Changelog

EmberMUD Changelog

v0.9.47 [11/14/2002]
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Change: Re-wrote 'gain list' so that it now works anywhere (not 
        just at a trainer), is sorted alphabetically, and displays
        the level required in order to use a given skill.  Other
        'gain' commands still require a trainer, however.
        -Zak 11/10/2002

Bugfix: Fix for SF bug #560617 - Crashes in the 'skills' command.
        Just re-wrote the skills command to be better than before
        and in the process removed the crash bug.
        -Zak 11/10/2002

Bugfix: Zak seems to think he wanted the bug fix so that the gocial
        channel will show up in the channels list if you have 
        USE_GOCIAL defined. 
        -Dorzak 11/7/2002

Bugfix: Fixed SourceForge bug #543924 - Replies to 'messages'
        command output could go to the wrong person.
        -Zak 7/14/2002

Bugfix: Fixed crash when demoting someone that wasn't in a clan
        at all.  Also fixed the incorrect error message that was
        generated when promoting someone that wasn't in a clan.
        -Zak 7/14/2002

Bugfix: When you fled, it told you that you lost experience,
        but you weren't really doing so.  Fixed by adding
        a call to gain_exp in do_flee.  Thanks to Lancelight
        for identifying the problem.  I am not sure if this
        is the same fix he came up with or not.
        -Dorzak 6/17/2002

Bugfix: Fixed a problem with AUTO_HATE.  Problem was mobs
        who hated themselves would spam the room with the
        attack message.   First, made it so mobs shouldn't
        be able to hate themselves, but just in case mobs
        won't trigger the messages if they are hated 
        themselves.  I guess mob self-esteem was improved
        a bit today.
        -Dorzak 6/17/2002

Change: Ran the code through Zane's script for formatting
        the code since we have drifted a bit from it.
        -Dorzak 6/3/2002

New:    New integer stored in pfiles called qp, for quest 
        points.  Part of an ongoing effort to set up a 
        quest system.  Can be given and taken with the
        award command.
        -Dorzak 6/3/2002

New:    New NPC ACT flag - ACT_NO_STEAL - this makes mobs
        immune to steal, but gives messages like you would
        get if you failed.
        -Dorzak 6/3/2002

New:    New option in config.h to make shopkeeper immune to 
        theft.  Gives fail messages as though they are just
        really hard to steal from, not impossible.
        -Dorzak 6/3/2002

New:    Auction Info has been reworked.  Default is it gives level
        object type, weapon class if a weapon, name, and a list
        of extra descriptions.  But it can give up to a identify
        spell worth of stuff, or stat the item.  Contributed by
        Lancelight.  Committed by Dorzak.
        -Dorzak 5/27/2002


New:    This is in response to feature request 497264 - notes to
        clans.  Two new note to: options.  clan, clans, clanned goes
        to all people who are in a clan.   note to clan names works
        for clans with a single word name.  
        -Dorzak 5/27/2002

New:    New Clan Command - roster.  Allows clan members to 
        check who is members of the same clan they are, and to
        check clan balance, and the name of the clan recall room.
        Includes name of the clan leader, and the god who sponsored
        the clan.
        -Dorzak 5/27/2002

Bugfix: Cvs Bug #560622 - weird behavior with disarm.
        Fixed both weird behaviors.   First, added the grip check
        after the initial success check in do_disarm instead of
        the disarm function.  Second part was fixed by adding a
        check to make sure the WIELD slot was empty before moving
        the secondary to the primary slot.  This would have fixed
        both bugs, but had already fixed the first part when
        I found the second bug.  Will probably move the 
        stuff back to disarm (actually doing so before submitting)
        -Dorzak 5/25/2002

Bugfix: Fix for CVS Bug 560623 - Circle does 113 points of
        damage when it "misses".  This was because circle
        was a command that was imported from a different 
        codebase, and formatted the damage messages differently.
        -Dorzak 5/25/2002

Bugfix: Fix for Cvs Bug 543617 - Promote message/Demote crash 
        for unclanned players.  This is fixed.
        -Dorzak 5/25/2002        

Bugfix: Lancelight found this bug last night, here is his note
        on it:
        NOTE FOR MANDRAKE 8.1 USERS:

        Mandrake 8.1 has a bug in one of the init scripts for tcsh.
        When you try to run the mud with ./startup & you will get 
        the following error:

        "Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console"

        The fix for this can be found on the Mandrake updates
        page at:

        http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/soft/initscripts/mandrake/

        Once there, download the inputrc.csh file. Then su to 
        root, and stick that file in /etc/profile.d overwritting 
        the one thats there, or you can move the old one. Then 
        log out, and log back in to your shell account normally 
        and the console error should no longer show up.
        -Lancelight 4/28/2002 (entered by Dorzak)


Bugfix: With my last updated, MAX_CLASS was 7, but only 4 
        classes are in const.c, and this caused a crash bug.
        Fixed.
        -Dorzak 4/27/2002

Bugfix: Fixed a typo in fight.c where gsn_backstab was there
        instead of gsn_circle.
        -Dorzak 4/27/2002

Bugfix: Fixed a pesky compile error about unused variable cased
        by a previous fix by Zak for shell lock up bug.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Added option of bonuses remort/rebirth characters 
        in the max possible number of hp/mana/move gains, by 10%
        per incarnation.  What this does is mud pick random
        number between 1 and x for their gains.  This increases
        x by 10% for each incarnation.  Can be turned on or off
        in config.h
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

Bugfix: Fixed several incidents of missing ROOM_NOMAGIC so that
        the NOMAGIC rooms can not be summoned into or out of.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Immortal spellup function added to magic.c.  Must
        be wizgranted to be used.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Beefed up enchant_armor a bit.  Instead of applying
        -1 to ac each enchant, it applies -5, and the chance
        of failure was modified a bit.  This brings it into
        line with how it is being used on Tempestuous Realms.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Added new commands to interp.c/.h.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Added option (changeable in config.h) to restrict
        backstab to daggers only.  This is done on my mud,
        and was mentioned in the ember-admins mailing list.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Added circle functions to fight.c.  Circle is mostly
        in, and will be a skill.  Needs section in const.c and 
        interp.c/.h
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Added changes for fourth attack and circle to db.c.
        Changes for fourth attack should have been made when
        fourth attack was made, but was forgotten.
        -Dorzak 4/23/2002

New:    Changes in config.h are complete for the changes that are
        part of this batch.  (I think)
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Support for remort added to comm.c.  If you don't use remort
        this will never do anything.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Note to hero or variations thereof will work to send notes
        to heroes and above.   Not to admin or administrator and 
        variations thereof will send notes to MAX_LEVEL - 3 and 
        above.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    These entries are being made as I merge CVS and TR's code.
        bit.c entries for no_flee_to, arena, and admin_only rooms
        added.   Not added elsewhere.  no_flee_to, would prevent a 
        room from being fled into.  This is useful in clan halls
        or for area guardians.   arena is a flag only, but eventually
        will be chaos rooms (pk allowed rooms).  admin_only rooms
        are MAX_LEVEL - 3 and above only rooms.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Add incarnations to the stat display.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Clarified the autohelp fro string in regards to extended 
        descriptions for objects.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Removed ban.txt from the diff section of the makefile.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

Bugfix: Anything sold to a shopkeeper was disappearing if purchased
        again discouraging an economy.  Maybe they should disappear
        in the mobs inventory, and this should be reworked later.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Player vs. Player stealing was automatically failing.  It 
        now works, but can be turned off in config.h
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Beaconreset command.  If you should make beacon a mortal 
        command, this will allow them to reset it to the default
        which is ROOM_VNUM_TEMPLE.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Added rebirth as an option.  Uncomment USE_REBIRTH in 
        config.h, to use it.  This is one of two options for
        restarting after reaching hero.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

Bugfix: Misc changes to hide SUPERMOB a bit better when he shows
        up with room and object progs.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Added admintalk as an imm channel.  I use it for MAX_LEVEL-3 
        and above.  Implimented after a discussion among imms got to 
        a player involved because of clan loyalties/etc.  Includes
        a lastadmin function.  Must be given with wizgrant or pfile
        edit like any imm command.   Will not work unless 
        USE_ADMINTALK is defined in config.h
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Added herotalk channel for remorts and heroes for the same
        reason as admintalk.  USE_HEROTALK must be defined, and 
        lasthero is a function.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Added gocial channel, these are global socials.  USE_GOCIAL
        must be defined in config.h for them to work.  Also they
        are not saved to the last list because they can be spammy.
        Also typing gocial by itself will turn off you seeing most 
        gocials, except those directed at you specifically.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Added an exclusion for worktodo.txt and help.txt to the make 
        diff section of the makefile.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

New:    Added remort.o to the makefile.
        -Dorzak 4/21/2002

v0.9.46 [04/24/2002]
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New:    Added isequal() function for mudprogs.  It takes two arguments,
        the first of which is a $variable and the second a string to
        match.  An example use:  if ( isequal($d,lever) )   would return
        true if the argument to a command_prog was "lever".  Note that
        isequal() does a non-case-sensitive comparison (for instance,
        "LEveR" would also work in the above case).
        -Zak 4/17/2002

New:    Added argument handling abilities to command_progs.  Now, your
        prog can tell the difference between 'pull lever' and 'pull bs'.
        To access the arguments, use the new $d and $D variables in your
        prog (see progvars.txt for more information).
        -Zak 4/17/2002

Bugfix: The OBJ_VNUM_PORTAL object was missing from CVS, so the 'nexus' 
        spell was broken.  I just added it to midgaard.are.
        -Zak 4/15/2002

Bugfix: 'enter 2.portal' or 'enter 3.portal', etc would always enter the
        first portal in the room.  Fixed.
        -Zak 4/15/2002

Bugfix: If someone sent you a tell while they were invisible, you could
        find out who they were by looking at your 'tq'.  Fixed.
        -Zak 4/14/2002

Bugfix: The 'tq' command was supposed to show your gtell history as well
        as your regular tell history.  It WAS showing messages that you
        had sent to gtell yourself, but was not showing the messages from
        other group members.  Fixed.
        -Zak 4/14/2002

Bugfix: Clan operations that wrote to the clan log file were causing the
        MUD to crash on RedHat 7.2.  I fixed the crash, but still have
        not figured out why the call to fopen() is failing only on that
        one Linux distribution.  If the MUD cannot write to the clan log,
        it will output an error in its own log file and continue on with
        no crash.
        -Zak 4/14/2002

Bugfix: Racial skills weren't showing up in the output of 'skills'.
        -Zak 4/14/2002

New:    As unbelievable as it sounds, we had mudprog functions for
        mobvnum() and roomvnum(), but there was no objvnum() function.
        One of the most important things for a give_prog!
        -Zak 3/27/2002

New:    Added an mpsilentchangefaction mudprog command.  Works just like
        the regular mpchangefaction only the faction change message is
        not sent to the player.
        -Zak 3/27/2002

Bugfix: Oops, the mpchangefaction mudprog command was set as an immcmd
        which made it unavailable inside progs.  Fix submitted by Timos
        (thank you!).
        -Zak 3/26/2002

Change: The documentation for factions had a couple of inaccuracies.
        -Zak 3/25/2002

Bugfix: Not all faction affects on mobs were being saved.  Fix submitted
        by Dither (thanks!).
        -Zak 2/28/2002

Bugfix: Small memory leak I introduced unwittingly.   When a mob was
        killed for the first time since reboot, the mud would leave
        4 bytes of memory in use per mob.   Fixed.  
        -Dorzak 1/22/2002

Bugfix: If you used advance to lower a persons level to level 1, and they
        logged off and logged back on, their hp, mana, and move would be
        restored to the values prior to the advance to demote them. This
        is because do_advance in act_wiz.c was not updating perm_hit, 
        perm_mana, and perm_move.   Fixed.
        -Dorzak 1/9/2002

Bugfix: Fixed the bug in shell where exiting the shell could cause the
        MUD to crash under certain circumstances.
        -Zak 1/6/2002

Bugfix: Skills that are given to you by default for your race can now be
        practiced just like any other skill.
        -Zak 12/12/2001

Bugfix: A few bugs in the logic on spells for nomagic and norecall rooms.
        -Dorzak 12/12/2001

New:    MUSIC Channel - fully configurable in config.h.  Can be used for
        any type of channel, or turned off in config.h.
        -Dorzak 12/12/2001

New:    Drunk Speech/Drunk Walk.  If a character is drunk their speech
        and walking becomes random.   In config.h you can control which
        channels are affected.
        -Dorzak 12/12/2001

Change: AUTO_HATE is now a option in config.h.   With this turned on, mobs
        will automatically hate anybody who attacks them, and will attack
        that player if they come into the room.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

Bugfix: xp_compute is called on death now, if you have at least 1 xp in
        your xp_stack.  Alignment changes are no longer in hit_xp_compute.
        This is to deal with RAPID alignment changes that take place when
        we call alignment changes EVERYTIME you hit a mob.  
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

Change: WEAPON_VORPAL and WEAPON_SHARP really did nothing.   I have been
        using, and fixed a few bugs in, the VORPAL code that has been
        sitting in my old ember snippets files.  I think I got it from
        Clogar, and if I remember correctly it originally came from 
        Mudweiser, but I may be mistaken.   There was one crash bug I 
        found was there on a server running an Athlon 800, and was not
        there on the old p133 I used to work on.  Using send_to_char
        instead of writing directly to the descriptor seemed to solve it.
        I suspect it had something to do with the player repoping in the 
        morgue before the message was sent.  Or I could be bleary eyed
        and crazy since I have very little sleep of late.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

Bugfix: Players who had backstab in their class could attempt to backstab
        with a 1% chance even if they weren't high enough to use backstab.
        FIXED.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

Change: Slay has an all option.  Slays all in the room.  Only available
        to players of MAX_LEVEL.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

New:    Modified version of slay that doesn't require being in the room
        with your victim.  mortslay.  What can I say.  I have a co-imp
        with an evil mind.   She hasn't used it as far as I know, but
        she wanted.   She is also my wife, so what could I do?
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

Bugfix: A few additional places we were either setting blackjack on the
        attacker, or checking if the attacker was affected by blackjack. 
        I would say get rid of blackjack except I have players who like
        it.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

New:    To help track how fast people are leveling, levels are now
        logged.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

New:    do_hotboo.  Add this to the imm commands.  Added to prevent
        my kindergarten son from hotbooting my mud.
        -Dorzak 12/11/2001

New:    First time connections are announced differently, then announced
        normally (ie: "has entered the game for the first time").  Not
        yet configurable in config.h, however.
        -Dorzak 12/12/2001

Change: Got rid of the 'You learned nothing from that fight' message.  I
        originally put that in just to cover all the bases, but there
        really shouldn't be any case where an actual fight ends in that
        state.  This just caused too many problems, so I removed it.
        -Zane 12/5/2001

Bugfix: Non-imm commands could not be disabled via the 'disable' command.
        -Zane 12/5/2001

Bugfix: Several bugfixes related to the blackjack skill.  Sometimes, just
        blackjacking a mob could crash the MUD.  Also, it was checking
        the player's blackjack status instead of the target.  It allowed
        you to blackjack something you were already fighting (blackjack
        is hitting someone on the back of the head or behind the ear to
        knock them out - kind of hard to do if you're already fighting
        them).
        -Zane 12/5/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug in 'stat' for newaffect bits.
        -Zane 12/5/2001


v0.9.45 [12/02/2001]
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New:    Zak just committed the INSTALL file, and I made one correction
        to it to reflect how to change what port the mud is running on.
        -Dorzak 12/2/2001

Bugfix: Closed SourceForge bug #465415 - mpsilentcast not silent when
        casting spells that do damage.
        -Zak 12/1/2001

Bugfix: Closed SourceForge bug #478556 - social "target not found"
        messages weren't being used by the MUD.
        -Zak 12/1/2001

Bugfix: Closed SourceForge bug #485726 - 'note remove' not allowing the
        author of the note to remove it from the board.  Appears to have 
        been a simple logic error.
        -Zak 11/30/2001

Bugfix: Note to self, test compile before committing changes.
        Typoes in my last fix, fixed.
        -Dorzak 11/29/2001

Bugfix: Fixed Sourceforge bug #484425 - EXP_TUNER.  Fixed.   Moved 
        application of multiplier to before players are told how much
        exp they gained.
        -Dorzak 11/29/2001

Bugfix: Fixed SourceForge bug #487250 - add2queue() not adding to your
        'messages' queue while you were switched.
        -Zak 11/29/2001.

Bugfix: Fixed add2tell() not adding to your tell queue while you were 
        switched.
        -Zak 11/29/2001.

