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The Clan Master's Inn Documentation v1.00
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Thank you for trying out the Clan Master's Inn. We sincerely hope
you enjoy this product. We hope to continue providing you with the best
in service and quality.
The Inn is a Shareware product. The current registration price is
shown inside of the setup program. To see it, go to the MS-DOS prompt,
change to the directory with CLAN.EXE and type: "CLAN.EXE SETUP" then press
"R" for "Registration Information".
This is the standard ASCII text format of the Documentation. A
Microsoft Word format is also provided in the file CLAN.TXT. If you wish
to print this document, we suggest using that file instead.
THIS IGM IS FAIR AND BALANCED WITH L.O.R.D.!
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Most LORD IGM's that we have seen have done little more than upset
the gameplay balance found in LORD. Some IGMs allow players to easily
"cheat". Others simply add nothing to the game except a few gems
or forest-style fights.
The Clan Master's Inn does NOT allow players to cheat. The Inn
will NOT severely upset the play of your LORD game. The Inn ADDS many
features to LORD not found anywhere else. The primary goal of the Clan
Master's Inn is to take the concepts of "Forest Fights" and "User Fights"
and add a third "Clan Fight" to the game which is just as fair, rewarding,
and simply: FUN.
Shareware Concept
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The Shareware concept is a form of computer program marketing
where low-budget authors can sell their programs to the general public
without investing a fortune. Since it can cost many thousands of dollars
to market software to stores and retailers, this lets small software
companies sell products without spending a large sum of money on marketing
and advertisement costs.
The two most common forms of Shareware include "Crippleware" and
limited time restraints. Limited time restrained programs must be
registered within a certain period of time or use of the program must be
discontinued. Crippleware is software that has some limitations until
registered.
Registration involves mailing in the program's cost and receiving
your registration disk, form, or code. The term "registration" can also
be used in software to mean sending in a registration card with information
such as your occupation and interests. Registration normally only involves
money if you are talking about a Shareware product.
Tour of the Inn
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The Clan Master's Inn gives Legend of the Red Dragon players a
chance to team up against each other. The players can form "Clans" of up
to 6 members. The clans can fight each other a certain number of times per
day (See "Benefits of Registration".) The fights are very similar to fights
in LORD, except that there can be up to 12 people participating in the same
fight (they can be played by humans, or when off-line, their characters
are played by the computer just as in LORD.)
About once every 26 days (assuming a person who plays every day),
a player will run into a friendly and warm creature called "The Great Evil"
on their way to the Clan Master's Inn. The Great Evil waits at LEAST 6
days before haunting anyone again. Once registered, the Great Evil can
be disabled from your game if you don't like him. The Great Evil is a
player's nemesis, as the Great Evil's strength, defense, and hitpoints
are carefully matched to that of the player who encounters him. The player
has about a 65% chance of beating the Evil in most cases, and when the
player tries to run, they have a one in three chance of escaping. When the
Great Evil is defeated, the player receives 10% of their own experience,
as well as a few gems (see "Benefits of Registration.") These are somewhat
high rewards for a single fight, but not for a fight that only occurs once
a month.
Unfortunately, at no point in the Clan Master's Inn is there any
support for "Death Knight", "Mystical Skills", or "Thieving Skills". These
features were too much to add to a low cost program. However should the
Clan Master's Inn show enough registration and support we will go ahead and
try to add such features.
Every other theme and concept from LORD has been kept alive as
carefully as possible. As stated above, The Clan Master's Inn WILL NOT
cause a serious imbalance in your LORD game. It will still take about the
same amount of time for a player to advance. Of course the Inn does have
some influence, as at very least the Inn adds a Clan Fight per day (which
occasionally involves killing a number of people.)
Benefits of Registration
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The Clan Master's Inn can be considered slightly crippled software.
Use of the Clan Master's Inn is unlimited and can be quite enjoyable to your
BBS, however these additional features will become available after
registration.
* Killing the Great Evil is worth 24 gems instead of 4, and the sysop
can prevent him from haunting his players if so chosen (You can turn
him on or off.)
* You can change the number of clan fights per day. While
unregistered, clans can only attack another clan once per day.
* A clan can have up to 6 members, instead of 3.
* The game will show up as registered to [Your name, or your BBS name.]
Note that sysop options are enabled even in the unregistered version.
However, about all that you can do is remove a player from a clan, or
erase a particular clan. You can reset the Wins-Losses scores or reset the
Clan Master's Inn also. To access the sysop control menu, use the CLAN.EXE
SETUP command as shown below.
Seeing it for yourself
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You can take a look at the Clan Master's Inn yourself. Please
keep in mind that a number of the options will be in gray, meaning they are
unavailable, because they require more than one player or clan to exist
before you can use them.
You will need a LORD account to use this option correctly! If you
don't have an account in your LORD game, go make one before you use the Inn.
To use the Clan Master's Inn in local operation, change to your
Inn's directory, and at the DOS prompt type: CLAN.EXE LOCAL
Setting up the Clan Master's Inn
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Setting up the Inn is intended to be easy and quick.
1. Create a directory for the Inn (we recommend a subdirectory of your
LORD directory such as C:\Lord\Clan.) Move or unzip all of the
Clan Master's Inn files into that directory.
2. Change to the directory where you placed the Inn files. At the DOS
prompt, type: CLAN.EXE SETUP
3. You will now be in the setup menu. Select (C)onfigure and provide
the information needed.
4. Return to the main setup menu and select (I)nstall.
5. The Clan Master's Inn will now be ready to use. You can return to
the setup menu anytime you need to change an option, register the
Inn, or access sysop operations. Just type the command again:
CLAN.EXE SETUP
* Non-standard comports, IRQs, etc., are supported. They will be
used automatically with help from LORD.
Removing the Clan Master's Inn
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(The un-install option truly does work in this IGM.)
If you get tired of the Clan Master's Inn, simply change into the
directory where you placed the Inn files and at the DOS prompt type:
CLAN.EXE SETUP
Select to (U)n-install the Inn. This will disconnect the Inn from
LORD, and you can delete the Clan Maste