Important Rule Change for Standard

Planets Nu has decided to make an important rule change for the "Standard" rule set. All standard games generated moving forward will have the settings:

DirectTransferAmmo = true

DirectTransferMC = true

These settings enable Megacredits or Ammo to be transferred to foreign ships/planets using the standard transfer controls with detailed control over the amount transferred. (like any other resource)

This eliminates most needs for the ship beam transfer friendly codes "bdm", "btt", "btf", "btm". However, these friendly codes will still function and in certain cases have value.  

It is our belief that this particular "peculiarity" of the orginal VGA Planets game does not add significant strategic benefit or purpose and adds unnecessarily to the complexity/confusion of the game at all levels.  

The greatest impact of this change is in the early stages of the game where the "bdm" friendly code is used extensively. Being able to bring MC with you and drop a little bit on each planet will make developing new planets a little bit easier and will open up new strategies. 

This rule change has already been in effect for beginner games for some time, we are now pushing this rule change out for all standard/campaign games. 

Classic games will not be affected. Games in progress (or currently joining) will not be affected.