Drug Wars - Underworld provides several options for customizing game play. These options allow you to change aspects of how various functions work, and how some supporting services behave.

Preferences are opened using the Preferences entry under the Game menu, or by pressing F3. After you make changes, click the Apply button to apply your changes while keeping the Preferences open, or click Ok to apply the settings and exit the Preferences. You may use the Cancel button to exit the preferences at any time. Any options which have not been applied will be left at their original values.

General |  Bank Accounts |  Sound Effects |  Game Statistics |  Updates

General

General Preferences include options for currency conversions, encounters, and some basic game play options.

• Chart display always follows selection - This option, when checked, will cause the chart display to update based on the currently selected item in the Market or Inventory lists. As you select different items in the lists, the chart display will update to show you the stats on the selected item.
  
  
• Always ask to hire informant when I take action - This option allows you to turn on or off the 'Would you like to hire an informant' prompt which appears after you buy or sell product in a location where you do not already have an informant.
  
  
• Cash Currency - This allows you to change the currency conversion used in the game. The game will automatically convert all values based on the conversion rate for the selected currency. (Currency rates are updated with each major release).
  
  
• Combat Delay - This option allows you to control the speed at which events occur during a conflict encounter. This setting is measured in milliseconds. The larger the Combat Delay, the slower the conflict will unfold.
  
  
• Violence - This option enables the game violence, which allows you to buy weapons, and actually 'fight' in various encounters.

Bank Accounts

Bank Account Preferences allow you to customize how certain aspects of the banking functions work.

• Withdraw All Amount - This option defines the amount of money to leave in an account when you click the 'Withdraw All' button.
  
  
• Deposit All Amount - This option defines the amount of money to leave in your cash balance when you click the 'Deposit All' button.

Sound Effects

Sound Effect Preferences allow you enable or disable the game's sound effects, or to customize the effects with your own sounds.

• Enable Sound Effects - This option enables or disables the use of sound effects in general. When unchecked, no sound effects will be played. When checked, those effects which are individually enabled will be played.
  
  
• Event - This option selects the even who's settings you would like to view or modify.
  
  
• Enable this sound effect - This option enables or disables the selected effect. This allows you to disable certain sound effects, while leaving others enabled.
  
  
• Sound - This specifies the sound file to play for the selected event. You may use the Browse button to find the file you would like to play.
  
  
• Play / Stop - The Play and Stop buttons allow you to preview the selected sound file.

Game Statistics

Game Statistics Preferences allow you to configure how game stats and histories are handled.

• Automatically export stats for every game - This option will instruct the software to automatically export a copy of the game statistics for every game you play.
  
  
• Export To - This option defines where automatically exported game stats will be saved.
  
  
• Format - These options control the output format for exported stats. You can select from the following:
  • Plain Text - a normal text file (*.txt)
  • HTML - a formatted HTML page (*.html), ready for use online
  • Comma Separated - a quoted, comma delimited file (*.csv), for importing into other applications such as spreadsheets.
  
  
  
• Save game histories for later viewing - This option will cause the game to save the history for every game played. This allows you to view the history for a previous game when you open the game's statistics. When this option is unchecked, history data is erased at the end of every game and cannot be retrieved.

Updates

The Update Preferences allow you to configure Drug Wars - Underworld to automatically check for updates. You must be connected to the Internet for the update checking to occur.

• Automatically check for updates - This option turns on automatic update notification.
  
  
• Check for updates at every startup - This option will have the software check for updates every time you start the program.
  
  
• Check for updates once a day - This option will have the software check for updates once every day the program is used. The software will not check for updates on days when the game is not used.
  
  
• Check for updates once a week - This will configure the software to check for updates once every seven days.
  
  
• Check for updates once a month - This will configure the software to check for updates once every thirty days.

Top