Bugfix: Fix for SourceForge bug #455143 - Switched mobs will no longer 
        be shown in the who list.  Additionally, when someone sends a 
        tell to a switched player, the tell will automatically be 
        re-routed to the person in his new body.  NOTE:  Any tells/replies
        from the switched character will appear to be from the mob, NOT
        from the imm!
        -Zak 11/29/2001

Bugfix: Anonymous users can no longer be whois'd (SourceForge bug
        #455145).  This goes for imp's too (use 'stat' instead).
        -Zak 11/29/2001

New:    Made the auction channel strings configurable in config.h.  These
        changes also fix SourceForge bug #478557 where colors weren't
        working in the auction channel.  I may have missed some strings...
        If so, just let me know.
        -Zak 11/28/2001

Change: You can now disable the 'auction info' command in config.h by
        #defining DISABLE_AUC_INFO.  This was added because the feature
        is basically a "free" identify spell.  I hope we can do a better
        fix for this issue later...
        -Zak 11/28/2001

Typo:   " ... feels indifferet to you."  Added the missing n.
        -Dorzak 11/27/2001

Bugfix: Fixed the crash bug from loosing link while switched.  When you
        loose link, the MUD will now automatically un-switch you.
        -Zak 11/20/2001

Bugfix: Faction affects on mobs were not saving (I swear that this used
        to work fine - not sure what happened to the code, but it was
        gone).
        -Zak 11/18/2001

Change: Link-dead players will no longer show up as "Currently
        playing" in whois.  They will now be shown as "Currently
        link-dead".
        -Zak 11/08/2001

Bugfix: Fixed SourceForge bug #478555 (switched mobs cannot see
        channels).  When you switch into a mob, you will retain
        full visibility of whatever channels you had active before
        you switched.
        -Zak 11/06/2001

Bugfix: Related to the previous fix, and to sourceforge bug #478554
        Additional fixes to use the short descript of the mob instead
        of name in channels, last, lastimm, yell messages when stole
        from.  In other words a general clean up of whenever we
        knew a mobs name instead of short descript was being 
        referenced.  Hopefully there isn't more such references, but
        there may be.
        -Zak 11/06/2001

Bugfix: Fixed SourceForge bug #478553 (mpecho and related commands
        not handling $n variables correctly).  Made the $variable
        handling by mudprogs more consistent and created some new
        documentation for them.  Check out progvars.txt in the
        doc directory.
        -Zak 11/06/2001

Bugfix: This should close out sourceforge bug #464221 - if you wield
        a two handed weapon, you could still second wield a one handed
        weapon fixed. 
        -Dorzak 11/06/2001

Bugfix: Imms with trans can no longer trans other characters who have
        a higher trust level than themselves.  
        -Zak 11/05/2001

Bugfix: Sourceforge bug #465443 - items in containers within containers
        disappear when characers quits and logs back in.  We do not
        allow containers to be put in containers currently.  Ideally,
        the pfiles could store a heirarchy of items, but don't currently
        seem capable of doing so.
        -Dorzak 11/05/2001

Bugfix: Crash bug - when a special weapon did more than 
        MAX_MORTAL_WEAPON_DAMAGE, when the special weapon message was
        called, we crashed.  Zak fixed this.
        -Dorzak 11/02/2001

Bugfix: Minor - a command was showing up twice in commands, because it
        was in interp.c twice.  Fixed.
        -Dorzak 10/29/2001

Bugfix: Crash bug fixed, and bug causing us to enter crash state fixed.
        Blackjack, was applying the affect to the ch, not victim.  Fixed.
        NewAfBy was being saved under AfBy, but read under NewAfBy.  
        Therefore if a player used blackjack, quit while affected by
        blackjack and logged back in, we crashed.  Fixed.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Bugfix: There were a few dividing by zero errors in shield block that
        would cause crashes.  Fixed.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

New:    NO_MAGIC rooms.  NO_MAGIC rooms do not allow spells to be cast 
        in them, or remote spells to affect chars in them.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Bugfix: We would crash when people try to refer to supermob when there
        are active oprog or rprogs.  First, you can't find supermob or
        his phone booth in goto, and other commands the call the 
        find_location function.  Also show_char_to_char is updated to
        prevent showing him with the look command.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Change: Law rooms no longer allow players to be summoned out of them.
        This was done because of a propensity for pk'ers to summon
        others to them.  This effectively makes midgaard safe from 
        being summoned out of in the stock areas.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

New:    ? addaffect in the olc editors will show you the list of 
        targets for addaffect command.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Bugfix: oshow in the editors would crash. It is intended to take 
        numerical arguements ONLY.  If a builder used  a name, 
        crash!
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

New:    Two new spells.  They are in magic.c, but not askilled or
        in const.c yet.  Remove align (removes ANTI_ALIGN flags)
        and knock (opens locked doors).
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Change: act_trigger for progs work.  It has been slightly redone
        and now works almost identical to the speech_trigger. 
        (It shouls since I used the speech function with a few
        changes :> )
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Bugfix: When we made changes to allow olc to take advantage of the
        previous infrastructure that allowed loading objects and
        from any area, no check to make sure objects/mobs existed
        was put in.  This is my fault. olc.c now checks to ensure
        it is a valid reset before creating it.  Thanks to Rajic
        for bringing this crash bug to our attention.  Thanks to
        Zak for helping track it down.  Zak also wrote a function
        in olc_save.c that allows for the reset to be saved with
        a flag, so that if a bad reset should manage to creep in
        it won't crash us and truncate the area file.
        -Dorzak 10/28/2001

Bugfix: Don't remember why I did this, but did it to fix a crash on my
        mud.  So putting into cvs.  I think it had to to if you were
        switched and tried to deposit money, or do balance.  Anyways
        bank.c has an additional check to make sure you aren't an
        npc when trying to do bank commands.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Bugfix: Hid supermob and supermobs room in act_wiz.c in goto.  If there
        are room/obj progs in the game, and you attempt to goto supermob
        we would crash.  Goto will NOT find supermob.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Change: Added Points: to do_mstat, only for PC's, it will show you
        how many cp the player has currently.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Bugfix: Players stealing from pk players were flagged as thieves.  
        You can now still pk <-> pk.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Bugfix: Pills are small, but you couldn't swallow them if full.  Fixed.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Bugfix: We were listing prices at the healer in silver which we don't use,
        and also charging in GOLD for the amount listed in silver.  
        Silver changed to gold, and divided by 10, cost changed to
        reflect this.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Change: Took the reference to ballpark out of the con messages.  This
        is the first in a SERIES of changes, now that I have cvs working.
        -Dorzak 10/27/2001

Bugfix: Crash bug in command trigger and oprogs.  Looks like what
        happened is the section for checking triggers was copied from
        mobs and a reference to vmob needed to be changed to obj.
        As a side note, I have been mostly working on building and
        features on my MUD, which I will bring in with config.h options
        to turn them off, once 0.9.45 is released.
        -Dorzak 10/7/2001

Bugfix: Crash bug when doing channels as a switched character is fixed.
        Zak sent me the fix in an e-mail right after I submitted the bug.
        -Dorzak 9/23/2001

Bugfix: Bugfix for the classes being set in the GUI as it is titled
        on the sourceforge bugtraq.  We no longer reference any files
        that get hardcoded into the executable.   Rather, they are all
        referenced in ember.cfg files/dir that were moved are:
            CLASS_DIR
            HELP_FILE (renamed to help_log_file to avoid conflicts)
            BAN_FILE
            DISABLED_FILE 
        If anybody sees any I missed, let me know.
        -Dorzak 9/22/2001

Bugfix: Realized my changes of a few minutes ago could have introduced
        a crash bug.  Made it so that it is the abs value has 1 added
        to it before being divided by MAX_LEVEL.
        -Dorzak 9/21/2001

New:    This was something I did to deal with a idiot on my MUD.  I 
        turned off CAN_GAIN_REVERT, and also made it possible to turn
        off CAN_GAIN_CONVERT as well.
        -Dorzak 9/21/2001

Bugfix: Pet Flee no_exp lost lost bug.  Not 100% fixed, but it is now
        harder for pets to rescue.   Also there is a RESCUE_PENALTY 
        value in config.h  This is used in the following formula:

        ( abs ( ch->level - RESCUE PENALTY ) / MAX_LEVEL ) * 100 )

        which is compared to a number generated by number_percent.
        abs is used to generate the absolute value.  This required
        adding another header to be included in fight.c "stdlib.h".
        I did not want to make rescued players loose experience in
        all cases because this would discourage grouping tactics.
        -Dorzak 9/21/2001

Bugfix: Healing mob while killing is FIXED.   I never did get the rules
        in TAR_CHAR_DEFENSIVE, so I borrowed a few lines, and modified
        them from the spell_cancelation, and added them to cure light,
        cure serious, cure critical, and heal spells.  Anybody know of
        any other TAR_CHAR_DEFENSIVE spells that could be cast to cause
        the mob to take more damage points in a battle?  
        -Dorzak 9/21/2001

Bugfix: There is a crash bug when certain useless wands are attempted to 
        be sold.  An example is the Willow Branch from Mahn-Tor.   This
        is fixed.   This is my first changelog entry in a while.  
        -Dorzak 9/19/2001

Bugfix: [Hit Return to Continue] was overwriting lines in help files 
        under certain circumstances.  Added \n\r at the beginning
        of the string, so that Hit Return to Continue will be on a 
        seperate line.
        -Dorzak 9/8/2001

Bugfix: Zak's Avatar in limbo.are was 0d0+0 hp, and if attacked would
        crash the mud.  It now had 1d1+1 hp. :).   Btw, going forward 
        if some builder creates a 0d0+0 mob, and attacks it, the MUD
        will crash.  At least there isn't any that will do that in 
        the stock.
        -Dorzak 9/8/2001

Fix:    Missed a few tell related commands with MIN_POS_ stuff for 
        communications.  Added MIN_POS_TELL to tq and reply.
	-Dorzak 9/8/2001

Change: Okay, I got tired of shopkeepers only buying 1 of an item, and 
        the magic shop not buying any scrolls.  This fix is a temporary
        one until I can get it to count the number of an item that the
        shopkeeper has and factor that in.  Anyways there is a new
        variable in config.h MORE_BUY_MULTIPLIER this is the number
        the cost is multiplied by if the shopkeeper is buying more of
        an item he/she already has.   Set it to zero if you only want
        them buying one of an item.
        -Dorzak 9/2/2001

Typo:   I made a stupid typo in last nights changes.  Fixed. had a (
        instead of a { and LOGN_NORMAL instead of LOG_NORMAL.   
        -Dorzak 8/27/2001

New:    Recently had a player come on and make a 0 cp character and 
        level like there was no tomorrow.  Not wanting to penalize all
        players, I wrote a check into the exp calculations, that before
        it calculates exp, it sets the points + a certain amount if they
        are below a certain point.  These levels are defined in config.h
        as CP_MIN_PENALTY (what point they start getting penalized), and 
        CP_PENALTY (how many points get tacked on for exp calculations).
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

New:    Players can spend trains with the gain command to lower their CP
        the level was defined as 40 for the lowest they can go.  I wanted
        the number somewhat lower, so I added #defin in config.h for this
        pupose.
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

New:    Beacon is in act_move.c, and not in act_wiz.c, and I remember
        using it as a mort on a EmberMUD somewhere.   I have it as 
        a mortal command on my MUD, but I didn't want to force my views
        on others, so it is now controlled from config.h, whether it is a
        mortal command or imm command with the #define BEACON_WIZ, 0 is 
        a mortal command, 1 is a imm command.  Default in CVS is 1, to
        coincide with its previous status.
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

Change: Added a few spells to the const.c group tables.  create spring
        was missing for example.
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

Bugfix: Forgot to add the damage types for special weapons to bit.c not
        sure if we need them there or not, but they are there.
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

Bugfix: The last line of the who display was showing on the same line as
        the prompt in some circumstances.  Fixed.
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

Bugfix: Minor fix for the MIN_POS_TELL stuff.  
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

New:    For clan members, a command cdeposit.  This is a deposit only
        function that allows clan members to deposit into their clan
        fund.  Withdrawals can be made by imms with access to the clan
        command.  Something I noticed that is not documented in the clan
        stuff is withdrawals do not put the gold into the imms inventory,
        just removes it from the clan data.
        -Dorzak 8/26/2001

Typo:   When I went about trying to fix the core copying functionality I
        made a few typos.  I think I got them now.
        -Dorzak 8/25/2001

Change: Fleeing now displays only the xp loss/gain in one line rather than
        both seperately.
        -Zane 8/21/2001

Bugfix: The 'whois' command now properly hides private and secret clans
        according to the rules in clan.c.
        -Zane 8/21/2001

Change: When a player's primary weapon is disarmed, they will automatically
        switch their secondary weapon into their primary hand (primarily
        because primary attacks happen a lot more often than secondary).
        -Zane 8/21/2001

Bugfix: Fixed the damage message for flaming, frost, and vampiric weapons
        the messages are cheesy, but work.
        -Dorzak 8/20/2001

Bugfix: You spell clan as in mprog_clan with a n, not ss as in 
        mprog_class, or at least I do.   Took me a bit to figure out
        why the new clanguard mprog was attacking some clan members
        and not others.  Found it. Fixed it.
        -Dorzak 8/20/2001

Bugfix: Fixed disarm so that secondary weapons are checked for both
        characters.  If you try and disarm something while only wielding
        a secondary weapon, it will now check your weapon skill instead
        of hand-to-hand.  If the target of your disarm is wielding two
        weapons, there's a 50/50 chance deciding whether to try for
        primary or secondary.  If the target is only wielding a weapon in
        the offhand, then that weapon will be targeted.
        -Zane 8/20/2001

Bugfix: Fixed several bugs in CHAOS mode.  First, the code was still doing
        PK checks during CHAOS in several places.  XP was still being 
        awarded during CHAOS.  Attacking someone during CHAOS was marking
        you PK.  The MUD auto-saves players under certain circumstances,
        but that should no longer happen during CHAOS.  Cancellation of
        CHAOS mode now forces everyone on the MUD to 'quit' (this ensures
        that their pre-CHAOS pfile is reloaded when they reconnect).
        -Zak 8/18/2001

Bugfix: When I added the MIN_POS stuff, I missed a few places.  Changed
        act to act_new and gave it an arguement for the MIN_POS_TELL for
        the message that is given to the player sending the message.
        -Dorzak 8/18/2001

Bugfix: RoM is designed to run the binary from the area directory. 
        However, some time back that was changed with ember.  Although
        the startup script still pointed to the area directory to rotate
        the core files.  Fixed.  It now points to ./ the same directory 
        that startup is run in.
        -Dorzak 8/17/2001 

Change: Changed all of the mob progs in Mudprogs.prg that use the mpkill
        command to check to see if the mob is fighting before attempting
        to attack.
        -Zane 8/16/2001

Bugfix: There were several calls to mpact in our Mudprogs.prg, but there
        is no such MUDProg command!  Those calls have been changed to use
        emote instead.
        -Zane 8/16/2001

New:    Added Dorzak's new mprog_clan() proc.  In a mudprog, the 
        clan(target) command returns the number of that target's clan.
        -Zane 8/16/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in MUDProg evaluations - || and && were being
        evaluated with the same priority as <, >, ==, etc.  For example:

          0&&0<300

        was being evaluated as (0&&0)<300 instead of 0&&(0<300).
        -Zane 8/16/2001

Bugfix: Fixed an error in mprog_procs.c - fightinroom was calling 
        mprog_level() instead of mprog_fightinroom().
        -Zane 8/16/2001

Change: Reformatted all of the EmberMUD code to be consistently spaced,
        indented, etc.  Please try to follow our conventions in the
        future.
        -Zane 8/15/2001

Change: The 'force' command now requires you to specify whether you want
        to force a player or a mob (so that there is no confusion).  The
        new syntax is:

          force mob/char <name> <command>
            OR
          force all/players/gods <command>

        Also updated help.are with the new syntax.

        -Zane 8/14/2001

New:    Added get_mob_room(), get_player_room(), and get_mob_world()
        functions.
        -Zane 8/14/2001

Change: get_player_world() now calls get_player_room() first.
        -Zane 8/14/2001

New:    Two new imm commands - olevel and mlevel.  The take an arguement 
        a number for the level, and optionally a name.  For example 
        olevel 10  would give you a list of all objects loaded in the game
        of level 10.  olevel 10 sword - only objects of level 10 with the
        word sword in their name.  Same for mlevel, but for mobs.
        -Dorzak 8/14/2001

Bugfix: When I "fixed" haggle, I forgot to make it check to see if they
        had learned it yet.  It was telling everybody they failed to
        haggle.   Fixed, it now only tells you about failure if you know
        the skill > 0.
        -Dorzak 8/13/2001

Bugfix: roll_stat() will no longer return negative or zero values.
        -Zane 8/13/2001

Bugfix: Fixed the damage bug check in new_damage() - it now works just
        like in damage()
        -Zane 8/13/2001

Change: Removed second_one_hit() and added a weapon parameter to one_hit().
        -Zane 8/13/2001

Change: Dual-wielding mobs can actually attack with both weapons now.
        -Zane 8/13/2001

Bugfix: Several fixes to the counter skill.
        -Zane 8/13/2001

New:    Added MAX_COUNTER_PERCENTAGE to config.h.  This is the maximum
        percentage of attacks a player with 100% counter skill can counter.
        For instance, with the default value of 20%, a master at the 
        counter skill (with 100%) will only counter 20% of the time.
        -Zane 8/13/2001

Update: Updated the README for 0.9.45 for the most common failure I have
        seen with the area converter.  
        -Dorzak 8/11/2001

Change: I no longer have the domain tempestuous.net, so removed all 
        references to my e-mail address there in the changelog.
        -Dorzak 8/11/2001

Bugfix: In get_curtime in handler.c "noon" was matching the rule for if
        now.time > 11 and so was being displayed as 00:00 pm.  Changed
        to > 12 which should fix that bug.   I will know when I can
        set a machine to "noon" and run the MUD on it.
        -Dorzak 8/11/2001

New:    You can now specify the MINIMUM position for people to
        participate in a channel in config.h. This also includes
        the minimum position for tells.
        -Dorzak 8/7/2001

Change: do_worth now includes your bank balance.  The account function
        which is part of bank.c gave more info, but only worked in the
        bank room.  This way it works everywhere and gives a basics.
        -Dorzak 8/7/2001

Bugfix: Haggle was not letting you know when you failed, it will now 
        give you a message when it fails, and check for improvement
        like other skills which check even if they fail.
        -Dorzak 8/7/2001

Bugfix: You could speak on the channels, but not use last or lastimm.  
        Changed POS_RESTING to POS_SLEEPING for being able to USE the 
        command in interp.c
        -Dorzak 8/3/2001

Bugfix: The do_time function was outputting the time the mud was started 
        up or last hotbooted.  However, on many terminals this was not
        visible because it was not line feeding at the end, and the line
        was being overwritten by the system time.   Added the missing \n
        and included the fact that it was since the last hotboot and not
        necessarily the actual uptime.
        -Dorzak 7/29/2001


v0.9.45-pre2 [ 7/28/01 ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfix: Fixed the bug that was causing players to become PK when they were
        attacked by an IMM.
        -Zane 7/26/2001

Bugfix: Invisible players will no longer be named in the auction channel
        SOLD message unless you can see them (detect invis, holylight, 
        etc).  This was done by adding two parameters to the
        auction_channel() function - Yes, I know this is a kludgy fix,
        but auctions really need to be reworked a bit for a proper one.
        -Zane 7/26/2001

Change: Removed the second function declarations for the auction channel
        from merc.h - They only need to be there once...
        -Zane 7/26/2001

Change: The cityguard heads (look in the mob factory) now have only the
        parts that a head should have.  Also removed the biped flag.
        -Zane 7/26/2001

New:    Added MAX_MORTAL_WEAPON_DAMAGE to config.h instead of having it
        hard-coded to 1000.  This is the limit for mortal weapon damage
        in a single hit.  If a player that is not hero level or better
        has a weapon that does damage greater than this value, the weapon
        will be taken away and the player's name will be logged.
        -Zane 7/26/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug in damage() where doing > 1000 damage would
        crash the MUD while trying to take the weapon away from the player.
        -Zane & Dorzak 7/26/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in Win32 where users could occasionally hang the MUD
        during login or new character creation.  Win32 appears to keep
        getting three bytes of garbage (a telnet ACK maybe?) and Unix
        systems don't.  The fix is in read_from_descriptor() - previously,
        we would read until a CR/LF was found.  Now, the function stops
        any time we read less from the socket than we were requesting.
        -Zane 7/26/2001

Bugfix: act_new was not checking min_pos correctly.  If you were at 
        min_pos you did not get a message.  

        changed:
          || to->posit <= min_pos
        to:
          || to->posit < min_pos

        -Dorzak 7/25/2001

Bugfix: Several of the slot numbers in const.c were used more than once. 
        The slot numbers are used in area files.  For example identify and
        shocking grasp were both slot 53.  If you made a scroll of
        shocking grasp, and reloaded the area, it would be a scroll of 
        identify.  This is because identify appeared first in the const.c.
        The second instance of each slot number was renumbered.

