First Ships

Solar Federation :

LIZARDS :

BIRDMEN :

FASCISTS :

PRIVATEERS :

CYBORGS :

CRYSTALLINE :

EVIL EMPIRE :

ROBOTS :

REBELS :

COLONIES :

Friendly Codes

Mine fields:
"mdh" mine drop half your torps
"mdq" mine drop one quarter of your torps
"md1" mine drop 10 torps
"md2" mine drop 20 torps
"md3" mine drop 30 torps
"md4" mine drop 40 torps
"md5" mine drop 50 torps
"md6" mine drop 60 torps
"md7" mine drop 70 torps
"md8" mine drop 80 torps
"md9" mine drop 90 torps
"md0" mine drop 100 torps

"miN" will lay a minefield in an enemies ID, were N is the ID number ofthe enemy that you want the mines laid as. N = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b) These mines will not effect the enemy race, but they can and will damage you if you fly through the field.

"msc" If you mission is set to mine sweep this code will cause the ship to scoop up the mines and convert them back into torpedoes.

Glory device codes (see Glory Device).
"pop" This code will cause the D19 or Saber class starships to EXPLODE after moving, if they have fuel.

"trg" This code will cause the D19 or Saber class starships to EXPLODE after moving, if they have fuel and any cloaked enemy ship is detected.

Alchemy ship codes.
"ald" Alchemy Duranium. This code will cause an alchemy ship to produce only Duranium.

"alt" Alchemy Tritanium. This code will cause an alchemy ship to produce only tritanium.

"alm" Alchemy Molybdenum. This code will cause an alchemy ship to produce only molybdenum.

"NAL" No Alchemy. The ship will not do any alchemy this turn.

Planetary friendly codes.
"NUK" causes planet to attack all enemy ships in orbit. (note: some fascist and birdmen ships are immune to attack)

"ATT" causes planet to attack all enemy ships in orbit that have fuel. (note: some Fascist and Birdmen ships are immune to attack)

"bum" beam up megacredits to all ships in ships in orbit (including enemy ships). If more then one ship is in orbit then the megacredits will be split between all the ships.

"dmp" Dump old parts. If there is a starbase in orbit around this planet then all the parts in the starbases storage bins will be converted back into minerals and dumped to the planets surface. It is worth noting that below the 500 ship limit the ship will be built and then all remaining parts dumped (also applies at 500 ship limit if a ship is built at that starbase that turn). At the 500 ship limit (if a ship is not built at that starbase) ALL parts at the starbase, including those involved in any ordered ship build WILL be recycled.

Ship to enemy ship transfers
"btt" Beam Transfer Torps. This code will transfer torpedoes of like type from the ship with this code to all enemy ships at the same point in space that have the same make of torp tube.

"btf" Beam Transfer Fighters. The code will transfer fighters from the ship with this code to all enemy ships at the same point in space that have fighter bays.

"btm" Beam Transfer Megacredits. This code will tranfer megacredits from the ship with this code to all enemy ships at the same point in space.

"gsN" Give Ship. This code will give starship to N race, where N is the number/letter code of another race. When the starship has this code the race represented by N will take control of said starship on thenext turn. (i.e., a friendly code of gs1 would give your starship to the Feds on the next turn. The crew becomes crew members of the new controlling race. For this to work there must be an enemy ship belonging to race N with colonists at the same point in space as the ship with the "gsN" friendly.

"nbr" No boarding party. This code will cause the Privateers or Crystal People to NOT use their tow capture beam to take over enemy ships that are out of fuel.

Ship to enemy planet transfers.
"bdm" Beam down Megacredits. This code will dump the megacredits from the ship to the planet that it is in orbit around, no matter who owns the planet.

Other codes.
"lfm" Load fighter minerals. This will load all the minerals and money onboard the ship to build as many fighters as possible and tells the ship to build fighters, regardless of the ships mission. This code will only work for the Robots, Rebels and Colonials.

"cln" Clone a Ship. This tells the starbase that you own and are in orbit with to make an exact copy of the ship with this code. The starbases' tech levels must be equal to or greater then the ship being cloned. This will in most cases cancel out the normal starship building on the starbase any turn that there is a starship with this code in orbit. The cost of cloning a ship (megacredits) is 200% of the original cost of building the ship. The Privateers and Crystal People can not clone. You can not clone ships that your race can already build.

"HYP" Hyperjump, this will cause a ship that has a hyperjump drive to jump 350 light years and burn 50 KT of fuel. The waypoint of the jumping ship must be greater then 25LY and the ship must have at least 50 KT of fuel. It is best to set the warp speed to 1 for the jump.

