Subspace / Continuum
What is subspace / Continuum?
What is 17th Parallel?
What is the objective in 17th Parallel?

Messaging
What is a chat?
What is a private message?
What is a message?

Ship Devices
What is a Green?
What is X-Radar?
What is Cloak?
What is Stealth?
What is Anti-Warp?
What is a Portal?
What is a Rocket?
What is Shrapnel?
What is a Repel?
What is a Burst?

Misceleneous
What is an Arena?
What is Rumble?
What is a squad?
What does the flag do?
What is lag?
What is a banner?
How do I attach?
How do I buy something?
What is a freq?
I lost my password, what do I do?
Can I find someone?

Cheaters and Help
What is ?cheater?
What can and can't I report a cheater for?
What is ?help?

Staff
How does staff work?
Can I join?

Subspace / Continuum

• What is Subspace / Continuum?
Subspace or Continuum are both online games. These online games are free to download from download.com and continuum devoted sites like beginners.subspace.net aswell. The difference between subspace and continuum is that continuum is the new client. Subspace is an older version, although it still works on some servers.

Continuum (and Subspace) is an client which can login into a server. As soon as you are in such a server you can play Continuum! 17th Parallel is such a server. Please see below for more information about 17th Parallel.

Visually, the game is a top-down view space shooter. The expansive high-resolution playing field is made up of various obstacles, power-ups and safe zones. Players maneuver through space collecting power-ups that will increase their ship's fire power, armament, maneuverability and special weapons. With hundreds of people vying for the same power-ups and flags, players must be prepared to defend themselves constantly. To help in battle, players can form teams or have themselves assigned to one through the computer. In true team fashion, each player benefits when they or another teammate absorbs a power-up, which can help arm a weak beginner's ship rapidly. Points are scored for collecting power-ups and destroying opponents.

To maximize the gaming experience, SubSpace is divided into many different game types called "zones." Each zone has unique team or player goals and levels of difficulty that accommodate everyone from beginners to expert pilots. All zones contain arenas, accommodating hundreds of people playing at the same time. Through a unique on-screen chat system, players can communicate in real-time with each other. Individuals can address everyone in the arena, everyone on their team or specific individuals. This chat system allows teammates to plot strategies, build attack plans and taunt other teams.

Please go to http://subspace.legendzones.com/guide/index.php?page=whatis/index.php&title=What%20is%20Subspace – beginners.subspace.net for more information and gameplay on Subspace / Continuum.

• What is 17th Parallel?
As already spoken of above 17th Parallel is a zone, a server for Subspace / Continuum. 17th Parallel has its own public map, the map you enter when you enter the zone.

Primarily created as a team-based basing game, 17th Parallel has evolved into a multi-faceted zone offering over alot Flagging, Racing, Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, and other specialty sub-arenas. Many of these sub-arenas carry custom shipsets and arena designs downloadable in-game. In addition, 17th Parallel has one of the most competitive and team based games available, hosted automatically 24 hours a day in a separate arena called Rumble.
Each ship holds a specially designed set of functions, created to promote a balanced and skill oriented balling match.
17th Parallel got a lot of subarenas that can be hosted by one of the Staff members. These sub arenas include; Deathmatch style dueling, point-based games, flag-based games, ship specific maps (like Javs or sharks), Racing maps with custom racecar ship designs, and Ball games like Hockey or Powerball. Trench Wars developers have also utilized the versatility of Subspace/Continuum, to create some of the most popular sub-games to date! Games like Hell where lost souls have only a short time to make it to the safety and Mothership where you most protect your big, but vurnerable motherhsip!

17th Parallel also has very competitive squad based Leagues, where squads can compete eachother in a certain game type. Squads compete each weekend during a regular season in order to make their way to the playoffs, for a chance at winning the league!

Enjoy your time in 17th Parallel! 17th Parallel is one of the few zones where everyone is friendly to eachother and has a warm community, your place for 24/7 gaming.

