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              ^H^W^k^What's New - Kingdoms v2.21^L^C

                KINGDOMS 2.21 RELEASED 30th June, 1997.

  Following are the changes incorporated in Kingdoms version 2.21, the
    previous public release being Kingdoms 2.20. Sysops - Please see
 readme.!!! for installation information for this release. Whatsnew.221
  in the distribution archive contains a straight text listing of all
                                changes.

^H^WChanges affecting Players
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^L^C*^W The option for a player to change the format of his/her name is now
  available on the Misc menu. Note the name itself cannot be changed,
  but color codes and case can be modified if desired now. The reason
  names cannot change is that all recons throughout the realm would
  suddenly not find the person who changed their name and any agents
  owned by the player would be lost immediately.

^L^C*^W All game documentation has been fully updated, including the indexed
  online docs for players. If he/she has not already, please ask your
  Sysop to make the full game documentation available on his/her BBS. As
  well as being online, Kingdoms documentation is now distributed it
  plain text format and fully formated in MS-Word v7.

^L^C-^W More wonderful ANSI's have been added to the game, thanks once again
  to Black Wolf's marvellous efforts!

^L^C-^W A major addition to the game for Local player interest, Kingdoms now
  offers a fully fledged Tavern! Amongst other things, this much
  requested facility for local player trading (trading both items and
  gold) is now available in Private Rooms in the Tavern itself.
  Following is the 'Overview' text from the Kingdoms v2.21 Player
  Documentation, which has been fully updated to discuss and explain the
  options available to you in the Tavern.

              Tavern Overview & Excerpt from Kplayer.Doc.

   What player doesn't need a fortifying mead, or perhaps something
   stronger, from time to time? The Tavern is the place to go to get the
   taste of blood and dust from you in Kingdoms! While much of Kingdoms
   is devoted to InterBBS activity, the Tavern is a place with purely
   'local' facilities. Within the Traveller's Rest, you'll find a number
   of interesting things to do and people to meet. You can drink
   yourself into oblivion (Author tip : fighting Monsters if you're
   drunk is not generally a good idea!) or sip quietly on a glass of
   water if you wish. You can take a Private Room where you can meet
   with and trade items (including gold) with other players in the game.
   If you'd prefer, you can stay overnight here too rather than in your
   castle, though staying overnight has both advantages and
   disadvantages you'll want to consider depending on your
   circumstances. Of course, you can also sign the visitors book or read
   the writings of others who have been here over time. A number of
   others (residents of the town, not necessarily other players) use the
   Tavern, of course, and meeting them usually provides an interesting
   interlude. Some are friendly and can, if the mood takes them, offer
   some very valuable items and/or advice to the Player who happens to
   meet them. On the other hand, some are not so friendly and will
   probably try to kill you if you bother them without invitation. Some
   you won't know about until you try certain actions with them. Without
   giving too much away then, if you want a break from the rigours of
   ling and maiming your opponents or sundry monsters, you may find the
   Rest a most entertaining distraction!


^L^C-^W When at levels 1 & 2, the player is protected against attack
  (both on your local realm and from InterBBS attacks) by the Realm
  Authorities to give the new player a chance to start before being
  inundated by attacks. As of version 2.21, you can only stay on these
  levels for a total of one (real time) month maximum. If you are on
  level 1, a month has passed, and you still haven't gone to level 2,
  then the game will automatically promote you to level 2, regardless of
  your statistics. You'll be given just enough experience to make that
  level. Likewise, if you have been playing for 2 months and you are
  still not past level 2, the game will promote you automatically to
  level 3. No automatic promotions take place on players out of Realm
  Protection, ie, equal to or greater than level 3. The number of days
  you've been playing the game is displayed now on the your personal
  statistics screen so these low level players can track when the game
  will promote them if theyÆre interested. A 'month' in this respect
  actually equals 30 days, not one calander month.


^L^C-^W Depending on the amount of alcohol you have consumed recently, youÆll
  be anything from completely sober to completely smashed. Your state of
  enebriation is displayed for you on your personal statistics screen.

^H^WChanges affecting Sysops
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^L^C-^W In certain circumstances, Self Correction processing in Knetin would
  cause the mail type on outbound nodes to be modified from 'Direct' to
  'Hold'. Fixed.

^L^C-^W 'Local' is now set on .msg attributes in addition to 'killsent' and
  'fileattach'. 'Crash' and 'Hold' are still optional through the
  Manager, of course. Apparently the lack of this flag on outbound file
  attach messages was causing problems for some mailers.

^L^C-^W NetId's are no longer case sensitive. This is to eliminate problems
  where inbound files would be rejected as 'not for this league' because
  the Sysop had defined their league in uppercase when the coordinator
  has specified lower, or vici-versa.

^L^C-^W Until this release, you could only move through scrollable lists in
  the Manager using the up and down arrow keys. Scrollable lists now
  respond also to the page up, page down, home and end keys. This makes
  navigating through such lists for large networks much easier.

^L^C-^W All Sysop and Realm names in the index file lists in the Manager now
  have color codes stripped when displaying. If a color code (eg, ^W =
  white) was the first character in a Sysop or Realm name, the sort
  sequence would place the name at the end of the list making it hard to
  find on occasion.

^L^C-^W The intent of providing the /O override option in Maintenance was to
  allow the Sysop to generate recon & network timing requests,
  scoreboards, etc on the fly if desired. Unfortunately, some Sysops
  were mistreating the facility to run it frequently and give their
  players almost unlimited time, fights etc per day, as an override
  Maintenance run would also process these options. Using /O from this
  point on will still do the global functions such as the timing
  requests, but NO player statistics will be rolled over when this
  happens. Player stats are only updated on a normal maintenance run
  (daily), without the /O and on no other occasion.

^H^WChanges affecting Coordinators
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^L^C-^W A coordinator node should never have self correction set, as he/she is
  logically the central point in the network. If someone had done it
  accidentally however, then self correction data arriving from a downlink
  would cause the default outbound on the Coordinator realm to be set to a
  routed node. Any inbound and outbound processing would terminate until
  the problem was fixed as it could find 'No Default Outbound Defined'. If
  self correction data arrives for some reason at a Coordinator node now,
  the inbound processors will ignore it completely rather than attempt to
  (incorrectly) process it.

^L^C-^W As per the 'Sysop Updates' section, the Page Up, Page Down, Home and
  End keys are all fully functional in scrollable lists in the Manager.

^H^W           *** ^L^CEnd of Updates - Kingdoms 2.21 What's New^H^W ***^L^W