User Guide

GOVERNOR SCREEN
Access the GOV area by selecting it in the screen transfer panel or by pressing
F2. The GOV area allows you to deal with some aspects of running the govern-
ment of Harmony, and to sell Harmony’s research discoveries for quick profit.
People may contact you through the GOV area and ask questions regarding a va-
riety of matters which require your attention. You can also inspect a summary of
all Harmony departments, adjust wages and get a sense of your approval rating
among Harmony residents.
The top right of the screen is the stats box, which includes all of the information
given in the MAIN stats, but the Executron also includes three new pieces of in-
formation. They are:
Staff wage
This is the monthly wage paid to general staff. All general
staff are paid the same amounts.
Executive wage The monthly wage of supervisors, managers, foremen, offi-
cers and agents. These people are also all paid in a similar
fashion.
Last Poll
Your approval rating out of 100, as based on the most re-
cent independent poll.
The two wage listings both have two arrow buttons beside them which can be
used to raise and lower wages as you see fit.
You can initiate a new poll simply by clicking on the POLL button in the lower
middle of the screen, and the Executron will place the necessary orders with the
polling company. You will be advised in the message bar that the poll has been
started. A poll requires two weeks to complete, and you will be notified when it
is done. Harmony has its roots in a rough and tumble mining colony, and the oc-
casional leader has been lynched by mobs enraged with that leader’s policies.
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You may wish to use polling as a personally healthier way to gauge public opin-
ion.
The top right contains the area’s vid-screen, with attendant CONNECT/DIS-
CONNECT button. To the immediate left of the vid-screen are the YES/NO but-
tons, used to respond to questions from incoming callers.
Below the stats and vid-screen is the text box which, in addition to dialogue
from the vid-screen, displays any technology invented by Harmony research
which can be sold (see RES section).
Below that, and just above the transfer panel and message bar is a row of four
function buttons. Left to right they are SELL ITEM, POLL, and the two depart-
mental summary buttons,
SIN/MIL and RES/MIN.
SELL ITEM displays a list of items invented on Harmony whose patents are
available to sell in the text box. Clicking the holo-pointer on an item automati-
cally sells that item and its patents to the planet Tool for the amount displayed.
Inventing items to sell is done by research teams on Harmony, and a full descrip-
tion of that process is included later in the manual. Unsold items are available to
be utilized on Harmony ships for a reduced rate, and perhaps more importantly,
are unavailable to the rest of the galaxy. Once an item is sold, everyone has
equal access to it, for a price which includes tariffs and a profit margin.
The summary buttons both work in much the same way. Selecting one takes you
to a new area which displays statistical overviews of two departments at a time.
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