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The Alliance Button |
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Offering an Alliance |
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Select this button to offer an alliance to another player.
An open hand is displayed in the button. |
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Accepting an Alliance |
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Select any of the offered alliances to accept. A handshake
symbol appears to show that you are allied. |
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Breaking an Alliance |
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Select the handshake symbol to break your alliance. Your
units will now start firing at your former ally. A dagger
indicates that you are fighting. |
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Advantages of Alliances |
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When allied to another player you cannot fire, or be fired
upon by them. You also have access to the features listed
below: |
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Sensor Download |
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Selecting this button downloads all of your sensor data to
your ally. Your ally can see all of the areas of the map you
have explored up to this point, as well as the location of
any of your structures. This information is not updated; you
will need to provide further sensor downloads over the
course of the game. |
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Research Documents . |
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Gives your ally all of your completed research up to this
point. Any new research will not be given automatically, you
will need to update your ally during the game |
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Give Units |
Any units you have selected when you choose this option are
given to your ally. |
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Give Power |
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Gives your ally 1/3 of your current power. |
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Setting Broadcast Channels |
Select the speaker symbol on the Alliances Screen for each
player you do not wish to broadcast to. Any messages you now
send will only be sent to players with active broadcast
channels. Click the speaker symbol again to reopen the
channel. While in the game, press T to send a message to all
of the open channels. |
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Override Selected Broadcast Channels
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Open a restricted channel chat by pressing T followed by the
number of the player(s) you wish to chat to. |
For example, pressing T25 opens a restricted channel to
players 2 and 5. |
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Only these players will receive this particular message. |
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