• What is the objective in 17th Parallel?
Your primary objective in 17th Parallel is to help your team to score with the ball in the opponent’s goal, positioned left/right on the map. The opponent tries to stop you from scoring in their goal.

Another objective is trying to win the King Of The Hill award. You can get this award by killing an opponent in the time that is displayed on the top left, below the score board. When you kill an opponent in this time, the time resets to the start and starts the count down again. When you don’t kill an opponent in the time, then you are not in the run anymore for the King Of The Hill award.
However, if you are the last one still in the run for the King Of The Hill you get the award! You will get a number of points added up your score, calculated from the number of players that are playing.

The third objective is to get the flags positioned at the top of the map. These flags will give you and your team points after some time. Even when you or your team kill opponents you get extra points if you got flags captured! The more flags you got captured, the more points you and your team will receive.

Messaging
• What is a chat?
A chat is the brown text that contains anyone who knows the name of the chat. To join a chat type ?chat=ChatName, and to see who is in the chat, type ?chat. You can not kick anyone out of a chat or anything of that sort. To talk in a chat type ';' then your message. If you have multiple chats, type the number of that chat between two semi-colons, ;2;Hello!.

• What is a private message?
A private message is a conversation between two people in private. To initiate a Private Chat or PM Page Down or Page Up to the players name and type '/' then your message. If you want to quickly reply to someone just type '::'. If someone is in a different arena than you, type their name in between the colons, ‘:PlayerName:Howdy!’ .

• What is a message?
A message (not to be confused with Private Message) is a stored message to a specific person to be viewed at the user's descretion. To send someone a message type ?message PlayerName:message here. They will be notified of the message the next time they come online. You can view your own messages by typing ‘?messages’.

Ship Devices
• What is a Green?
A green is a little green symbol / package seen anywhere on the map. They appear random or after a player has died. Greens can be picked up and when you do that, you are awarded a random prize.

• What is X-Radar?
Press shift-end to toggle x-radar. This allows you to see ships that are currently stealthed and/or cloaked.
Only the Warbird (1) and the Lancaster (7) have x-radar on their ships. Be careful though, xradar slows down your energy regeneration.

• What is Cloak?
A cloak is a device used to turn invisible to any player, unless that player has X-Radar. Use End to activate it. Only the Spider (3), Weasel (6) and Shark (8) have cloak.

• What is Stealth?
Stealth is used to invisible on other ship's radar. To active stealth, press Shift+Home. Stealth is only available on the Spider (3), Weasel (6) and Shark (8).

• What is Anti-Warp?
Anti-Warp is used to stop a player from warping, ship changing, or switching frequencies / teams. Use Shift+End to activate it. Only the Terrier (5) have anti-warp.

• What is a Portal?
A portal is a device used to warp back to a designated spot. It is layed down with Shift+Insert, and recalled with Insert. It is like a waypoint you lay down, so you can warp back when you get in trouble. Only the Spider (3) and the Weasel (6) have portals.

• What is a Rocket?
A rocket is used to thrust a player faster than he would normally have trust. Activate the rocket with F3. Rockets are not available on any of the ships.

• What is Shrapnel?
Shrapnel are pieces of debree from bombs that due a certain amount of damage on impact. Shrapnel can be increased with the little green packets called greens. Every ship has shrapnel, but the amount differs.

• What is a Repel?
A repel is a device used to knock away ships, bombs, bullets, or mines. Repel can be fired with shift-control. Only the Terrier (5) has repel.

• What is a Burst?
A burst is a weapon the Spider (3) and the Terrier (5) is equipped with. It spreads out a number of bouncing bullets out away from the ship that damages opponents. To activate a burst, press shift+del.

Miscelaneous
• What is an Arena?
An arena is a room where players meet to play each different game. Arenas can be customized by utilizing different settings and designer graphics for map making. You can see a list of arenas by simply typing ?arena or pressing ESC then A. If you would like to be in an arena that does not show up on the list, put '#' infront of the name, this is called an Private Arena.