"mkt" Make torpedoes in space. Load your ship up with the items need to build torpedoes and your ship can construct them in space or over a planet. The items needed to build torps include one of each mineral type plus the megacredits required.

"con" Configure Message. Have the host send a listing of the current host configure settings next turn.

"NTP" Disable Torpedo Systems. A ship may now disable it's torpedo systems by using the friendly code "NTP" ( No TorPedoes ). If two ships that are enemies use the "NTP" friendly code they will still fight. This is also a special case where matching friendly codes does not count. This will also disable fighter launches.

Friendly code battle orders.
All ships have an attack order. They will fight in an order that depends on the friendly code. The friendly code can give an attack value from 1 to 999. To use attack values your friendly code must begin with a number value. The attack values will NOT affect the way in which a ships fights, it only effects the battle order. Your enemy's attack values will NOT effect your battle order. A attack value of 1 is the lowest possible attack value. Here are examples of attack values base on some friendly codes where "x" is any non-number character.

Here are examples of attack values base on some friendly codes where "x" is any non-number character.

FC Attack values
xxx 1000
1xx 1
10x 10
01x 1
999 999
123 123
18x 18
x23 23
xx2 2

The ship with the lowest attack value will attack first. If two ships have the same attack value then the ship with the lowest ID number will attack first.

Battle Ordering:

All ship to ship combat has two combat stages:

1. Intercepting ships with a cloaking device attack their intercept targets.
2. The Friendly Code Battle order.

Intercepts Attack:

Under HOST.EXE Version 3.20 ships on intercept missions that have a cloaking device will attack their intercept target ship first. The highest ID ships with a cloaking device on an intercept mission attack before the lower ID ships with a cloaking device on intercept missions. Anytime a ship on an intercept mission goes into combat it looses its intercept lock. REMEMBER: You must set your primary enemy to the race of the ship you are intercepting if you wish to attack them.

Universal minefield friendly code rules (HOST 3.22a):

Rule 1:
Minefields have friendly codes. The minefield's friendly code will be the same code as the planet that is owned by the owner of the minefield that is nearest the mines center. So if you laid a minefield at Nixon and you own Nixon and Nixon's friendly code is "Q1m" the minefield would have a code of "Q1m". Any starship with that friendly code would be able to travel through the minefield and not activate any mines. If the planet's friendly code is changed the minefield's code will change to match it. The minefield friendly code takes effect as soon as the mines are dropped.

Any ship in a web minefield that has a friendly code that matches the web minefield will not be drained by the web field.

A ship will not minesweep a minefield with a matching friendly code and it will not show up on starmaps or in messages.

Rule 2:
A planet with a friendly code beginning with "mf" will cause ALL mine fields belonging to your race to have this code as the mine field universal friendly code. If you set more than one planet's friendly code first two letters to "mf" the highest ID planet will be used to set the mine field universal friendly code. The character following "mf" can be any letter or number.

Example: If one of your planets friendly code is set to "mfK" then all your mine fields will have the universal friendly code of "mfK".

Rule 3:
If a Birdman ship sets the friendly code of any enemy planet using the super spy mission to a friendly code beginning with the letters "mf" and the planet has more than 30 defense outposts the planet will use an ion discharge overload to knock the ships out of cloak.

Rule 4:
A ship can use rule 1 or rule 2 to safely pass through a minefield. Both rules are in effect. The ship can use the "local" friendly code or the "universal" friendly code.

Notes:It is worth noting that high ASCII FC's can now, no longer, be used! You can not set your FCODE to any non-printable ascii code. If you do it will be reset to "AAA"

ADD-ON FRIENDLY CODES

RACEPLUS

Feds:
HUD - Improve native government up to Feudal. (Planet code)

Lizards:
!xx - Activate Chameleon Device and emulate ship type xx (see chart in Lizard Ability Section)
!!x - Activate Chameleon Device and emulate ship type 10x (see chart in Lizard Ability Section) (Ship Codes).

Birds:
EGG - To place a bomb on targeted enemy ship. (Ship code).

Fascists:
BAC - To send boarding part on to enemy spacecraft. (Ship code).

Privateers:
TCC - Transfer clans as crew to target vessel. (Ship code).

Cyborg:
STB - Activate Super Tractor Beam. (Ship code).

Crystals:
MKx - Planet code for starbases built over Siliconoid Planets.(x = 1-8 or P = proton torps, G=Gamma Bombs).

Empire:
GWG - Activate Gorbie Gravity Well Generator. (Ship code).

Robotics:
RDV - Repair Damaged Vessel. (Ship code).

Rebels:
BBT - Activate Boobytrap (Planet code) - On a Rebel ship this friendly code makes them immune to boobytraps.

