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There are many options for playing Dome Wars:
File
- New Game - Begin a regular game.
- Open Game - Open a saved game.
- Join Net Game - Not available in this version.
- Tournament - Begin a 10-round tournament against computers of increasing difficulty. Compete for a high score!
- Save Game - (only during game play) Save game to disk.
- End Game - (only during game play) End the entire game and return to main menu.
- End Round - (only during game play) End the current round of play and go to the next one.
Preferences
- Music - Choose whether to play background music or not.
- Sound - Choose whether to play sounds or not.
- Buy Weapons - Choose whether players/computers can buy weapons during the game.
- Simulate Faster - Speed up certain aspects of the game, for those who want to play as quickly as faster.
- Wind - Make aiming more difficult by adding a bit of wind.
- Shifting Winds - Make the wind change after each player's turn.
- Trace Shots - Show (don't erase) shot trajectory on screen.
- Computers Talk - Use speech manager to get computers to talk to you when they die.
- Control Panel - Shows a control panel of weapons, etc, at the bottom of the screen.
- Order
- Random - A random tank goes first each round.
- Round-Robin - Players take turns going first.
- Losers First - Player with lowest score goes first.
- Winners First - Player with highest score goes first.
- Num Rounds - Choose how many rounds to play.
- Starting Cash - Choose how much cash players begin the game with.
- Game Speed - Choose how fast to simulate shots. 1 = slow, 10 = fast.
- Walls/Floors/Ceiling
- Solid - Projectiles explode on impact.
- Bouncing - Projectiles bounce off on impact.
- Wrapping - Projectiles go off one side of the screen and come back on the other side.
- Open - Projectiles height is never limited.
- Computers - Buy Weapons/Shields (should be obvious)
Other
- Edit Death Quots - Edit what the computers say when they die (if speech is enabled)
- Edit Weapons - Edit the custom weapons available in the game.
- Define Mountain - Edit the parameters for terrain creation.
- View Game Config - (only during game play) Show the wall/floor/ceiling settings and how many rounds are left.
- Redraw Screen - Erase the screen if it is too cluttered with traced shots.
- View High Schores - Show tournament high scores.
 
 
 
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