Changes to Yankees & Red Necks Since Last Version ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ These changes have only been released to the authorized BETA Testers. If you have not filled out an application sent it to me and gotten approval to BETA test and you're reading this. Then you are WRONG! 1. All the Intro files now display perfectly on the remote side even at 2400 baud!! 2. Lock up when out of time - fixed. 3. Added file sharing to data files and display files. 4. Fixed "DisplayText" so that it's not so slow, now it displays faster than the menus!!! 5. Fixed "Get Max Loan"... It wasn't giving the money out at all, it would just exit. 6. Fixed problem with trailing spaces in config file when checking for registration number. 7. Editor now works like it should instead of reporting all the players as dead. 8. Maintenance and Editor now re-number the messages properly. 9. Added a True/False paramater to the DisplayAnsi and DisplayAscii procedures so that a file of anysize can be displayed without the SlamKey. 10. Added TextBuffers working off the Heap to speed up the reading of display files. 11. Added the "/NOEMS" switch. This must be the first switch in the command line and MUST be in all caps. 12. Added one more level of play - now has Adult,Pg and G... The paramater "/PG18" will only disable the Underground and not the booze/drugs. 13. Game now reverts to registered version ONLY if being played locally. 14. Added the space bar key to some of the menus and attack menus. 15. Added ive Armor Away, and Gve Shield Away, in registered only version. Players can now Give away their armor and shield to another player. 16. Added ive away Weapon, in the registered only version. Players can now give away their weapon to another player. 17. Added hat is a Red Neck, to the Main Menu. 18. Added ed Neck Questionnaire, to the main menu. 19. Added iller Scores, and urrent Rulers, and the availability to view them with current game info. 20. Added Sheld Swap, to the Sewerlid Menu. 21. Added the player option of leaving the attacked and dead player, a note or message. 22. Added the player-NPC attack option of attacking Street People in different section of town. Also added an attack level attitude for increased action. 23. Added a Bnny Club, in the, heck out the UnderGround, for the female players. Of course this was at their request. 24. Added ransfer to Another Bank Account, from the ank, menu. A Player can now give another player cash. 25. Added ive away healings, in the octors office menu. Players can now give other players healings. 26. Added tats for NPC, to the laughter Street People procedure. 27. When a player is slaughtered by another player the note to another player and the News will report the Cash that was lost by the dead player. 28. Players can now try to "Jew" their weapon, armor or shield when selling them. This will bring just about a different value each time. 29. Added a split screen chat for Sysop-Caller chats. 30. Added multi-node chat. 31. Added our famous "cool prompt" to the "slam a key" prompt. 32. The Lottery will now show the winning numbers in Light-Magenta and the losing numbers in Dark Gray. 33. Added the CONVNEWS.EXE to convert the news file into .ANS/ASC files. 34. Shortened the attack prompts so that they are not so tall and don't take up a complete screen. 35. Added the BRAWL option to the NPC attack screen to save a bit on your fingers and keyboards. 36. Added interest to the Loan Dept.. Now all loans will be charged interest! This was a requested addition. 37. Added a "Yard Sale" and a "Lost Brief Case" to the REGISTERED versions ONLY. 38. Caller must now enter Y&R in ANSI, RIP or AVATAR modes. ASCII not supported anymore. 39. Fixed the "Start a Fight" so that now it doesn't take all your money from your pocket _and_ your bank account. This was requested. 40. Almost all of the ANS, and soon to be RIP screens are now in one file called SCREENS.BBS. They can not be edited either. Sorry.... 41. The cost of playing the lottery will no longer be constant and will increase each level. 42. Added a "Thug of the Day" award, which will award the highest experienced player on his/her first logon in the game per day. 43. Added a pause to the "Yankee Express" so that it will pause. 44. Added the ability to "Post a Note" to everyone in the game. 45. Fixed the Main Menu Scores option so that it updates when the option is selected. 46. Fixed the Main Menu Kills option so that it updates when the option is selected. 47. Added the "Sneak Attack" in the NPC Attack menu. Toughened the game up a bit! 48. Added the ENTER and SPACE BAR keys to the attack menus. 49. Added "time left" to the callers's prompt. Only works when calling remotely. It will also BLINK when the caller has 5 or less minutes. When time expires the caller will be booted out of the game. 50. Added the "Game Stats" when a player calls for the first in the game. -=-=-5-26-95-=-=- 51. Fixed the multi-node problem with the same name appearing more than once when a caller selects the "!" command to check who's on. 52. Fixed the problem with the Sewerlid "H" command for Hit Points. It was at times giving 0 hit points. -=-=-5-27-95-=-=- 53. Fixed the buy healings bug. It wouldn't always let you buy as mas as you wanted. Also fixed the same bug in the "Yard Sale" since these two are almost identical. 54. Corrected the loan dept screen when told that you can't get a loan. The screen was scrolling right past the caller and they couldn't read it. 55. Fixed the Stats screen for the NPC's. The Hit Points were showing up backwards. 56. Fixed the caller - caller attack part where it asks who you want to attack. It was not letting you attack below your own level. 57. Added a player status type of update that will let the other nodes know when a player goes into chat, exits chat, logs off and logs on the game. 58. Added and extended Status description using the ALT-E or "+" commands. This will be available at just about every prompt. 59. Added the "You're on Node ?" to the logon copywrite screen and to the new player stats screen. Where "?" is the actual node number. -=-=-5-28-95-=-=- 60. Added the "Do you want to go to the Campground?" option upon logoff. 61. Fixed the Scores.ans header so that it would display properly both remotely and locally. 62. Changed the "Hall of Fame" header and added the total NPC and Caller kills. -=-=-5-29-95-=-=- 63. Added a 3 minute time out. If a player is in the door and does NOT touch a key for 3 minutes, they will be booted out of the door. 64. Changed the "Get a Drink" and "Buy a Drink" in the Sports Lounge so that new players won't get 0 experience after the drink. -=-=-5-29-95-=-=- 65. Added the "Tax Time" to the logon sequence. This will help control players from getting too much money and having nothing to do with it. 66. Put a cap on the total amount of cash that a player can Invest. This is needed to help control those that want to Invest billions and billions.