Colonials:
SFG - Stealth Fighter Gather mission activation. - If set on target planet of the SFG mission it will make the defenses of the planet inactive. (Ship code).

xxx - Friendly code on Gemini where xxx equals target planets ID# (Ship code).

JUMPGATE
BJG - Build Jump Gate
AJG - Attack Jump Gate
RJG - Repair Jump Gate
Jnn - Jump to Jump Gate ID# nn

TACHYON
TPn - Tachyon Pulse at (n) time ten light years (0=10)
ITD - Incorporate Tachyon Device (planet friendly code)

STARBASE+
Minefield Fcodes:
SMF - Sweep Minefield
MSC - Scoop Up Minefield
LMF - Lay Minefield

Component Transport Codes:
GEn - Get Engine Tech (n) (n = 1-9)
GBn - Get Beam Tech (n) (n = 1-9)
GTn - Get Torp Launcher Tech (n) (n = 1-9)
UEn - Unload Engine Tech (n) (n = 1-9)
UBn - Unload Beam Tech (n) (n = 1-9)
UTn - Unload Torp Launcher Tech (n) (n = 1-9)
UAP - Unload All Parts

ASTEROIDS
IAn - Intercept Asteroid number (n)
TAn - Tow Asteroid number (n)
GQn - Gather Quadbenium from Asteroid number (n)
QJn - Quadbenium Jump (n) times ten light years (0=10)

ALIENS!
NMN - (planetary) Defend colonists at expense of the natives.
DIS - Destroy infected ship
ODP - Clean infected planet

FHOST
FBx Fighter Bomb Planet
FPx Fighter Patrol Area
FTx Fighter Transfer to
FTR Fighter Transfer Receive
FGx Fighter Gather Resources
FGy Fighter Gather (part2)
TAx Torpedo Attack Ship
TBx Torpedo Bomb Planet
BSG Build Stargate
Cid Complete Stargate
BSr Build Stargate To Race
ASG Attack Stargate
RSG Repair Stargate
Jid Jump Through Stargate
BCT Build Core Torpedo
RCT Report Core Torpedo
FCT Fire Core Torpedo
BSB Build Sunbuster
RSB Report Sunbuster
FSB Fire Sunbuster
SSC Activate Sunscoops (Ruby Class)
KSP Kill Ship (Deathstar)
KPL Kill Planet (Deathstar)
AFC Automated Fighter Construction
ATC Automated Torpedo Construction
GSr Give Ship To Race
EXC Exchange Ships
BUM Request Self Destruction
MTN Maintenance Order

PHOST
I donīt have the codes !

Race Advantages

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Solar Federation

• Super Refit
• Double taxes
• Only mine at half the normal rate
• "Scotty Bonus", all weapons remain online no matter how much damage the ship has and shield regenerate 25% between each battle in a turn
• Bohemian Survey Ship = Heats planets to climate type 50
• Eros Research Ship = Cools planets to climate type 50
• Brynhild Escort = Bioscanner will detect type and number of natives and climate type of 20% of the planets within range of its SensorSweep mission (Will not work on planets with 20 or more DP's)
• Loki Destroyer = Loki will detect and uncloak all cloaked starships within 10LY and attack those at its coordinates (Will not uncloak Fed and Lizard ships)

Lizards

• Ships with LIZARD CREWS ONLY can take 150% damage
• 20x ground combat
• Mine at double the normal rate
• The Lizard HISSSSSS! mission calms a planet down (only ships with beam weapons can do this)
• Cloaking ship; Reptile Destroyer, Lizard Cruiser, Saurian Light Cruiser
• Eros Research Ship = Cools planets to climate type 50
• Loki Destroyer = Loki will detect and uncloak all cloaked starships within 10LY and attack those at its coordinates (Will not uncloak Fed and Lizard ships)

Birdmen

• Cloaking battleships
• SuperSpy mission(like an exploration with a little extra info and the friendly code of the planet)
• Ship that cloak will cloak during SuperSpy
• Enhanced Super Spi mission can change planets friendly code 100% of the time with 5 ships at the planet
• Cloaking ships: Swift Heart Scout, White Falcon Cruiser, Bright Heart Destroyer, Fearless Wing Cruiser, Resolute BattleCruiser, RedWind Carrier, Dark Wing Battleship

Fascists

• Pillage planets mission (20% of natives and/or colonist are killed and their belongings are turned into money and supplies)
• Takes about 6 turns for riots to occur
• Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
• Cloaking ship: D7 ColdPain Cruise, D3 Thorn Destroyer, Deth Specula Frigate
• Glory device: Saber Frigate, D19b Nefarious Destroyer

