on blitzen:0 in
the same network, and another: kzin.eel:0 in another network.
60x30 random map
xconq -e 2 -M 90 40 -A shark:0
One human, three machines (one on display shark:0), 90x40
random map
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xconq -r -e 3 -m 1987 wind:0 surfer:0 -A springs:0
Six players (4 machine, 1 on springs:0; 2 human, on wind:0 and
surfer:0), all playing on a 360x122 map of the earth with
present-day cities. Major!
X DEFAULTS
Class / name
You may specify these resources in your .Xres (or
.Xdefaults) using a spec of the form
XConq.Class: value
or
XConq.name: value
and you can mix classes and names in the spec. This is just
standard X resource stuff.
The following resources have a prefix of XConq.Map.Period /
xconq.map.%s
HexDisplayMode / hexDisplayMode
This is how xconq will display the terrain hexes. Possible
values are FullHex, BorderHex, TerrIcons, and BothIcons.
Background / ownColor
The color for your own units.
Background / alternateColor
I forgot
Background / differentColor
Reminders would be appreciated
Foreground / borderColor
It shouldn't be hard to figure out anyway
Foreground / grayColor
but my boss is looking over my shoulder
Foreground / enemyColor
The color of enemy units
Foreground / neutralColor
The color of neutral units
Foreground / goodColor
The color of allied units
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Foreground / badColor
And I really shouldn't play this game until I've finished
the project
Font / textFont
Font for all text.
Font / iconFont
Font for miscellaneous pictures.
Font/ helpFont
Font for the help pages.
AUTHORS
Stan Shebs (shebs@cs.utah.edu)
Version 5.4 by Greg Fisher (fisher@cs.rutgers.edu)
Version 5.5 by Robert Forsman (thoth@lightning.cis.ufl.edu)
Version 6.0 in the works. It doesn't work too well yet, Stan's still
fixing things.
FILES
save.xconq saved game
emergency.save.xconq game saved after program crash
stats.xconq performance statistics for a game
cmds.xconq listing of commands
parms.xconq listing of units and their characteristics
view.xconq printable version of the map display
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/*.map predefined maps
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/*.scn predefined scenarios
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/*.per predefined historical periods
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/*.onx X10 fonts
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/*.bdf X11 uncompiled fonts
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/*.snf X11 compiled fonts
/local/lib/x11r4/xconq/xconq.news news about features/additions
SEE ALSO
Liberating the World (Made Simple)
Customizing Xconq (Made Somewhat Simple)
DIAGNOSTICS
If a given display cannot be opened due to a missing xhost(1) command,
xconq will quit with a message "Error opening display host:0".
If the icon fonts cannot be found or opened, text will be substituted.
This is usually pretty yucky.
If the map is too small for the desired number of players, xconq will
complain about not being able to place units.
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There are some panic messages which usually precede a core dump by a
few milliseconds.
Incorrect combinations of periods, maps, and scenarios can generate a
host of different error messages.
BUGS
Since some periods/maps/scenarios are interdependent, they must be
specified in a particular order on the command line (period first
usually).
Does not cope gracefully (it doesn't really cope at all) with
insufficient memory.
Some annoying behaviors are actually features.
Feel free to report bugs to xconq@uunet.uu.net. There are people
there willing (if not able) to help you. If you wish to listen in on
the list you may join by sending mail to xconq-request@uunet.uu.net.
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