Playing Online
First of all
The very first thing you should do is READ THE RULES!!!
How to play online
Playing online works exactly like playing offline, except that you can see other players, up- or download levels and replays, and see various stats while playing. In order to use the online features, there are a lot of new keys for you to configure.
The default keys are:
- F1 = Show/hide other players
- F2 = Observe next player
- F3 = Observe previous player
- F4 = Download current battle level
- F5 = Show/Hide players online list
- F6 = Show/Hide battle standings/results
- F7 = Show all finished times since key was pressed
- F8 = Clear finished times list
- F9 = Write a chat line - The layout is US, get used to it
- F10 = Hide yourself - Won't work in a lev which is being battled
- F11 = Upload / Download winning replay of battle
- F12 = Reconnect to the server
Additional commands which don't have default mapping are:
- Show/hide chat
- Show/hide battle status line
- Show/hide battle leader in battle status line
When you first time enter the game, there might be a battle running. Simply download the level, go to the external levels through the menu and find the level, that is being played.
As mentioned, you can chat with the F9 key (default). You may also send private message by pressing "observe next/previous player" while having chat activated. Do not spam in private, you'll get ignored.
How to be recognized by others
The system for graphical recognizion is very simple.
Let's say you have a User1.bmp file in your BMP folder, you will see that shirt on a user using the name User1. The downside of this is that if you change your nick, people wont recognize you any longer, so it is smart to keep same nick throughout your elma career!
If you acquired belma from zworqy's elma site , you should have a BMP.zip among the other files. This is the shirt collection of most of the users in Belma, extract it in the bmp folder and you will recognize other players better.
To make your own shirt you should open one of the existing .bmp's in paint or similar program and make unique colors and tags. After this you should upload it and come to #ballelma and advertize your shirt, so we can download it for our own BMP folder.
See also
Installation<br\> Start battle