Privateers

• Rob enemy ships (steal there fuel and cargo), this is one of the earliest occuring mission's for the HOST. It happens before movement.
• All beam weapons do three times(3X) there normal Kill damage for the Privateers
• Three(3) of there ships have Gravitonic Accelerators which allow them to go twice as fast as normal ships (ships traveling at Warp 9 will go 162LY instead of just 81LY)
• Privateers robbing cloaked ship is host configurable so check it when you play them.
• Cloaking ship : Dwarfstar Transport, D3 Thorn Destroyer, RedWind Carrier
• Cloaking ship with Gravitonic Accelerators: BR4 Gunship, BR5 Kaye Torpedo Boat, Meteor Blockade Runner
• Lady Royale Cruiser = Lady Royale is a gambling ship that generate 1MC for every clan onboard
• Privateers can capture ships in space with no fuel by intiating a tow on the fuelless ship, some of the crew from the towing ship will be transfered to the towee

Cyborgs

• The Cyborg will convert a native population into Cyborgs when Cyborg colonists are placed on their planet (normally the entire population will be converted within 10-15 turns)
• They can repair there ship damage at 10% per turn while in space, while repairing they cannot move
• When the Cyborg destroy an enemy ship the debris is beamed aboard as minerals
• The B200 Probe can use the HYP friendly code to hyperspace 350LY years from there current position. The waypoint has to be set at least 20LY in some direction and a warp speed of something set (i.e. Warp 6)
• Hyperspace ship : B200 Class Probe
• Firecloud Cruiser can Chunnel , takes 50KT of fuel and two Fireclouds with the same friendly code to create a chunnel

Crystalline

• The Crystalline's biggest advantage is they can lay WEB mines.
• These mines only do 1/10th the damage of normal mines
  • When you are hit by one, your ships stops where it struck the mine
  • 25KT of fuel is drained from you ship
  • If you were cloaked, you are now uncloaked
  • CLOAKED ships have just as much chance as uncloaked ships of hitting WEB mines
  • As long as you are inside the minefield 25KT of fuel will be drained each turn whether you strike a mine or not
• They can also live on desert worlds if the HOST is set to Crystal like desert worlds
• Their highest population growth will be on desert worlds
• Onyx Frigate: Heats planet to 100
• Crystals can capture ships in space with no fuel by intiating a tow on the fuelless ship, some of the crew from the towing ship will be transfered to the towee

Evil Empire

• The captains of all ships in the Evil Empire can use the "DarkSense" to detect enemy colonist living on planets within 400LY. There is a 20% chance that colonists on a single planet will be detected. The "Dark Sense" is never wrong! Nothing can hide a planet from the "Dark Sense".
• The "Dark Sense" cannot find the Rebels no matter how hard it looks!!!!
• The PL21 Probe can use the HYP friendly code to hyperspace 350LY years from there current position. The waypoint has to be set at least 20LY in some direction and a warp speed of something set (i.e. Warp 6)
• PL21 Probe: Hyperspace ship :
• SuperStar Destroyer can initiate an Imperial Assault. To do this drop 10 clans from this ship on any enemy planet no matter how many colonist or DP's and you will capture it intact The Super Star Destroyer is immune to all NUK/ATT attacking planets if the Imperial Assault mission is turned on. It does not matter which race owns the Super Star Destroyer, it is immune. It is a ship thing, not a race thing.
• Starbases build 5 fighters each turn using minerals only

Robots

• When Robots lay mines, they make four times the number of mine units per torpedo, thus their minefields are four times the size for the same number of torpedos used as any other race
• Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
• They can build fighters in space if they have (for one fighter):
  • 3 tritanium
  • 2 molydenum
  • 5 supplies
• Pawn Baseship: Bioscanner will detect type and number of natives and climate type of 100% of the planets within range of its SensorSweep mission (Will not work on planets with 20 or more DP's)

Rebels

• The Rebels have a very nasty mission called the REBEL GROUD ASSAULT, this mission destroys these things:
  • 30% of the planets money
  • 40% of the planets supplies
  • 20% of the planets defense posts
  • 60% of the mineral mines
  • 30% of the factories
  • 20% of the colonists
  • In doing so the natives will become very happy, while the colonist will RIOT!! This mission occurs after movement.
• Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
• Can have small colonies of up to 20,000 colonists(200 clans) on arctic worlds
• They can build fighters in space if they have (for one fighter):
  • 3 tritanium
  • 2 molydenum
  • 5 supplies
• Hyperspace ship: The Falcon Escort can use the HYP friendly code to hyperspace 350LY years from there current position. The waypoint has to be set at least 20LY in some direction and a warp speed of something set (i.e. Warp 6)

