                              Command : DELIVER

NAME
   deliver - Establish delivery routes for shells, ore, etc

Level: Expert

SYNTAX
   [##:##]% deliver <COMM> <SECTS> [q|<THRESH>] [<DIR>]

WARNING: The deliver command is a relic of  Empire's  past,  and  players  are
discouraged  from  using  it.   You should use the distribute command instead.
distribute is much easier to use and it can do everything that deliver can and
more!

The deliver command (what?  you're still reading?  I thought  I  told  you  to
leave!)  should not be thought of as an alternative to distribute, but rather,
as a secondary "fine tuning" of distribute.

Here are some of the advantages of using distribute over deliver: Whereas dis-
tribute  can  be  used to either pull commodities into the sector or push them
out, deliver can only push commodities out.  Whereas distribute can push  com-
modities  an arbitrary distance away, deliver can only push them into an adja-
cent sector.

Why would anyone be crazy enough to use deliver then?  Well, it  may  be  that
you  want  a sector to draw from one sector and deliver to another.  For exam-
ple, you may have a mine which uses distribute to get its food  from  a  ware-
house, but uses deliver to export its iron to the adjacent hcm factory.

If 'q' is specified rather than a threshold, then the delivery directions  and
thresholds  will  simply  be listed.  You can also use the "cutoff" command to
list delivery thresholds.

The number <THRESH> specifies how much of that commodity you would like to  be
kept  in the sector.  If you do not want to change the direction that a sector
delivers to, then put a '+' before the number <THRESH>.

Note that delivery thresholds are stored as multiples of 8.  If you specify  a
threshold that is not a multiple of 8, it will be rounded down.

The direction must be specified as one of the six direction characters,  (usu-
ally  `y'  `u' `j' `n' `b' or `g'), the no-direction character, (usually `h').
If no direction is specified, then the direction will not be changed for  that
sector.

   [##:##] Command: deli f 0,0 0 j
Will deliver all food from 0,0 to 2,0.
   [##:##] Command: deli i * ?des=m +87
Will set iron delivery threshold to 80 in all mines.
   [##:##] Command: deli l * q
Will list all lcm delivery specifications.  (Sectors with no  delivery  thres-
hold or direction will not be listed).

The census and commodity reports will indicate deliveries by the same  charac-
ters used to specify them in this command.

If, during an update, the destination sector is not owned by you, the  message
delivery  walkout  between  x,y  &  x,y  will  be  printed and nothing will be
delivered.

Delivery routes may also be mapped out with the route command.

See info Mobility for an explanation of mobility costs.

SEE ALSO
   cutoff, census, commodity, route, distribute, Distribution

