Playing With Yourself - Part 1

Load and Install the Program

Setting Up a Local Host

Create the Universe

This is for selecting maps and game scenario types ("Scripts"). Right now just leave it as it is and click NEXT again
And up comes this screen

Select the "Game Name" field and change it to something like "Testgame" or something. The other 2 fields you can leave as they are. Click NEXT
This comes up next...

This is for choosing the players. There's a scary red thing flashing away - just ignore it - it'll go away eventually.
Set the "Number of players in game" to 2. And click ENTER.

OK - if this is going to work we REALLY need to get our two races in the right order!
To select the races you want for your two players click the race name on the left panel and then the Player entry on the right panel. Select the two players' races thus - you need to select 
The Solarian Federation of Planets as Race 1 and
The Birdman Republic as Race 2 or the rest of this guide won't work so well...
(The red flashy thing should disappear).  Click

NEXT. And this appears...

This page is to place your two races - they're a bit far apart as a default - so click on "Pick" . 

Now - please be precise here! It really will help if you get the right stars here!!

Select the two stars on the map as shown.
 New yellow squares with the race numbers will appear where you click.
Then click NEXT - and up pops this...

This screen is to change the defaults for the game - so let's make it easy on ourselves. Change the "Starting Cash" and "Population" to the maximum... then click NEXT

This is another page for changing the defaults - but we don't want to change anything here - so click NEXT


This little page will run a script in your face - and then say Finished. Hit DONE

Your Universe is now set up!!

Start the "Host"

Run the Host program. It should look something like this...

Your Game name you selected earlier should be in slot 1. If it is click the "1" button.
If it isn't - click a number next to an {Empty) slot and a "YIG Scan" button should appear. Click that. and it should find your game. then click the number next to the Game Name you created, And this appears.

The two red lights show there are 2 players with completed "turns".
To make life a bit quicker we have some "Preferences" we'd like to implement. Click the preferences button. This should appear.

Click the "No Countdown. Run Host at Once" check box - to get a tick in there. Click Done.
This will get you back to the previous screen. Click "Run Host" and this another thing runs a load of stuff at you!

You should still have a Host Window on screen. Looks like this?