Colonies

• The Colonies can use there fighters to sweep mines for them. Each fighter destoys 40 mine units per turn. They can do this up to 100LY away from their ship, The ships beam weapons will also mine sweep to if they are 25LY or closer to the minefield
• Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
• They can build fighters in space if they have (for one fighter):
  • 3 tritanium
  • 2 molydenum
  • 5 supplies
• Cobol Research Cruiser has a Bioscanner that will detect type and number of natives and climate type of 20% of the planets within range of its SensorSweep mission (Will not work on planets with 20 or more DP's)
• Cobol Research Cruiser has a Ram Scoop that generates 2KT of Neutronium for every 1 LY traveled in deep space
• Aries Transport: Aries turns any mineral into Neutronium one for one at no cost
• Lady Royale Cruiser = Lady Royale is a gambling ship that generate 1MC for every clan onboard

Native Race Benefits

Native type		Benefit
Humanoid		Tech 10 Hulls
Bovinoid		1 supply for every 10,000 Bovinoids, 1 supply per clan
Reptillian		Double the mining rate if there are more than 100
Avian		Can be overtaxed
Amorphous		Will eat 5 clans per turn, can't be taxed or assimilated
Insectoid		Double taxes
Amphibian		Tech 10 Beam weapons
Ghipsodal		Tech 10 Engines
Siliconoid		Tech 10 Torpedoes

Hyperdrive Ships

Ship		Race	Cargo	Fuel	Crew
PL21 Probe		Evil Emire	20	180	6
B200 Class Probe		Cyborgs	15	80	1
Falcon Class Escort		Rebels	120	150	27

To use the hyperdrive set the ship's waypoint to a point farther than 20 light years and set the friendly code to "HYP". The ship will jump about 350 light years and burn 50 units of fuel. The ship will come out of hyperspace at speed zero and with no waypoint set. Ships in hyperspace avoid all minefields. The hyperdrive can not be used to escape a tow. This will not work if the ship is on an intercept mission. A ship using its hyperdrive can not tow another ship

Under HOST 3.2 hyperjumping ships that end up within a box (-2,-2)-(+2,+2) from a planet will be pulled into the planet, unless the waypoint distance is between 340LY and 360LY.

Under HOST 3.20 If the player sets a waypoint using winplan to any point that is between 340LY and 360LY the ship will jump to this exact point in space. When a ship does one of these exact jumps gravity wells will not effect it.

Research Ships

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There are three ship classes that are able to transform a planet's climate just by orbiting it. Each ship will change the climate type by 1 each turn.

• Bohemian Class Survey Ship: Feds warmer till type 50 reached
• Eros Class Research Vessel: Feds, Lizards cooler till type 50 reached
• Onyx Class Frigate: Crystalls Turns to desert (type 100)

HCONFIG (Default Standard Setup)

Recycle rate of colonizing ships 75%

Defines the amount of minerals that are retrieved from the hull of a ship that is recycled using the COLONIZE mission.

Odds of a large meteor impact 2%

Defines the chance that one large meteor will hit ONE of the 500 planets ....

Mine fields YES

Determines whether new minefields can be dropped but has no effect on existing minefields.

Web Mine Fields YES

Determines whether new Web minefields can be dropped but has no effect on existing Web minefields.

Alchemy Ships YES

Allows alchemy ships to convert supplies into minerals or supplies and/or minerals into fuel.

Delete old messages NO

Deletes old (unread) messages each turn ... if set to NO a player will receive their old messages as well as new messages if the host failed to receive a TRN file for their race during the last host run.

Disable all passwords NO

Determines whether players may protect their RST files using the internal VGAP password protection facility ... on CompuServe this is often not used because the host archives the RST files in a ZIP file password protected by a password known only to host & player.

The number of defending clans on a planet that, assuming a ground defence ratio of 1, will die for every clan dropped from a ship belonging to the attacking race. The default values are as follows:

The Solar Federation 1:1
The Lizard Alliance 30:1
The Empire of the Birds 1:1
The Fascist Empire 15:1
The Privateer Bands 1:1
The Cyborg 1:1
The Crystal Confederation 1:1
The Evil Empire 1:1
The Robotic Imperium 1:1
The Rebel Conf. 1:1
The Missing Colonies of Man 1:1

The number of clans attacking a planet that, assuming a ground defence ratio of 1, will die for every defending clan on the planet (assuming the attackers have that many). The default values are as follows:

The Solar Federation 1:1
The Lizard Alliance 10:1
The Empire of the Birds 1:1
The Fascist Empire 5:1
The Privateer Bands 1:1
The Cyborg 1:1
The Crystal Confederation 1:1
The Evil Empire 1:1
The Robotic Imperium 1:1
The Rebel Conf. 1:1
The Missing Colonies of Man 1:1

Number of fighters generated for free ("no money”) at starbases for any given race (in the standard game only the Evil Empire receives free fighters at their starbases) ... default values are as follows:

The Feds 0
The Lizards 0
The Bird Men 0
The Fascists 0
The Privateers 0
The Cyborg 0
The Crystal People 0
The Evil Empire 5
The Robots 0
The Rebels 0
The Colonies 0

Note: Each fighter still requires 3KT tritanium and 2KT molybdenum.

