table of contents
pioneers(6) | Games Manual | pioneers(6) |
NAME¶
pioneers - network implementation of Settlers of CatanSYNOPSIS¶
pioneers [ --server server ] [ --port port ] [ --name name ]DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the pioneers command. Pioneers is an implementation of the popular, award-winning "Settlers of Catan" board game for the GNOME desktop environment. It uses a client/server model for networked play of between two and eight players. You will need to connect to a machine running either pioneers-server-gtk or pioneers-server-console to play. An AI client, pioneersai, is also available.OPTIONS¶
Pioneers accepts the standard GTK+/GNOME commandline options, and the following options:- -s, --server server
- Hostname of the server
- -p, --port port
- Portname of the server
- -n, --name name
- Use this name for the player instead of the name in the settings file
- -v, --spectator
- Connect as spectator instead of as a player
- -m, --meta-server meta-server
- Connect to this meta-server instead of the meta-server in the settings file
- --debug
- Turn on debugging mode
- --version
- Show the version and quit
ENVIRONMENT¶
The default settings can be influenced with the following environment variable:- PIONEERS_META_SERVER
- The hostname of the meta-server. If it is not set, the
default meta-server will be used.
FILES¶
/usr/share/games/pioneers/themes/*Themes for display of the map. Each theme goes
in a separate subdirectory.
/usr/share/pixmaps/pioneers/*
Icons
/usr/share/pixmaps/pioneers.png
Main icon
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pioneers
Saved settings
$XDG_DATA_HOME/pioneers/themes
Personal themes
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, and updated by Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>. Pioneers was written by Dave Cole <dave@dccs.com.au>, Andy Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>, and Roman Hodek <roman@hodek.net>, with contributions from many other developers on the Internet; see the AUTHORS file in the pioneers distribution for a complete list of contributing authors.SEE ALSO¶
More detailed user documentation is available in the online help. pioneers-server-gtk(6), pioneers-server-console(6), pioneersai(6)January 8, 2012 | pioneers |