bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Indiana University Astrophysics' Alpha 3000-900 (OSF1 v3.2d) Comments to netrek@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu See Server Notes Below for Mods to Ship Types 'f' Scrolls this message (f)orward, 'b' Scrolls this message (b)ackwards 'S' might save this message to a file for later reading (client dependant) READ FURTHER DOWN IN THIS FILE FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON PLAYING THE GAME To Enter The Game ----------------- [s] Scout [a] Assault Vessel [d] Destroyer [b] Battleship [c] Cruiser [o] Starbase - Press 'R' in this screen to reset your stats. - Kewl new widgets - finger netrek@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu for the hiscores - telnet bigbang.astro.indiana.edu 2591 for the current players logged on. - Observer Port on 2593!!!! - Read your messages, or you'll be automagically ejected! - Look for "clue hours" from 18:00-20:00 EST, daily! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Server Differences ------------------ bigbang is smarter than your average server in the following ways : WaitQ? Check out the observer port, 2593! The 1/4 kill for taking a planet now comes when you indi it. Bonus 1 army credit for touching a ? planet Send yourself :M to ignore multiline macros We Keep Track of Genocides! Send yourself "GENOS" AS's have incresed cloaking randomness Send yourself "HELP" for a list of messaging commands Planets worth 3 total points - 1 for destroying, 2 for taking transwarp to SB (lock on, hit "*") Bonus 2 armies credit for bombing a planet flat. Initial army population is 17 (ala INL server) Terminators are now Galaxy ships Geno timer now sets/resets at 2/5 planets (was 1/4) You can message during twarp, refit, etc. BB phasercost = 9*s_phaserdamage (rather than 10) BB torpcost = 8*s_torpdamage (rather than 9) SB max wtemp = 150 (rather than 130) SB fuel regen = 45 (was 35) SB warp cost = 20 (was 10) DD plasma damage = 85 (rather than 75) DD maxfuel = 7500 (rather than 7000) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Basic Commands for Netrek ------------------------- For a whole pile of hints, documentation, and instructions, check out the following URL: http://www.isn.net/~farnorth/netrek.html How to Send Messages -------------------- Netrek is an interactive team game. Thus, communicating with your teammates is very important. Learn to send and receive messages - your game will improve immensely. 1. Put your mouse cursor in the outgoing message window. It is the lower of the two thin one-line windows at the bottom right of the netrek window. On many clients, hitting "m" will do this for you. 2. Type the letter for who you want to send to: 0-9, a-j Message is sent to player of that number/letter t Send to your own team A Send to EVERYONE F Send to Federation R Send to Romulans K Send to Klingons O Send to Orions 3. Type your message. Press enter to send the message. You should see your message on the communications panel if all went well. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Server Notes ------------ * 6/28/93 RSA Server 1.0 brought on line! * 9/10/93 Experimental mods to ships: BB phasercost = 9*s_phaserdamage (rather than 10) BB torpcost = 7*s_torpdamage (rather than 9) SB max wtemp = 150 (rather than 130) DD plasma damage = 85 (rather than 75) DD fuel regen = 12 (rather than 11) CA phaser damage = 95 (rather than 100) * 9/14/93 Vanilla 2.00pl8 server installed netrek.atd.ucar.edu player DB installed * 9/30/93 Vanilla 2.01pl1 server installed CA phaser damage = 98 (was 95) *10/05/93 Vanilla 2.01pl2 server installed (RC_DISTRESS now works) trimscores run - if you lost a character, let me .know *10/13/93 transwarp added. Lock onto SB and hit "*" to transwarp. *10/14/93 CA phasers back to normal. *10/30/93 trimscores run; bombing a planet to <5 is worth 4 bonus armies. *10/31/93 SB stationary fuel regen is 10 higher to compensate for transwarp *11/02/93 Flattening