The percentage of normal extraction rates a given race's mines can extract minerals (from ground) at ... e.g. Lizards will mine at double the rate of any other race ... meaning fewer mines are necessary on Lizard held planets.

The Feds 70%
The Lizards 200%
The Bird Men 100%
The Fascists 100%
The Privateers 100%
The Cyborg 100%
The Crystal People 100%
The Evil Empire 100%
The Robots 100%
The Rebels 100%
The Colonies 100%

The percentage of normal taxation rates a given race can tax its natives and colonists at ... e.g. in the standard VGAP game the Feds will gain twice the MC's from natives that any other race will.

The Feds 200%
The Lizards 100%
The Bird Men 100%
The Fascists 100%
The Privateers 100%
The Cyborg 100%
The Crystal People 100%
The Evil Empire 100%
The Robots 100%
The Rebels 100%
The Colonies 100%

Rebels build fighters in space YES

If set to YES the Rebels will build free-fighters in space (assuming 5KT Supplies, 3KT Tritanium & 2KT Molybdenum are present and the ship is one with fighter bays!)

Colonies build fighters in space YES

If set to YES the colonies will build free-fighters in space (assuming 5KT Supplies, 3KT Tritanium & 2KT Molybdenum are present, the mission is set to BUILD FIGHTERS and the ship is one with fighter bays!)

Robots build fighters in space YES

If set to YES the Robots will build free-fighters in space (assuming 5KT Supplies, 3KT Tritanium & 2KT Molybdenum are present, the mission is set to BUILD FIGHTERS and the ship is one with fighter bays!)

Cloaked ships may be Robbed NO

Defines whether or not The Privateers may rob fuel, money & minerals from ships that are cloaked.

Empire's Dark Sense range 200 LY

Defines the range at which the Dark Sense will work for The Evil Empire.

Lizards can use hiss mission YES

Defines whether the lizards are able to use their discontent suppressing HISS mission.

Rebels can use ground attack YES

Defines whether the rebels can use their REBEL GROUND ASSAULT mission to attack enemy & self owned planets.

The Feds can super refit YES

Defines whether The Feds are able to use their Starbase SUPER REFIT mission.

Cyborg assimilation rate 100%

Defines the percentage of natives (of the number of Cyborg colonists present on the planet) that will be assimilated into Cyborgs.

Colonial fighter mine sweep rate 20

Defines the number of mines that each colonial fighter can destroy during one sweep (turn!)

Colonial fighter can sweep webs NO

Defines whether or not colonial mine-sweeping fighters can sweep web mines!

Effect of HISS mission 5

The HISS mission works by beaming down happy units to the planet at which the ship is situated thus offsetting the negative happy units gained by overtaxation and other similarly nasty problems. IN the default settings each ship in orbit beams down 5 happy units per turn.

Rob mission failure rate 1%

Defines the percentage of times the ROB mission will FAIL.

Planets can attack Rebel ships NO

Defines whether or not a planet may attack a Rebel ship that is using the REBEL GROUND ASSAULT mission. Setting this to YES will effectively remove the Rebels GROUND ASSAULT mission.

Planets can attack Fascist ships NO

Defines whether or not a planet may attack a Fascist ship that is using the FASCIST PILLAGE mission. Setting this to YES will effectively remove the Fascist's PILLAGE mission.

Science ship bonus YES

Defines whether or not Terraformer's may actually Terraform planets.

Fed crew bonus YES

Defines whether the Federation Crew bonus (25% shield boost between battles, 2 extra fighter bays on ships with less than 9 fighter bays) is in operation or not.

Odds that a cloak will fail 0%

The chance (percentage) that any given ships cloak may fail in a turn.

Fuel used to cloak 5

The amount of fuel required (per turn) to cloak 100KT of ship hull (weaponry and cargo excepted)

Ships without fuel can move YES

Impulse power switch ... if set to yes then ships can move some small distances without fuel.

Ship visible range (StarCharts) 300 LY

The range (in light years) at which a ship becomes visible if it not cloaked or orbiting a planet.

