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- ║ DRAGON WARZ! REALM UTILITY DOCUMENTATION ║
- ║ c. 1990, BRUCE RUONA, SOFTSPOT SOFTWARE ║
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- A. INTRODUCTION
- The program MANAGER.EXE is a utility for use with the DWARZ Game. its
- purpose in life is to create a number of different text files showing
- the current player rankings amongst the different realms, as well as
- showing the individual combined rankings of the different Realms based
- upon the latest recons received on the other Realms.
-
- Additionally, MANAGER may be started in a manual 'editing' mode which
- provides limited player maintaince capabilities as well as System data
- verification.
-
- B. INSTALLATION
- simply place MANAGER.EXE in the Subdirectory containing your DWARZ
- Data files and all the required Subdirectories, and then add a line
- to run MANAGER.EXE to your Daily maintaince routines. (It really only
- needs to be run once per day...)
-
- C. FILES CREATED & MAINTAINED
- When intially run, MANAGER will create another subdirectory off your
- DWARZ root called DATABASE where it will create/store all the
- necessary text files it will be using...no messy set-up or
- installation this way!
-
- PLAYERS.ASC This is a Ranked listing of all the players found
- in the different Realms from BIGGEST to SMALLEST.
- Recreated Daily.
-
- REALMS.ASC This is a Ranked listing showing the TOTAL city
- count of each Realm, as well as the Date of the
- last recon received from this realm. Recreated
- Daily.
-
- LOCALHOF.ASC This is a PERMANENT Text file showing the HIGHEST
- ranked player LOCALLY on the First of Each Month.
- Updated ONLY on the First day of the Month!
-
- REALMHOF.ASC This Shows the HIGHEST ranked PLAYER in ALL realms on
- The first of the Month. Again, Update ONLY on the
- first of the Month.
-
- PLAYHOF.ASC This is a PERMANANENT Text file showing the HIGHEST
- ranked player on an INTER-REALM basis as of the first
- of EACH month. this is updated ONCE at the beginning
- of each Month.
-
- D. OPTIONS:
- Various options are available via COMMAND LINE Parameters as follows:
-
- MANAGER [SCORES|NOMALACHI] [MANUAL]
-
- SCORES: Normally all output is sorted according to CITIES, however
- Passing this parameter will cause all reports to be sorted
- by player SCORES.
-
- NOMALACHI: The Default is to include the computer generated MALACHI
- player in the reports/totals, however passing this
- parameter will cause the malachi to be EXCLUDED from
- all considerations.
-
- MANUAL: Normally MANAGER will boot up and create the described
- text files then exit, however this parameter will cause
- manager to enter the player editor/maintaince mode.
- Thus using this parameter is exclusive of all others.
-
- E. MANUAL MAINTAINCE MODE.
- Booting manager up in this mode will give you menu containing a few
- general player/system maintaince functions including DELETE PLAYER(S),
- and VERIFY SYSTEM Data.
-
- Selecting DELETE PLAYERS will show a list of all current players,
- their ALIAS Name, and their last play date. Simply select all the
- players you wish deleted by moving the highlight bar to the player
- name and pressing SPACE BAR. Press RETURN to begin deletion (NOTE:
- you will be prompted to confirm delete of player!!).
-
- Selecting VERIFY SYSTEM will display a small table containg all your
- vital statistics for the game: (this is provided mostly as a debug
- aid in tracking down system problems, so please notify me ASAP
- if you notice anything odd on this table!!)
-
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- ╒════════════║ System data CRC: ************* NOTES ║══════════╕
- │ ║Player data CRC: ************* ------║ │
- ╞════════════║ Next Attack #: 0 {a} ║══════════╡
- │ realm: ║last maintaince: 04\14\1991 {b} ║ │
- ╞════════════║ Version Data: Version 0.75 BE {c} ║══════════╡
- │ HEAP: ║ FOOD Available: 200,000 {d} ║ │
- ╘════════════║ CITY Available: 150 {e} ║══════════╛
- ║ WEATHER factor: 0 {f} ║
- ║ MAGIC Factor: 0 {g} ║
- ║ --Press Any Key-- ║
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-
- NOTES:
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- {A} This is the number of Incoming/Outgoing datapackets to date.
- {B} Date Maintaince was last run on system (automagic in DWARZ.EXE)
- {C} This is the version of the programs you are running.
- {D} This is the FOOD available in the Common Food Market.
- {E} This is the NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION CREWS available for building cities.
- {F} This is a result of MAGICAL Weather Attacks against your Realm,
- generally should be less then about 5,000 or so...
- {G} MAGIC FACTOR: this is a result of UNSECCESSFULL magic attacks against
- your realm again generally less then 5,000 or so.
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