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1.6 Some Information About Franz Games, LLC Now you know a little bit about what the game is and how to join, but nothing at all about the people who run it. We are Franz Games,LLC, a play-by-mail gaming company based in Reading, Pennsylvania. We've been in business since 2005, although STAR FLEET WARLORD has been around since 1989 (in playtest form). Franz Games, LLC will be your hosts for each game of STAR FLEET WARLORD that you play. We receive your turns, see to it that they get run, and then mail them back to you. The game computer, of course, does all the actual processing. SFW is entirely computer-moderated, meaning we humans do not take an active hand in determining the outcome of any turn. If you need to reach us for any reason, the best way is to email us. Data on how to contact us is shown in the box below: Franz Games,LLC 406 Augusta Dr East Sinking Spring, PA 19608 Fax (610) 678-3893 On the web: www.play-by-e-mail.com Email: warlord@play-by-e-mail.com For additional administrative details, please refer to Chapter Nine. 1.7 Accounting Information We might as well get this part over with now. Yes, as you may have guessed, you'll have to pay money to play this game. See the <strong>Star</strong>fleet <strong>Warlord</strong> website for current pricing. Generally, you pay a turn fee for each turn you run (except your initial build, which is free). We have done our best to keep turn fees as low as possible, and in fact, you can play this game for less than the cost of taking your significant other to the movies once a month! Also, in case you were wondering, there are no "hidden fees" that can pop up during the game. That sort of trick is not the way we want to do business. When you begin your first game, you are assigned an account number (as previously mentioned). This number is assigned to you personally and will not change even if you join another game. Money we receive from you will be deposited in your account under this acct#, and when a turn is run (for any game you are participating in), funds are subtracted from this central account automatically. Funds will also automatically be subtracted if you use our fax or special mailing services. Take care that your account balance does not drop below zero, as we will be unable to run any turns for you if this happens. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 6
Chapter Two Economics 2.1 Resources Your economy is the most important feature of your Corporation. The amount of income you have completely determines what you will be able to do in any given turn. It is vital that you establish as large an economic base as you can, as soon as possible! There are four resources in this game which you must be concerned with. These are as follows: Resource Abbreviation Special Uses People PE Crew training and officer assignment Ores & Raw Materials OR Ship repairs and upgrades Dilithium Crystals DC Speed refits Foodstuffs & Perishables FP Ship support and officer assignment As shown on the chart, resources have individual uses - for example, you can spend People to train your ships' crews. Details on such procedures will be found later in these rules. The main use for resources, however, is to create Economic Points. When combined together, one unit of each of these forms an Economic Point (abbreviated EP). Economic points are what you use to buy starships (and many other items), and hence are of prime importance. (Note that you do not actually "build" ships, but buy them from someone else, using EPs as money.) You can also spend resources on their own for other purposes as shown on the preceding table. Because it takes one point of each of the four resources to form an Economic Point, the amount of EPs you have at any given time is equal to the amount of your lowest resource category. For example, if you had 200 PE, 250 OR, 150 DC, and 100 FP, you would possess only 100 EPs. If you then bought a starship for exactly 100 EPs, you would subtract 100 from each category, leaving you with 100 PE, 150 OR, 50 DC and 0 FP - and hence, zero economic points. 2.2 Income, Sites, and Sector Bonuses Resources are produced by various terrain features in the galaxy such as planets, comets, and dilithium asteroids. Resource-producing areas are known to your Corporation as sites. Your wealth will chiefly be determined by how many sites you can take and keep control of throughout the game. Income is calculated for your Corporation at the start of each turn, before any of your orders are processed. The amount of resources you will earn on any turn is equal to the sum of the production values of each site you control when the turn begins. (The resources are shipped from your sites to your Home Office automatically. Don't worry about how this is done-your staff will take care of it for you.) Hint: Because income is generated before your orders are processed during your turn, you will be able to spend that income on the turn it is generated. This will require a bit of advance planning and guesswork (and if anyone takes a site or two away from you, your prediction might suffer). Each turn, your accountants will provide you with an automated estimate of your next turn's income, but keep in mind that this is only an estimate! During your turn's Income Phase, you can collect income from four different sources: home offices, major sites, minor sites, and sector bonuses. Home Offices produce 100 people, 100 ores, 100 dilithium and 100 food each turn (in other words, 100 EPs). Your home planet at the start of the game is one of these special sites, and everyone else has one as well. Needless to say, these valuable worlds are going to be your prime strategic targets for conquest - and everyone else's, for that matter! Major sites (see Section 3.4) produce around 100 total units of resources, although this will be broken down into differing amounts of the four resource types. For example, a planet might produce 30 PE, 28 OR, 35 DC, and 32 FP, while a wandering planetoid could generate 48 PE and 55 FP, but zero OR and DC. (Potential site values are listed in Chapter Three.) Taking control of as many major sites as possible is your main objective in the game - they're your primary source of income, for one thing, and you also need at least eighty of them to win. There are also a few kinds of minor sites (Section 3.5) which only produce 11-20 units of a single resource type. Since these provide smaller amounts of resources, they are far less important. Take control of these when you can, but don't go out of your way unless they produce the resource type in which you are the most deficient. Sector bonuses are awarded whenever you control ALL the major sites in a sector (note that minor sites do not count for this purpose). You earn a bonus of 100 economic points for achieving this feat-and you earn it every turn you maintain control! You can earn more than one such bonus a turn, if you own more than one complete sector at a time. In Revised 30 June 2010 Page 7
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