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click the “Join” button. He will be asked to select some options: the IP
address, the session password (optional), the IP port (optional, this is also
communicated by the Hosting player) and the “Is Internet game” check-box
option (if not playing via LAN, of course).
As soon all these options are selected, he can enter a new window, where
a list of all multiplayer games currently ongoing are displayed. The “Search
games” button is now used to refresh such list. The player has to click on a
game name inside the list. As soon as he does so, he enters the Scenario
selection window.
He sees the scenario selected by the Hosting player and he simply has to
select the nation/alliance he wants to control, among those ones currently
available, of course. If restoring a previously saved game, no such
selection is to be done, of course.
When this last step is over, the window content is refreshed and he sees
the list of all players currently connected with the Host. He can notify the
Host that he’s ready for play by clicking on the “Ready” button. As soon as
all connected players have notified their “ready” status, the Hosting player
can start the game by clicking on the “Start” button. This will inform all client
PCs that they can start the loading procedure of the scenario or saved
game.
The multiplayer game can now finally start!
3.5.3 Restoring a saved multiplayer session
Host and Client can follow the same procedure described above. There are
only a couple of constraints:
● Hosting and Client players must choose the same nicknames
used during the very first installment of the multiplayer session,
otherwise the game engine is not able to recognize them to start
the game.
● Hosting and Client players cannot choose a new nation/alliance.
4. Main Screen and Game Interface
The majority of your gaming experience in World War One: La Grande
Guerre 14–18 will take place while viewing the Main Screen and satellite
displays (i.e. Unit Panel, Unit Detail Panel, etc.). The game map can
be scrolled by moving the mouse to
the edges of the field of view or by
using the Arrow keys. The map view
may also be “zoomed” (In or Out)
by using the mouse-wheel or by
pressing the End, Page Up and Page
Down keys.
4.1 Tour of Main Screen
1. Active Nation
Here are shown various elements on
the nation currently selected, such as
its political regime, freedom of the
press, name, flag (click on flag to
access nation’s statistics, only if you
control it) and, most importantly, War
Weariness and the current mood of the
Parliament.
2. Game Domains Upper Bar
This bar contains the 10 major game
domains or sections of the game, from
left to right: Recruit Points (RP – to build
units), Munitions (MUN – for artillery
and offensives), National Will (NW),
Losses (influences nation’s morale), economic budget, diplomatic
summary, railroad transport capacity, sea transport capacity, combat
doctrine and technological research.
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