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The Intergalactics Tutorial

The Intergalactics tutorial will guide you through everything you need to know to play a complete game of intergalactics. This tutorial will not cover strategy, since we encourage players to come up with their own methods of play.

1. Requirements to play Intergalactics
2. Logging into the game
3. Main Intergalactics screen
4. Creating a game
5. The game screen
6. Explanation of planets
7. Moving ships
8. Battling enemies

1. Requirements to play Intergalactics

• A java compatible browser
• Intergalactics currently requires at least Java 1.4 to run. You can obtain the latest Java version at http://java.com
• Pentium 333mhz or higher processor
• Intergalactics is 100% free to play

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2. Logging into the game

To load the Intergalactics applet, click on the 'play Intergalactics' link on the game page. This will load up the Intergalactics applet.

You will now be prompted to enter a username. Usernames and passwords are stored in a database, so please choose wisely. Currently we do not offer password recovery services, so please write this down. You will now be brought to the main game screen, which will be explained in the next section.

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3. Main Intergalactics screen

There are two main screens in Intergalactics, and this is one of them. Please click on the miniature image below to reveal a larger, and labeled, version of the main Intergalactics screen.

As you can see in the graphic, this screen displays who is currently online, the games in progress, chatting that is occuring, as well as giving you the ability to create, join, or watch a game. The next section covers creating a game.

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4. Creating a game

The first step to creating a game is clicking on the 'Create game' button. This will bring you to a screen where you choose the number of players you want in your game, and choose your map. The graphic below will help explain what everything does, and what everything means.

To setup a game specifically designed for newbies, choose 9 players, and pick any of the 9 player maps. Now hit 'create game'

You will be brought back to the main Intergalactics screen, with a couple of new buttons. click on the add robot button, choose novice bots, and select a novice bot. Select all of the novice bots (if you are new to Intergalactics, please make sure you pick all Novice bots, since they are much easier than other bots).

Once you have filled up the 9 player game with Novice bots, hit the 'begin game' button. The next section of the tutorial will cover how to play the game.

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5. The game screen

Here is where all the magic happens. A sample of the screen is below:

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6. Explanation of planets

Please use the graphic above in section 5 for the rest of the tutorial

There are 5 different things that planets display:

1. The planet name. This is in the upper left corner of the planet. A planet's name is a single letter or number.
2. The amount of ships the planet produces per turn. This is the number in the bottom left corner. A planet can build 0-15 ships per turn.
3. The time until the next turn for that planet. This is measured by a bar at the bottom of the planet. When this bar resets itself, it means that a new turn has started for that planet, and it adds ships to your planet guard.
4. The number of ships currently guarding that planet. This is the number in the upper right corner of the planet.
5. The strength of the planet. This is shown by a bar on the right hand side of the planet. The best planets have a bar that goes all the way up into the green. The worst planets have little to no bar.

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7. Moving ships

Moving ships is a fairly simple task. To conquer other planets, you must send ships to attack your opponent's planets. To do this, follow the simple steps listed below:

1. Click on your attacking planet
2. Click on the enemies planet you wish to attack
3. Moving your mouse up or down increases and decreases (respectively) the amount of ships you send to attack. The exact number is displayed on the right side of the screen.
4. Click to execute the command. Note that you can right click to cancel the command

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8. In depth battle explanation

In battles, the attacker always attacks first. When fleets shoot, about 1 in 4 ships will fire, and only a percentage of those will destroy enemy ships.

Ships have different strengths. A ship's strength is its chance of killing another ship when it hits. Ships recieve the strength of the planet they are on, and retain that strength until they become defenders on another planet.

During battle, the defending ships get an extra 15-30 point strength bonus.

For example, if a ship leaves a planet with a strength of 40, when attacking another planet, it has a 1/4 chance of hitting a ship, and a 40% chance of killing the ship it hits.

Another example, if a ship leaves a planet with a strength of 1, when attacking another planet, it has a 1/4 chance of hitting a ship, and a 1% chance of killing the ship it hits.

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"Intergalactics, the equivalent of galactic chess." - Uberbot27