Autofish
How to exploit resources at sea automatically
Autonav
Giving ships automatic sailing orders
Maintenance
The cost to maintain ships, planes, and land units.
Mobility
How much mobility stuff costs
Ship-types *!
Description of different types of ships.
Trade-ships *
How to use trade ships
assault *
Attack coastal sector from ship
board *
Board enemy ship
build *
Build ships, planes, land units, nuclear weapons or bridges
cargo *
List the commodities on board your ships
coastwatch *
Check from sectors for nearby ships
fire *
Fire artillery from sector/ship/unit on sector/ship
fleetadd
Designate members of a fleet
follow
Cause one ship to automatically follow another
load *
Load goods, people, etc onto a ship
lookout *
Check from ships for other ships and/or sector types
lost *
Report lost items
ltend
Transfer things between a unit and the ship carrying it
mine *
Drop sea mines from a ship
mission *
Assign a mission to a ship/plane/unit
mquota
Change the mobility quota of a ship with SAIL orders
name
Give a name to a ship
navigate *
Move ship or fleet around
order
Order a ship to auto-navigate
payoff
Find out the current payoff of a trade ship
qorder
Query the auto-navigation orders of a ship
radar *
Perform radar scan from ship or sector
retreat
Set retreat conditions/paths for ships or fleets
sail
Give sailing orders to a ship
sbmap *
Big map of all your worldly knowledge around a ship
scrap *
Scrap a ship, plane, or land unit
scuttle *
Destroy a ship, plane, or unit
sdump
Dump raw ship information
ship *
Report status of ships
show *
Characteristics of sectors, units, updates and more
smap *
Get a map around a ship
sonar *
Use sonar to look for ships
sorder
Show ship order statistical information
sstat *
Report statistics of ship, fleet or ships in a given area
start
Resume production and repairs
stop
Stop production and repairs
tend *
Transfer commodities between ships
torpedo *
Slip a torpedo to some poor sucker (from a sub or ship)
unload *
Inverse of load (above)
unsail
Stop a ship from sailing
upgrade
Update the tech of a ship/unit/plane to the current tech level
xdump
Extended dump of everything under the sun
Empire4 !
Changes from the Empire3 server to the Empire4 Server
For info on a particular topic, type "info <topic>" where <topic> is one of the topics listed above. Topics marked by * are the most important and should be read by new players. Topics with unusually long info are marked with a !.