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Barren Realms Elite InterPlanetary - Listing of Changes and Bug Fixes
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Version 0.955
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**NOTE: BRE will now assume Zone #1 on all BBS's unless otherwise specified
in the BRNODES.DAT file. Please *be sure* to include your zone # if it is
anything besides 1 in both the BBS.CFG and BRNODES.DAT files.
*Major Changes*
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InterPlanetary Trading Added
- This is a one-way, no-rejection trading system
Completely Rewrote BRNODES updating
- The New method will no longer create a list per BBS and will save
transfer time on routed nodelists
Internal Creation of Backup Files should aid in recovery from
"Status.Pak missing" Errors
Added Several New Reset Parameters
- Change Maintenance Costs
- Change Trade Deal Costs
- Change Region Costs
- Change IP Attack Costs
- Change Attack Rewards
- Change Attack Damage
- Change Terrorism Costs
New Option:
- BRE EDITOR will give you access to a configuration editor.
- BRE now allows changing of the game config while a game is in progress.
New Option:
- "BRE BBSINFO" will create a file listing all BBS's, Dates of their
last recon, and current version as of the last recon
BRE now checks return times between BBS'es allowing users to have
estimates in when they should recieve returns
*Minor Changes*
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Military Advisor also tells you Date-Sent for Attacks
Networth no longer affects loan limits
Added Trade Deal Overflow Checks
DupeChecking now kills "."'s as last names
- For systems which create: "NOBODY ." instead of "NOBODY"
Troopers went on a new, high-tech diet program
New Troop Technology decreased maintenance costs
Networths reduced by 75% to prevent overflows
Timeout Delay changed to 2 minutes (from 1 minute)
- Local Systems do not timeout
Minimum Chances of Terrorist Success & Failure Reduced
- Chances of "Lucky" hits are lower
Removed "Do you wish to write a message", etc Questions from main menu
Spy Database can now be viewed from the IP Menu
*Technical Changes*
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DBridge/DBridge152 settings in Plandata.BBS replaced with:
DBridge (equivalent to old DBridge152) - for newer DBridge systems
DBridgeOld - for DBridge v1.51 or below
New Command Line Option: /DETAILED added
- The Default Display of "PLANETARY" has been shrunk to not display the
hundreds of individual compressions, etc. If you still wish to see
this, you must use /DETAILED
PLANDATA.BBS file renamed to BBS.CFG
IPDATA.CFG file renamed to ROUTE.CFG
"NORMAL" command added to ROUTE.CFG
Placement when using "*" commands in ROUTE.CFG is no longer important
- "*" commands will always take lowest precedence
Pirate Name Editor removed
- Now in RESOURCE.DAT and works in both registered and unregistered versions
SpecialEffects Option removed from the game
- As more BBSes go high-speed, this option has become less used
OLDESTRECON & RECONUPDATE options from ROUTE.CFG have been moved to
Resource.Dat
*BugFixes*
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"Outbound Data Tampered With..." Error Fixed
- This bug was a primary cause of lost data
Extended Status Bar Problem Fixed
Networth Bug Fixed
Unlimited Agents Bug Fixed
Unlimited Carriers Bug Fixed
Possible New User Bug Fixed
Corrected "Missing Route Info" problems in route checking
Fixed Out Of Range Runtime Error at Select Planet prompt
Fixed Display Problems with Local Trade Deals
Negative Investment Returns Fixed
Fixed Possible cause of "STATUS.PAK" errors on Multinode BBSes
Hitting F5 to toss user out of game now updates game files properly
Corrected BBS Listings with leagues w/ 50+ BBS's
Corrected Economic Advisor Run-Time Error
Fixed IP-Diplomacy - BBS's 100+ can now be changed
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Version 0.953
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BRNodes Problem *really* fixed
Lost IP Messages Fixed
Lost IP Attacks Fixed
"Smart" Message Read Prompt problem fixed
Notification System to prevent using back versions to cheat
Fixed No-Tax System
Fixed All Occurances of Incorrect Net Mail Messages
Increased Overall Speed of BRE
- This may have also fixed Multitasking slowness
Version 0.952
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Fixes COM Routine Problems & Fossil Problems
(v0.951 does not work at all remotely)
Version 0.951
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Fixed Unlimited Money in trade
BRSCORES.EXE Upgraded
CRASH / HOLD really accept "*" now
BRE "Gooieremove" commandline parameter fixed
Fixed NetWorth Problems involving Trade Deals
Negative Credits in Terrorism Fixed
Terrorist Op Run-Time Error / Lockup Fixed
Special Op Run-Time Error Fixed
Corrected BRNODES Processing Error
Corrected Fossil Lockups (Hopefully)
- Additionally, Fossil Driver use has been disabled by default to
prevent future problems. If you wish to use the fossil driver,
you may switch it on in RESOURCE.DAT
Fixed possible future Negative Coins Problems
Removed 2 billion overflow problems at Income Stage
Various BRMail problems fixed
Free Trade Agreement has changed [see help / docs]
