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                           ROBOTS v1.50

                 for BORDELLO version 1.50+ ONLY!

               written by Joe Hardage & Tom Wildoner

UPGRADING FROM VERSION 1.4:  SEE THE LAST FEW LINES BRO'S

SUPPORT: My BBS is closed due to time constraints.  I can be reached on
the Internet at the following addresses.  [e-mail] or you can
try [e-mail] as well.  I also echo the Wildnet doors conference.
Tom can be reached at his BBS, T&J Software BBS [phone].  Tom
also offers voice support between the hours of 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Eastern Time.  Please be considerate and don't call outside of those
hours, not too many shareware authors have voice support so let's
don't cause him to give that up.  If you get the answering machine
just leave a short note detailing your problem and try again later.
Tom's voice support number is [phone]. Tom can also be reached
via the Internet at [e-mail]

INTRO: ROBOTS was written as a companion program to Tom's great Adult
door BORDELLO!  As with any online game, the battles are much better
when there are a lot of people who play the game each day!  ROBOTS
adds a whole new dimension to the game in several ways.  First, if
there are not many players in the game yet, ROBOTS adds 10 instant new
players who definately know how to play the game!<grin>.  Second, if
the game is already hot or even if it's not hot yet, ROBOTS adds
several new features that your players will surely enjoy...Just
remember...DON'T tell them that there are Robotic players...our goal
was to make them seem as real as possible!  Below is a list of
features of the ROBOTS program.

FEATURES:
*Note - Not all options will work until BORDELLO is registered!
Robots itself is FREE but you won't see it really come alive until you
decide to register BORDELLO through Tom.
* indicates a Registered option.

1) 10 Sysop definable Robot names.
2) Robots play the game just as a seasoned BORDELLO veteran would!
   Fills empty whore slots, Gets Thugs, Plays all next day turns,
   pays off the Police, and then <grin> does COVERT ACTIONS!
   If the Logging option is turned on, then all actions are tracked
   in the Robots.log file for you to laugh at!
3) Automatically reads in your Bordello Sysop.cfg and keeps the Robots
   within the same rules as the real players!
4) Sysop definable chances for Robots to engage in and Win Covert
   Actions against other players!
5) Automatically Resets itself and updates all necessary files when
   Bordello Resets itself!  No Maintenance required!
6) Sysop configurable parameters to limit Robot Covert Actions..Useful
   if there are not too many players in the game yet!
7) RINSTALL utility that makes installation a Snap!

*REGISTERED FEATURES NEXT PAGE


*8) PIMP'S NIGHT OUT! - A Pimp will be randomly chosen and one of
   several humorous things can happen to him!  A message will be added
   to that players message file telling him what happened as well!
   ex. "Last Night was Pimp's Night Out.  You exposed yourself to your
        THUGS and they all Quit!"  Of course this leaves the player
   with no thugs until he or she plays again so now other players can
   beat the crud out of them! <g>.

*9) LOTTERY - A Pimp will be randomly chosen and awarded a certain
   amount of cash that falls within a Sysop configurable range!  Of
   course, a note is added to his or her message file telling them of
   their new found Wealth!

*10) WHORE PROBLEMS! - A Pimp will be randomly chosen and have a
    problem with one of the Whores!  ex. "Last night, TINA revealed
    her DRUG habit.  You paid $42,000 to rehabilitate her"

*11) HEALTH DEPARTMENT INSPECTION - The Health department will randomly
    come by and inspect a players whores.  If they are disease free
    then that player is awarded a Sysop configurable amount of Bonus
    money!  A note is added telling them they were rewarded during
    inspection!  If a Whore is infected...the player is fined!

*12) SICK WHORES - A player will be picked at random and have his
    whore's disease status checked just like above. If one is
    infected, she will pack up and leave along with about 10% of the
    players CASH!

*13) GRAFITTI! - Robots makes use of the Grafitti wall to post some
    Sysop configurable INFLAMMATORY messages to the other players!
    Some messages will use the Robots name and others will be posted
    as ANONYMOUS to help hide the Robots identity!  As a bonus, if the
    Robot has Spied on a Player during Covert Actions...the Robot has
    a 10% chance of exposing the amount of house levels and cash that
    player has with a note on the Grafitti wall!

There are Several other things that can happen and all of them were
written to be Random in nature so even YOU won't know what will
happen!  This makes it fun to read the Robots.log file if you decide
to keep the logging option turned on!
I have included a Sample.log for you to look at and laugh!

INSTALLATION:  ROBOTS v1.50 will ONLY RUN ON BORDELLO v1.50. Note that
the version numbers of Robots and Bordello will match!

1) Upgrade to Bordello version 1.50
2) Unzip the archive into your Bordello directory
3) Think up 10 good PIMP names for your Robots!  Be Creative!
4) Run the RINSTALL program and create your Robots.cfg file...be sure
   answer all 9 items!  There is a sample config with some pretty good
   default parameters for you to look at if you get confused..it's
   fully commented. Now choose the option to Reset Robots from scratch
   and enter your Robot Pimp names!

5) If you feel creative, you may edit the Grafitti messages which are
   in the file "ROBGRAF.DAT".  Be sure that the number at the top of
   the file matches how many one line responses you have or the
   program will error out!

VERY IMPORTANT!

6) Go into Bordello and play it once after you upgrade so the
   game info files that Robots looks for will be present!  You only
   need to do that once.
7) Add Robots to your nightly maintenance batch file!  Just change to
   bordello directory and type ROBOTS   Any errors will be written to
   a Robots.err file for you to see.  If you have the loggin option
   on, be sure to check out the Robots.log file for a laugh now and
   then!

GRATUITOUS BEGGING: (Didn't work with the last version!)
Robots was made possible by Tom Wildoner's generosity with the code for
Bordello.  As such, the Robots program will not run to it's full and
hilarious extent until Bordello is registered.  Robots does not require
any registration....I did put a heck of a lot of time into it though and
donations are readily accepted...that will keep my interest up in updating
Robots with new and funnier options.(To date the total charity from you
slimeballs has been a big fat 0  Keep up the good work you Geeks!)
To avoid feeling so guilty you just can't sleep anymore.....cut your wrists!

Send loads of cash to: Joe Hardage
                       8012 Isaac Pryor
                       Austin, TX 78749

I'm not sure...it just might shell out and issue some kind of Format
command if you don't...can't remember if I took that out or not?

UPGRADING FROM VERSION 1.4:  Funny...don't remember getting any mail or
large amounts of cash from you...feel guilty yet?...GREAT!

Just put the new Robots.exe and Rinstall.exe in your Bordello directory
and you're upgraded.
If you screw this simple upgrade up then go ahead and drown yourself in a
cup of water....you're THAT lucky!
Robots will check to make sure it's working with the correct version of

Bordello and will promptly beep at you and make you feel generally stupid
if you try to run it on a older version of Bordello...

FUTURE IDEAS:  Hey...send them in and I'll think about putting them into
the next one.  Maybe some kind of message base interaction during covert
actions?