Pre-Game game starting Saturday or Sunday

Its all good Rob, just follow me

1.Boot the game up - with the mod active.
2. Fist things first, click on the "player settings" tab. Go to the bottom window "Racial Points for new Players". Select High.
3.  In the players tab lets go to add new. Pick the empire picture you want, add your empire name, etc.
4. Environment - determines the kind of planet your race will start on. You get a huge bonus (five times as much colonization space) on a planet that has an atmosphere you can breath. So if you pick "oxygen", colonizing oxygen planets gives you a big bonus to the number of facilities you can build on the planet, as well as the population that can live on it. Home planet type determines what kind of world you will start on. It also determines the kind of colonization tech you will start with. So if you choose to start on an Ice world, at first you will only be able to colonize other ice planets, until you research rock and gas colonization.

Culture: these provide bonuses and negatives to various abilities. For instance, click on "Berzerkers". If you go to cultural modifiers, you will notice that they get -5% to production, research, intelligence, -10% to trade, etc...but +10% to ground combat, +5% to space combat, etc. Basically meant for races that want to go on a murderous rampage rather than sign trade agreements. If you're not sure which one you would like to go with, you can just simply select neutral.

On to characteristics, ever play D&D or an RPG like that? This is the same thing, but for an entire species rather than for a single character. the effects are on the right hand side. Note that they having increasing marginal costs at regular intervals.

Now the cool stuff...advanced traits. If you want, you can spend a bunch of points to get special traits. Many of them unlock special technology tree, giving you access to cool, unique weapons or special technology you otherwise wouldnt be able to get. Which ones are good is open for debate. Aalien (the forum master) really loves the psychic weapon tree...it allows you to build a weapon that brainwashes the crew of an enemy ship! Personally, I prefer to eschew fancy unique weapons and go instead for advanced shipyard construction, or put more points into characteristics. And Propulsion experts.  Propulsion experts is nothing less than amazing. Most of the other traits are pretty self-explanatory.

Finally, under description you put your Role Playing Fluff. Other players will see this info when they meet you, and it will give them an idea of what to expect! Notice the Happiness Type at the bottom. It is not just role playing fluff, it determines how your people react to certain events. Note that it is normally quite hard to play on anything except Peaceful, unless you are planning to spend the entire game on a murderous rampage (then pick Bloodthirsty) or wall yourself off from the rest of the galaxy (then pick Neutral).

Ok, when all that is done, click "create empire". This will take you to the main screen. Now click "Save to file." Click either yes or no on save designs, it does not matter. Click new empire file, and name your empire file. This creates your empire file. It is in your Proportions mod folder somewhere, I think under Empires. upload this file to the PBW game by clicking "upload Emp" in the upper right-hand corner of the PBW game page.

Also, make sure to share with us the ship set file you are using, especially if you custom made it yourself. Otherwise, when we play the game, the game will randomly choose an existing shipset to display your ships each turn, with a different one chosen with each turn! So its good to make sure you have all the other player's ship sets in your game before the game starts. For this reason, for noob camp I'm playing with a vanilla ship set that you (and everyone else) already has. For the main game, I'm using a custom made ship set that I modified myself.

That's all there is to it! Let me know if it works out for you, or if you run into any problems!

We will be starting up this game as soon as Nick stops being lazy and wakes up to get it started. If any other new players want in, join the game before nick starts it and be ready with your empire file to load it up as soon as Nick grants your approval.

Already 4/6 people uploaded, off to a good start!

Just to warn people, I forgot to turn off randomly generated ai races, and I put the galaxy on small...so, beware, its crowded out there haha. Don't worry, the ai scripts are purely awful, except for some reason the neutral ai script, but they will never leave their home system, so no worries.

Done, turn uploaded!