July 25, 1995 ============= Reduced the default number of sectors from 2000 to 125. The clock was off on my computer during a previous compile causing the DOS filename to be Sept. 10. Please erase those file before extracting the new .TPG and .TXT files. Fixed a ton of spelling errors. Left a few in on purpose just to see who notices. Send me e-mail if you want to know if the one you find is one left in on purpose of not. July 15, 1995 ============= Anyone with PRIV 254 or 255 can call the editor from within StarQuest so that you only need one menu entry. This is a one-way call and you can't return to SQ. Put the bottom boarder on the main screen. It always bothered me that it wasn't there. The changes make the screen redraws quicker as well. Fixed a few places where the code was slow. July 14, 1995 ============= When changing alias, the boarder was being over written. July 10, 1995 ============= Users were always moved to Sector 1 when reentering SQ. July 09, 1995 ============= Credits won/lost weren't undated if caller dropped carrier in the Casino. Should be some interesting howls from those who had discovered they could hang up and avoid losing credits. Added Black Jack to the Casino. Craps permitted player to win the entire pot even if they only bet one credit. Now they can only win the amount of their bet. Expect more howls from your high scorers! Users are only permitted to play each game once per visit to a Star Base. They can warp away and wary back but just repeated landings or repeated playing won't work. Frequently, Kyperthian Crystals would "hang" and not pick a new crystal thus allowing a caller to continue to win (or lose) by simply placing the same bet until the 80 crystals were dealt. Reduced the odds of winning the big jackpot in Lotto. Most people will win 100 or 200 credits. If my probability math isn't too rusty, on average, players would win 7,600 credits for each bet of only 100 credits. In most lotteries, the odds would be that the average bet would will less than the amount bet. Even with the new logic the payoff is negative for the casino. (Players will, on average, recover their 100 credit bet plus over 20 credits.) All of the changes to the Casino are designed to make it harder to win credits than to earn them by playing the game. Still should be enough there to make it interesting but; hopefully, the changes will stop some of the rift-raft from always hanging out in the Casino. While it initially might seem nice to let players run up vast sums, it tends to make players hang out at the Starbases. If a novice trys the game, they don't stand a chance against player who have vast fortune in Casino winnings. I'd like feedback from you and your users on this. TDBS v1.0 and v1.1 are no longer supported. You must have v1.2 or higher. Non-ANSI callers are no longer supported. They really haven't been for some time in significant portions of the game, this just makes it official.