        The following spells were renumbered:
          shocking grasp - 53 changed to 54
          nexus - changed from 83 to 84

        The spells Thexder added had duplicated for many of them, they 
        were changed from the 5xx to 4xx.

        -Dorzak 7/25/2001
        
New:    The hard-coded vnum for the Donation Room is now configurable via
        a config.h variable named ROOM_VNUM_DONATE.
        -Zak & Gandalf 7/25/2001

Bugfix: Fixed an OLC bug where editing resets and the area editor weren't
        always marking the area as changed (and therefore not saving when
        'asave changed' was run).
        -Zane 7/24/2001

Change: You can no longer exit the object editor for weapons without
        setting a damage type first.  This will keep weapons from being
        built with no damage type and later loaded in the MUD (causing
        "unknown damage type" log file spam).
        -Zane 7/24/2001

Change: Removed the extra rlist command built-in to OLC because the global
        one was better anyway.
        -Zane 7/24/2001

Change: Added bread to the shop in MUD school.  Wouldn't want our newbies
        to get hungry, would we?
        -Zane 7/24/2001

Bugfix: When you went to sleep, the message "You go to sleep" was coming
        up twice.
        -Zane 7/24/2001

Change: The OOC and INFO channels now show up while you are sleeping.
        -Zane 7/24/2001

New:    Added a NO_RDNS #define in config.h - commented out by default.
        When it is defined, the MUD will not attempt to reverse resolve
        the host name for connecting IP addresses.  This prevents the
        system from being blocked by reverse DNS lag.  The side effect is
        that with NO_RDNS defined, you can no longer ban players by host
        name.
        -Zane 7/23/2001

Change: Changed COMM_SPOUSETALK to COMM_NOSPOUSETALK because that's how it
        is being used and is consistent with the other channels.
        -Zane 7/23/2001

Bugfix: Fixed the crash problems with spouse and clan talk channels.  Both
        channels were using descriptor->character without checking to see
        if there was a player loaded yet.
        -Zane 7/23/2001

Bugfix: Now using Winsock v2.2 on Win32 (previously using v1.1).  This
        fixes several problems related to the MUD hanging when clients
        were killed without closing the connection properly.
        -Zane 7/23/2001

Bugfix: Fixed several reset bugs [Probably not all of them. -Zak].
        -Zane 7/23/2001

Bugfix: An '#else if' directive was missing from const.c.
        -Zane 7/23/2001

Change: Fixed some compile warnings under Linux and gcc-3.0.
        -Zane 7/23/2001

New:    Slaythar, who has a unnamed Ember based MUD in the works, donated
        two spells.  They have been added to to magic.c, magic.h, and 
        const.c but not added to any groups or askilled yet.  The two
        spells are energize - allow you to transfer your mana to somebody
        else and life drain, which is based on energy drain, but 
        but specifically saps hit points.
        -Dorzak 7/23/2001

Bugfix: Fixed typo/bug when I added cost to objcheck.  Based it off of 
        the weight check, but forgot to change the output.  It was 
        outputting the weight of all items with a cost of zero.  Fixed.
        -Dorzak 7/22/2001

Bugfix: A bug was reported with some shops not selling things, despite 
        shopkeeper having the item in their inventory.  Used objcheck to
        verify the items.  Didn't find anything.  Later found the problem
        was with the cost of the items.   Adding a check to objcheck to
        check for cost less than or equal to zero.  Haven't fixed the 
        area files yet though.
        -Dorzak 7/21/2001

Bugfix: Wizi imms can now use the 'sinfo' command again.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

Bugfix: Yells can no longer be heard by deaf people.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

Bugfix: Players can no longer hear the imm channel if they can't speak
        on it.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

Change: The format of the OOC, gossip, q/a, and imm channels as well as
        say, yell, and shout can now be configured in config.h.  This
        replaces the old COLOR_ variables.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

Change: The OOC and gossip channels can now easily be renamed by changing
        the CFG_OOC_NAME and CFG_GOS_NAME variables in config.h.  This
        effects all references to the channels in the game - including
        the commands used to talk on the channel and toggle them on/off.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

Change: The wear locations stuff in config.h is a bit friendlier now.  You
        don't have to make sure you reset the color back to `0 and you no
        longer have to add the right number of trailing spaces.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

Change: Did some more cleanup from when Lancelight overwrote our config.h
        with his.
        -Zak 7/21/2001

New:    We are missing a lot of help files.   Now, when a player types 
        help and the help file is not found, it is logged to help.txt.
        The name and location of the file can be configured in config.h
        -Dorzak 7/20/2001

Change: Moved the get_player_world() prototype from act_info.c into merc.h
        so now it's available throughout the code.
        -Zane 7/20/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug in do_wizgrant() and do_wizrevoke() and several
        other functions in act_wiz.c where get_char_world() was being
        called but no IS_NPC() check was being done.  Solution was to
        replace get_char_world() with get_player_world().
        -Zane 7/20/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a memory allocation bug in show_list_to_char() - it was
        occasionally trying to allocate 0 bytes of memory.
        -Zane 7/20/2001

New:    Anti_gender flags for objects. ITEM_ANTI_NEUTER, ITEM_ANTI_MALE,
        and ITEM_ANTI_FEMALE.   
        -Dorzak 7/20/2001

Change: A line was being sent to players whenever the MUD checked for the
        possibility of a skill improvement.  This has been wrapped in a 
        ifdef statement.   The #define is in config.h, and turned OFF by 
        default.  If you want your players to be sent this message, then
        uncomment the #define SKILL_DEBUG line, right below the section 
        for HEAVY_DEBUG.
        -Dorzak 7/20/2001

Bugfix: Fix for bug #216875 - wizi imms were being announced on the info
        channel when they quit.  Now all INFO broadcasts check can_see()
        -Zak 7/20/2001

Bugfix: 'pload' was searching char_list for a partial name match, but now
        it uses the player_list and doesn't do partial matching.  Now
        Dorzak can 'pload Dor' (another character on his MUD).
        -Zak 7/19/2001

Change: Manually fixed the CVS area file resets - set the maxes back to
        what they were before the broken area file saving code had a
        chance to screw them up.
        -Zane 7/19/2001

Change: Modified the way new characters' race bonuses are applied during
        new character creation.  Also, modified the pc_race_table to
        define bonuses to match the new system.  The new roll_stat
        function mirrors D&D 3rd Edition stat rolling - 4d6 is rolled,
        the lowest roll is thrown away, the racial bonuses/penalties are
        applied, and the REROLL_PENALTY is applied (if applicable).
        -Zane 7/19/2001

Change: Default REROLL_PENALTY changed to 0.
        -Zane 7/19/2001

Change: ROLL_STAT_ADJ renamed to REROLL_PENALTY (for clarity).
        -Zane 7/19/2001

New:    A while back a penalty to the rolls when rollng stats was added.
        It was mentioned on the list by Zak that this should be adjustable,
        or toggleble in config.h.  There is now a new #define in config.h.
        It is ROLL_STAT_ADJ.   The value that is defined for it will be 
        subtracted from the max stat available for their race.  It is 
        currently set to 5, which is what the value it replaces was set
        to.
        -Dorzak 7/19/2001

Bugfix: Moved a few things in interp.c 't' by itself now does 'tell', and
        not 'tick', 'sc' does 'score', not 'scan'.
        -Dorzak 7/18/2001

Bugfix: The files in the class directory would not allow players to
        practice their skills.   I imported the list from my mud.
        -Dorzak 7/18/2001

Design: The document that contains the working ideas for the new resets
        system is in the doc/design/ directory as resets.txt.  It is 
        very rough.   However should be an improvement.
        -Dorzak 7/17/2001

Bugfix: Changed the name of Farmer Sara.  There is a LONG story behind 
        if you want to know, ask me.  dorzak@earthlink.net
        -Dorzak 7/15/2001

New:    Added additional option to IMMS_CAN_HIDE.  If defined, imm at the
        imotd who type wizi will be logged in in wizi, and unannounced.
        -Dorzak 7/15/2001

New:    Added (with an ifdef) the option to have gain revert work.  Gain
        revert allows players to convert practices to trains.  The code
        is currently set to 8 practices for 1 train, for revert, and 1 
        train for 10 practices.  Players will lose practices if they 
        convert back and forth.   No advantage to the player unless they
        really want their latest skill practiced up.  This is turned off
        by default.  Comment out CAN_GAIN_REVERT in config.h to turn it
        on.
        -Dorzak 7/15/2001

Bugfix: Fixed the DEFINE in config.h so that TRACK_IS_SKILL will work when
        when defined.   Minor things would allow anybody to use it.
        -Dorzak 7/15/2001

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in act_move.c Practicing track skill was making it so
        that the skill got worse, instead of better.  Somebody with a 
        1% in the skill had a 99% chance of success.  FIXED.  Added ifdef
        statements to const.c, merc.h, as well.
        -Dorzak 7/15/2001

Bugfix: Midnight now shows up as 12:XXam in output of the 'time' command
        instead of '00:XXam'.
        -Lancelight 7/15/2001

Change: Changed the storage character castration routine.  In the old
        code, keys would always poof from players when they left the game.
        Now, key (and map) poofing is controlled by the v#s for the item
        in the following way:

          v0 - poof-proof flag
          v1 - lowest level
          v2 - highest level

        The poof-proof flag, as the name implies, controls if the object 
        will poof at all when a player leaves the game.  Set v0 to 1 for 
        an item and it will NOT poof.

        If an item is not poof-proof (v0 == 0), then v1 represents the 
        lowest level character that is allowed to keep the item and v2 
        represents the highest level character that is allowed to keep 
        the item.  For example:

          v0 = 0 and v1 = 10 and v2 = 20

        If a level 9 or lower character somehow obtains this key or map, 
        they will loose it when they log out of the game.  Likewise, a 
        level 21 or higher character has no need for this object, so it 
        will poof when they leave the game.  Level 10 to 20 characters 
        WON'T loose the object when they log out.

        Setting v1 or v2 to 0 eliminates that particular limit.

        -Zak 7/14/2001

New:    TODO OLC
        -Lancelight 7/14/2001

Bugfix: mlist, olist, and rlist output display is now formatted correctly.
        -Lancelight 7/14/2001

New:    mfreevnums, ofreevnums, and rfreevnums commands
        -Lancelight 7/14/2001

Change: helps now auto-save when you type 'done' in the OLC help editor.
        -Lancelight 7/14/2001

Change: Colorized a bunch of stuff through-out the codebase.
        -Lancelight 7/14/2001

Bugfix: Oops, minor bug in get_player_world() that would allow it to find
        non-players (which was, in turn, causing some crashes in whois).
        -Zak 07/12/2001

Bugfix: Whoah, this one was big.  How'd we go this long without noticing
        it???  Pets and charmed mobs will now assist PK players when they
        are fighting other PK players.  You can also now order a pet to
        kill a PK player as well.  The only reason I can think of for why
        this didn't work was if there is some exploit related to this, but
        I can't think of any...
        -Zak 07/11/2001

Change: Mob resets with a max of 0 now always show up as 1 in the output
        of the resets command.
        -Lancelight 07/11/2001

Bugfix: Mob resets with a max greater than 1 were being set to 1 when the 
        area was saved due to a small bug in the save code.  Thanks to
        Lancelight for pointing it out.
        -Zak 07/10/2001

Change: Removed the valid_reset() stuff from olc.c as it's no longer 
        necessary for EmberMUD.  Thanks to Dorzak for pointing that out.
        -Zak 07/10/2001

Change: Implemented Dorzak's ROM 2.4 snippit for "enhanced" sockets 
        command.
        -Zak and Dorzak 07/10/2001

Bugfix: victfount changed to victfound in the social editor (bug #214882).
        -Zak 07/10/2001

New:    get_player_world() function added to handler.c.  It works just
        like get_char_world() except that it only searches players (no
        NPCs).
        -Zak 07/09/2001

Bugfix: do_finger() no longer looks at NPCs for partial name matches.
        -Zak 07/09/2001

Change: I fixed the double CRs in this Changelog file.  I wish I knew how
        that keeps happening...
        -Zak 07/07/2001

Bugfix: When a mobile was created using OLC, it had no HP by default.  If
        it was left that way and a player killed it, the MUD would crash.
        All new mobs created with OLC will now always have at least 1 HP.
        -Lancelight 03/09/2001

New   : Added portal code.  To create a permanent one, create a new object
        using OLC, set the type to 'portal', and set the 'v0' to the
        destination room vnum.  Now, set a reset for it somewhere and
        you're set.  Keep in mind - if you give it the 'take' wear flag,
        players can carry it around and drop it to use it, but the portal
        will stay where they dropped it until someone picks it up.  This
        may or may not be desireable on your MUD.  Oh yeah, use the new
        'enter' command to go through a portal.
        -Lancelight and Zane The Insane 03/08/2001

New   : Added a new level 22 spell for mages called 'nexus'.  It creates
        a temporary two-way portal between the mage's current location
        and a location specified by the caster.
        -Lancelight 03/08/2001

New   : There is now a way to scale how powerful or how weak a mob's
        breath spell can be.  In the mob editor there is a new option
        called Breath weapon Strength.  Normal setting is 100, anything
        above 100 would cause the mob to do more damage, and anything less
        would cause the mob to do less damage.
        -Lancelight 01/22/2001

New   : The area file format has been changed to reflect the new Breath
        weapon Strength option.  An area converter will be made available.
        -Lancelight 01/22/2001

Bugfix: When the jail timer was set to 0 (Indefinite amount of time), the
        mud would continue to decrease it's value resulting in a buffer
        overflow after several days of being in jail.  Fixed.
        -Lancelight 01/22/2001

Bugfix: When a mob was jailed, it's timer was not being decreased.
        Fixed.
        -Lancelight 01/22/2001

Bugfix: When a mob was jailed, and someone switched to that mob before
        it's time was up, and stayed switched when it was time for the mob
        to be released, the mud would crash.  Fixed.
        -Lancelight 01/22/2001

Bugfix: When a player was switched into a mob and got jailed, and returned
        before the time was up, the mud would crash when it was time to
        release the mob.  Fixed.
        -Lancelight 01/22/2001

New   : Added a command called 'tick'.  It is off by default but can be
        turned on by typing 'tick'.  This will cause the mud to
        automatically send a line feed to the user each time a tick
        occurs.
        -Lancelight 01/16/2001

New   : The channels list now shows the Spouse channel and the tick 
        channel.
        -Lancelight 01/16/2001

Bugfix: Fixed the 'casting a skill' bug where things like 'cast dagger'
        would increase your dagger skill.
        -Zak and Paul Bushore 12/5/00

Bugfix: Wands and furniture were mixed up in olc_act.c causing v2 for
        wands to be set as if they were furniture.  This also caused a
        crash if an item created like this were sold in a shop.
        -Lancelight 11/15/00

Bugfix: Helps were not being saved upon 'asave world' or 'asave changed'.
        -Lancelight 11/15/00

Change: Random objects now save and load.  This has caused an area file
        format change ( Hey, newaffs was doing this anyhow. - Zak ).
        An area file conversion program will be provided with v0.9.45
        to convert your 0.9.44 areas to the new format.
        -Lancelight 11/15/00

Bugfix: The 'lastimm' command was available to all players.  It is now an
        imm-only command and has to be in the player's pfile (#IMM
        section) for them to use it.
        -Lancelight 11/2/00

Bugfix: Granting 'edit' or 'asave' to a mortal would not let them use the
        command.  I took out the old immortal checks as they are no longer
        needed.  There are probably other imm commands with this problem.
        -Lancelight 10/23/00

New:    I've put in a LOT of code to support the new bits system for AFF
        bits.  It's untested, isn't supported by OLC, and doesn't load or
        save to area files or pfiles yet.  But, the infrastructure is
        there for us to begin playing with it.  We have to thank Zane for
        working out the basics of this system, but I was the one that did
        all the hard work implementing it. <grin>
        -Zak 10/16/00

Change: Wear locations definitions have been moved from act_info.c into
        config.h.  There are 3 pre-made color schemes available for use.
        The default scheme is white/yellow.  This also fixes a color
        bleed problem with the old default strings.
        -Lancelight 10/16/00

Change: Zak's slist command has been split into sklist and splist (for
        skills and spells respectively).  They are also better looking
        than slist was.
        -Lancelight 10/16/00

New:    Added BREW_SCRIBE_USE_LEVEL to config.h.  It controls the level of
        the object created by the brew and scribe skills.  The default is
        .40 which sets the object to 40% of the character's level.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

New:    Added BREW_SCRIBE_LEVEL to config.h.  It controls the level of
        spell that is imbued to the object.  The default value is .40
        which makes it 40% of the character's level.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

New:    Added MAX_ATTAINABLE_STATS to config.h.  It controls the maximum
        STR, CON, DEX, INT, and WIS attainable by players.  It currently
        MUST be set to either 25 or 30, but at some point we hope to make
        it so that this can be set to any number you want.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

Change: The socials command now displays in multiple columns like it used
        to before socials OLC was added.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

New:    The socials command now displays the social vnum for people with
        access to socials OLC.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

Change: Removed the 'reserved' spell.  This fixes the problem with new
        characters choosing it as well as the problem of new potions
        and scrolls having it.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

Change: Potions and scrolls created via brew or sribe were being named
        incorrectly (short desc was fine, however).  The items will now
        be named using the item's type and the sn.name for the spell being
        placed on the item.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

