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Barren Realms Elite - Listing of Changes and Bug Fixes ------------------------------------------------------ Version 0.904 ------------- Reset option works again Terrorist Ops [IP] a little less deadly Gooie to 0 region BBS Fixed Max Bank Loan Payment fixed IP Messages Work OK Again Version 0.903 ------------- Fixed one-way Treaty Bug Gooie Kablooies now do not damage Protected players at all Now shows % forces in Group Attacks Gooie Kablooies now go out as soon as ready, rather than at next maint. Spies now actually cost money [Local] Fixed Status Screen Display Double Column Planet List shows partial locations [states] "Smart" Food market is a bit smarter now Fixed Investment bug Fixed General Lack of Saving Bug Fixed Lack of Treaty Deletion Bug Reduced excessive/unnecessary creation of Dupe Lists, Config updates, And Recon Updates - Should reduce outbound filesizes tremendously if there is a large amount of routing Fixed some messed up line lengths ESCape will ALWAYS exit chat now F7/F8 Subtract/Add Time Keys Added Status Bar colors are now configurable - See RESOURCE.DOC Added VGA Color Changing {Local Screen} - See RESOURCE.DOC Added VGA Color Effects {Local Screen} - See RESOURCE.DOC Added F2-Extended Status Bar Corrected lack of Ansi on some news files displays Fixed goofy random Lack of/Non-Lack of ANSI Color in Investment reports Message Delete Time is now configurable - See RESOURCE.DOC Report Delete Time is now configurable - See RESOURCE.DOC Added basic protection from deleted files IP Attack Reports show correct info now w/ Destroyed Forces Fixed run-time Error in BRE VIEW when no empires exist Treaty storage is more efficient More efficient purging of Messages and Treaties Reports now stored in separate files to increase speed dramatically - As a result, all Reports are lost during upgrade Visit bank added to Attack / Trade Menus Coordinator Menu Options fixed Version 0.901 ------------- Fixed D'Bridge and International Netmail creation problem Fixed Empire creation problem Daily maint. only does Dupe Scans in InterBBS Games now Fixed error with Group Attacks Disappearing Sysop-Addable ANSI files display properly now Saving is a bit more efficient now Version 0.900: The Reconstruction --------------------------------- ***RESET IS REQUIRED***: All BBS's in the ENTIRE league *MUST* upgrade and reset at the same time Restructured InterPlanetary Data Files allowing for more efficient transfers Reduced number of outbound data files created/transferred Effectiveness of 0/100 Taxing trick has been reduced significantly Drastic Galactic Deflation caused all prices and incomes to drop Once again, IP-Scores files has been fixed to have the CORRECT files displayed Problems with Deleted Nodes fixed Netmail Purger installed to remove extraneous BRE mail left on your system from other BBS's Option to view investments is now available in Bank Fixed bug which transmitted Land Available in Config Updates League-Wide resetting added - When League Coordinator Resets, option to reset all other BBS's given The DUIS (Duplicate User Id System) now only scans for dupes during New User creation and once a day during maintenance to improve speed performance dramatically No longer does "The King" rule your planet - Name is now configurable Fixed possible Lockups when attacking 0 region empire Fixed some score routines Fixed missing [CR] after Random Events Food Market "Buy" defaults to as much as you need Fixed negative income for being Planetary Master Compression is now ALWAYS active {No version checking required} All InterPlanetary Data is now Edit-Protected Status and Empire files now Edit-Protected Protection against processing a file multiple times added Protection from Deleting Gooies has been added Trade Deals now Edit-Protected New Prompting System added which shows Defaults and Max rather than only one Investment and Trade Files now Edit-Protected All BRE Created Data Files are now in a DATA\ directory to decrease clutter Planetary Taxes are no longer "flexible" type taxes Advisor menu added - available from System Menu Fixed Run-time error during Planetary Maintenance after Updating Local Recons Agents sell price is now displayed on the Sell Menu properly IP Special Operations are now more expensive and only one of each type [Nuke, Chem, V39] can be created per day. Fixed Random Chemical Bombing Lockups BRSCORES v2.0 update for Barren Realms Elite v0.900 - Supports Top x Listings rather than only Top 50 - See RESOURCE.DOC DUI System now scans only necessary nodes speeding performance massively Multicolumn Display of BBS's fixed Fixed Zone Support problems with INTL flag More Information on Planetary Maintenance Removed excessive "Investment held until ..." notices Huge Cosmetic Changes Fixed up the Pirate Name/Color Editor BRMAIL.EXE utility - Sends mail to all BBS's in League - Run Format: "BRMAIL.EXE <text file name>" This creates messages containing the <text file name>'s text in it Saving routines are more efficient now Listing Players in Treaty Selection now displays Relations, not Scores Fixed negative credit Nuke/Chem/Bio Weapons Cheat "F5" - Immediately breaks out of BRE Gooie Kablooies now launched in 72 Hours rather than Midnight in 3 days Planetary Operations no longer available until Game Started "Request Recon" Option from IP Menu replaced with "View IPScores" Coordinator "Global Recon Request" Added Group Attacks are now Hour-Based Version 0.0875 -------------- Trading display bug fixed Gooie Kablooie possible Run-time error fixed Range-Check on IPDATA.CFG bug fixed Protected Players can no longer enter trading market Added InterPlanetary Nuclear Assaults Added InterPlanetary Chemical Bombings Added InterPlanetary V-39 SkyRunner Missiles - New, advanced technology with unknown results Pirates now give land Fixed a few Negative-Bug things Fixed Trading Market Display "Hi!" removed Added protection for non-existant BBS's Removed Gooie-Kablooie Cheat {Send to No-Recon BBS} Added support for D'Bridge 1.50 Del/Sent Flag - Supposedly compatible w/ FrontDoor - Use "DBRIDGE15" in Plandata.BBS for this setting - Let me know if it