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BRE Changes, Bug Fixes. {Those that I remember}
Version 0.0852
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Loan bug fixed - You could not deposit any money sometimes
Message to ALL BBS's *really* works
Breaking treaties is fixed.
Pirates steal less from big empires
Fixed Region Sell/Buy Cheat
Losing of each region type incorrectly *really* fixed
Version 0.0851
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Fixed bug with Mega-High Prices in Trading Market
Terrorist Results REALLY fixed
Galactic Messages now work
"Trading Fleet could not find its target" is not sent over and over anymore
Losing of each region type incorrectly fixed.
Fixed problem with extraneous spaces
Added Disable conventional attacks option
Disabling attacks now works properly
Version 0.0850
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Protected Players can no longer attack / Covert Others (BUG)
Chat Mode doesn't start as Dark Red anymore (Oversight and Bug)
IP Messages can be recieved by the First Player now! (BUG)
IP Messages now support Quoting (Oversight)
Amount of Money given by the King Increased (Possible Bug Otherwise)
New InterPlanetary Setup feature:
BRE IPSETUP
- this creates the PLANDATA.BBS file automatically for you
RESOURCE.DAT support Added
- this allows you to set up standard options without using Command Line
- See RESOURCE.DOC for all the info
- Also allows disabling of various features
Added Command Line Option BRE SCORES to create scores files
- Score creation can be turned off in the RESOURCE.DAT file
Treaty Messages default to "No" do not attach Message
Planetary Coordinator Added
- Allows remote "BRE GOOIEREMOVE"
- See RESOURCE.DOC
Added support for Interplanetary messages to ALL BBS's ("Galactic Messages")
BRSCORES now supports more features
- Create score files directly rather than copying them
- see RESOURCE.DOC
- Disable any score files you do not want
You can now pay extra to raise support
You can now pay extra taxes to the king
You can now pay extra money towards your bank loan
Paying Extra/Less for taxes affects Tax Refund you receive
Loans never worked properly
- You payed back the loan but it never got payed back
Chat mode supports WordWrap
BRE now supports multiple Zones
- Earlier versions would automatically assume the lowest Zone Number
- Now supports forcing zone values
- Having Zones *will only work on v0.850+* versions. Earlier versions
will *not* work properly with them
BRE now has a Nodelist Manager
- "BRE NODELIST"
- Supports Adding, Editing, and Deleting of Nodes
Manual "BRE UPDATE" now works properly
Support for COM1-8 / Modifying Base Addresses/IRQ's added
- see RESOURCE.DOC
Added Inter-Planetary Local Alliance "Sheet"
- This is a LOCALLY-CREATED {Nothing to do with Inter-BBS} table which
stores the BBS's current Enemies and Allies
- This list is maintained by the Planetary Coordinator and/or the Sysop
through the Coordinator Menu and "BRE ALLIES"
New Option
- BRE ALLIES (See Above)
Fixed "?" at BRE Terrorism Prompt
System Menu "Display Instructions" now works
Lack of Terrorist Op Results fixed.
Modified method of sending IP-Terrorist ops to make it a bit easier
2 Players can no longer use the same empire name
STRICT time checking support added - See RESOURCE.DOC
Support for "Change Empire Name" added to BRE VIEW
You can no longer attack a "dead" player
Sending 0 military now aborts attacks.
Fixed Routing of BRNODES.DAT files
Fixed Packing of IP-Message File
Version 0.0801
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Setup Covert Op no longer causes Run-Time Errors
Covert Operations Daily Maintainence should not cause any runtime errors
Chat Colors are now changed
BRE VIEW now clears the screen after it's done
Version 0.0800
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IMPORTANT: See UPGRADE.!!!
BRE IP now works "properly" with mailers besides FrontDoor
- A Change in PLANDATA.BBS is *required* - See PLANDATA.SAM
- Only BBS's using BinkleyTerm or FrontDoor may run "BRE PLANETARY" more than
once a day
- Support for "No Mailer" added - This tells BRE not to create *.MSG files.
All new IP Compression Routines!
- Datafile compression AVERAGES 70-90%!
- Over 96% compression has been achieved!
- Automatic Detection of Remote System Compression Support
- No need for intervention or reset
- Will only compress if the remote system has uncompression support
Color in Reports "not resetting" has been fixed
"E" now shows Empire Status; "D" = Diplomacy on System Menu
Trading Market now allows you to actually add stuff to it! (what a feature!)
Investments now protected against overflow
Investments report earnings
Investments now are not 100% safe - possible losses! (slight chance)
Net Worth now includes military in Trading Market
MAJOR BUG FIX: Feeding Army and reconsidering still led to Civil War
Chat Colors are now fixed
Pirates Security Added - Protection from Negative Earnings
When player dies, all treaty proposals TO, as well as FROM, the player
are removed
Treaties now support Message Attaches
10-day old Message Packing now works properly
New option - "BRE VIEW"
- Lets sysop view all players
- Allows sysop to Change Player Names and Delete Empires
Paying to Raise Effectiveness has been fixed
Not feeding your empire if you don't have food is NOT Ok.. But it was.. :)
New Option - "BRE GOOIEREMOVE"
- This will delete a Gooie Being Created on your system in case started
by a "bad" user.