a planet now only worth 2 bonus armies *11/27/93 3rd space bombing turned back on Initial army count set to 17 *12/08/93 No transwarping under red alert *12/16/93 New planet credit scheme installed *12/21/93 Send yourself "^" for SB session stats *01/13/94 Guardian and Terminator robots now upgraded to GA's *01/22/94 3rd space bombing prohibited again *01/28/94 Geno timer now sets/resets at 2/5 planets (was 1/4) *02/14/94 Vanilla 2.02pl0 server installed, trimscores run. *02/23/94 Vanilla 2.02pl1 server installed *03/09/94 AS's have increased cloaker randomness *03/16/94 Genocides added to player stats, transwarp only under green alert *04/19/94 Vanilla 2.5pl0 server installed. *05/06/94 Vanilla 2.5pl2 server installed. *05/15/94 Clue hours (18:00-20:00 EST) started. *05/25/94 trimscores run - if you lost someone, holler. *06/09/94 DD fuel regen returned to normal, but maxfuel raised to 7500. *08/06/94 Vanilla 2.5pl4 server installed. *09/15/94 Old RSA keys dropped from accepted keylist. *10/06/94 Messaging during twarp added, trimscores run. *01/25/95 NBR planet name changes added. *02/13/95 BB torpcost upped to 8* instead of 7* *02/27/95 Globals all divided by 4 so they fit :( *03/01/95 Vanilla 2.6pl2 server installed. *05/03/95 Vanilla 2.6pl3 server installed *05/16/95 Clue checking turned on permanently *06/07/95 Vanilla 2.6pl4 server installed *06/08/95 Observer port (now 2593) added *06/22/95 Vanilla 2.7pl0 server installed *08/04/95 Server brought up on Alpha 3000-900 *10/13/95 Vanilla 2.7pl1 server installed *01/10/96 Vanilla 2.7pl2 server installed *08/31/96 Vanilla 2.7pl3 server installed - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - List of Accepted Clients --------------------------[ Bronco Client ]-------------------------- Amiga Mac OS/PPC ------------------------------[ ndb1.0 ]------------------------------ DS3100+DS5000/Ultrix4.2 Sun Sparc/SunOS 4.1 hp700 series 3B2 SysVR3.2 386 / Linux ----------------------------[ BRM-Hadley ]---------------------------- Sun4 / SunOS 4.1.2 Sun4 / Solaris Sun3 / SunOS 4.1.2 HP700 / HP-UX DEC / ULTRIX x86/linux SGI / 4.0.5 DEC-ALPHA / OSF1 RS6000 / AIX 3.2.5 SGI Irix 5.2 FreeBSD 2.1 HP9000/800 HP-UX x86/linux ELF PowerMac / MkLinux Sun4 / Solaris 386/SVR42 --------------------------[ Client Of Win ]-------------------------- ultrix / decmips x86/linux a.out linux ELF/POSIX / XFree 3.1.1 SGI/Irix 5 Sequent / dynix/ptx RS6K / AIX 3.2 sun4 / SunOS 4.1.3 HP 300-400 / hpux-8.0 ix86/Linux/Small Screen FreeBSD / static HPUX / HPUX 9.01 i386 / SVR4.2 MP DGUX / DGUX 5.4R3.00 AViiON mc next / NEXTSTEP 2.1 SCO-ODT-3.0-FDIV-586 Sun-4/Solaris-2.3 i386 / ATT SVR4.0 sgi-IRIX4 next68k / NeXTStep 3.x DEC_Alpha / OSF1 3.0 sgi/IRIX-5.3 sgi/IRIX-6.0.1 Alpha OSF1 / v3.2 Intel/Win32 Sequent/ptx 4.0 BSD/OS 2.0.1 / shared libs Linux ELF/ 16-bit Intel/Win32 NetBSD / 1.1 PowerMac / MkLinux hp800 / hpux9 FreeBSD / 2.2-Current sun4 / Test Client sun4/firewall aix rs6000 / socks sun4 / SunOS 4.1.3 sun4/thd Stortek unix / thd isst sgi / thd nlr linux / thd - landacorp WinNT / thd - landacorp -----------------------------[ COW-lite ]----------------------------- sgi/5.x sun4/4.1.x hp700 / hpux 9.0 rs6000/aix3.2.5 linux / XFree v2.0 AXP3000/OSF1-v1.3 DEC/Ultrix SCO/OpenDesktop-v3.0 Sun-4/Solaris-2.3 PC / Win32 486/Linux/Slackware-v2.0 Amiga/NetBSD Sun-3 / SunOS FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 + XFree 3.1 Intel/UnixWare 2 SPARC / Sun Relay sun4/sunos.4.1.3/thd Unify ---------------------------[ paradise 2.3 ]--------------------------- Amiga/DNet Macintosh Linux / Mac PowerPC SunOS 4.1.3 / Socks ---------------------------[ paradise 2.4 ]--------------------------- Apollo/DomainOS HP 9K s700,800/HPUX Unixware 2.x sparc/SunOS 4.1.3 Linux ELF / X11R5 SGI/IRIX 5.x Sparc/Solaris 2.x RS/6000/AIX 4.x i386/FreeBSD 2.1.0 Alpha AXP/OSF1 i386/NetBSD 1.2 i386/Linux-ELF/R6 i386/BSD/OS 2.0 ------------------------------[ SWINE ]------------------------------ Sun4 hpux / thd HP < END of .motd >