New:    get_curtime now uses 12-hour (AM/PM) format.
        -Lancelight 10/15/00

Bugfix: Player descriptions that ended in a blank line were causing whois
        to report (null) for the player's race (only affected running
        whois on offline players).
        -Zak & Lancelight 10/14/00

Bugfix: The empty vial and blank scroll needed for the brew and scribe
        skills have been missing from the area file distribution for quite
        a while.  I added them back and verified that both the brew and
        scribe skills are working properly.
        -Zak 10/14/00

Bugfix: Fixed another offline player whois bug.  Whois will now stop 
        reading the pfile once it encounters the word "End" on the 
        beginning of a line.  This cures the "End" at the end of the #IMM
        section on a line by itself crashing the MUD thing.
        -Zak 10/12/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug where whois could sometimes crash on an offline
        player's pfile under certain circumstances (if the 'log' command
        was in their #IMM section and was the first command on the line).
        -Zak 10/12/00

Change: Updated pfile version numbers from 3 to 4 as part of the above
        fix.  The MUD will automatically convert version 3 pfiles to
        the version 4 format when a user logs in.  Note: version 3 pfiles
        are still vulnerable to the whois bug discussed above.
        -Zak 10/12/00

Change: Moved a struct definition from merc.h to olc.h (it's only used in
        OLC anyhow) that was causing several compiler warnings under
        Linux.
        -Zak 9/24/00

New:    New 'slist' wiz-command added.  Displays all the skills currently
        available to a given class along with the associated level and
        creation points (nice when setting skills up with 'askill').  I
        know that it's terribly ugly, but at least it works (that's what
        happens when I only spend 5 minutes on a piece of code <grin>).
        -Zak 9/13/00

Bugfix: Newbies are no longer stuck at the MOTD if they log in while
        someone is in a shell.
        -Zak 8/29/00

Bugfix: Characters in a shell are no longer spammed with MUD output while
        they are not in the MUD.
        -Zak 8/29/00

Change; Exiting from a shell now gets you put back into the MUD.  Still
        some minor bugs in here, but I think I can nail them.
        -Zak 8/28/00

New:    do_shell now actually works.  The MUD still doesn't know how to
        put a player back into the world after they exit the shell (the
        code is written, but isn't in the MUD yet), so don't use it in
        a production environment just yet.
        -Zak 8/28/00

New:    Created a new CHAR_DATA list for tracking players currently in a
        shell, spico, etc.  It's called shell_char_list.  Anytime someone
        enters a shell for some reason, they should be removed from the
        char_list and player_list and added to the shell_char_list.
        -Zak 8/27/00

New:    Some of the infrastructure for do_shell is in place, but it
        currently does nothing.  In config.h, there are a couple of new
        settings (one to turn shells on/off and one to set a level limit
        for access to the shell).  Note:  Even if you set a level limit
        for the shell command, you will still need to wizgrant the command
        to anyone that needs it.
        -Zak 8/24/00

Change: I changed the way that olist is output...  It's no longer done in
        three columns -- it's now just one big list (one object per line).
        This fixes the issue with colors in object short descriptions
        screwing up the olist and also allows for objects with long
        short descriptions to have the entire description shown.
        -Zak 8/24/00

Bugfix: Fixed permban.
        -Lancelight 8/8/00

New:    Furniture is now sittable, sleepable, etc.  All of the possible
        stand/sit/sleep/rest on/in/at flags are listed in config.h.  The
        values are:
          v0 - Max # of people that can be on the obj.
          v1 - Max weight obj can handle.
          v2 - Furniture position type.
          v3 - Heal rate.
          v4 - Mana regen rate.
        -Lancelight 8/6/00

New:    PK, AFK, Married, Wizi, and Thief flags are now shown as single
        letters in the output of who.  For instance, [-A--] means the
        player is AFK.
        -Lancelight 8/5/00

New:    Added a new command - 'anonymous'.  Anyone can use this to make
        their who info for level, race, and class anonymous.
        -Lancelight 8/5/00

Bugfix: Typing 'cast reserved' would crash the MUD.
        -Lancelight 8/4/00

New:    Added creation points to the ASKILL command.  The class files in
        the main distribution have been updated to include creation
        points.
        -Lancelight & ZaneTheInsane 8/4/00

Change: Added a #define RECALL_LEVEL to config.h.  This allows you to set
        a level limit on recalling.  It is set to level 20 by default
        (meaning anyone above level 20 cannot use the 'recall' command).
        They can still use the recall spell, items that cast recall, or
        any other means of getting "home" ('cas gate hassan' comes to
        mind).
        -Lancelight 7/29/00

New:    You can now edit socials while the MUD is running via OLC.  The
        socials.are file format has changed drastically.  The 'socials'
        command is a bit different for the time being (still working on
        the format).  You will notice that some socials have "none" for
        some of their arguments...  This means that there is no argument
        and the MUD will not print anything for that arg.

        Use 'edit social create' to create a new social.
        -Lancelight 7/28/00

Bugfix: Typing 'reboot', 'hotboot', 'shutdown', 'asave', or 'beacon'
        crashed the MUD if you were switched.  Mobs no longer have
        the ability to do any of these things (switched or not).
        -Lancelight 7/24/00

New:    An info channel message is now sent to the MUD when a player
        quits.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

New:    Added a new hardcoded prompt for imms.  Activate it by typing
        'prompt imm'.  It displays some things usefull to imms/builders.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

New:    Added a %q variable for use in prompts.  It will display the area
        that you are currently in.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

Bugfix: Typing reboot, hotboot, shutdown, asave, or beacon all crashed the
        MUD if you were switched.  Added checks to prevent mobs from doing
        any of these commands.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

New:    The jail command now has a time argument.  Typing 'jail lance 20'
        would jail that player for 20 ticks.  'jail lance 0' will jail
        them indefinately (no timer).  Once the timer reaches 0, the
        player will automatically be freed to wherever you have your jail
        release people to.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

Change: When you jailed a mob, it's name was being used on the info
        channel.  This has been changed to the mob's short description.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

Bugfix: The MUD will no longer crash when a decaying item is auctioned.
        Objects now stop their decay timers while on auction, but continue
        to decay after being passed to the buyer.
        -Lancelight 7/23/00

New:    Added OLC support for the help.are file.  You can now edit
        anything that is contained in the help.are file via the OLC
        editor.  The IMOTD, MOTD, login screen, etc are all in there
        and can be edited along with any help entry.  Use 'edit help
        createhelp' to create new help entries or 'edit help <word'
        to edit an existing help entry.  To delete a help entry, edit
        it and set the keywords to 'deleted' and clear its text.

        Typing 'help deleted' will list all of the deleted helps
        (I plan to change this soon).
        -Lanelight 7/20/00

New:    A message is now sent to the room when a person enters or exits
        an OLC editor.  Also, their name will be proceeded by a
        [Building] tag while in the editor.
        -Lancelight 7/19/00

Bugfix: Fixed a minor bug in the faction() proc for MUDProgs.  Using
        incorrect syntax could cause the MUD to crash.
        -Zak 7/19/00

New:    Added an isname() proc to MUDProgs.  Example usage:

          if ( isname( $n, Zak ) )
            bow $n
            emote kisses $n's feet.
            break
          endif
          break

        This proc is something that was lost when Zane redid the MUDProg
        code recently and has been on my list to re-code for awhile.
        -Zak 7/19/00

v0.9.44a [ 7/18/00 ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bugfix: Who_prefix and Who_race would cause crashes in who and save if a
        player set either one then removed it via something like:
	
          set char Zak <whoname||prefix> none

        The problem was with the new free_string - it would set the
        pointer to NULL (as it should be) but when the code would check
        whether or not to show (or save) who_prefix/race it would check
        char->pcdata->who_prefix(or race)[0] or the first character.
        It should have just been checking to see if the pointer was NULL
        or not.
        -Zane 7/18/00

Bugfix: In save_mudprogs_area it was marking all saved mudprogs and
        MobProgs which made it a bit hard to load ObjProgs or RoomProgs.
	-Zane 7/18/00

Bugfix: In the assign_<obj|mob|room>prog functions it was calling 
        alloc_perm() when creating node elements in it's linked list
        instead of malloc.  This caused unassign_*prog() functions to
        crash when calling free_mem.
        -Zane 7/18/00

Bugfix: In the unassign_<obj|mob|room>prog functions if you tried to
        unassign a prog that was the first prog in the list of progs
        for that mob then the prog would not be unassigned. (was 
        assigning obj|mob|room->mudprogs->next = pTemp->next instead
        of obj|mob|room->mudprogs = pTemp->next in essence just setting
        the original value to itself).  Combined with freeing memory
        later in the proc this would cause a crash.
        -Zane 7/18/00

New:    Added an option in config.h to autosave areas whenever a builder
        types done. The save that is done is asave changed. Use this with
        caution, as there is a possibility it could corrupt an area if 2 
        people work on it at once.
        -Lancelight 7/18/00

Bugfix: There was a major crash bug in poofin/poofout.  The problem was
        that both commands were using strcat() to add to a string that
        had been allocated with str_dup() (from SSM).  That is BAD BAD
        BAD!  Stop that! :)  Once you str_dup() a string, the only way
        to change it is to call free_string() then set the pointer to
        a new str_dup()'d string.
        -Zane 7/18/00

Bugfix: Two functions were using strcat() on their char * parameters.
        In this case, you don't know how much memory has been allocated
        to that string (unless the size is passed as another parameter 
        which isn't done much in this code).  A good rule of thumb is
        to not directly modify a string passed in as a parameter unless
        you have a good way of knowing EXACTLY what the size of that
        string is (so you don't overflow).
        -Zane 7/18/00

Bugfix: When wielding a non-weapon, wear_progs weren't being triggered.
        -Zak 7/18/00

Bugfix: Fixed show_line_numbers to recognize \r\n as well as \n\r. \r\n is
        the proper order for DOS files while \n\r is the common mud usage.
        When loading files (such as mudprogs) that have been saved with 
        \r\n show_line_numbers was screwing up on the display.
        -Zane 7/17/00

New:    faction() proc for MudProgs.  Use it in an ifcheck to see if a 
        char's faction standing is above/below/equal a certain value.
        For example:

          if ( faction( $n, 2 ) < -500 )
            yell Die $n, you filthy scum!
            kill $n
            break
          endif

        This prog would aggro on anyone with faction #2 below -500.
        -Zak 7/17/00

Bugfix: rlist was crashing.  I just changed it to not use strcat() cause
        I'm lazy.  It works now, so who cares. <grin>
        -Zak 7/16/00

Bugfix: Oops.  Fixed a bug related to wizgrant/wizrevoke where a switched
        mob would crash the MUD when trying to do a wiz command.
        -Zak 7/16/00

New:    Added an mprog command:  mpchangefaction.  Use it to adjust a 
        player's faction by a given amount in mudprogs.
        -Zak 7/16/00

Bugfix: Removed a compile-time warning in ssm.c related to the new hashing
        code.
        -Zak 7/16/00

New:    Added two new imm commands:  wizgrant and wizrevoke.  Use these
        to grant and revoke access to individual imm commands to anyone
        on the MUD (regardless of level).
        -Zak 7/15/00

Bugfix: str_len() wasn't counting `0 as a valid color code - it is now.
        -Zak 7/15/00

Change: Commands in the cmd_table are no longer restricted in any way
        by a player's level.  Any "restricted" commands can be marked
        as imm-only and access can be granted or revoked via the new
        wizgrant and wizrevoke commands.
        -Zak 7/15/00

Bugfix: For some reason, the calls to write_to_descriptor in the hotboot
        code were passing 0 as the string length, thereby causing the
        "earth splits in two" and "earth remolds" messages to not be
        printed during hotboot.
        -Zak & Lancelight 7/15/00

Bugfix: do_trust() was alowing you to "demote" people that were trusted
        at a higher level than yourself.  You will get a "Nice try"
        message now.
        -Zak 7/15/00

Bugfix: How long has THIS bug been there?  'purge <obj>' was crashing the
        MUD.  Fixed.
        -Zak 7/15/00

Change: The door to the jail in midgaard's reset wasn't set to closed by
        default (people could walk in the jail but couldn't get out).
        -Zak 7/15/00

Change: ssm.c now uses the ElfHash hash-key generation routine.  I also 
        upped the MAY_KEY_HASH to 65413 in config.h since our total 
        number of strings is about 45,000.  With Hash Tables it's always 
        better (speed wise) to have about twice as many slots as you do 
        strings.  Increasing that value took our load time from ~5 seconds 
        to ~3 seconds.  Changing the hash function didn't appear to have 
        much effect one way or the other.  Also, with this change, the 
        entire string is evaluated instead of just the first 32 
        characters. This is probably overkill but ELF doesn't do it and 
        it's fast and so far I haven't noticed any slowdown in the load 
        (and loading is the most string-intensive operation in the MUD).
        -Zane 7/11/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in do_jail() where jailing and unjailing a mob would
        crash the MUD.
        -Zak & Lancelight 7/11/00

Change: Fidos in Midgaard are now level 3, not level 20.
        -Zak 7/11/00

Change: Deleted the extra Hassan reset in the donation room.
        -Zak 7/11/00

Change: free_string now requires you to pass in the address of the string
        pointer you want freed so that free_string can set that pointer
        to NULL when it has been freed.  This now makes it impossible to
        free the same string twice.  All calls to free_string should now
        look like this:

          free_string( &thing->some_string );

        -Zane 7/11/00

Change: free_mem now works just like the new free_string.  So, instead of
        calling free_mem(ptr) you now call free_mem(&ptr).  Unfortunately,
        this is not as enforceable as free_string because of all the
        typecasting that goes on.  BE CAREFUL when using free_mem!  If
        you pass it an invalid value, it will still attempt to free that
        memory (with unpredictable results).

        -Zane 7/11/00

Change: Removed the size parameter from free_mem as it hasn't been used
        for quite some time and was only left in to support older calls.
        I went through and fixed all of the old calls, so no reason to
        keep the unused parameter anymore.

        -Zane 7/11/00

Bugfix: Strings were randomly being overwritten with Object Progs (and 
        probably Room Progs as well). Turns out we were trying to free 
        the same string twice and free_string was screwing up memory. 
        We only free the string once now and I'm working on free_string 
        to handle errors properly. 
        -Zane 7/10/00

Change: Shopkeepers now take factions into account when pricing items.
        The discounts and mark-ups are configured in config.h
        -Zak 7/10/00

Change: Shopkeepers will now refuse to list, sell to, or buy from players
        whose factions with them are worse than a specific percentage
        (set in config.h).  The shopkeeper will actually boot the player
        out of the store if there is an exit to boot them out of (thanks
        for the idea, Zane).
        -Zak 7/10/00

Change: Factions now affect everyone in the group, regardless of who
        landed the killing blow.
        -Zak 7/10/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in do_mset() that allowed someone with a lower level 
        to use the set command on a player of a higher level.
        -Zak 7/10/00

Change: Changed the SHOW_DAMAGE_TO_CHARS damage messages to actually 
        verbalize the damage rather than just tacking it on as a number 
        at the end (Thanks Erd!).
        -Zak 7/10/00

Bugfix: Fixed a minor bug in do_mstat() where the Parts for a mob were 
        being stated incorrectly.
        -Erd 7/10/00

New:   Faction changes can now be applied to mobs via OLC (no more editing
       area files <smlie>).  When editing a mob, use this syntax:

        faction add <vnum> <change>
         OR
        faction delete <vnum>

       -Zak 7/7/00

New:   Added factions to the output of the "stat" wizcommand.  For mobs,
       it shows the factions they affect.  For players, it shows their 
       current faction standings.
       -Zak 7/7/00

New:   Added factions to the vnum command.  The syntax is:

        vnum faction <name>

       -Zak 7/7/00

New:    Factions.  A document describing how to implement them, the new
        commands, etc. will be forthcoming...  Currently, the following
        specific features have been coded:

        * Factions OLC - Create and edit factions online via OLC.
        * Factions in 'consider' - When considering a mob, their 
          feelings towards you will be displayed.
        * Killing a mob affects players' faction standings.
        * 'factions' command to allow players to view their current
          faction standings.
        * 'set char <name> faction' command - allows imps to set
          individual faction standings on a player.

        -Zak 7/6/00

Bugfix: Fixed a typo in the stock MudProgs where clerics were attempting
        to cast 'disple magic' instead of 'dispel magic'.
        -Zane 7/5/00

Change: Set up MudProgs to use a first and last type of list.  With this
        type of list, it keeps the list of progs in memory in the same
        order as they are in the file.
        -Zane 7/5/00

v0.9.43 [ 6/28/00 ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bugfix: Fixed the "computed value not used" warning in mud_progs.c
        -Zak 6/28/00

Bugfix: There was a "comment within a comment" warning in db.c under 
        Linux.
        -Zak 6/28/00

Bugfix: 8 Hassans were being spawned in the donation room.
        -Zane 6/27/00

Bugfix: put all.<object> <container> was broken.
        -Zane 6/27/00

Bugfix: Typing something at the "Press RETURN to continue" prompt was
        causing the MUD to crash.
        -Zane 6/27/00

Bugfix: Players could not delete themselves.  Typing delete twice would
        log the character off, but not delete their pfile.
        -Zane 6/27/00

Bugfix: The color code wasn't properly formatting double `s.  `` was
        coming out as `.
        -Zane 6/27/00

Bugfix: When switched into a mob, you couldn't attack players.  You'd get
        a message that you're not a player killer (even if you were).
        Any mob can now attack any player, switched or not.
        -Zane 6/27/00

Change: Also removed some 2 and 3 level deep nested if statements. 
        -Zane 6/27/00

Change: Well basically ignore most everything in the last changes entry 
        for resets. Here's how they work now: 

        The max assigned to each mob reset is now a per reset max.  So, 
        if you have 3 entries for 3 citiguards in the same room with a 
        max of 3 for each, then you'll end up with 9 total citiguards 
        (eventually).  The way the max works is every repop if the 
        current number of mobs assigned to a reset is less than the 
        max allowable number of mobs for a reset, then one more mob is 
        spawned and the total for that reset is incremented by one.  So,
        if you want 10 rabbits to spawn slowly over time then put one 
        reset entry with a max of 10. If you want 10 to spawn all at 
        once (and no more) then you create 10 seperate resets. If you 
        set the max to -1 it will continually spawn mobs every repop 
        (up to 999, should've put that in config.h) but I'd advise 
        against doing that unless it's a REALLY popular area. :) 

        All of the area files have been updated to support this new 
        method.  Unfortunately, due to bad area creation, some areas 
        may have more or less mobs since I couldn't tell what the hell 
        the author was trying to do. :)  Also, the mob/reset/max limit 
        is not affected by the total number of that mob in the world 
        anymore, just the total number of that mob assigned to that reset.