Pirates are no longer undestroyable. Nor do they give billions of credits and
military forces out!
Inter-BBS Now Works on Systems it didn't earlier
- This was caused by 1 digit Dates on systems depending on Mail Packers
You can now send IP messages to empires with Letters that don't exist on your
BBS (HUH?)
Trading Market now shows Total For Sale
Pirate Raids display ALL winnings rather than "and some military equipment."
Saving Empty Messages does not crash the game!
Gooie Kablooies no longer go out over and over and over.
BRNODES.DAT files now route will route to other BBS's.
New Options
- BRE INBOUND - Runs only the Inbound part of BRE PLANETARY
- Also processes mail to be routed
- BRE OUTBOUND - Runs only the Outbound part of BRE PLANETARY
- The OUTBOUND option should be used ONLY with mailers supporting
the Del/Sent flag [Front Door and Binkley Term]
- These can be used if you'd like to run BRE PLANETARY before and
after each play of BRE. Run BRE INBOUND before BRE.EXE and
BRE OUTBOUND after BRE.EXE. [Outbound will only work with FD/BT]
Random NodeList Updating is fixed.
If over 65000 Agents were contained in the Attacker+Defender's Covert
Force, run time errors occurred
Message System now includes Quoting! [up to 10 lines]
Version 0.0780
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Pirate Raid News in NewsFile removed from Inter-BBS Games to decrease clutter
New CommandLine Parameter "RECONUPDATE"... This allows you to remove the
autoupdating by changing IPDATA.CFG and only update recons when you wish
to. It will still use the value of OLDESTRECON in IPDATA.CFG or the
default [See IPDATA.SAM].
"Attack Parties" are now "Attack Groups" to clarify that they are GROUP attacks
Added "Message To: <player list>" on all messages
Tax Money does not Overflow any more giving negative money
Some of the originally unabortable menus now abort
Version 0.0770
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Treaty Menu displays Empires Properly
If there is a MAX amount, some prompts allow you to press ">" for max
Added "Days-To-Leave" in Joining Attack Parties
Protection from Cheating using Carrier Drops
Friendly Numerical Input System (Gets rid of all "bad" inputs) - No "HUH?"
Fixed some of the Reports/News Stuff (Colors Fixed)
Changed ALL Pirate Colors to Red in News - Got kind of ugly. :)
If an Empire has only played x turns, at maintainence, they get deleted.
- The "x" is configurable at reset.
- Until Reset with New Version, x = 0.
- This only begins 3 days after Game Play Starts
User Deletion in Daily Maint is now faster
Protection from Date Changing on Sysop's part to gain extra turns
- Game will not run "Backwards"
"Starting Date" of game was not controlled... It existed, but did not
do anything. Now it does! :)
Prices of Regions Increase drastically after protection ends
"Kingdoms" are now "Planets"
Time Checking now works properly
- OPTIONS.DOC parameter CHECKTIME no longer necessary
- NOCHECKTIME parameter added - See OPTIONS.DOC
Bug Fix with Screen getting messed up...It's been fixed
- Only caused problems with Special Effects
Investment Packing bug fixed
Net Worth gives a bit more accurate picture of Empire's Strength than it
used to.
Having a 2-billion bank account caused interest problems. Fixed
One area of the program left files open in certain cases. Depending on DOS
Files buffer, could have caused problems. Fixed
Diplomacy is now on the System Menu
NetWorth also includes Market Items
I-P Ops now on Intro Menu
Bank and Investments now have *some* 2,000,000,000+ money checking
Version 0.0760
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MAJOR BUG FIX: Trading Deals did not always work - depending on Packing
Fixed Trading - You could not reject a trade deal
Version 0.0750
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Registered Only Feature - Gooie Kablooies (Deadly IP-Weapon)
Added Documentation [IPLOCAL.DOC] for LOCAL Setup of InterBBS Games
- Multiple Games intertwined into one huge game on one BBS
Recon Updates did not work if nothing was going outbound from
the other node. Fixed
Fixed bug with Selecting Players - If you select invalid, it re-displayed
question on same line. [Did not affect Game Play though]
Fixed Nuke/Chem/Bio - The Game did not charge for using them!
Lots of Cosmetic Changes
Pirates can (but rarely) raid multiple times
Treaty Offers now display NetWorth, Score, And Regions
Trading Market now changes Price/Amount Together
Trading Market reports when items are bought to the owner
MAJOR BUG FIX: Reconsidering did not reset "CivilWar" Flag, so you
still went through civil war
MAJOR BUG FIX: Paying less for regions affecting support was inversed.
