Communications Menu

The communications menu is active only when playing in multiplayer. It contains some controls to allow for effective interaction between players.

Alliances

Next to each name, the three icons to the far right indicate your current alliance settings with that player. The left icon, that looks like an explosion, denotes that player is an enemy. The red and white plus icon stands for neutrality. The hand-shake icon indicates an alliance.

Chat Recipients

Green checkmarks next to the player names show who your chat messages will be delivered to. You can manually select or deselect players, but below the player list are a series of buttons that make it easy to quickly select players based on their alliances:

• All: Your chat messages will be received by all players.
• None: No one will see your chat messages. You could select this as a way of quickly clearing all checkmarks, or to prevent accidental keystrokes from sending messages to other players.
• Allies: Chat messages are directed toward your allies.
• Neutral: The checkboxes for all neutral players are checked.
• Enemies: Send chat messages to your enemies.

Giving Resources

When the host has selected to allow for giving resources, these controls underneath the player list are active. Otherwise, they will not function. In all cases, the units/credits are given to the player that you presently have selected in the list above. Click on a name to highlight a player to select him. You can see who is selected based on the orange line that leads up to the player’s name.

• Units: All units that you currently have selected will be transferred to control of the player that you designate. There is no confirmation for this and the transfer is permanent (unless the recipient gives them back to you).
• Credits: Transfers the amount of credits in the text box below the Credits button to the player that you have selected. You must type the desired number into the edit box first, before pressing the Credits button. This button will not function if you do not have enough credits for the transfer.