        Area files with mob reset max set to 1 now are converted to 0 when 
        saved.  0 and 1 both spawn one mob but 0 is easier on the eyes when 
        scanning area files.  Since I just redid the reset section of every 
        damn area file I feel qualified to make that decision. :)  As usual,
        all complaints/suggestions/bugs submissions/compliments should go 
        to algore@whitehouse.gov
        -Zane 6/26/00

Bugfix: Got rid of the fread_char: no match.  When saving characters the 
        new marry code was saving a number with a ~ after it so after the 
        number was read in instead of getting a new property name from 
        the next line you'd get the ~.  Existing players will cause this 
        error once when they log in but next time they log out or save 
        the file will be fixed.
        -Zane 6/19/00

Change: Resets now work differently.  There is no global max for a 
        particular mob.  Each reset has a max associated with it now.  If 
        you set the max to 4 then next repop 4 of that mob will spawn.
        The equipment allocated for that group is loaded to all 4 at once.
        If you want 4 of the same mob with 4 different sets of equipment
        then you need to add each of them seperately with a max of 1 
        followed by their equipment list (just like before except the 
        max has a different meaning).  This should make things easier in 
        the long run.  Previously if you wanted to add another cityguard 
        you'd have to go to every cityguard reset and up the max by one
        or more. 
        -Zane 6/19/00

Bugfix: Fixed another door bug in the Mudschool area (door from Mudschool
        entrance south to the arena was locked and pickproof).
        -Zane 6/16/00

Bugfix: When you created a one-way exit in OLC, the area changed flag was
        not being set.
        -Zane 6/16/00

New:    I added some configurability to the way PK Deaths are handled. You
        can now define how the mud will handle PK_Corpses in config.h. The
        new items are LOOTING_CHANCE and LOOTING_ALLOWED. Looting_chance
        will let you determine how much of a chance the killer has of getting
        some items off of the player he just killed (10 = 1 in 10 chance per
        item). The Looting_allowed define has 3 settings, 0,1,2) 0 = no looting
        at all, 1 = use the random system, 2 = the imp is a real bastid and
        says that players can loot it ALL muhahaha.
        -Lancelight 6/16/00

Bugfix: The 'show all', 'show active', and 'show inactive' clan commands
        had some bugs in them (didn't show clans in 'creating' status, etc).
        -Zane 6/15/00

Bugfix: The exit from room 3053 to 3503 in the stock areas has been fixed.
        -Zane 6/15/00

Bugfix: Fixed the door and diploma beast problems in the stock Mudschool
        area.
        -Zane 6/15/00

Bugfix: It seems I left out some if's in the marriage code. You could marry
        people to themselves and divorce people from themself. This is fixed,
        so I now cant marry myself :(
        -Lancelight 6/13/00

New:    Forgot to mention that I had added a command called disable for imms.
        This IMM Command allows an imm to disable single word mud commands or
        skills such as goto or kick. Basically anything that passes through
        interp.c can be disabled. Currently it does not disable spells, but
        I'll find a way to do that somehow.
        -Lancelight 6/13/00

Bugfix: When someone was pk'd, they kept all of their items on them and
        nothing was being left in the corpse. This has been fixed.
        -Lancelight 6/13/00

Bugfix: Bonehead me left and extra prompt in the note editor causing it to
        display two prompts when word wrap was used. I patched it up.
        -Lancelight 6/13/00

Change: Changed the 80 character limit in the note editor to 255
        characters.
        -Lancelight 6/10/00

New:    Added word wrapping and string replacement options to the note
        editor.
        -Lancelight 6/10/00

New:    Added custom marriage code.  This includes a new spouse channel,
        a new field in the whois data, a flag in the who list, and a
        new player command 'consent' (consent is basically engagement).
        Once players have consented, an imm uses the new 'marry' command
        on them.  There is also a 'divorce' command.
        -Lancelight 6/10/00

New:    Added an elementary banking system for gold.  The vnums for the
        banks (one for normal characters and one for the thief class - what
        bank would do business with a known thief??) are defined in 
        config.h.  The new commands are 'account', 'deposit', and
        'withdraw'.
        -Lancelight 6/10/00

New:    Two new commands - 'pload' and 'punload'.  Pload pulls a character
        into the MUD as though they were linkdead - allowing you to play
        with them as though they were really online.  You can force them
        to do things, give them things, set flags, etc.  Punload can be
        used to unload the character (same as forcing them to quit - their
        pfile WILL be saved).
        -Lancelight 6/10/00

New:    A 'permit' command has been added to allow a player to log in from
        sites that are on the 'ban site permit' list.  If you ban a domain
        and want to allow a certain player from that domain to still log
        in, pload the player, permit them, and punload them.
        -Lanelight 6/10/00

New:    How about a command that lets you set the level that a skill
        becomes available to a given class without having to edit any code
        or reboot the MUD?  The new 'askill' command does just that.
        Along with this new command comes a new directory called 'classes'.
        If you want to add a new class, be SURE to place a new file in 
        this directory or the MUD will not load correctly.  Be sure to read
        comments in const.c regarding this change.
        -Lancelight 6/10/00

Bugfix: Whenever a player had a pet and the mud was hotbooted, the
        hotboot would seem to be ok. Then whenever a player that had a
        pet before the hotboot recalled, the mud would crash. This was
        fixed by simply adding a load for pets in the copyover_recover
        function.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

Bugfix: If a player was PK'd or commited a PK, the PK counter 
        would seem fine until they logged out. The second they logged
        out, their PKDeaths and kills were reset to whatever the pk 
        deaths were. Someone goofed and had 2 pk_deaths in save.c in the
        fwrite_char function in the cases.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

Bugfix: If an immortal typed 'alias x goto 3001' and then tried to
        use x (x can be any string), it would say no location. A
        small if statement in act_info.c in the substitute_alias
        function fixed this problem.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

New:    Reycle.c has been added for calls made by ban.c.  This will also
        make porting ROM 2.4 code/snippets into ember easier because it
        includes the ROM 2.4-style buffer features.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

New:    I ripped out the old ban structures because they werent
        quite up to par, and they did not allow for perm banning,
        newbie banning or permitting. So I took it upon myself to 
        rip Russ Taylors ban code out of rom 2.4b and port it over to 
        ember. In the process, the ban.c file and recycle.c/recycle.h 
        files were added along with structures in merc.h and 1
        function in save.c to support the port. I hope I commented 
        everyting well enough in the code incase someone wants to 
        clean it up a bit.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

New:    There seemed to be a big request for auto-auction on my
        mud, so I ripped out the auction channel and ported the
        snippet put out by Brian Babey for rom 2.4.  Not a whole lot 
        had to be added for it, but quite a bit had to be modified to 
        work with the ember way of doing things. I left the Auction.c 
        file laying around because I was to lazy to stick it in an 
        existing.c file.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

New:    We were lacking some sort of jailing system, so I whipped
        one up using the PLR_ACT bits. There is 1 thing that needs to
        be set, and that is in act_wiz.c in the do_jail function. The 
        jail room is currently set to 3011. You will want to change 
        this to a room that you make for jailing people. Most of the 
        IF statements can be found in act_obj.c and a couple others 
        are scattered about the source.  The room vnum for the jail
        is #DEFINE'd in act_wiz.c (will move it to config.h later).
        Currently, players released from jail are sent to their
        recall room.  NPCs released from jail are sent to the room
        they were in before they were sent to jail.
        -Lancelight 6/7/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug related to the new player_list.  Sometimes, players
        were not being properly removed from the list which would cause a
        MUD crash when they tried to log back in.
        -Zak 4/25/00

Bugfix: Fixed a minor bug in the 'purge' wiz command.  When an argument
        was provided, the command would first search the current room
        for an object matching the argument and then would search the
        WORLD for a matching character.  The command now only searches 
        the current room for a matching character.
        -Zak 5/1/00

Change: Also in the 'purge' command, if a player was being purged and was
        only level 1, his pfile was not being saved before he was booted.
        This harkens back to the day when level 1 players weren't allowed
        to save AT ALL.  Anyhow, 'purge' now saves ANY player that is
        targetted.
        -Zak 5/1/00

v0.9.42 [4/23/2000]
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Bugfix: Pfiles will now save. <smile>
        -Zak 4/20/00

Bugfix: The startup script that shipped with 0.9.41 would change dirs to
        the area dir before starting the MUD (which would then fail
        becuase ember.cfg is located in the src dir).  So, I commented
        out the dir change in the startup script for this version.
        -Zak 4/20/00

Change: Converted the Borland C++ Builder project from version 3.0 to
        version 4.0 (and now I hear that 5.0 is out, so I'll have to get
        that too! <grin>).
        -Zak 4/20/00

Bugfix: Oops, add2last_imm() was crashing when MAX_LAST_LENGTH was reached
        due to a stray ; in the source.  This should keep the imm channel
        from crashing after several messages...
        -Zak 4/21/00

New:    I got tired of having requests for it, so there's now what people
        refer to as a "clear" color code available.  It's `0 (that's a
        zero).
        -Zak 4/22/00

Bugfix: Zane's check for a player's xp overflowing MAX_EXP was backwards
        and was therefore setting a player's xp to MAX_EXP anytime they
        WEREN'T going to overflow.  It's fixed now...  No more level 51
        newbies! <grin>
        -Zak 4/22/00

Bugfix: The MUD was saving clans.are in the src directory instead of the
        area directory.
        -Zak 4/22/00

Bugfix: Fixed the bug where slaying an NPC would cause them to teleport
        to the altar after leaving a corpse (instead of actually dying).
        -Zak 4/23/00

Bugfix: Another startup script problem...  Since shutdown.txt is being
        written to the area directory, the startup script needs to look
        for it there.
        -Zak 4/23/00

v0.9.41 [3/6/2000]
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Bugfix: Got rid of a "used un-initialized" warning when compiling under
        Linux.
        -Zak 2/9/00

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug in 'edit mprog create'.
        -Zak 2/9/00

Bugfix: The mpclean command was calling do_mpdefault instead of 
        do_mpclean.
        -Zane 2/9/00

Bugfix: do_mpdefault was calling itself mpforce in a bug() call.
        -Zane 2/9/00

Change: Added a syntax printout to the 'clan' command if no arguments
        are used.  Also added the bank command to the syntax printout:
        'clan <clan #> bank <deposit/withdraw> <amount>'.
        -Zak 2/9/00

Change: Made considerable changes to the way the 'clan' command works.
        Take a look at the new syntax before attempting to use it.  
        These commands just make more sense to me...
        -Zak 2/9/00

Change: mpclean now accepts a cost argument.  Anything worth less than 
        the specified cost is considered trash and will be picked up.
        If no argument is specified, the default cost is 10.
        -Zane 2/9/00

Change: Changed fightroom_prog to fightgroup_prog because fightgroup 
        is more intuitive.
        -Zane 2/9/00

New:    Added ! to MUDProg if statements.  ! currently only reverses 
        the return values of function calls, so 'if !level($n) == 33'
        is different from 'if level($n) != 33' (the first returns the
        opposite of the level() call.  Since all levels are >1 then 
        !level() will always return False).  This was mainly put in 
        so that I could easily do things like:

        if isimmort($n)
        and !isawake($n)
        etc..

        -Zane 2/10/00

Bugfix: Fixed the bug where anything done by an object was done at
        level 70 (default supermob level for some reason).  Now 
        supermob's level is set to obj->level in set_supermob() 
        and set back to HERO in release_supermob().
        -Zane 2/10/00

New:    Added /,*,+,- to the valid operators list. The following 
        should be valid:

        if level($n) >= 2 * level($i)
          do something
        endif

        At this time you MUST have a space between operators and 
        parameters ('2+2' would be invalid while '2 + 2' is fine).
        -Zane 2/10/00

Change: NPC's can now steal from both PC's and other NPC's.  When
        stealing from a PC, their chance of success is 
        (target->level - npc->level) * 20%.  So, if a level 13 NPC
        attempts to steal from a level 15 PC, the NPC has a 60%
        chance of success.  After 5 levels of difference, the
        chance is 0% (unless the PC is asleep, in which case the
        chance is 10%).  After 6 levels of difference, the chance
        is ALWAYS 0%.
        -Zane 2/10/00

Change: There's now only one thing left in special.c (spec_puff).
        -Zane 2/10/00

Change: Upgraded our string management code to SSM v1.4.  SSM is
        the "Shared String Manager" written by Fusion (Melvin
        Smith).  We expect that this will need some major testing.
        -Zane 2/10/00

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug in the add2tell command related to the
        queue exceeding the MAX_LAST_LENGTH.  Maybe this is the
        last bug in tell queues? <smile>
        -Zak 2/11/00

New:    Added an 'asave clans' command to save the clans file.
        -Zak 2/11/00

Change: In the clan editor, all of the commands used to require the
        character have a security == 9.  Now, the only restriction
        is that the character have trust >= MAX_LEVEL - 1.
        -Zak 2/11/00

Change: 'edit clan create' and the commands inside of the clan editor
        no longer auto-save the clans file.  You will need to use the
        new 'asave clans' command to save clans from now on.  Note:
        the clans file IS still auto-saved when members are added or
        removed, when the MUD is shutdown or rebooted, and when you
        do an 'asave world' or 'asave changed'.
        -Zak 2/11/00

Change: Re-added several exits from Midgaard to other areas in the
        MUD.  Don't know when these were lost...
        -Zak 2/12/00

New:    New 'aexits' and 'aentrances' wiz-commands.  These commands will
        show all exits from and entrances to a given area.
        -Zak 2/13/00

Change: Re-added the rest of the exits from Midgaard to other areas.
        (I used ROM 2.4's Midgaard as a model).
        -Zak 2/13/00

Change: Upgraded our string management code to SSM v2.2 and added Erwin's
        hashing improvements.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: The parser for MUDProgs has been completely rewritten.
        Notes:

          if statements are now formed like this:

             if (expression)
             elseif (expression)
             endif

          Nested ifs are now allowed (woohoo!) and expressions can be
          nearly any C expression.

          '(' ')' '==' '!=' '<=' '>=' '<' '>' '&&' '||' and '!' are all
          valid operators inside an expression now.

          Any MUDProc can now be called inside of an expression.  For
          instance, this if statement works now:

             if (level($n)-5 <= level($i))
               say 'you suck'
             endif

          ALL MUDProgs MUST end with 'break' now and all if expressions
          must be surrounded by parenthesis ( '(' and ')' ).

          Any command in a MUDProg may have an expression nested inside
          of it if the expression is surrounded by #'s.  For instance:

             if (level($i) > 10)
               say Woohoo!  I'm level #level($i)#!
             endif

        -Zane 2/15/00

New:    Added a hasmemory() function to MUDProgs to see if a mob is
        currently remembering someone.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Changed the memory($*) MUDProc so that calling it with no
        parameter no longer works.  If you need to find out if the mob
        is remembering someone, use the new hasmemory() function.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Changed the return value for the hitpercent() MUDProg function.
        Previously, it would return hit/max_hit which was a fraction
        which was then cast to int so it became either 1 or 0.  Now,
        it returns (hit/max_hit) * 100.  So 50% hp will return a value
        of 50 (makes a bit more sense this way).
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Renamed some MUDProg functions:  inroom() is now roomvnum(),
        goldamt() is now goldamount(), and number() is now mobvnum().
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Removed the name() MUDProg function.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Changed gain_exp() in update.c so that it protects against xp
        wrapping even if exp is unsigned.
        -Zane 2/15/00

New:    Added a MAX_CHUNKS define in config.h for SSM 2.2 - used to 
        calculate MAX_STRING_LENGTH.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Removed the isaffected() MUDProg function because it didn't
        work.  Let us know if you need it and we'll write a new one.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Modified fread_string_eol() in ssm.c for a minor speed increase.
        -Zane 2/15/00

New:    Added the 'repeat' wiz-command.  'repeat <x> <command>' will
        repeat the specified command <x> number of times.  This is
        very dangerous and is limited to MAX_LEVEL characters.  There
        is NO WAY to break out of this command in-game.  (this command
        is useful for testing things like loading 500 mobs into a room).
        -Zane 2/15/00

Bugfix: Previously write_to_buffer would try and close a socket if the
        buffer size was greater than MAX_OUTPUT_BUFFER.  I made it so
        that instead of closing the socket, it just returns without
        adding to the output buffer.  This basically truncates very long
        output (current setting is anything over 32000 bytes).  I also
        set it to check size + 2048 > MAX_OUTPUT_BUFFER because 2048 is
        the blocksize used to grow the output buffer.  End result - no
        more buffer overflow crashes on extremely long MUD output.
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: write_to_descriptor and do_color were using MAX_STRING_LENGTH*2
        buffers.  These have been changed to MAX_OUTPUT_BUFFER*2 and the
        buffer in write_to_descriptor is now static (and, it's wiped
        every call).
        -Zane 2/15/00

Change: Optimized do_color and write_to_descriptor to use less memory and
        run at least twice as fast.  Also fixed a potential buffer
        overflow.
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak in mprog_command_trigger where strdup() was 
        being called without freeing the memory later.  This was 
        especially bad considering every time a command was entered 
        memory was allocated and not freed.  I'm gonna blame this on 
        Zak cuz I think he wrote it and it's easy to blame him for 
        stuff. :)
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak in do_quit (was calling strdup() to copy the
        char name and not calling free()).
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak in do_prompt where it was calling strdup()
        instead of str_dup().
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed at least 8 memory leaks in the do_award function where
        strdup() was being called, but not free().  There are several
        other bugs in this function, if someone wants to volunteer to
        fix them...
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in the new MUDProgs parser where if statements 
        with multiple elseif's weren't working quite right.
        -Zane 2/16/00

Change: specials.c is GONE.  All references to spec_progs everywhere have
        been removed.  All the mobs that once had spec_progs now have
        MUDProgs instead.
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in evaluate() - passing it !<number> was always failing.
        -Zane 2/16/00

