Introduction What is the WAR? The WAR is a REAL TIME variant of the x-com 1 & 2 series. It is a massive multiplayer variant where we use this 7kplay.net site as the geoscape and baseview part of the game and UFO2000 as the battle view. Just like in the original game we have a story which is written by *7k* Colonels. We start out with weak weapons and armour and as the story progresses things improve for the races. Of course this is depending on the succes of the battles the races have. War phases: The WAR is divided into phases. Each phase is about 2 weeks. After each phase a winning team is declared. The winning team gets the best improvements for the next phase. Losing a phase can also mean you have to play next phase with penalties. For example: Winning a phase means you can use a new weapon next phase and 4000 points to spend on weaponry/armour and the loser would have to play next phase with only 3000 points. As you can imagine, the outcome of the phases also influances the story. Phase Objectives: Each phase is divided in some mission objectives. You can view the mission objectives in the Mission Control facility on your race's bace. A phase can have primary, secondary or even tertiary objectives. Each mission objective can have a different set of rules or different location. Each mission will influance the story at a different way. Some missions can only be played by certain players. Each objective is won by the team with the highest score. Scoring points for your team: The team with the best battle results of an objective wins the objective. The team which wins the primary mission which can be played by all players wins the phase. Every battle has to be reported to the base command by the winner and the match score is automaticly calculated and added to the team score. You can claim those scores in your race's mainbase in the WAR tab which appears only when you join the WAR and select a race. Personal score: Gaining CREDITS: When you claim a win for your team you also claim a win for yourself. Every win you claim you gain CREDITS. There are more ways to gain CREDITS like becoming the phases best player with the most wins of your team. CREDITS can be spend in the CREDIT shops. CREDITS allow you to buy special perks and equipment for your matches to try and get you an advantage. You can acces the FI-SHOPS by visiting the shops in your base. FI-SHOPS (Fiction Internet-Shops): Spending CREDITS: In the shops you can buy a variaty of products to aid you in your battles. Some perks allow you to open up more product within a shop or open up new shops or facilities on your base. Like the INTERSTELLAR CREDIT BANK which opens up the banking facility. In MERCENARY shops you can even buy an extra unit for your team. How this works you can also find out in the FI-SHOPS. Am I good enough to play the WAR?? Everyone is good enough to play in the WAR, even if you have just started out!! The WAR takes in account the battle strength of players. This means there is a special player dependant scoring bonusses/deductions system. Basicly it means that a super-human player who wins from a new player only gains him 1 point for the WAR whereas a win against another Super-Human player would've gained him 4 points. This means losing for a new player doesnt influance the scores as much as a super-human player. So you can play as much in the WAR as you like. Should the new player win of the Super-Human his team does gets the full 4 points. The playing strength calculated is your 7k rank. Furthermore al new/beginning players get a special helper in the battles they play. An extra unit to strenghten his team. A special team specific mercenary will join your team. You can find out al about this free mercenary in the FI-SHOPS facility of your base. If you gain a rank in the WAR all further scoring is adjusted automaticly. How can i Join? Well you've just read all you need to know in the WAR! You can join the WAR by selecting which side you want to play on! Once you select your race you are in! Be sure to read the full story about the first WAR and the intro story of WAR II to help you select your race. OK

WAR II HAS ENDED! Expect WAR III: 03/01/2011