Playing Online
First time online
First of all you should understand some basic rules that apply everywhere on the internet. Don't spam. Don't talk a non-english language, as the community is international. After several rule violations you might receive warnings or even temporary ban.
The default commands 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 = Add a chat line - The layout is US, get used to it
- F10 = Hide yourself - Won't work in a lev that 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
- Show/hide battle leader
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.
How do others recognize you
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 come to #ballelma and advertize your shirt, so we can download it for our own BMP folder.