Bugfix: Fixed an infinite loop bug in MUDProgs.  Oops!
        -Zane 2/16/00

New:    Added 'mprandomsocial'.  Allows a MUDProg to execute a random
        social.
        -Zane 2/16/00

New:    Added MUDProg functions called sgetrand(<number>) and sreset().
        sgetrand() works just like getrand() except that the result is 
        static within each prog.  So the first call to sgetrand() in a 
        prog will get a random value and each additional call within 
        that prog will return the same value (if the number parameter 
        changes then the values will also change -- calling sgetrand(33) 
        then sgetrand(40) will return two different values).  sreset()
        makes sgetrand() think this is a new prog and therefore generate
        a new random value.
        -Zane 2/16/00

Change: Changed a couple of procedures that were calling str_prefix 
        backwards.  The result was usually the same but calling it
        backwards is a bit slower than calling it the right way if
        they pass a real prefix and not the full string.
        -Zane 2/18/00

Change: Optimized str_prefix() a bit by making it correctly handle 
        having astr be longer than bstr.  Previously it was only 
        checking astr's length which is a potential buffer overflow 
        (but only on very long astr's with shorter bstr's).  The
        profiler pointed to str_prefix as being one of the biggest 
        resource hogs.  It's now about 3% faster. :)
        -Zane 2/18/00

Change: Performed some speed optimizations in interpret() (sped up 
        by about 15%).
        -Zane 2/18/00

New:    Added a new global list player_list.  This is a list of all 
        PC's and is MUCH better than looping through char_list and 
        checking to see if they're NPC's or PC's.  There are thousands 
        of mobs loaded and usually a small fraction of that number are
        players.  Using player_list is SOOO much faster.
        -Zane 2/18/00

Change: Optimized aggr_udpate() - It now loops through the player_list
        instead of char_list.  The speed increase on this should be 
        huge since we're only looking through a list of players 
        instead of a list of all mobs.
        -Zane 2/18/00

Bugfix: Fixed a problem where in the aggr function they were trying to
        pick a random player in the room but the way they were doing 
        it would always pick the first player in the list.
        -Zane 2/18/00

Bugfix: In mobile_update(), rand_progs would only trigger on mobiles in
        areas that had people in them.  rand_prog now triggers on mobs 
        who have ACT_ALWAYS_UPDATE wether or not the area is empty.
        -Zane 2/18/00

Change: Minor speed improvements made to check_social.c (about 7%).
        -Zane 2/18/00

Change: Slight speedup in char_update().  Using player_list instead of
        char_list for the auto-save and auto-quit portion.
        -Zane 2/18/00

Change: Slight speedup in check_reconnect() - using player_list instead
        of char_list now.
        -Zane 2/18/00

New:    Put a configfile in.  Right now it checks in the current dir
        for CONFIG_FILE (defined as ember.cfg right now).  This file 
        is in ini file format (don't bitch).  Eventually most important
        #define's will be moved into this file.
        -Zane 2/22/00

New:    Added ClansFile to ember.cfg.  The MUD now uses the value of
        ClansFile (located in the AreaDir directory) to load and save
        clans.
        -Zak 2/24/00

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug that Zane left in clan_log() when he converted
        it to use the new AreaDir setting in ember.cfg.
        -Zak 2/24/00

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in str_prefix() that was causing the 'quit', 'reboot',
        'shutdown', 'delete', etc commands to fail.
        -Zane 2/28/00


v0.9.40 [2/9/2000]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfix: 'edit mprog assign' and 'unassign' now mark the area that the 
        obj/mob/room is in as changed.
        -Zane

Bugfix: When editing exits in the room editor, typing a direction followed
        by something that doesn't make sense now generates an error 
        message instructing the user to type "help exit".
        -Zak

Change: The 'vnum mprog' command now indicates if a prog is a Room,
        Object, or Mob prog.
        -Zane

Change: Changed the mprog editor command 'progtype' to use str_prefix
        instead of str_cmp for it's type arguments (mobprog, objprog, 
        roomprog).  Now you can just type 'progtype obj' for instance.
        -Zane

Change: Removed the MOBProgs, OBJProgs, and ROOMProgs directories inside
        the area directory (they are no longer used by the MUDProg code).
        -Zak

Change: MAJOR changes to the way MUDProgs work.  A lot of this is "under
        the covers", but MUDProg OLC has also been improved.  New
        documentation is planned, but for the moment, let's start with
        this:  edit mprog create, edit mprog delete, and edit mprog 
        assign.  Inside the editors, type commands for a list of commands.
        -Zane

Change: Removed most of the spec_procs from special.c and replaced them
        with MUDProgs.  Only spec_thief and spec_puff remain.
        -Zane

New:    Added mpeatcorpse MUDProg command.  This one is a simple command
        that any mob can use to eat a corpse and drop it's objects on 
        the ground.
        -Zane

New:    Added mpfollowpath MUDProg command.  Basically this was needed 
        so that you could provide a character string movement path for 
        a mob and it will follow it, doing certain things.  Mainly 
        this was added to get Midgaard's Mayor's mudprog to work but 
        it can be used with other mobs in the future.
        -Zane

New:    Added alignment($*) to mudprogs.  Returns the target's alignment.
        -Zane

New:    Added fightinroom() to mudprogs.  Returns true if anyone in the 
        room is fighting, returns false if not.
        -Zane

New:    Added crimethief($*) to mudprogs.  Basically returns wether or 
        not the target has their crime set to THIEF.
        -Zane

New:    Added hour() to mudprogs.  Just returns the current mud hour.
        -Zane

New:    New command: 'edit mprog unassign'.  Removes a prog or prog group
        from an obj/mob/room.
        -Zane

New:    Added AND to the if statements.  So now the following statement 
        is valid in a mudprog:

        if getrand(50) <= level($i)
        and level($i) <= 10
          do stuff
        endif

        The only limitation right now is there is no good way to mix 
        and match and and ors.  There is no () equivilant in Mudprog 
        so x == 1 || ( x == 2 && y == 1) could not be done.  
        Basically it evaulates in the order you place them in the 
        script. So to the above you'd have to do:

        if x == 2
        and y == 1
        or x == 1

        -Zane

New:    Added a new MUDProg trigger "HIT_PROG" for objects.  This one
        is triggered when a weapon hits an enemy and takes a percentage
        as an argument (like rand_prog, fight_prog, etc).  If you're
        writing code that uses the damage() or new_damage() functions,
        they both now require an argument of a pointer to the weapon
        that did the damage (or NULL) so that its objprog(s) can be
        triggered.
        -Zane

New:    Added a new MUDProg trigger "FIGHTROOM_PROG" for mobiles.  This
        one accepts a percentage argument and basically rolls a die for
        each player fighting the mob every round.  For instance, if the
        argument is 25 and there are 4 people fighting the mob, then
        it is likely that one of the four will be a target.  Once one
        target is found, it'll break using that player/NPC as a target.
        -Zane

New:    mpsilentcast MUDProg.  Allows a mob/obj/room to cast a spell on
        someone without the usual "utters the words, 'yucandusbarr'"
        stuff.
        -Zane

New:    New ifcheck for MUDProgs -- immune().  Use it in ObjProgs to
        see if the target is immune to the type of damage that the
        object does (assuming that it's a weapon).  For instance, a
        dagger does pierce damage - if the target is immune to pierce
        damage, you may not want your program to trigger on that target.

        Example:

        hit_prog 1
        if immune($t) == 0
          mpsilentcast 'poison' $t
          mpechoat $t You have been poisoned by $n's weapon!
          mpechoat $n Your weapon has poisoned your enemy!
        endif

        -Zane


v0.9.40 Pre5 [2/2/2000]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfix: Fixed several crash bugs where MUDProgs were doing an 
        "if ( ch->in_room->something)" without checking to see that
        ch->in_room wasn't NULL.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in mprog_veval where it was trying to do a >= when it
        should have been doing a <=.
        -Zane

Bugfix: In the clan editor, typing members <some large number> no longer 
        sets members to 0.  Also, members <1 is no longer allowed.
        -Zane

Bugfix: In the clan editor, when NO_PK or REQ_PK is toggled it turns off 
        its opposite (ie: NO_PK is on and you toggle REQ_PK then NO_PK 
        is turned off and vice-versa).  I mean, if your clan is both NO_PK
        and REQ_PK, you can't have ANY members, right?
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed do_score() to properly format for creation points >= 100.
        Still think you should just be shot if you have that many creation 
        points.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Not really a bug, but...  There were no limits on the lengths of
        many of the clan strings (name, whoname, rank titles, etc).
        -Zak

Bugfix: Fixed another crash bug with saving files in save_area(), 
        save_area_list(), write_mobprog(), write_roomprog() and 
        write_objprog().  Basically if there was a problem opening 
        a file it would bug() it then go ahead and try to write to 
        it anyway.  Now it'll bug() it then exit the function letting it
        try to save other areas.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in save_char_obj() where if the player directory did 
        not exist it would try to close a non-existant file and crash.
        Now it just bugs() the error and moves on with life.
        -Zane

Bugfix: When a player with max HP and wearing +HP equipment removed the 
        equipment, his current HP would remain at the old maximum until
        he was injured or healed or something.  This made it possible for
        people to run around with more HP than their max (even if it was
        only temporary).  When removing eq, if HP/mana/move > max, it is
        now set to max.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Scan will no longer show you characters in surrounding rooms if
        either those rooms are dark or your current room is dark.
        -Zane

Bugfix: The poofin and poofout wiz-commands no longer require your name
        to be included in the string.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in clan.c where specifying a leader or sponsor that
        was not a character on the MUD (no pfile in player dir) would
        crash the MUD (fclose(fp) was being called on a NULL fp).
        -Zak

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in read_from_descriptor where long input lines would 
        just disconnect a character without providing a reason.  We now
        inform the character that the line was too long and was ignored 
        and leave the character connected.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Y2K fix to get_date.  On some systems (maybe all - haven't tested),
        the structure returned from localtime() gives the year as
        year minus 1900 (so year 2000 was 100).  get_date now uses
        year mod 100 (so 2000 is 00 and 3000 is 00, etc).
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in mpstat obj (do_objstat) where the wrong buffer was
        being output to the player (and therefore, mpstat obj was never
        showing programs for objects.
        -Zane

Bugfix: whoprefix and whorace weren't free'ing the string when deleted.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Added smash_tilde calls to set whoprefix and set whorace commands.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a buffer overflow in do_email.
        -Zane

Bugfix: do_oset and do_mset were not using str_prefix consistently.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in do_who where it was using if (string == "string")
        instead of using str_cmp.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed do_whois and do_finger to format for 2 digit levels.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed bug in how clan information was being formatted in whois.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a crash bug in lookup_class where it was using == instead
        of str_cmp.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a minor bug in str_prefix where it would report an error as
        being from strn_cmp instead of str_prefix.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed a potential infinite loop problem in whois.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed last and lastimm (the right way).  Removed the global count
        variables and just did if (!last_list) instead of 
        if (last_count == 0).  last_list is the pointer to the most recent
        message in the last queue and starts out NULL untill the first
        message comes through.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Asave was broke (how many hundreds of people reported this that
        we didn't believe?).  It appears to have been related to some of
        the changes that Kyle made awhile back (clans).  In any case, 
        "asave all" should now work fine.
        -Zane

Bugfix: "fread_char: no match" fixed - The two clan parameters (clan 
        number and rank)were not put into the char read side.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed several warnings when compiling under Visual C++.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed whorace - it was padding spaces onto the end of the race to
        make it 10 characters.  Now the race will be centered in a field
        of 10 spaces.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Corrected the help for the set wiz-command.  Now displays 
        set char <blah blah blah> as an option.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Changed references to Ember.exe to EmberGUI.exe in the GUI
        version (this allows reboots to work in the GUI).
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed mpstat (changes to do_mpstat, do_mobstat, do_objstat,
        and do_roomstat).  mpstat obj <name> now works.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Fixed stat to use get_obj_world and get_mob_world to find mobs
        and objects.
        -Zane

Change: Changed bamfin and bamfout (poofin, poofout) to use str_str 
        instead of strstr to check to see if your name is in the 
        string.  Just means you don't have to use the same exact 
        case as your character name in the pfile.
        -Zane

Change: Increased MAX_STRING in db.c to allow for more areas.
        -Zak

Change: We're now including a full set of ROM-ish areas with the
        EmberMUD distribution.  Yeah, I know that back in v0.17 I
        said that we'd create our own set of balanced areas, but
        that's not likely to happen <sigh>.  There are bound to
        be bugs in these areas (I've been told there are some
        doors that are supposed to be locked that aren't, etc).
        If you find a bug, I'd appreciate it if you'd let us
        know about it!
        -Zak

Change: Modified the BCB3 version of the MUD to create its .OBJ files
        in an obj sub-directory under the BCB3 directory rather than
        in the main src directory.
        -Zak

Change: Changed do_email and do_comment to give an error message when
        the argument was longer than allowed (previously, the string
        was just truncated).
        -Zane

Change: Changed several buf[2*MAX_STRING_LENGTH] to buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH]
        and made sure that str_len was being used to avoid buffer overflows.
        -Zane

Change: Changed log_string and logf_string to log to stdout instead of 
        stderr under Win32 so it can be re-directed in DOS.
        -Zane

Change: Removed the BCB1 project files -- surely no one is still using
        C++ Builder 1.0...
        -Zane

Change: Moved a lot of #define's from merc.h to config.h.
        -Zane

Change: Changed MAX_LEVEL back to 60.  This makes sense because nobody is
        ever going to adjust the skills/spells/etc to work with 100 levels.
        Also replaced ALL hard-coded references to 100 levels with MAX_LEVEL.
        You should only have to change MAX_LEVEL in config.h if you want to
        switch back.
        -Zane

Change: Who now only uses two digits for player's level (this goes hand
        in hand with the MAX_LEVEL change).
        -Zane

Change: Changed the gain_exp function so that it stops deleting players
        trying to exploit the lose xp to wrap around to max xp bug.  Now
        if your exp would be set to something less than 0 it's set to 0
        and if it would be set greater than MAX_EXP it's set to MAX_EXP.
        So if you're at or near 0 xp and flee or die you won't go negative.
        -Zane

Change: Replaced startup.bat for Win32 systems with startmud.exe.  It does
        the same thing startup.bat was supposed to do, except it works.
        -Zak

Change: Added the -lcrypt to the Makefile so it'll compile under glibc 
        Linux properly.
        -Zane

Change: Made a change to aggr_update() so that a redudant check and loop 
        is removed in some cases
        -Zane

Change: Unlocked a door that had no key in haon.are.
        -Zak

Change: Room affects are gone.  Use a RAND_PROG on a room and setup a 
        program to do damage in there.  Of course with room progs you 
        can do much more than damage every pulse, you could have a nice
        healing room or a room that blessed or something similar.  If 
        you're upgrading from an old version of Ember and moving area 
        files over you'll have to go through each one and remove the 
        #RAFFECTS section.
        -Zane

Change: Removed olc.hlp and ember.are from the area list (and deleted 
        the files) and made it so that olc_save doesn't re-add these 
        to the area list.  All helps MUST be in help.are
        -Zane

New:    Added code to give an error if #HELPS section is found in 
        any file other than HELP_FILE.
        -Zane

New:    Added code in load_area to ensure that the vnum range is 
        unique when loading the area.  If the range is not unique, 
        we bug() it and terminate the mud.
        -Zane

New:    ? clanflags in the clan editor actually lists the clan 
        flags now.
        -Zane

New:    Added a do_rfind() function and modified vnum to find rooms 
        also. (Also shows what area the room is in).
        -Zane

New:    Added snprintf for MSVC.  Basically it just wraps around 
        _snprintf() so we can use snprintf freely without worrying 
        about compatibility.  Stole the wrapping code from Kyle's 
        clan code.
        -Zane

New:    Added a MAX_EXP define to limit the maximum amout of experience
        any player can have.
        -Zane

New:    Added an EXP_MODIFIER to config.h.  This is a modifier that is
        applied to all experience players gain (allows you to tune how
        easy or hard it is to level overall).  This modifier is only
        applied to xp gains, not xp loss due to penalties (fleeing,
        dying, etc).
        -Zane

New:    Added the lore and identify commands.  Use them if you have the
        lore skill.
        -Zane

New:    Added code for the lore skill.  It can be used to "identify" 
        items (similarly to how the identify spell works).  Depending
        on the level of the item and the level of the player, different
        detail will be available (unlike identify which always gives
        the same results).
        -Zane

New:    Added a function called str_str that checks to see if a string 
        exists within another string just like strstr but is 
        case-insensitive.
        -Zane

New:    Added a str_upr function that uppercases the string passed to it
        (functions just like MSVC's _strupr() function).  Used because 
        not all OS's  support have strupr().
        -Zane

New:    Added owhere command.  Works just like mwhere except it lists 
        the room or obj or char the object is contained in instead of
        just the room.   Displays R:, O: or M: based on what the 
        object is in (Room, Object or Mob).  Players have no vnum so
        instead of a vnum is says [Player] if the  object is in a 
        players inventory (or worn).  If an object is inside another 
        object inside a mob or player it'll still show up as inside 
        an object.
        -Zane

New:    Added some functionality to MUDProgs.  Basically if statements 
        now allow functions on both sides of the operator so both of 
        these are valid:

        if level($i) >= 5
        if level($i) >= level($n)

        The first checks to see if the mob's level is greater than 5 
        and the second checks to see if the mob's level is greater than 
        the level of the PC or NPC that triggered the mobprog.
        -Zane

New:    Added a new mobprog function called getrand().  This function 
        returns a number between 1 and the number you pass it.  
        getrand(50) will return some number between 1 and 50.
        -Zane

v0.9.34 pre 1 [9-22-98]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfix: Doing whois on an offline player could crash the mud.  Was a bug
        in get_word calling malloc(sizeof(char*)) which only allocates
        4 bytes instead of malloc(MAX_STRING_LENGTH) like it should have.
        -Zane

Bugfix: Create Clan now works.  Was a small mistake in olc.c that was
        expecting "cedit" instead of "clan".
        -Zane

Bugfix: The BCB3 Ember GUI should now be functional.  Also BCB3 and BCB1
        files were given their own directories under src to clean things
        up a bit.  The executable was also renamed to EmberGUI.exe to
        make way for the console version of Ember called Ember.exe.
        When you make a new executable you'll need to copy it back down
        to the src directory before running it.
        -Zane

New:    The Microsoft Visual C++ console port is in and under the MSVC
        directory.  The console executable was also included in the src
        directory (Ember.exe).  You'll need to use startup.bat to run it,
        just like the UNIX version.
        -Zane

New:    A small Unix sleep clone was included in the src dir and the source
        is in the Sleep directory under src.  Be amazed at the complexity.
        :)
        -Zane

To Do:   I'm working on getting hotboot to work under Win32 but Winsock is
        not playing nice.
        -Zane

v0.9.33 [8-25-98]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfix: If a PC was charmed, they could type nofollow to become uncharmed.
        -Kyle

Bugfix: Console class can no longer be chosen during new character
        creation.
        -Kyle

Bugfix: New do_title function...  Allows longer titles and doesn't count
        color codes anymore.
        -Kyle

Bugfix: Link break / reconnect code fixed (again).
        -Kyle

New:    Clans.  No documentation is available yet, but Kyle has promised
        it is forthcoming (everyone bombard boyd1@proaxis.com with stuff 
        like "Where's the docs for clans?" and "Quit playing TA for 
        awhile!" <grin>  Seriously...  This is a HUGE accomplishment!
        Kyle is THE MAN.  I can't wait to see what people do with this.
        -Kyle

New:    Whois now displays number of PK deaths if the player is PK.
        -Kyle

New:    New commands setedit and setprog to allow/deny players access to
        OLC and the Mudprog editor respectively.
        -Kyle

New:    Whorace and whoprefix wiz commands.  Allows wizards to set the
        who text for a player's race and prefix their name with some
        text.
        -Kyle

New:    Objcheck command.  In Kyle's words:  "This cycles through a
        given set of vnums and identifies problems in the objects.
        Useful for quickly debugging objects in new areas.
        -Kyle

New:    STARTING_PRACTICES, STARTING_TRAINS, and STARTING_TITLE #define's
        added to config.h.
        -Kyle

New:    More config.h options.  Check Kyle's comments in config.h for
        details.
        -Kyle

New:    New object flags anti-cleric, anti-thief, anti-warrior, and
        anti-mage.
        -Kyle

New:    Morgue.  Toggle it on/off and set the vnum in config.h.
        -Kyle

Change: The music channel is now the OOC (Out of character) channel.
        -Kyle

Change: Players with trust or level >= MAX_LEVEL automatically have access
        to OLC (no security check).
        -Kyle

Change: Material_type table filled in.  Still not implemented, though.
        -Kyle

v0.9.32 [Release date not recorded]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 Distribution now includes both Unix and Win32 code as well as the Win32
 executable.