Sensor mission range 200 LY

The range (in light years) at which the SENSOR SWEEP mission will detect planetary factories and mines (enemy owned).

New natives will appear YES

If set to YES and a planet is selected by host that has no natives then new natives will be discovered hiding on that planet.

Planetary 'NUK' friendly codes YES

Defines whether the planetary friendly codes "ATT” & "NUK” will operate to attack fueled and fueless ships in orbit.

Overpopulation's eat supplies NO

Colonists will eat supplies to survive if the planet is overpopulated. If insufficient supplies are produced to maintain the population the population will cease growing.

Isotope Trans-uranium Mutation rate 5

The number of KT's of a mineral (LARGE MASSES density only ... lower densities will reflect that fact) produced per turn for any mineral within a planet.

Planetary structures decay rate 1

The number of planetary structures (mines, factories and defence posts) that will decay per turn if the number existing exceeds the maximum allowed.

Web mine decay rate 5%

The percentage of Web mines that are lost by normal decay from a Web minefield (Crystalline) each turn.

Mine field decay rate 5%

The percentage of mines that are lost by normal decay from a minefield each turn.

Odds of hitting a mine per L/Y 1%

The percentage chance of hitting a mine within a minefield for each light year traveled ... so for an 80 light year jump through a minefield a ship will (at default settings) have, in effect, a die with 100 sides rolled and if the number 1 is rolled the ship will have hit a mine.

Odds of hitting a web per L/Y 5%

The percentage chance of hitting a Web mine within a Web minefield for each light year traveled ... so for an 80 light year jump through a Web minefield a ship will (at default settings) have, in effect, a die with 100 sides rolled and if a number less than or equal to 5 is rolled the ship will have hit a Web mine.

Maximum mine field radius 150 LY

The maximum possible radius of a minefield in light years.

Mine detect range 200 LY

The range (in light years) at which the MINE SWEEP mission will detect a minefield.

Mines destroy enemy mines YES

Defines whether two overlapping minefields (different races) will neutralise (destroy) each other.

Engine tech boosts shield power NO

Defines whether engine tech will boost the power of a ship's shields.

Engine tech boosts shield power% 50

Defines the percentage level of boost shields will receive from Hi-Tech Engines.

Mine field sweep rate 4

Defines how many mine-units an X-Ray Laser will sweep in one turn and how many hundreds of mine-units will be swept by a Heavy Phaser.

Web mine field sweep rate 3

Defines how many web mine-units an X-Ray Laser will sweep in one turn and how many hundreds of web mine-units will be swept by a Heavy Phaser.

Mine field sweep range (LY's) 5

Defines the distance (in light years) from a minefield a ship must be before its beams will begin to sweep mines.

Web mine field sweep range (LY's) 0

Defines the distance (in light years) from a web minefield a ship must be before its beams will begin to sweep web mines.

Cloaked ship will hit mine odds 0.5%

Defines the odds that a cloaked ship will hit a mine for every light year traveled across a NORMAL minefield (cloaking does NOT affect the danger potential from web mines)

Amount of damage that prevents cloak 1

Defines the percentage level of damage a ship may have AND still be able to cloak

Ships with one engine can tow NO

Defines whether one-engined ships can tow or not.

Hyperdrive ships YES

Defines whether the three Hyperdrive ships in the game are allowed to use those drives.

Climate death rate 10%

Defines the percentage of the current colonist population on a planet that will die until the population reaches its maximum level (which is one except where races show special climate-based advantages).

Planets have gravity wells YES

Defines whether ships less than 3.001 light years from a planet will be drawn into orbit around that planet.

Crystal people like desert worlds YES

Defines whether the Crystal Peoples can live better on high temperature (desert) worlds i.e. that they will reach their maximum population level (250,000 clans) on high temperature desert worlds (50,000 on temperate-warm worlds)

Normal mines destroy web mines NO

Defines whether normal mines will neutralise (destroy) web minefields when the two overlap.

Climate limits population YES

Defines whether the climate of a world has any effect on population growth. A planet can support a maximum of 250,000 clans where climate is not an issue.

Odds of small meteor impact on all 0%

This defines the odds (percentage) that a small meteor will hit a planet (every planet is checked every turn)

Minimum Neutronium 10
Minimum Duranium 10
Minimum Tritanium 10
Minimum Molybdenum 10
Maximum Neutronium 200
Maximum Duranium 200
Maximum Tritanium 200
Maximum Molybdenum 200

These define the maximum and minimum amounts of the 4 minerals in VGAP that will be deposited on a planet if they are subject to a small meteor strike. These are useful to a host if depleting minerals in a game start to cause the game to stagnate.

