Game characteristics -- Alias

Overview

Host:	PHOST >= 4.0 for SPARC Solaris	(registered players only)
Schedule:	two turns per week, Thursday and Sunday morning (06:00 CEST)
Winning conditions:	hold 120 planets for 5 consecutive turns
Ship list:	PList-2.4
Game data:	ZIP archive
Universe:	alternative 2000x2000 map, normal rich universe, homeworlds picked by AMaster

Important pconfig.src changes

• anonymous game
• no communication
• PHost's alliance features disabled
• coordination is not allowed: each player has to play completely on his own
• no kind of exchange is allowed
  • no exchange of ships, goods (fighter, money ...), race abilities (e.g. Hssss, RGA, DarkSense infos) and planets/starbases
  • no exchange of '.rst' files, 'evport.dat' files and so on
  • no exchange of minefield codes
• minelaying in other ID disabled
• no remote control
• wrap-around universe ("PWrap", "Sphere")
• PBP build queue, PBx friendly codes enabled
• alternative towing model
• PHost's experience system
  • documentation: http://www.phost.de/phost4doc/exp.html
  • influence on combat: http://www.geocities.com/the_vagabund/PList2/plist2_exp.html
• non-standard score (battlemass ranking list every 5th turn)
• planets have no tubes

Addons

• explore map
• checkvic

Starting ships

Race	Starting ships, cloneable once
1	Corsair, Sirius, Sirius
2	Oberth, Archaeopterix, Menhunter
3	Miranda, Oberth, Falcon with tube
4	Miranda, Oberth, Menhunter
5	Goblin, Miranda, Oberth
6	Constitution, Sirius, Sirius
7	Goblin, Menhunter, Sirius
8	Constitution, Sirius, Sirius
9	Miranda, Oberth, Menhunter
10	Constitution, Miranda, Sirius
11	Constitution, Falcon without tube, Sirius

Comments

For general comments mail to: Matthias.Degenhardt@gmx.de