 Win32 port via Borland C++ Builder.  If you don't own a copy of BCB then
 you should go buy it right now.

 Features of Win32 port include:

	Administrative GUI Console
	Log window, autosaves every night at midnight.
	Users tab, lists all online users and allows you to kick, freeze,
	ban, restore users from the GUI.  You can also send messages to
	users via tell.  All these options are available by right-clicking
	on a user in the user list.
	Statistics tab that updates once a second.  Basically just uses
	the output from the mem commmand.
	Channels tab, lists all output from Channels, Echo, Info and allows
	the console to send messages to any channel (including echo and 
	sinfo).  The name used will be the Console Name on the Options tab.
	Options tab, you can set the Port number form here as well as the
	console name (used when sending channel messages).
	When minized it hides from the taskbar and becomes an icon on
	the system tray.
	You can shutdown and reboot from within the GUI.
	GUI has crash protection code, if the mud hangs for five seconds
	then the GUI will restart it.  This timeout is configurable.

 The GUI code will not affect compiling under Unix.

 Ticks are no longer logged unless you compile with -DDEBUG.

 To do:

	Add user editing to the Online Users tab.

Zak
---
 Yes, there's been a version numbering change.  0.32 is now 0.9.32 in
 preparation for v1.0.0 by July 1998 if everything goes well.

 Please check out README-0.9.32 and http://members.tripod.com/~Zak0/
 for important information about this release.

 Documentation for room affects, finally.  Check the doc directory.

 While looking at the raffect code, I realized that although when they
 were deleted, the used memory was being kept in a free list, the free list
 wasn't being recycled in new_raffect().  That's fixed now.

 New output format for do_mobstat, do_roomstat, and do_objstat functions.

 Changed ch->buffer code from Thanatos' mudprogs into standard sprintf(), 
 strcat(), and strlen() checks.  This code (or something very similar) 
 will probably end up in an official EmberMUD release in time, however...

 Don't forget to copy the supermob (mob vnum #4 in limbo.are) and his room
 (room vnum #4 in limbo.are) into your area files, or your MUD won't boot.

 Don't forget to make OBJProgs, ROOMProgs, and MOBProgs subdirectories under
 your base area directory, or you won't be able to use any of those features.
 
 Removed olc_ed_vnum function from olc.c.  It's not being used for anything...
 Anyone know why it was even there?

 Fixed a bug in new_mprog() related to using recycled memory.

 New function check_level().  Pass it an argument (like you would pass to
 interp()) and it will return the level required to execute that command.
 
 Added check_level() call to mpsilentforce() to restrict which commands
 mudprogs can silentforce (only commands of level < MAX_LEVEL-9).

 Added check for silentmode being true in update.c (should never ever
 happen, though).

 Ooooh Yessss...  I've got command_prog working for mobs.  This still needs
 testing before it's expanded to objects and rooms, but it looks really
 good so far. (It's funny to have Hassan tell me I suck every time I type
 north (or no or n) in the room with him).

Kyle
----
 mpdefault?
 
 command_progs expanded to work with objects and rooms.
 
 act_prog_data struct?
 
 Default new mudprog changed from in_file_prog to rand_prog.
 
 Added line numbers, line replace, line delete, and other changes to the
 line-based online text editor.  Oh, and fixed ~ on a blank line not working
 bug.
 
 Fixed Obj->next == object_list bug.

 New mudprogs - mpsilentforce and mpdosilent.
 
 mpsilentforce allows a mob, obj, or room force someone to do something
 without any output being generated.  Like, the mob makes you drop something
 and then echos at you that the item flew from your hands at his command
 or something.
 
 mpdosilent allows a mob to do something silently.  For instance, a mob could
 open a door silently and then echo at you that the door opened when he said
 "Open sesame" or something.

Tyrluk & Thanatos
-----------------
 logf_string() and new bug() function that work like printf() to eliminate
 the need for buffers in a few places.

 bug_trace() function???

 mpversion command inside the MUD now reports the base version of EmberMUD
 this mud is running on.

 New function: remove_color() which could have many uses, I suppose.

 printf_to_char() function that works like it sounds... send_to_char with
 printf() like options.

 Added some reset validation code to OLC to prevent bad resets from crashing
 the MUD.

 MUD Programs.  That means not only mobprogs, but roomprogs and objprogs
 as well.  This is a port of the SMAUG MUD progs code.

 Online mudprog editing.  'Nuff said.

 Changed a bunch of MAX_STRING_LENGTH to MAX_INPUT_LENGTH.

 Cleaned up OLC some.

 In edit mob, when you set the level of a mob, his stats are automatically
 set to reasonable defaults.

v0.31 [11-23-97]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Again, check out the README.031 file for important notes on EmberMUD.

Kyle
----
 The Playtester's Arena area has been included in the area directory.
 This serves several purposes...  1) It gives the beginning admin a
 chance to add in an area (just put it in area.lst and go put an exit
 from Market Square down to room 400).  2) It gives playtesters or
 builders somewhere to go to do something other than killing fidos
 or mud school mobs.  3) It provides eq for up to level 10 newbies,
 since previously there was none.

 Change in act_move.c to keep xp from being taken away from mobs when
 they recall.  This caused the mud to crash when you recalled with a pet.
 
 Change in comm.c to prevent new players entering a large number while
 stat rolling and getting strange stats. (ie: -102 str, 4941 dex, etc)
 
 Random object loading code is in.  This only applies to objects that may
 load on a particular instance of a particular mob.  Basically, it works
 like this:  In OLC for a mob, you set a percentage chance of random objects
 loading.  You also must set a number of objects to load and a type of
 objects.  Currently, if the number of objects is greater than one, there
 is an even chance of that number of that type of objects being loaded.
 What that means is, if the number is 2, there's a 50% chance of 1 object
 loading, and a 50% chance of 2 objects.  If the number is 4, there's a
 25% of 1, 25% of 2, 25% of 3, and 25% of 4.  You get the idea...
 Objects of type ring, magic-weapon, and magic-armor are currently generated
 with one random affect attached to them.  The higher level the mob is,
 the better material the random object will be made of.  This is determined
 as a percentage of MAX_LEVEL.
 
 Documentation for the random object code is in the doc directory
 (random.doc).
 
 Fixed another missing smash_tilde in do_buy (when you buy a pet, you can
 name it, and that name is saved in the pfile, so if you know anything
 about smash_tilde bugs, you already know how to take advantage of this
 one).  Another bug that was fixed in ROM 2.4, but we only just now caught
 it.

v0.30 [9-21-97]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Please check out the README.030 file in this directory for release notes
 regarding this version of EmberMUD.
 
 Added config.h file for defining various constants for use in the game.
 (things like colors for the various channels, connect and quit messages,
 etc).  I expect to change some of these things from constants to variables
 that can be changed on-line while the game is running (no hotboot required!)
 Definately take a look at config.h if you're a new EmberMUD admin!

 Fixed a bug pointed out by Rindar: All of the healing, curing, etc spells
 were using hit_xp_compute() to figure xp for casting the spell.  This has
 been replaced with a new function cast_xp_compute() that no longer modifies
 the caster's alignment.  While messing around in this code, I noticed that
 a lot of spells are not giving the caster any xp at all.  Someone (me?) 
 should go through and put some cast_xp_compute() calls in those spells as
 well, probably.

 Fixed a small bug in do_finger (x!=71 changed to x<71).  If a player's
 title was especially long, x could already be more than 71 before the loop
 was entered...  Therefore the loop would never end!

Raven & Rindar
--------------
 Modified the add2last function.  This should fix a number of errors when 
 accompanied with the send fix.

 Modified do_sendinfo so that it would work with add2last.  This should
 fix a number of errors when accompanied with the new add2last fix.  These
 errors include crashes due to gossips, being AFK, and using the LAST 
 command.

 Fixed the bug in do_quit which would often crash the game when someone
 quit.

 Did two quick fixes in fight.c to the functions do_bash and do_dirt. They 
 had probably been there since MERC.

 Added the "heal" command and healer to EmberMUD.  This feature can be
 found in a number of MUDs, and allows NPC's to sell healing spells to
 rich adventurers.  Use the act HEALER flag to enable this.
 
 [ Zak: If you look back in Zane's 0.21 changes, this was removed before.
        I'm going to allow it to stay for the meantime, but I do still intend
        to remove it permanently and replace it with a mobprog someday ]

 Activated the shield_block skill.  It works in a way similar to parry.
 This is not meant to be a brand new feature; it is simply a way to 
 justify keeping the shield block skill in the character roller and 
 to keep players of the backs of Admins.

 Activated the special weapon code for some of the weapons (technically,
 Russ Taylor activated the code.. we just ported it over).

 Changed the way the game loads when booting.  The new order allows 
 objects or MOBs from an area to be used as resets in ANY other area. 

 Fixed the memory leak in add2last that was causing the MUD to crash 
 after too many gossips were executed.

 Fixed the bug with the WHO list that showed the "Visible immortals:"
 message even when all imms were WizInvis.

 Fixed the bug in which too long of titles crashed the game when a 
 SCORE was done.

 Fixed the bug in which too long of tells would crash the game.

 Fixed the MAJOR bug that allowed charmed NPC's to execute MOBPROGS
 when ordered.  This bug could give anyone with the charm spell IMP
 powers.

 Fixed the MAJOR bug that allowed the master to force a charmed PC to
 DELETE themselves or change their password.

 Fixed the possible "roll-over experience" bug that allowed players to
 easily get to the lowest IMM level.

 Fixed the buy bug that crashed the game when too many items were 
 purchased. Also fixed the bug that allowed characters to gain skill 
 in haggle even if they didn't buy anything.

 Fixed the bug in polearms that was setting them as whips.

 Fixed the bug in the bodypart list that would set MOB bodyparts 
 incorrectly.

 Three new manuals have been added to the DOC folder: ADDRACE.TXT, 
 ADDCOMM.TXT and CRLFFIX.TXT.  The first instructs the reader in how
 to add new races, the second in how to add new commands, and the 
 third in how to remove unwanted CR's.

 The unofficial EmberMUD homepage is now up at:
  http://www.concentric.net/~Clogar/
 The site contains various code snippets, bug fixes, rumors, and links.
  
v0.29 [11-25-96]
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 New beep command to toggle beeps on/off.
 
 When you have beeps on, you will hear a beep when someone tells to you.
 
 When someone tells to you while you're AFK, you will still see the tell
 (and hear a beep if beeps are on), as well as the tell being recorded
 in your messages.

 Reconnect code has been reactivated and eq clone bug has been fixed the
 RIGHT way.

 Bug stomped...  When you ordererd a pet or charmee to wake up, the mud
 would crash.  FIXED.

 I'm pretty confidant the whois related crashes will stop now.
 
 add2last_imm was occasionally trying to free an empty tmp->sender string
 somehow...  There's an if check in there now to prevent that, but I'm not
 sure why it was doing it in the first place. <shrug>

 Ordering a mob to wake or stand would crash the mud.  FIXED.

v0.28 [11-23-95]
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 Fixed crash bug where ordering a charmed mob to advance would crash the
 mud.
 
 Fixed bug in xp per hit system where you could get xp for damaging yourself.
 (ie: poison, casting magic missile on self, etc).
 
 Small code cleanup in act_wiz to prevent compile-time warnings.
 
 Fixed security bug in do_prompt (no smash_tilde(argument)).
 
 _OLD_ bug introduced when OLC was installed fixed.  In do_mstat, there
 was a reference to ch->pcdata->security that should have been
 victim->pcdata->security.  <shrug> Dunno how that happened.  This caused
 crashes every once in awhile (for instance if you were switched and got
 statted, the !IS_NPC(victim) would pass, but victim->pcdata would be NULL
 (since you really ARE an NPC), and the above reference would cause a
 segfault.
 
 There are still some switch related bugs in do_mstat.  Nothing that
 seems to crash the MUD, but stuff that produces some strange information...
 Hey, don't stat someone while they're switched, and you won't have a prob!
 
 Crash bug fix.  If Zak switched into Hassan, then someone told to Hassan, 
 the mud would crash.  Problem was that add2tell wasn't checking for a NULL
 victim->pcdata.
 
 Bug in the maximum damage check fixed.  If a mob did more than 1000 points
 damage, the mud would crash.
 
 _ALL_ references to the control port have been removed.  I don't have the
 time to work on this piece of code right now, and it's still causing people
 problems, so it's gone.  It was a good idea, though. 8-)
 
 
v0.27 [10-19-97]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 I think this falls in the DUH category.  Last was being added to once for
 each player online.  All calls to add2last need to be moved outside of the
 descriptor_list loops.  Sorry about that guys <blush>.

 You can now name rooms with OLC to include the word dark.
 
 Added a cls(descriptor) macro to clear screen.  Used it in show_string to
 clear screen before each screenfull of text.
 
 I think the hotboot bug may be fixed.  It seems to be working okay on my
 home system, at least.  After hotboot, I can telnet back into the control
 port w/o a problem, as well as the main mud.  I get no errors in my logfile,
 and it doesn't seem to be eating memory like crazy anymore.  I still need
 someone to test it out on a heavy-use system, though.
 
 Added a last command for the imm channel.  Use lastimm to view the last
 MAX_LAST_LENGTH messages from the imm channel.
 
 Added a last command for all private messages (tells, gtells, replies...)
 Type tq to show your last MAX_LAST_LENGTH private messages.

 Wizi imms should now show up as someone in last if they were wizi above
 your level when they gossiped (or whatever).

v0.26 [10-6-96]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Made the last_list global instead of being attached to each individual.
 This saves a lot of memory, plus allows players just logging on to view
 the last MAX_LAST_LENGTH messages from before they logged in.  Also, dunno
 if this is a plus or a minus, but if you're "tuned out" of a certain channel,
 you can still see what's been said on it lately by typing last.

 _ALL_ clan code has been commented out.  Eventually it will be removed
 completely.  I'm going to redo all of the clan code from the beginning.
 You need to remove clans.are from your area directory, and from the area.lst
 file.
 
 whois crash bug fixed (trying to free_string something that shouldn't have
 been being freed).

v0.25 [9-10-96]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Started changes to support control client connections on the port the
 mud is running on plus one.
 
Zane
----
 Re-enabled xp/alignment code.  It works like this:  When you're of good
 alignment and kill a good mob, you get less xp than if you kill a bad mob.
 If you're of bad alignment and kill a good mob, you get more xp than if
 you killed a bad mob.  Get it?
 
 Fleeing now costs 5% of level.  This should help prevent bs-flee-bs-flee...
 
 Recall during a fight now costs 10% of level.
 
 If you do more than 1000 hp of damage in one hit, your weapon will be taken
 away, and your name will be logged.
 
 You now get 15% more xp while in a group.  ( Zak - Is this the right way to
 encourage grouping?? )
 
 Damage messages are now based on the % of HP damage you do to your enemy
 instead of flat numbers of HP.
 
 You no longer recieve xp for killing a mob.  You now recieve xp on a per
 hit basis.  You will recieve a message telling you the total xp you earned
 after the fight has ended (whether through flee, recall, kill, whatever).
 
 You now recieve xp for casting healing spells on anyone besides yourself.
 Also, you recieve xp for casting any remove spell.  The amount is based on
 the amount of HP healed, and the level of the caster.

v0.24 [9-2-96]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 Note boards are in.  New command board to list/change current board.
 Note command changed as follows:
 
  note list  - now lists all notes on the current board.
  note read  - now reads a note on the current board.
  note write - starts writing a new note.  You are automatically
               set AFK until done, and any tells to you are queued
	       until you're done.
  note       - note without an argument reads the next new note on
              the current board.  If there are no new notes left,
	      the current board is changed to the next board.
 
 Autolevel is out (type advance when you are notified that you are ready 
 to level).  This will allow you to go wear leveling eq first, or save your
 xp up to spend later (at a meta shop perhaps)?
 
