Diplomatic messages and broadcasts in turn reports
The COSMOS system supports entering text messages to be sent to specific
players or broadcast to all players as part of the turn report.
Such messages appear in the NOTES & MESSAGES section of
the turn report, the sender of each clearly indicated.
You can write messages at the end of your orders. A message starts
with [M on a line by itself and ends with a ] on
a line by itself. If the message is to be sent only to certain players
rather than to be broadcast to everyone, the [M should be
followed on the same line by a comma-separated list of the player numbers
of the intended recipients.
Example:
[M
This message will be broadcast to all.
]
[M 1,3,6
This goes only to players 1, 3 and 6.
]
Messages should be kept fairly short (less than 10 lines), especially if
to be broadcast to all players. Do not use offensive language (even
when this would be "in character" for your position).
Message formatting
A message is formatted as one long paragraph unless you insert some
of the special formatting codes.
Formatting codes all start with the character # and should generally
be followed immediately by either a space, a new line or another
formatting code. The following codes are available:
- #nl
- Break the line at this point.
- #right
- Right-adjust the following lines.
- #left
- Left-adjust the following lines.
- #center
- Center the following lines.
- #bf
- Start bold face text.
- #nbf
- End bold face text.
- #it
- Start italicized text.
- #nit
- End italicized text.
- ##
- The character #.
Any other occurence of # is illegal.
Example:
[M
#it The Supreme High Command decrees:#nit#nl
In light of recent events in Alpha IV sector and the increased level
of subversive activity by the "Black Planet Front", certain security
measures have to be taken.
Henceforth all traffic entering Alpha IV sector will be required to report
to Imperial Customs at either Deneb starbase or Epsilon Eridani starbase.
Vessels found not to comply #bf will be destroyed#nbf .
#nl#right
On behalf of the Emperor#nl
Admiral Z. Veen
]
will be formatted something like this:
The Supreme High Command decrees:
In light of recent events in Alpha IV sector and the increased level of
subversive activity by the "Black Planet Front", certain security measures
have to be taken. Henceforth all traffic entering Alpha IV sector will be
required to report to Imperial Customs at either Deneb starbase or Epsilon
Eridani starbase. Vessels found not to comply will be destroyed.
On behalf of the Emperor
Admiral Z. Veen
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