User Guide

In the upper left comer is the vid-screen which is used when receiving communi-
cations from various people. When someone is connected with you, his or her
picture will appear in this box, along with the person’s name printed across the
top. Just below this vid-screen is the CONNECT/DISCONNECT button which
will light up when there is a message waiting to be received. Clicking once on
the box receives the message, and clicking again ends the call. Make sure you
have read and understood each message before disconnecting, as people will
usually not call a second time and the Executron cannot give you access to a
message later on.
In the lower middle of the screen is a text box. When someone calls you, that
person’s message will be printed in this box. To scroll through the message, sim-
ply click your Holo-pointer on the down arrow at the side of the message box or
press the Page Down key on your keyboard. Clicking the up arrow or pressing
Page Up moves the text in the opposite direction. Throughout the desktop, there
are various screens at which you can read incoming messages or reports, or lists
of pertinent information. These arrows appear in all boxes like this, and all work
in a similar way.
Below the CONNECT/DISCONNECT button is a box which contains a listing
of the basic statistics for Harmony. You will want to refer to this brief,
up-to-
date summary repeatedly during the course of a game. The statistics are as fol-
lows (all figures are represented in Harmony Notes except where noted):
Total Funds
The entire sum of the wealth at your disposal.
Monthly Expenses
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Monthly Income Total revenue for the month. This figure is added to your
total funds at the beginning of every month.
Fitzholnium Value This is the current selling price for one unit of Fitz. (dis-
cussed later)
General Staff This is the number of non-skilled labor available to be
hired by all departments. These people are necessary to the
smooth running of mines, research projects, military and
SIN missions.
The large box in the upper right of the MAIN panel has two purposes. Usually it
contains a statistical breakdown for each of the four areas, starting with mining.
The monthly budget, number of foremen, number of mines and general staff are
all displayed here. Below that is Research, also outlining budget, supervisors,
number of projects and staff. Military and SIN stats are below that with budgets,
officers or agents, missions and staffs.
The box can also be used to display video recordings and other supplementary
visual data sent by a caller. The Executron will display two buttons beside the
viewer, one which plays the video data, marked VIEW, and one below that
which is marked END. This button, when selected, will END the transmission
and the Executron will automatically disconnect the caller.
If someone calls you during the game, the Executron will make sure you know
about it through the message bar and by highlighting the button which leads to
the screen where the message is waiting. When you go to the MAIN panel, the
CONNECT button under the vid-screen will be highlighted. You can answer the
call by clicking on the button, and the person’s picture will appear on the vid-
screen, along his or her message. If you ignore an incoming call, after a short
time the caller may give up.
Now that you are familiar with the MAIN screen and how it functions, let’s take
a tour through each area in the order it appears in the transfer panel.
Selecting the EXIT button in the screen transfer panel or pressing the ESC key
will automatically return the holographic display to the screen it just came from.
This is accomplished by the Executron’s exclusive event buffer unit.
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