.MAIN ISLAND INFORMATION

.Visit Town
This option  will display  a Town  Menu that allows  you to  implement various
options  that are  needed to complete each days activities such as the Market,
Armory, Bank, Hire Knights, Soldiers, Scouts and Navigators.

.Visit Shipyard
This takes you to your shipyards where you will prepare your sailing fleet for
your journey to develope other islands and carry  subjects,  grain  and timber
to their destination or you will prepare it for battle by loading Knights  and
Soldiers with Weapons.  This is also where  you  can  send  out your Scouts to 
retrieve valuable information.

.Buildings/Ships 
The success of any empire is its  ability  to produce  and defend. In order to
accomplish this you must constantly  build and develop  your empire. Selecting
this  option  will  display a menu where you can build  Castles,  Grain Mills,
Timber Mills and Ships.

.Tax Subjects
This option allows you to set the rate at which your subjects are taxed at the
beginning of  each new day.  If you set this  too high  you will increase your
chances of suffering a revolt on your Empire. Setting is from |10% to 50%|.

.Ration Food
This is a necessary step that MUST be done before starting a new day. The best
way to upset the balance of your empire and cause revolts is to NOT feed them.
Each group requires the following number of bushels each day. 

|Subjects:| 8 Bushels per day. Minimum of 81% of required amount.
|Knights :| 20 Bushels per day. 100% required or some will leave.
|Soldiers:| 15 Bushels per day. 100% required or some will leave.

.Harvest Crops
This is how you produce the Grain to feed  your people and the Timber to build
with or to sell for Gold. Harvesting  should be done each day.  Before feeding
your people. You always need to have enough to feed or your people will starve
and ransack your empire. The more Grain Mills and Timber Mills that you build,
the better your harvest will be.  |When you first start developing an island it|
|is best to put all available gold into building Grain Mills (at least 10-15 to|
|start with) to ensure enough grain to feed your people.|  Timber is the fastest
growing commodity to build revenue so the more  Timber Mills you have the more
timber will be harvested which can be sold at the market.

.Start New Day
Most of the activity on your island is done on a daily basis. In the beginning
of the game you will spend more time developing your new island and fortifying
it before you can safely build and sail a fleet. When you select Start New Day
the  game will check to  see that several  IMPORTANT steps were  accomplished.
This includes receiving taxes from your people,  how many people were  born or
died and if you did not ration  enough food this is where you  will notice any
revolt that might take place as a result.  This is also where  the  game  will
check to see if you have met all the requirements to win the game. If you have
then the game will announce you as the winner, update the files and reset.

.How Do I Win
This displays the file that you saw when you first entered the game and picked
your island. It contains all the |requirements for winning the game|. After this
file has been displayed you will be  asked  if you want to view the hint file,
|Getting Started|, which will give you a few hints on what to do first.

.Start Game Over
This is the |Suicide Option| that you can use if you feel that you have messed
up so bad that it would be best to  just start  your game over.  This does not
reset the entire game,  it just clears  all  your islands and your account and
allows you to start from scratch again.

.Exit The Game
This option will exit the game and return you to the BBS.  If you keep getting
a message and it does not allow you to exit the game it is because you already
started a new day, harvested your crops, but did not feed your people.  If you
harvest, you must ration. If you drop carrier with this message your Empire is
still going to be ransacked. If you do not have enough grain to feed them  you
should look into the other areas where you might get Gold (Bank,  Sell Timber)
and then buy enough grain to feed before leaving the game.

.Note on Undeveloped Islands
When you arrive on an island that nobody owns you must first develope it. This
is done by building a Castle. Once this is done, you will be able to carry out
your day to day routines as you did on the first island you started with.

.Help Viewer Commands
As a standard, our Windowed Help File Viewer will accept the following keys to
navigate besides the ones listed on  the bottem stat line. These commands  can
only be used if you are in the |Doorway Mode| from your terminal program.

|PAGE UP| - Same as [P]revious - Moves up one page at a time.
|PAGE DOWN| - Same as [N]ext - Moves down one page at a time.
|CURSOR UP| - Same as Scroll [U]p - Moves up one line at a time. 
|CURSOR DOWN| - Same as Scroll [D]own - Moves down one line at a time.
|HOME| - Same as [F]irst - Moves to the top of the help file.
|END| - Same as [L]ast - Moves to the bottom of the help file.
|ESC| - Same as e[X]it - Exits the help file viewer.

