To play X11 Xconq, just type `xconq'. You will get the default game, which has you and a single AI as the two opposing players, in a randomly generated 60x30 area that is mostly unexplored. The game design in effect is called `standard'. It is a generic "Empire" type game, with cities, armies, airplanes, and ships of various types.
If you're new to Xconq, and find that `standard' is too complicated and/or confusing, try the introductory game `intro' instead; type `xconq -g intro' to get it. `intro' is generally like `standard', but it has fewer types of units and terrain, the world is predefined, you start with only one city, and the one city is preset to build infantry.
By default, the X11 interface opens up windows on the display named in
the environment variable DISPLAY
, and connects it with the first
side and player in the game.
The arguments to an Xconq command consist of a list of player specifications and possibly some additional options.
[name[,ai][/config]@]display[+adv]
"_"
is equivalent to the default display, as in the
value of the environment variable DISPLAY
.
You can get a variety of uses out of player specs. For instance,
the player spec ,ai+4
asks for an AI, of a default type
appropriate to its side, with a starting advantage of 4.
If you want to give yourself an advantage, just specify +4
anywhere on the command line.
The following options are always available:
-c n
-design
-e[,ai][+adv] n
-f filename
-g gamename
-L
.
-h n
-help, --help
-g
or
-f
, also list all of the variants for the game.
-host name
'^X' << 6 + '^C'
).
-join name
-L directory
-noai
-pre form
-post form
-r
--version
-w
-x
The following options only work if the game allows for the corresponding variants. In each case, the option corresponds to a particular setting of a particular variant, as seen in the online help info.
-M width[xheight][Wcircumf][+lat][+long]
world-size
.
-seq
sequential
, with a value of 1.
-sim
sequential
,
with a value of 0.
-tgame mins
real-time
.
-tside mins
real-time
.
-tturn mins
real-time
.
-v
world-seen
, with a value of 1.
-v[name][=value]
true
).
-vhelp
-help
does.
-V
see-all
,
with a value of 1 (true
).
-V0, -Vfalse
see-all
,
with a value of 0 (false
).
If debugging has been compiled in, then the options -D
and -R
are also available.
See the hacking chapter of the manual for more detail.
The following options apply only to the default X11 display:
-bg color
-display displayname
-fg color
-geometry geometry
-name name
If you give the command line option -x
, Xconq will
display a series of dialogs that you can use to set up a game
interactively. The dialogs should be self-explanatory.