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General information
Docking Station is the first multiplayer online game
for Creatures. A new world, new norns, new agents!
And the best: you can download
it for FREE!
If you already have Creatures 3 you can combine it
with DS and enlarge the world. Send your norns off
to an adventour trip!
World
Docking Station brings a whole new world. It's not
that big, but you can connect or "dock"
Capillata, the DS world to the Shee starship of C3.
There are three rooms: The Norn Meso for your norns
to live in, second the Comms room where you manage
your online game and third the work shop, from where
norns get send off to other players.
Of course, you can play DS without C3, but then you
only have Capillata to play with and where the norns
can be.
Norns
There's also a new Norn breed coming with DS: the
Chichi Norns!
If you already have C3, then you've got the possibility
to see all the norn breeds of C3 too. And of course
the Ettins and Grendels. If you don't have C3 (or
the Internet Edition), then you first have only the
Chichis. Meanwhile there are several new norn breeds
which can be bought and downloaded at Gameware
Europe.
Send your norns on a trip then! But please remember,
norns don't belong to you! Once they are send off,
the recipient can do with them wathever he or she
likes! So it's not up to you any more to decide, but
of course, you can still try and ask nicely if the
recipient can send you the norn back, if it escaped
by chance and you didn't intend to send it off. So
think about who your are going to entrust your norns
to!
You can follow the voyage of each norn on Docking
Station Central, as all the journey datas get saved
there for each of your creatures.
No one can steal norns from you! They are save in
your world and if you don't want then to go on a trip,
they just won't do that. You've got full control over
who's going out (and coming in)!
Agents
In DS there are some new agents, like food vendors
etc. It's fun to explore and try them all out! E.g.
there is an agent, called the "HoverDoc",
which can hover over a creature and checks it's health
and it's needs. It's some kind of portable diagnosis
device.
There is also a new agent injector. You can install
DS agents as well as C3 agents. The C3 agents have
to be compatible to DS, though.
Agents cannot warp like norns do. It would have been
quite funny to send off an Ettin to collect machines
from other worlds and bring them back, wouldn't it?
But agents can't travel.
Online
Once online you've got different possibilities to
communicate to other players. You can search other
users on the DS Central site. You can also find out
who's online at the moment. Informations about users
are kept private if you like, you don't have to give
out any more informations than just your user name.
Personnally I like to see the user's real name and
where he or she is coming from. Your norns can travel
around the world in no time! ;-)
There is an in game possibility to chat to and mail
other users.
Don't worry about band width which get used for DS
online. As the creatures files and messages get compressed
the time for transferring them is very short.
Technical Details
This is the minimum (as CL says): 32Mb RAM, 220 Mb
hard disk, Direct X compatible sound and graphics
card. Okay, so far so good. You can play DS as standalone,
not docked to C3 and therefore the game get's smaller
and needs less computer resources. But the more power
your computer has, the better. As always... ;-)
The game engine of DS replaces the one from C3. However,
you got full access to your "My Creatures"
and "My Agens" folder of C3.
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