Trade Deal Tampered With message fixed
Version 0.950: The Revolution
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*Major Changes*
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Reset required
Fossil Driver Support
- Defaults to use Fossil Driver [If it exists]
- Use Resource.Dat to turn it off
Total IP Data Transfer should be reduced significantly
Support for up to 255 BBSes in a League (instead of the previous 50)
Routing Information is now automatically transmitted to the Coordinator BBS
New Option"BRE ROUTEINFO" for Coordinator BBS
- Creates a file containing a list of All file Routes
- Creates a seperate file containing a list of all bad routes
- Circular Routes
- Routes to unknown BBSes
All Individual Packet Headers compressed - Save lots of transmission time
Gooie Kablooies now Edit-Protected on both Sending and Recieving Ends
Trading Market can now be bombed
New Reset Options for InterPlanetary Games
- Maximum Individual Attacks Per Day
- Maximum Group Attacks Per Day
- Maximum Terrorist Operations Per Day
- Maximum Bombing Operations Per Day
IP Terrorist Results are now processed locally
- This will shrink Terrorist Result Packets by about 95%
IP Spy Reports added to permanent viewable database of Spy Information
Bombing Option Added - Bomb Trade Routes
Completely new treaty choices
- 3 Types of Trade Agreements
- Tariff Trade - Brings in Cash
- Protected Trade - Protects Trade Routes from Bombings
- Free Trade - Brings in more money but conditions in each empire
affect the other (Morale / Support)
- 2 Types of Covert Agreements
- Terrorist Prevention - Defensive Aid
- Intelligence - Offensive Aid
- 2 Types of Military Agreements [Local Only]
- Protective Alliance - Gives small amounts of military aid
- Full Alliance - Gives 2x as much as Protective
When Inbound Data Errors are detected, problem is reported to BREPROB.LOG of
current BBS, the BBS the packet is originally from, and the BBS the packet
is finally destined to
SpyGuy Option Added to Special Ops
- Spies on a BBS for x days
- Reports all Group Attacks / Gooie Kablooie actions
Outbound Group Attack file now Edit-Protected
Investments no longer return unless a minimum number of turns have been
played by the investment return date
BRE will no longer allow processing of duplicate attack returns
"Lost" Attack forces are now returned
- If attacks do not return within x days, the attack is declared lost
and forces returned
- If the attack returns later, it is ignored and deleted
- # of days to wait is defined at reset by the coordinator
Region Prices now change instantly, rather than between turns
- This disallows mass buying while a player has few regions
New File Routines implemented
- Data File packing protection against data file tampering
Game Play sped up [Removed most disk access]
Bank Interest / Investment Rates configurable to suit individual leagues
"Last Join Game Date" added to allow for tournament type play
Sending IP Attack options are only available after playing at least one
turn in the current session of play
Continuation of Interrupted Turns added
Added League Coordinator Configuration - Maximum Players Per BBS
Trade Deals arrive at earliest the same day on the turn sent
- "Cash on Wheels" is no longer useful
"Soldier" Unit replaced with the "Trooper"
- Less Food Consumption
- Lower Maintenance Costs
HOLD and CRASH options in IPDATA.CFG now support "*" as ALL
Agent prices dropped severely
"Search" Option added to InterPlanetary Targetting
- Select Planet / Select Target
BRSCORES.EXE v4.0 replacement
- old version will no longer work with the new BRE
- Generates up to 11 different types of rankings
- Run BRSCORES.EXE CONFIG for more info
BRMail v2.0 included
- Allows file attachs
- Can be run automatically with command line parameters or manually
- Crash status removed from netmail
- No longer is BRE dependent
- See BRMAIL.DOC
*Minor Changes*
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Investment crashes less extreme
Investment booms added
LOG.TXT file renamed to BREPROB.LOG
BREPROB.LOG File only stores errors/problems in game
- Removed excess garbage
- Displays the Date/Time that the Info was written
Duplicate users are now written to a textfile at midnight so the sysop can
see where duplicate users are playing
More Male/Female Pronouns found and removed
Trade deals now require money to maintain
Time before returning Trade Deals now configurable by the player
BRE will only ask if you want to read messages if you have some
The Planet Name does not have to be the same as the BBS name
- By placing a different name in the Nodelist, your planet will go
under a different name
BBS is notified when the enemy BBS destroys their gooie
Pirate Attacks now show losses
Updated User Documentation to reflect new features since v0.800
Cash Overflow Protection in Trading Market
Coastal Regions produce a slightly higher income
Agricultural Region Food Production Increased
NetWorth now includes stuff in Trade Deals and on Attacks
XL-Starfire Missile is more stable
Maximum Regions Purchasible per Turn Default reduced to 500
Gooie Ops are no longer available in protection
Reset Format changed - Help included on each option
InterPlanetary Messages now support hidden color (what?)