works! New Treaty Proposal System - allows multiple treaties to be sent at once Version 0.0874 -------------- Change in Data-Loss Prevention to hopefully solve some functional abnormalities Fixed "Date Corruption" problem - This also fixes random user deletion Fixed prices of Nuke/Chem/Bio against HUGE empires Fixed attack abortions [IP] Version 0.0873 -------------- Beginnings of Data-Loss Prevention Routines added (Should fix lost attacks) ALL Covert Ops now affected by Resource.Dat settings Fixed the "No Tax Refunding" Bug Investment overflow bug fixed MAXIMUM cost to send out attack is now 150m coins Added Packet Logging {For Cheat Protection} Results of Bombing Operations Fixed Version 0.0872 -------------- You no longer get "extra" money on Loans The Entire Ansi/Ascii Score File Viewing + External viewing has been fixed No effects in not feeding people fixed Random Events Added Commas removed from Prices on Buy / Sell Menu Trading Fleets now show up properly Version 0.0871 -------------- Zone Support Fixed Once Again 1st Turn Loan Trick/Bug Fixed Trading Locked Out while Loan Exists fixed Random Protection if Main Node is NOT running v0.0870+ fixed BRE PLANETARY and other Options are not allowed to be run while another user is using the game. Pirates no longer raid users under protection Still Working on Gooie Strength Gooie Kablooie wait time decreased to 3 days If a BBS has less than 1/4 the regions your BBS does, it cannot be gooied by you BRE RESET now deletes all inbound/outbound files during resets New RESOURCE.DAT features - Dumping Money in to the bank at end of turn default is configurable by sysop - Minimum time between running BRE OUTBOUND's has been added for those sysops who run BRE OUTBOUND after each run but want a minimum of x hours between runs Added Internal Viewing of the 4 Ansi/Ascii IP-Scores through system menu as well as up to 5 user-defined files. {This can be used for scores created by external utilities} - See RESOURCE.DOC You can no longer trade while under protection Seeming Lost Investments now are not seemingly lost...(HUH?) (They just seemed lost but I don't think they REALLY were...) Trade Agreements generate less income while the empires are under protection Added Commas to most numbers Trade Deals no longer have excessive 0's if demanding/requesting 0. Version 0.0870 -------------- Pirate Name editing is updated immediately Fixed bug in which Inbound Gooies and Old Recon Updating was only done in the registered version. (oops) Added Support for "K"ilo and "M"illion keys in numeric input. K will add 3 0's to the number and M will add 6. Added scanning for Corrupt Inbound Packets to avoid Run Time Errors - Will Also try to Reconstruct the rest of the inbound file After Data Decompression, BRE will show type of inbound data You can no longer pay more than you have for Raising Morale or Support Fixed Bug with D'Bridge INTL Kludge Multiple Messages for the same Data File should no longer be created The Send only 1 Soldier bug has been fixed "Z" for all players has been added to message prompts Civil Wars now affect Trading Market also Fixed bug with losing Recon Requests when using "BRE INBOUND/OUTBOUND" as opposed to "BRE PLANETARY" Reduced Memory Requirements for BRE Decreased costs of Fighting Morale Loss Added User Definable Macros from System Menu (up to 4) Added Resource.Dat Option to Disable User Macros "Macros false" Deletion Day Controlled now is an unregistered feature also and can be changed through the Resource.Dat file Protection now works in the Inter-BBS game Installed DUI System {Duplicate User Identification System} - This checks for duplicate users on other BBS's using USERNAMES - This feature can be turned off in the resource file if it is causing problems or in Inter-National games where users from different areas may have the same handle. - This feature also *untested* supports real name/phone #/etc checking as well, using the "Alternate Checking System". See RESOURCE.DOC for details. - This will work both at creation of a new user and if users already exist Added support for BIOS Routines to avoid "screen bleeding" in programs such as DesqView BRE VIEW now supports showing colors w/ pirate names New IP attack Reports - Date / Time Stamp Added Reports include Date / Time Stamp Fixed bug with Routing Nodelists Fixed LOCKUP Bug in Daily Maintenance - Caused by resource.dat problems / installer Allows users to skip all their messages [due to lack of time, etc.] Added Limiting of region buying per turn in RESOURCE.DAT Gooie Kablooies are now harder to destroy for larger BBSs Local messages now support replying only to selected empires Fixed bug with Too much cash in trading deals led to negative numbers Fixed missing Lottery Bug Added "BRE RECON" option to create global Recon/Recon Requests Large Galaxy Listings include Pauses In IPDATA.CFG file, ROUTE command now accepts "*" as First Parameter to Route ALL MAIL through <2nd parameter> MAJOR BUG FIX: Routing of BRNodes.Dat file in Multiple League BBS's Fixed loan problems with 0% tax rate If Nodelists contain 20+ BBSs, it will double-column display them Fixed bug with paying more than owned for loan payments Version 0.0852 -------------- 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 Messages now display Date/Time Stamp Version 0.0851 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 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 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- MAJOR BUG FIX: Trading Deals did not always work - depending on Packing Fixed Trading - You could not reject a trade deal Version 0.0750 -------------- 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 -------------- Fixed deadly Maintainence Bug Fixed "Raise Support" Bug Version 0.0700 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- Added support for multi-League BBS's Instructions now Abortable Special Effects only asked if ON Version 0.0600 -------------- Official GAMMA Release Version 0.0590 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- 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 ---------------------------- 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!