EMPIRES: Quest for Power - Getting Started

Please Check this Area for future updates regularly!  Print this file, for reference while playing your game.
Full Documentation will be completed soon by DarkSoft.

The following information is for all players of Empires.

After an exhilarating opening night on Friday 3/14/97, we have decided to organize the paths taken for 

1) Downloading the Client and Quick Start Instructions 
2) Entering Empires Main Menu 
3) Game Play and 
4) Questions for DarkSoft or BLAST!.

Please follow these instructions so that everyone will get help when needed.  We will all have a more enjoyable game this way. :)

Downloading the Client:  

Please come to the main bbs chat room while waiting for your download to complete.  If we are available this is where Lauren or Ed (BLAST!) will be for answers regarding installation, setup, general playing instructions, etc.  Please close this chat room once you're ready to enter the game... (It is very frustrating for new people to be asking questions and getting no response from someone who really isn't there)

Entering Empires Main Menu:  

Once you enter the game's main menu, please open the main chat room there.  (The button is in bottom right of screen "Open Chat") You will be able to chat here with people who may be waiting to join a game or someone to join them.  If DarkSoft or other "seasoned" players are there, they will be able to answer questions about game play.

Game Play:  

1) To join a game waiting for players, hilite the name of a game (blue text) on the right side of the screen and look at the details listed below it (yellow text) i.e., # of Players, who is in that game and whether or not a player is needed.  If you wish to join one, click on the Join button above.

OR

2) To create a new game, click on the Create button.  Type in a name for your game, select how many players, which scenario (map) and optionally type in a description.  Remember you will have to wait for people to join this game before it can be started.

Once you have joined or created a game and all players are listed, just hit the "Play" button to start.  Familiarize yourself with the menu, click all buttons so you know where certain functions are.  If you would like to chat with only the players of your game, go to Diplomacy, Chat Room.  This is a private chat room for your current game and its players only.  If you wish to speak with one of the players and they are not in this private chat room, just click on the players name and then the page button.  If you do not select a player then all those in that game will be paged to come to chat room.   

Questions for DarkSoft or BLAST!:

If no one is available online to answer your questions, please leave email to DarkSoft - Pink Floyd, BLAST!-Lauren or Sysop.  Also, post to DarkSoft Support Area if you would prefer.

Otherwise, please try to stay in the Empires Main Chat Room to ask your questions.