Online Help has been colorized
Leader Events profits controlled and randomized
Military Maintenance costs slightly reduced
Region Maintenance costs slightly increased
Initial Empires now have 15 regions
Limited Tax Refund for Protection Players to 1,000,000 Coins
Pirates are a bit better defending
Pirates don't multiply captured stuff as much
Civil Wars occur immediately after Pay/Food section of the turn
Changed strengths of Local Nuke/Chem/Bio Weapens
NEWPLAY.TXT file added - displayed to all new players in the game
- Can be modified by sysops to add their own messages
Diplomacy and Attack Help Options added
Global Bank Bombing is a bit less devastating
Urban Regions improved
Random events (good and bad) added at end of turn
- Modifiable/addable in EVENTS.DAT
The Planetary Leader will help fund Gooie Kablooies more
Enter can be disabled as a way to exit the Spending menu from the System Menu
BRSCORES/News/Local Scores files default to be created in a BULLETIN subdir
Option added to RESOURCE.DAT to disable Daily Lottery
Pirate raids are limited in ## stolen
Messages to ALL BBS's now go to all BBS's, regardless of Recons
Color Schemes changed
Quick&Easy Terrorist Operations setup
- Allows multiple Terrorist ops together
- Reduces massive terrorist reports on both sides
Not paying your military enough may lead to civil wars
Civil Wars do not always take 50% of your empire - variable amounts
Trade Deals require carriers now
Trading Market money is collected daily instead of immediately
4 More Macros Added Per User
Initial Regions in Market is now also updated in Config Updates
- Removes / Adds Land to market as necessary
*Bug Fixes*
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"Quit Reading" in messages now works
Global Resets now transmit resets through routed BBSes properly
Coordinator option in resource.dat now works properly for single word names
Multiple daily maint. problem corrected
Food advisor isn't as stupid anymore :)
Dupe Checking with deleted BBSes corrected
XL-2 Starfire displays correct results
Corrected Lockups when running BRE PLANETARY/INBOUND/OUTBOUND with users
in the game
Corrected Macro Editing problems
Dead Empires no longer can reenter game with 0 regions
Fixed Local Ally Aid Display
Minimum Capture of 5 Regions per empire in IP Attacks makes possible
"destroying" an empire
Daily Maintenance Hangup problems corrected
Local Covert Ops should work properly now :)
Major Routing Bug with Reconning fixed
Version 0.910
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Fixed display of pirate captures
Fixed news files of Nukes
Maximum price of I-P attacks raised from 40 million to 80 million
Lost Investments fixed
Cheat with Joining Group Attacks corrected
DBridge 1.52 Support added - See PLANDATA.SAM
Hopefully corrected Gooie Kablooie re-creation
Display of "Game In Use" now occurs remotely also
Corrected VGA Bug w/ Local Users creating new empires
Sell Prices on Main Menu Fixed - Displayed 1/4 gave 1/3
Forces from before resets will not be Returned
Removed most occurances of male/female pronouns
New Option in Advisor Menu Added
Option to Quit Reading Messages Added
XL-1 StarFire has replaced the old V39 SkyRunner
IP Nukes/Chems/SF's cannot hit protected players
Local Alliance Effectiveness corrected
Corrected processing of truncated files
News events related to BBS Leader changed
Version 0.9051
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Run-Time Error during Config Updates corrected
Version 0.905
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Message Editor now accepts High-Ascii
File Name Changing occurs more often [reduces possibility of dupe-filenames]
Special Operations effects less extreme
Gooie Kablooie a bit easier to kill for larger BBS's
BRE Registration now accepts lowercase letters
Time for leaving in Group Attacks fixed
Pirate attacks occur a bit less often in big empires
Attacks show lost forces
Ally setting #50 now configurable
0% Tax Rates often helps Popular Support
Bank Option now works from Attack Menu
Attacks with 0 forces are no longer allowed
Some Message Colors fixed
Regions-Per-Turn made into a Coordinator/Reset Config Option
- Removed from Resource.Dat file
Maximum Creatable land limit is now 5000 instead of 1000
Low Tax Rate Extreme population growth reduced
Version 0.904
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Reset option works again
Terrorist Ops [IP] a little less deadly
Gooie to 0 region BBS Fixed
Max Bank Loan Payment fixed
[v0.9041] IP Messages Work OK Again
Version 0.903
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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
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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
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***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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Messages now display Date/Time Stamp
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 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.SAM
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