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# Civilization 13

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## WHAT IS THIS?

Civ13: OSE is an opensource variant of the popular Civilization13 codebase on BYOND.

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## Civ13 Discord
[![discord](https://discordapp.com/api/guilds/468979034571931648/widget.png)](http://b.link/slsdiscord)


## Official Website
https://slsgaming.net


## Trello
https://civ13.slsgaming.net/trello


## Playing the game
You will need a windows machine or a virtual machine running it from another OS.

1. Download the latest BYOND distribution from http://www.byond.com/download/

2. Register a BYOND account at https://secure.byond.com/Join

3. Launch BYOND from **BYOND/bin/Byond.exe** and login.

4. Navigate to **Space Station 13** and search for the **Civilization 13** server.

5. You will start playing in seconds!


## Hosting a server
You will need a Linux machine (preferably Ubuntu or Debian based) to have map switching properly work...

### Setting up a Linux server (Ubuntu|Debian)
NOTE: You will need a debian-based machine for the automated install, preferably Ubuntu (supported) or Debian... 

1. Open the command line.
2. Make sure wget is installed
    >$ ***sudo apt install wget***
	
3. Download the INSTALL file. 
    >$ ***wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DojoDetroit/Civ13/master/INSTALL*** 
 
 4. Run the INSTALL file
    >$ **sudo bash INSTALL** and it should install everything you need.
 
 5. Now start the DreamDaemon via python
     > $ **sudo launch.py &**

6. Enjoy! You can close out of the ssh window or if on console logout.
