From TradeWars Museum
"Tell me more and how to set it up!" - OK, here goes.
First you go into the editor. Pick an empty planet. Set the name and creator
to who ever you want. Put it in any sector you want etc. Or use something
like the GENESIS program to create some random ones. The only thing you NEED to
do is to make sure the owner (who claimed it) is set to -2, Rogue Mercenaries.
OK? When this number changes, the program will no longer control it, or apply
caps on any values.
To call the program you do this:
PLANET # path/file
the # is the planet number. The path/file is the full drive, path, filename
of the TWDATA.DAT file. So for planet #14 ya do this:
PLANET 14 e:\tw\tradewar\twdata.dat
Or if TWDATA.DAT is in the current directory:
PLANET 14
What the program will do is this:
Will add 50 people a day. Add the productions to the current amounts. When
there is enough of everything, it will upgrade the citadel a level and remove
the needed amount of cargo.
Once it has at least a level 1 citadel, it will start depositing 100 credits
in the citadel a day. When it has a planetary shielding system, it will add
100 shields a day to that.
It caps certain amounts off at certain levels:
People, 1000 max. Cargo, 10000 max. Fighters, 32000 max. Shields, 2000 max.
As I said before, if the program detects a number other then -2 in the owner
field, it will not do anything with the planet.
"Don't sound bad. How did ya come up with this idea?" - After I had run the
GENESIS program, I though it was kinda of waste to have 10 planets just
sitting out in space. One of my users (Stinger), said they were just floating
rocks. So I though it'd be neat if they advanced.
While testing, it took at least 60 "days" for it to be active with a level 5
citadel. This should go faster since that was without the game advancing
any of the cargo, etc.
Oh yea, it sets the QCannon Sector at 8%, Atmos at 100%, and fighter sector
attack at 0%. I decided to set them like that after reading the TWtips file
from someone. (I really should write down people's names to give proper credit,
but what can I say, my memory [stinks] and I'm lazy.)
At the end of this file, as with my last 3 Trade Wars 2002 utils, I've thanked
Dan of Nite Owl BBS for getting the TW file formats to one of my users and
I never thanked Jason Boyed for writing the file that details the TW data
file formats! Can you believe it? My memory [stinks]. So I'd like to thank him
for writing that file. Without that file, this and my last 3 programs
wouldn't of been made since finding the format of the grimy trader file on my
own was enough of a [pain]. :) So thanks a lot Jason.
(Anyone notice yet I've used this same ending in my last 3 releases? Lazy
[so-and-so] ain't I?)
That should be enough. Now the stuff no one reads.. If you like this or
any of the other programs I've done that you have or have seen, please send
me something for my time and testing. I currently don't have a "real" job and
my only income is from my BBS and my programming. Do you know how hard it is
for a 21 year old computer nerd to get a job in a small hick town?
Send any donations, or your own programs that you've written to be placed on
my BBS to:
David Proper
927 Maple Avenue, NW
New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663-1522
Or if you just want to check out my BBS, which has all my publicly released
programs on line, give my BBS a call:
The Ace of Spades
1-216-339-4592
300/1200/2400 baud - 24hrs - 7dys
21,000+ files - 130+ doors - 7+megs Gfiles
800megs on line - 30+ message bases - Truly Private Email
Adult Section - CMF/MOD/GIF/MID/ROL/VOC/Etc files
Supports the 1st Admendment - Lots more goodies like a SysOp
who accualys answers mail and the pager.
Yea, I also have a Sound Blaster Pro so I can do any audio samples for the
users that they may want.
A quick little thank you goes out to Dan Rosen, SysOp of Nite Owl BBS
206-631-4949. He gave the TW file formats to one of my users that called his
system looking for them. Thanks Dan, we need more SysOps like that who are
willing to help out there users and other SysOps. (You wouldn't believe the
[cowpoo] in this area between the local systems. It's unbelievable)
Guess that's the end of this file. Increase the peace. Later.