• What is Rumble?
Rumble is a team (consists of 2 players) based game. It is elimination like. When you or your teammate has 10 deaths, you and your teammate are out. Be the last one standing and win the round! Type ‘?go rumble’ to play.

• What is a squad?
A squad is a group of people who are united by a name. The name shows up when someone types ‘?squad PlayerName’ or accessed by pressing F2 a few times.
To create a squad type ‘?squadcreate Squadname:password’.
To join a squad type, ‘?squadjoin Name:password’.
To leave a squad type ‘?squadleave’.

• What does the flags do?
Flags are located in the upper part of the map. If your team have the flags captured you will get points periodically. You will also receive extra bonus points on kills your team makes. The more flags your team have captured, the more points you receive.

• What is lag?
Lag is either related to a high ping or packetloss. It usually makes a player jump around a lot or nearly impossible to kill. To check your lag type ‘?lag’. Type ‘?ping’ or ‘?packetloss’ for real-time information of your lag.

• What is a banner?
Banners are 256colors, and are 12x8pixel. They need to be bitmap (.BMP) after edited and saved in the Continuum\banners directory. Go into Continuum and press ESC+S (spectator) than ESC+B to access the banner directory. You can create your banners by going to ‘view’, ‘Create / Edit banners…’ in the continuum main menu.

• How do I attach?
To attach to a ship, select the player on your team (who is the Terrier ship) with the 'pageup' and 'pagedown' keys and then press F7 (press F7 again to detach). Some players find it very annoying if someone stays attached without asking. Please mind this.

• How do I buy something?
To view what is available to purchase, type ‘?buy’. The cost of an item is how many points it will take away from your score. Buy items with the same command. Like if you want to buy the item called ‘bounce’ (bouncing bullets) type ‘?buy bounce’.

• What is a freq / frequency?
A freq is short for Frequency. A frequency is a team of players. The frequencies are named by their number, usually 0 or 1 in public arenas. In public arenas, it is usally either 0 or 1. To change frequencies type =# (# being the freq you want to join).

• I lost my password, what do I do?
17th Parallel Staff can not recover lost passwords for you. Please mail PLATINUM-HALO (ssadmin@bellsouth.net) for assistance. Please note that he his very busy, so it might take a while.

• Can I find someone?
Yes you can. You can use the ‘?find’ command for this purpose. For example do ‘?find PlayerName’ if you want to find PlayerName. You will get the player’s current arena or zone back.

Cheaters and Help

• What is ?cheater ?
‘?cheater’ is a command that sends a message to online staff alerting them someone is cheating. Use this command with the name of the person after it; ‘?cheater PlayerName’ . Only use this if you think a player is cheating, team killing, making racist comments or violating any other rules of 17th Parallel.

Abusing the ?cheater command is a bannable offence, do not abuse it.

• What is ?help ?
’?help’ is a command that sends a message to online staff alerting them with your message. Use this command with your message after it, like ‘?help can someone help me?’. Use ?help if you have a question or are curious about something related to 17th Parallel.

Abusing the ?help command is a bannable offence, do not abuse it.

Staff

• How does staff work?
There are several different kinds of Staff members. 17th Parallel have developers, sysops, smods (super moderators), mods (moderators) and ER’s (Event referees). Event referees carry the tag ER> in front of their name. Other staff don’t have tags.
Sysops maintain the server and keep all ship and map settings up to date. Smods and mods catch cheaters and answer ?help and ?cheater calls. Moderators and ER’s host events in different subarenas.

• Can I join?
If you want to become staff in 17th Parallel, click on ‘Apply’ and fill out the application. Your application will be reviewed and you will be contacted when you are approved to become staff. Staff is invite only. So please do not ask any staff member, asking only limits your chances.