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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: May 10, 2015

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THE COLONIZE COMMAND

by Hazed

The new command is ‘COLONIZE’ (or ‘COLONISE’ with an S – either will work to cater for people on both sides of the Atlantic!). I’ll explain how you use the command in a moment, but first the restrictions.

This section of code is for second planets only – third and subsequent planets will come later. If you’ve already got two or more planets, then this is not for you. Since you have to be a Mogul to get a second planet, then you must be at that rank or higher.

It will only work if the interstellar link is in location 460, and the location for the new planet’s orbit (461) is empty. That is the case with all the stock star systems, so if you auto-linked your system when you promoted to Founder you will be fine.

If your space map doesn’t match those requirements, then you are out of luck, and you’ll have to submit your new planet the old-fashioned way.

Assuming you clear these hurdles, the game will auto-link your second planet.

So here’s how the command works: ‘COLONIZE PLANET planetname TYPE planettype’ where planetname is what you want to call the new planet, and planettype is which of the stock planets you want to use: water, fire, ice, habitat, rock or my favourite, candy.

For example: colonize planet new world 2 type fire.

The planet name must be unique, up to 32 characters long, and can contain spaces. It can contain letters and numbers but must start with a letter. So World Number 2 would be fine, but 2nd World would not. No punctuation or other symbols, and none of the reserved words: system, planet or type.

Next up, the functionality of the command will be extended to adding a third planet to a system. That’s not going to take so long because it will use the same basic mechanism as that used for second planets, but it’s still going to require my army of alts to wear themselves out doing all the builds needed to promote to the right rank for testing!

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