Version 0.0701
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Fixed deadly Maintainence Bug
Fixed "Raise Support" Bug
Version 0.0700
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Removed need for "BRE P_SETUP" - Now done automatically
Now includes Routing Support
- See IPDATA.SAM
Report Display Changed
Now defaults all mail to NORMAL priority
Now supports CRASH/HOLD mail
- see IPDATA.SAM
Defaults on Local Attacks now are ALL forces
InterPlanetary News now colorful/"Tabloided"
Now option in Attack Menu: View Alliance Strength
Now includes Interplanetary Scores
- Run BRSCORES.EXE
- Creates the following files:
IPSCORE.ANS/.TXT - Top 30 Scores
IPWORTH.ANS/.TXT - Top 30 Net Worths
IPREGION.ANS/.TXT - Top 30 Regions
IPBBS.ANS/.TXT - Top 50 BBSs
Added Command Line Parameter DELETE
- See OPTIONS.DOC for details
OPTIONS.BRE renamed to OPTIONS.DOC to avoid confusion with BRE data files.
- All BRE data files (Except BRREG.DAT) are *.BR*
REGISTER.BRE renamed to BRREGIST.TXT for same reason
xxxBRE$$.yyz files now are xxxBREaa.yyz to avoid problems with more than
10 incoming files.
Delete/Sent Flag added in NetMail of Files
Reasonable Prices for Chems, Nukes, BioBombs
AutoRecon Generator now generates recon requests for all BBSes with
5+ old day recons every 5 days.
Maintainence Costs of Military and Planets decreased
Sell Prices increased to 1/3 of Buy Prices, rather than 1/4
InterPlanetary Messages now display the correct Player List
Loans now DECREASE in size.
Interplanetary Invasions now report correct number of regions stolen
Faster save time during turns
Terrorist Operations (IP) do a little less damage now...
Reports now pause at the proper place
New Informative Ansi Planetary/Daily Maintainence
Reports and Messages are now packed
Most Reports on actions now support ANSI
Planetary Master now recieves "coins" daily and Tabloids report on
PMaster changes, etc.
"Break Pact Formally" is now "Declaration of WAR"
Setups now look exactly like Declarations of war so it is impossible to
100% figure out if a Declaration of war was a setup.
Two New Interplanetary Operations:
- Bomb Food Market - Bombs from 30-100% of the Enemy PLANET's food
market
- Bomb Banks - Bombs from 10-30% of EVERY player on the Target Planet's
coins in the bank and from the King.
Documentation now includes InterPlanetary Help
"BRE RESET" possible error has been corrected
Tax Income is now double it's original value
NodeList Updating now functions properly.
- Only updated during "BRE PLANETARY"
Messages / Reports format changed
Loans now decrease at a DECENT rate.
Added End-Of-Turn "Add coins to bank?" feature
Added Configurable ReconUpdating for monetary considerations
- See IPDATA.SMA
Added "Controlled Reconning" to control # of recons sent by player req's
Message Editor COMPLETELY redone
Version 0.0610
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Modified News Files - Now in ANSI and Normal Text
- FileNames: TDYNEWS.ANS/.TXT YESNEWS.ANS/.TXT
News Files now produce random headline-like messages
Moved Trading Market to Trading Menu
Bug fix in InterPlanetary - Due to new file format, things would not "go"
Version 0.0601
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Added support for multi-League BBS's
Instructions now Abortable
Special Effects only asked if ON
Version 0.0600
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Official GAMMA Release
Version 0.0590
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Added Random Display ANSI Files
Player-Player Trading Now Functional
Added Full Documentation
Added AutoHelp for Treaties and Region Buying
Bank Investments now functional
Registration now functional
Local Covert Ops now functional
Changed Monetary System
Added /LOCKED= function - No longer requires SRLOCK
Auto Nodelist Update Completed
Message System Modifications
Added Registered Editing of Pirate Names
Bombings now select random targets
Added New Covert Op: Expose Enemy Ops
Government Spending Menu display incorrect Turns Left: FIXED
Industrial Production Increased
Price changes Modified
Growth Rates Controlled
Pirates have calmed down
Pirate Raids now functional
Version 0.0510
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InterPlanetary Terrorist Ops now functional
AutoConfig/ManualConfig Update System Installed }Untested
AutoRecon Updates if sending mail anyway
Preliminary Score Routines added
InterPlanetary News Files created
Local Treaties Now Functional
Local Inter-Player Trading Market Now Functional
Version 0.0500
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Various look changes
Entering IP Target prompt now shows! (WOW!)
InterPlanetary Messages now functional
InterPlanetary Attacks now functional
InterPlanetary Group Attacks now functional
InterPlanetary Recons now functional
InterPlanetary attacks now return forces and planets
InterPlanetary attacks now notify BOTH sides of results
InterPlanetary attacks now can be successful
InterPlanetary Group Attacks now actually leave home
InterPlanetary Terrorist Operations now installed - May not work though! :(
AutoRecon update system } Untested
AutoNodelist update system } Features
Versions 0.0490/0.0491/0.0492
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BRNODES.DAT format changed
Games runs properly
Interplanetary Operations now testable
InterPlanetary Recons now functional
Generic Menu System now Lets you get out of menus!