 Message queues are in.  Tells to you are saved in a queue while you 
 are AFK, asleep, in quiet mode, or posting a note to a note board.  When
 you awake, come back from AFK, turn of quieit mode, or finish posting,
 you will be notified of how many messages have been recorded.  Type 
 messages to see tells recorded in the queue.
 
 When you're AFK, you can now still do stuff, but you will be constantly
 reminded that you are still AFK.

 Also, when you wake from being asleep, you automatically do a look now.

 Memory leak in alias code fixed.  Memory leak in prompt code fixed.
 
 New command, last.  Repeats last MAX_LAST_LENGTH things you would have
 heard (tells, gossips, infos, etc).
 
 PK corpses could be looted by players if the kill was by a mob.  Fixed.
 
 Last mob or player to kill a player stored in pcdata (and shown in whois).
 
 Number of pk kills and number of times killed by pk players stored in pcdata
 (and shown in whois).
 
 email and comment commands added.  email <text> and comment <text>.
 Both variables are displayed in whois text.
 
 track.c integrated into act_move.c
 alias.c integrated into act_info.c
 
 Crash bug in AFK code fixed (has to do with switched immortals).
 
v0.23 [8-29-96]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 Added hotboot wiz command.  Thanks to reszor@intrcom.com for his TAOD
 code so we could grab this bit of code.  It's really nice.  It reboots
 the MUD (for code changes, loading new area files, or whatever) without
 kicking all of the players offline.

Zak
---
 Memory leak in do_finger fixed.

v0.22 [8-12-96]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Got rid of the global buf and arg except in olc_act.c.

 Don't know who added it or when (probably Alander), but there's a
 nice little undocumented feature a lot of people may be interested in.
 You can gzip all of the pfiles in the player directory, and when
 someone logs in, their file will auto-ungzip.  Use this once a month.
 Whatever .gz files are left at the end of the month are players that
 haven't logged on in a month and can be deleted.  Cooley, eh?

 CON_GET_ANSI connected state added.  Players prompted "Use ANSI?" in
 new_descriptor(). d->ansi set accordingly.  Color command remains for 
 online toggling.

 Just hitting ENTER at the "Use ANSI?" prompt defaults to Y.
 
 help item ANSIGREET is displayed instead of GREETING for new connections
 answering Y to "Use ANSI?" prompt.

 smash_tilde() added to do_alias function to fix security bug.  That
 alias code came directly from ROM 2.4, I think...  Hrm...
 
 Fixed lots of buf[] and arg[] crash bugs.  I'm beginning to think maybe
 we should change them ALL back...
 
 New whois (maybe other stuff?) doesn't use the reserved file descriptor.
 That could probably pose a problem...  Someone else do it -- PLEASE! <G>
 
v0.21 [not released]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Couple of extra spaces in whois output for players not currently online
 removed.

 Track command added.  This should probably be a skill or not be available
 to players at all or something.  Usage: track <someone> will tell you the
 first step to take in the direction of <someone> as long as they are in
 the same area as you.  <somone> may be a mob or a player either one.
 (I would like this to be worldwide, but not until it's made into a skill).
 
 Lots of little touches.  Small fix in score display, changed "Note 
 protected" string to "Note unprotected" when unprotecting a note, etc...

 New MOBProg command, mpremember.  Syntax is: mpremember <name>.  MOB will
 remember <name> until name logs off.  

 New MOBProg command, mpforget.  Clears calling mob's memory.
 
 New MOBProg variable, $b.  References name of mob or player in memory.

 New MOBProg ifcheck, memory.  Used as follows:
  if memory( )               : Returns TRUE if memory is not empty.
  if memory( ) == $*         : Returns result of evaluation of opr and $*.
                               opr may be any of ==,!=,/,or !/.  $* may be
			       any of $n, $t, and $r.
  if memory( ) == <name>     : Returns result of evaluation of opr and <name>.
                               opr may be any of ==,!=,/,or !/.  <name> may
			       be any string not beginning with $.
 
 Following is an example of how to use the new MOB memory stuff:
 
 >speech_prog die~
 mpremember $n
 say I shall remember thee, $n!
 tell $n YOU, my friend, are the one that shall die!
 ~
 >speech_prog forget~
 if memory( )
  shout Oops, I forgot all about $b!
  mpforget
 endif
 ~
 >rand_prog 5~
 if memory( )
  shout $b shall die!
 endif
 ~
 |
 
Zane
----
 All buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH] and arg[MAX_STRING_LENGTH] should be using
 the global versions instead of function specific versions.  This means
 it is possible that some buf's and arg's are being overwritten by a new
 function before the old one gets used.  If a command is acting strangely
 or not working, this is most likely the cause.  PLEASE LET US KNOW!
 
 Mobs now load with all comm flags turned on.  This means MOBProgs can now
 yell, shout, gossip, etc...
 
 Removal of healer.c (specific vnum coding must DIE!).

 New MOBProg for healer to replace healer.c stuff.

 db.c and db2.c cleaned up and combined.

 Old areafile conversion routines nuked as part of db.c cleanup.

 New make diff option added to Makefile.  src/original directory must
 exist and have copies of the *.h, *.c, and Makefile you are diffing
 against.

v0.20 [6-20-96]  DELETE YOUR notes.txt FILE!!!!!!!!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 New str_len() function to return the length of a string w/o counting any
 color codes inside it.  Allows me to put your title into score and
 whois output.

 New whois output.  Title in score.

 Added protected bit for notes and auto-delete for old non-protected notes.
 note_cleanup() is called at bootup, and anytime someone posts a new note.
 Auto-delete timer is one week currently.  It is set inside note_cleanup().
 
 note protect imp command added to make a note permanent.

 If a note is protected from auto-deletion, it will have a red P next to 
 it's number in note list.  Also, the N in note list for unread notes is now
 also red.
 
 If a note is protected from auto-deletion, when you read it, the word
 Permanent will appear in the note's header.
 
 Players are now reminded to note post upon entering the note editor.
 
 note protect imp command added to make a note permanent.

 do_count() function removed.  Yeah, I could have fixed it, but I think
 I'd rather just rewrite it from scratch later instead.
 
 I added some more color here and there.
 
 Default white color of gecho changed to grey (as it should always have
 been).

 Added get_curdate() and get_curtime() functions.

 Fixed memory leak in current time in configurable prompt.

 Fixed that extra space in do_score() for three digit levels.

v0.19 [6-16-96 I think it was]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Startup script changed to work under bash, since that's my shell of choice.
 Old startup script renamed to startup.csh.
 
 Removed the extra space after player's name (before title) in whois output.
 
v0.18 [not released]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The original v0.18 Changelog was lost when we lost our old site.  The
following is what I can remember has changed since v0.17.

Thexder
-------
 %T in prompt for current time (according to the MUD's host's system clock).

 raffect command added to manipulate room affects.

 clan command added.

 who display changed.  (PK) instead of (KILLER), and player's clan name in
 front of their name.

 whois command added.

 rlist changed to work outside of OLC editors.

Thex & Zak
----------
 Room affects added.

 show command added.  show clans lists all clans.  show clan <name> shows
 some information about clan name <name>.

v0.17 [1-19-96]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak
---
 Makefile and startup script changed.  The MUD now compiles to an executable
 named ember instead of merc.

 A new distribution of the MUD has been built now.  It includes only the 
 area files neccesary to get you started.  Since we upped the level limit
 to 100, the old area files were unbalanced.  When we have our own standard
 distribution of balanced areas ready, we will probably distribute them as
 well.  Until then, thank the gods for OLC! <grin>

v0.16 [not released]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thexder
-------
 MAJOR bug fix.  When Allowing mobs to cast for MOBProgs, all mobs could cast
 even pets, with unlimited mana and no level restricts on spells.  Now charmed
 mobs cannot cast spells.  This should fix any abuse of this bug.
  (Zak - I don't like this...  I wanna figure something else out, like maybe a
  higher level charm that allows charmed mobs to cast with some kinda limited
  mana or something.  Maybe Thex has something else in mind??)

 Fix for rest or sit while affected by sleep spell (would allow you to
 awake).

 Code added to do_who to show a player's clan (if clan!=0).

 Level 101 and 102 players now show up in who, but they show up as only
 level 100.  Useful for implementers who wish to snoop on other level
 100 players.

 Added function new_damage, same as damage function, with the addition of 
 a boolean argument of whether to show the damage message.

 Fix for pk and wands. You could zap anyone with wand, this is fixed.
 (Hopefully we have taken care of all "attack" instances and pk problems)

 Now while AFK no commands are accepted except "afk". Small fix in do_afk 
 needed to work with this code.  

 Upon entering game if char is afk, do_afk is called, seeing as how if
 they are there to enter the game, they aren't too afk. :)

 Simplified is_safe code by creating ACT_NO_KILL for mobs.  These are the 
 only mobs now unattackable by chars.

 Added brew and scribe skills.  Char must be holding an empty vial or blank
 parchment before the skill can be used.  

 Fix for some characters not being able to get on with Illegal name warnings.
 is_name was parsing their name to a mob name. (Need a better fix for this 
 later)

 Autosave disabled during CHAOS. Log reports skipped autosaves.

 cwho fixed(I think).

 Added another placeholder in who level.

 Check for NPC in wizi portion of show_char_to_char, otherwise setting
 a mob to ACT_UNDEAD made them look (Wizi).

 Minor color fix for 'web' string.

 Aliases, alias <word> <string>, unalias <word>.  Current MAX_ALIAS = 8.

 Shutdown and reboot disabled while in CHAOS mode.

Zak
---
 Who now takes a name argument.  "who i" for a list of immorts online changed 
 to "who imm" (because the way "who i" was checked made usernames starting
 with I not work when the name argument was provided.

 Added a function to save clans(in olc_save.c) called using 'asave world'
 'asave changed' or 'asave clans'.

 Clans are now saved in area/clans.are, any existing clans need to be moved
 this file.

 Work on edit clan commands begun.

 set char <name> clan <clan name> now works, but does not save new
 member to the clan's member list (yet).

 find_clan function added to code for use in set char clan and
 for other future uses.


v0.15 12/18/95
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thexder
-------
 Save command disabled while in CHAOS mode, to reduce chance of cloning.
 Also, there is now an info message when chaos is toggled.  

 Changed str_cmp to str_prefix in is_name function in handler.c
 Allows for things like 'tell thex Hi' and 'kill has' 

 Title no longer changes when advancing a level.

 Wizinvis players who went AFK or returned from AFK were still being reported
 via the INFO channel.  Fixed.

Zak
---
 Level for asave, alist, edit, and resets commands changed from HERO to
 level 90.  If you want to make a non-god builder, advance or trust them to
 level 90.  There are still security checks in the code that keep level 90s
 that shouldn't be messing with those commands from doing anything.

 Upon reboot and shutdown, the mud will now sinfo a message like 
 INFO: Reboot by Zak! unless Zak is wizinvis.  The echo call is still there,
 in case someone has their info channel turned off.

 All references to Mota in the code changed to "the gods".

 Changed code so that only ACT_GAIN mobs and ACT_HEALER mobs are immune
 to being attacked by players.  You still can't actually HIT those
 guildmasters and shopkeeprs, but you can get your butt kicked _BY_ them
 now. <grin>

 New damage messages added:

  if dam <=44 points, PULVERIZES (replaces DISEMBOWELS).
  if dam <=165 points, <><><> BUTCHERS <><><>.
  if dam <=185 points, <><><> DISEMBOWELS <><><>.

 Beta testing raise in max level on mud to 100.  Maximum mortal level is now
 level 90.  Several things are being affected by these changes, so if
 something seems broke, it's being worked on.

v0.14 [12/14/95]
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Thexder
-------
 worth command fixed.

 CHAOS code has been started and is functional.
 Chaos has the following effects:
 1. Once chaos is toggled using the 'chaos' command the game is wizlocked
 2. Regen is at half rate for hit points and mana.
 3. Where command is disabled for levels below HERO
 4. Teleport, summon, gate, and vision spells are disabled
 5. When a character dies, they are disconnected. Characters eq is moved
    to the room. ie. They drop everything on death.
 NOTE: pfiles are not saved!

 chaos.txt file for logging chaos deaths and finishing scores. (Need 
 something better when I figure it out)

 'cwho' command added to show chaos scores of attached players.

 Imms can now set a player's recall room with the set command.

 asave no longer wipes out mobprogs (could use some work).

 Pet-recall crash bug fixed.

 Regeneration code back in place.

 Combat prompt, "prompt combat" for the two line "coolprompt"

 Fix in check_assist, will not assist pk char if attacking another player.
 If you want to attack a pk player, you must do it explicitly.

 Added ROOM_NOTELEPORT room flag, teleport skips these rooms when finding 
 random room.  

 Fix for EX_HIDDEN, looking in a direction no longer reveals a hidden door. 

 Fix for PK - pk players may now cast offensive spells on each other.

Zak
---
 'mpstat' moved to a level 53 command.
 'beacon' moved to a level 53 command.

v0.13 [12/1/95]
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Thexder
-------
 Info channel was not reporting deaths properly.  FIXED.

 recall_room added to pcdata for setting a player's recall room.

 Beacon command added for imps to set recall room. Sample command.

 New config prompt codes %x and %X for current xp and xp to level.

 New config prompt codes %A for act bit on player AFK, WIZI, KILLER, THIEF.
 Wizi also shows the level of wizinvis.

 Pour command added.  Pour <container> out to empty <container> and
 pour <container> <container2> to pour from <container> into <container2>.

 Mobprogs in beta testing mode!!!

 Hidden Door flag added.  Moving in the direction of a hidden door doesn't
 reveal that there is a door there.

 Sample search command for hidden doors.

 Fix for autoassist and pk leaders.

 Revised junk command.  Junk now does a sac from inventory only.  Also 
 does not check for splitting gold recieved.

 Revised purge command.  You can now purge a specific item(obj).  Must be in 
 current room.

 Fix for loss of racial benefits after death.

 Fix for stat generation, was possible to enter number higher than column,
 resulting in very strange stats.

 Regen code back in place, hopefully for good this time.

 Added a default prompt.  Use prompt default to return to default prompt.

v0.12 [Nodist]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thexder
-------
 AC for mobs in OLC editor fixed.

 New spell code in place, but spells not made available to mortals yet.

 New scan (thanks Thex).  Shows current room and some other changes.  No
 longer sees through closed doors.

 New prompt code %#.  Shows current room vnum.

 New addaffect for objects.  Affect alignment.

 New door flag added (passproof).  Can't pass with 'pass door'. 

v0.11 [11/15/95]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thexder
-------
 fight.c patched so that other aggresive attacks between non-pk players
 are NOT allowed.  Thanks Thexder!

Zane
----
 AFK command added (Away From Keyboard).

 Added INFO channel to report player deaths, players becoming pk, players
 leveling, and players that are AFK.

 Added sinfo command for level 59+ players to talk on INFO channel.

 Beginnings of clan code are in.  Not activated yet, but they're in. <G>

v0.10 [11/1/95]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 OLC is back in and appears to be working without crashes for the most part. 
 There are a few things causing crashes, but no more random crashes appear to
 be related to OLC (ie: all crashes can be traced to "do this, cause crash").

 All crash bugs are being worked on.

 Player Killing has been added!  Type pk twice to toggle the flag for
 yourself.  Keep in mind that it is NOT REVERSABLE! 

Zak
---
 Major bug fixed with xp needed to level for level 40+ players.

 New features will begin to be added again now that random crashes seem to 
 have been eliminated.

v0.09 [10/24/95]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 Many modifications made in both the color and config prompt code to
 hopefully avoid future crashes relating to said code.

v0.08 [9/24/95]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 OLC is in.  Still testing it to see how it works...

 AFK command added.

 who output format modified.

v0.07 [9/23/95]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zak & Thexder
-------------
 Group bug fixed.  Anytime you were grouped, you would recieve ZERO xp.
 A new formula for figuring xp in group situations has been implemented
 as follows.  YourXP = YourLevel * TotalXP / TotalLevelsinGroup.

Zane
----
 Note crash bug fixed (I hope).

 Cloning bug fixed. (aka reconnect bug)

 Scan no longer sees invisible mobs and players, but still sees through
 closed doors.

 Dual wield no longer works if you are wearing a shield or holding an item.

v0.06 [9/10/95]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zane
----
 New NPC races added - Sheriff, Sailor, and Thain.

 Working on new consider command.

 Working on new player races.

 Working on dual wield skill for players.
 
v0.05 [9/3/95]
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Zane
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 SCAN command now in place.

 Added rem all command.  

 Donation room and donate command are in.  Go east from recall/temple.

v0.04 [9/3/95]
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Zane
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 EFFECTS command is in to show current spell effects, etc, upon
 a player (replaces effects part of old SCORE command). 

 Levels command added to display needed XP per level (after creation 
 points modifier is applied).

 Configurable prompts are in. Help code for prompts added. (help prompt) 
  
 More work done on creation points affecting xp needed to level.

Zak & Zane
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 New score command, shows how your creation points are affecting your
 ability to level in addition to all the other stats.  Looks much prettier
 now too, don't you think?

v0.03 [9/2/95]
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Zane
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 XP requirements per level are now SET.  The only thing that will
 modify the number of XP you will need to get from one level to 
 the next is the number of creation points you spend when you 
 create a player.

 Taking out XP for killing mobs being based on your alignment and the
 mob's alignment.  

 Removing code that made a low level character get more xp from a kill
 than a high level character would.  The xp value of a mob should be
 dependant on how hard the mob is in general.  Working towards returning
 to old more xp required to level per level way of doing things.  The
 log-in configuration where you spend creation points will still have
 an effect on your xp required to level each level, however.

 Wiped out the code whereby the longer you took to level, the more xp 
 you would get per kill.

 Still adding color here and there around the mud.
  
 "Hurt and Suspicious" no backstab thing removed.  Possibly will be
 replaced in the future with a more sensible no backstab rule.

v0.02 [9/1/95]
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Zane
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 Added color command to turn colors on and off.

 Added ` codes to change colors ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE in the mud, 
 including in says, tells, shouts, etc.  

v0.01 [8/30/95]
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Zak
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 Small changes to the Makefile and the original ROM 2.3 source to get
 it compiling on our Linux system.

==================== The EmberMUD development team =======================
Zaknafein        - Kevin Williams  - zak@embermud.org
Zane             - Ej Wilburn      - zane@embermud.org
Dorzak           - Nathan Cookson  - dorzak@embermud.org
==========================================================================

Please contact one of us if you have any coding ideas, etc.