                             Command : DESIGNATE

 SYNTAX:
   [mc ##] Command : designate <SECTS> <DESIGNATION>

The designate command allows you to change the type of an Empire land  sector.
You  specify  the  range  of  sectors  over which the designate operation will
occur, and the new designation to be given to each sector so specified.

Some sector-types are not available for designation  by  players.   These  are
ocean, mountain, sanctuary, and nuclear wasteland sectors.  Other sectors have
restrictions as well; harbors can only be built in low-lying coastal  sectors,
for example.

Sectors often will not change designation immediately; time is needed for  the
workers  in  the  sector to tear down the existing construction, and only then
will the new sector be built.  Workers dismantle existing sectors  four  times
faster than they can build.

As work progresses the efficiency will climb toward a maximum of 100%.   There
is a monetary cost associated with building a sector to 100%.

                             Command : DESIGNATE

See also : sectors(i)