Number of LARGE meteors impacting 0

This defines the number of large meteors that will hit planets each VGAP host run.

Minimum Neutronium 100
Minimum Duranium 100
Minimum Tritanium 100
Minimum Molybdenum 100
Maximum Neutronium 10000
Maximum Duranium 9000
Maximum Tritanium 9000
Maximum Molybdenum 7000

These define the maximum and minimum amounts of the 4 minerals in VGAP that will be deposited on a planet if they are subject to a LARGE meteor strike.

Send Meteor Messages YES

Defines whether players are informed that LARGE meteors have struck in territory they DON'T own and whether their own planets are the subject of small meteor strikes.

Maximum income per planet 5000MC

Defines the maximum number of megacredits a planet can produce in a single turn.

Ion Storm activity 5 Storms

Defines the maximum number of Ion Storms that can exist within the game.

FireCloud Warp Chunnel YES

Defines whether the FireCloud ship is able to Chunnel or not.

Advanced Birdmen Super Spi YES

Defines whether Birdmen starships are able to change a planets friendly code to match their own or not.

Ion storms hide minefields YES

Defines whether Ion Storms (if active) hide mines from ships using the MINE SWEEP mission.

Glory device (D19, Saber) YES

Defines whether the D19 Nefarious and Saber class ships can be set to explode with the friendly codes "trg” and "pop” or not.

Loki Class Anti-cloaker function YES

Defines whether the Loki Class ship will force cloakers within 10 light-years to decloak or not.

Lady Royale Gambling Ship YES

Defines whether the Lady Royale starship will generate megacredits from the proceeds of gambling or not.

Cloaked ships can attack YES

Defines whether or not a cloaked ship will attack a visible ship belonging to the race that matches its primary enemy setting or not.

Ship Cloning YES

Defines whether all races (except the Privateers & Crystals who can't) can clone captured or exchanged ships .... a process which requires the correct tech-levels at a Starbase, the FC "cln” on the starship to be cloned, the required amount of minerals AND twice the required number of megacredits.

Crystal/Privateer Boarding Party YES

Defines whether a Crystalline or Privateer ship can capture a fueless enemy ship just by locking a tow (tractor) beam on the enemy.

Star Destroyer Imperial Assault YES

Defines whether the Imperial Star Destroyer can capture a planet (& Starbase if it exists) simply by dropping 10 clans onto the surface of the planet.

Cobol class free fuel per LY 2 KT

Defines how much fuel the Cobol Class Research Cruiser will scoop for every light year it travels.

Aries can convert minerals to fuel YES

Defines whether the Aries Class Transport can convert minerals into fuel or not.

Bioscanners YES

Defines whether the Cobol Class Research Cruiser, Pawn Class Baseship & Brynhild Class Escort can detect life on other planets if they are using the SENSOR SWEEP mission.

Hull Tech not slowed by mine hits 7

Defines the tech level at or above which a ship WILL NOT be slowed down (by 10 light years) if it suffers a mine-hit.

Credits

Tabel of Contents

Portions of the data and information in this file are from documentation for the following software, and from other texts which are owned by their respective copyright holders:

VGA Planets copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 by Tim Wisseman

Eden Tan: Infolist , Eden Tan (The Last Gentleman), edentan@bach.eecs.berkeley.edu
II, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII

GammaMark: The Planeteer, GammaMark, 76564.1754@CompuServe.Com
III, IV

The Undead HedgeHog: The Planeteer, The Undead HedgeHog, 101516.3334@CompuServe.Com
XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XIX, XXX

Unknown Author(s) V, VI, XII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII

Wrich : Wrich 70006.463@CompuServe.COM
X,XII,XIX

Commander Pirx : Commander Pirx, u373ej@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de
VII, VIII, X, XI, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII

Subjects: II Engines, Fuel Usage
III Beam Table
IV Torpedo Table
V Mine Table
VI Planetary/Base Defenses, Planetary DP Tables
VII Misc Info, Happiness Info
VIII Planetary economy,Tax Info, Mine Output
IX Growth Rate Info, Population Limit Info
X Plan. Struct., Ground Att/Def, Sensor Sweep
XI Mission Ordering
XII Obscure Rules
XIII First Ships
XIV to XVII Friendly Codes
XIX Race advantages
XXII Native Race Benefits, Hyperdrive & Research Ships
XXIII to XXX HCONFIG (Default Standard Setup)

As you certainly know, there are tons of material floating around the Internet and it is not easy to keep track of all the authors. Therefore, all authors, that feel they are not mentioned properly should contact contact me ASAP, so I can update the credit list.

THX for your understanding, Pirx

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