pioneers(6)

1pioneers(6)                      Games Manual                      pioneers(6)
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NAME

6       pioneers - Turnbased board strategy game (colonize an island)
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SYNOPSIS

10       pioneers  [ -s server ] [ --server server ] [ -p port ] [ --port port ]
11       [ -n name ] [ --name name ]
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DESCRIPTION

15       This manual page documents briefly the pioneers command.
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17       Pioneers is a computerized version of a well known strategy board game.
18       The  goal  of  the  game is to colonize an island. The players play the
19       first colonists hence the name pioneers. It uses a client/server  model
20       for  networked play of between two and eight players.  You will need to
21       connect to a machine running either  pioneers-server-gtk  or  pioneers-
22       server-console to play.  An AI client, pioneersai, is also available.
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OPTIONS

26       Pioneers  accepts  the standard GTK+/GNOME commandline options, and the
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29       -s, --server server
30              Hostname of the server
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32       -p, --port port
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36              Name of the player
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39       When the options are provided, the client automatically quits when  the
40       connection is broken.
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ENVIRONMENT

44       The  default  settings can be influenced with the following environment
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48              The hostname of the meta-server.  If it is not set, the  default
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DEVELOPERS AND TRANSLATORS

53       With  the commandline option --language code the values of the environ‐
54       ment variables LANGUAGE and LC_ALL can be overriden. The code should be
55       one of the 2-letter language code pioneers understands.
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FILES

59       /usr/share/games/pioneers/themes/*
60              Themes  for  display  of  the map. Each theme goes in a separate
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62       /usr/share/pixmaps/pioneers/*
63              Icons
64       /usr/share/pixmaps/pioneers.png
65              Main icon
66       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pioneers
67              Saved settings
68       $XDG_DATA_HOME/pioneers/themes
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AUTHOR

73       This manual page was written by Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, and
74       updated  by  Roland Clobus <rclobus@bigfoot.com>.  Pioneers was written
75       by Dave Cole <dave@dccs.com.au>,  Andy  Heroff  <aheroff@mediaone.net>,
76       and  Roman  Hodek <roman@hodek.net>, with contributions from many other
77       developers on the Internet; see the AUTHORS file in the  pioneers  dis‐
78       tribution for a complete list of contributing authors.
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