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Changes to MELEE from v1.90(beta and beta/2) to 1.90(Standard):

- Warrior data file is now sorted nightly, with higher ranking Warriors placed
  near the top where they belong. Likewise for Combat Androids.
- MELEE rankings program can now handle a virtually unlimited number of
  players (currently arbitrarily set at 100, but may be made higher upon
  request).
- Introduced Terminator (Level 8) Androids. These are for the 1200+ point
  Warriors who aren't ready to retire! Or for those looking to commit suicide
  in a glorious way...
- Much improved corruption checking when exporting/importing Warriors.
- Tempered the damage done by a successful counter. They are less deadly now.
- Fixed, once and for all, the "Pattern Recognition Bug" (which happened now
  and then for characters of high intelligence).
- The message editor (for public, echomail) now aborts if the To: and Subject:
  fields are empty except for a carriage return.
- More improvements to game balance. More aesthetic improvements.
- Fixed a couple of minor bugs in the Dirty Tricks implementation.
- Improved the data structure conversion program.
- An echo message is now posted when a Warrior decides to retire!
- Warrior starting age variance is now greatly reduced (Used to be a Warrior
  could start from anywhere between 17-27 years of age -- a BIG disadvantage
  to the latecomers! (Warriors now begin in the range of 18-21 years of age)
- Increased the detriments of old age here and there....
- Fixed a small bug in the local message lastread pointer updating function.
- MELEE will now export a summation of the Resident vs. Visiting Warriors
  fights if the BBS has the MELEE echomail message area enabled.
- Work on the Shurai Jien (pattern recognition table) will no longer raise
  intelligence above 17 (even that is ridiculous, by real world comparison).
- Fixed a logic error which actually increased a character's speed if he was
  using a slower weapon!
- Fixed a couple of problems with one of the weapon shops: it was basing costs
  on the wrong weapon characteristics, and affecting other characteristics that
  it should not have been!
- You can now swap weapons in the Arena by pressing the "F" key (for [F]lip
  weapons. But if you swap your primary out and have no secondary, the program
  will automatically swap your primary back into play for you).
- Fixed a small gap in the Joe's Weapons pricing structure (Joe's woman ain't
  to bright and it took her a long time to catch this!).
- Fixed a but where characters with LARGE amounts of fame could actually get
  PAID by Doc Blade to get sutured up. What a deal, eh? Bad for Dr. Blade...
- Fixed a bug which was over-improving shields, armor, helms when they were
  dropped off for repair.
- Fixed the oversight which caused changes of player script files when they
  moved up in the rankings.

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Changes to MELEE from v1.80 to 1.90(beta):

- Implementation of Dirty/Special Tricks in the Arena has been accomplished!
  The Western Quarter's Squalor has expanded to cover this area of un-
  chivalrous training and equipment procurement...
- Ulric checks to make sure you aren't using Dirty Tricks, if you are trying
  to earn his favor. He also will know if you refuse a Blood Match Challenge.
- MELEE now sports an eloquent local message area, as opposed to the clumsy
  one MELEE players have endured so far, if the system was running strictly
  an ASCII message base. Now systems running with echomail have both the
  ability to post to the echo AND to write separate, local messages, and read
  those local posts.
- Added a check to ensure that a corrupted player record would not be added
  to the exported Warrior file, and a redundant check to ensure that a cor-
  rupted visiting Warrior would not be admitted to your Guild.
- Changed player structures (a conversion program is included, so you don't
  have to reset your game) to support implementation of dirty tricks, and
  better support Tournament entry.
- MELEE now notifies a player if his weapon was smashed in the arena during
  a combat with another player.
- MELEE now logs all fights between highly ranked (both Warriors have greater
  then 15 fame) Resident and Visiting Warrios, and will post the results of
  those "superfights" to the MELEE echo (much like the Blood Match Challenge
  results) once every 10 days.
- Fixed a problem which would cause the game to abort when a player won
  against another player, if there was no Plyrnote.dat file present.
- New combat arena and rankings ANSI screens by Lionel Loquias. Beautiful!
- Faster Combat Screen updates!
- Fixed a problem which caused the awarding of negative payoffs when characters
  of high fame battled... .. then fixed this AGAIN! ...then fixed a similar
  problem which resulted in a payoff when a character jumped from the beam!
- Fixed a small bug with special environment bonus awarding.
- Continued aesthetic improvements to menus and displays....
- MELEE no longer displays path to message directory when posting a message.
- Suicides will now properly be recorded, so players have to wait a day until
  they can generate a new character (should have always been this way, but it
  wasn't working correctly due to programmer idiocy).
- Armor enhancement costs more (more consistent with helm and shield costs).
- Armor, Helm and Shield repair cost is now tied to protection level and
  technological bonuses. These last two changes may alter long term strategy
  a bit.... and cut down on the players who have +27 protection levels!
- Fixed the problem which caused continuing charging of a Warrior for his
  weapon left in storage, AFTER he'd picked it up!
- Improved game balance by decrementing the fantastic value of Weapons improve-
  ment in the Western Quarter of town.
- Fixed the tie-in between equipment quality and the chance that a hit would
  damage that equipment (can't believe this took this long to be noticed!).
- Shield durability is now more realistic (shields tend to be hacked to pieces
  fairly rapidly unless they are of extraordinary quality!).
- Somewhere along the line the following bugs were introduced: Warriors who had
  dropped off weapons or equipment continued to recieve their benefits when in
  the Arena without them. Also: Equipment repairs ceased working (this happened
  after 1.80 was released). Both of these are fixed.

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Changes to MELEE from v1.80(beta) to 1.80(Standard):

- Fixed the problem that caused garbage to be placed in the Subject field
  of echomail messages. Fixed the feature that caused echomail messages to
  be posted with the SENT flag enabled.
- A few more aesthetic enhancements.
- Added DesqView detection for CTS com routines. Still working on honing the
  time slicing for true multi-tasking efficiency.
- Added three lines to the MELEE.CFG file. Line 23 allows you to enable/disable
  CTS (clear-to-send -- hardware flow control) checking. Line 24 allows you
  to add a 55 character Origin Line to the echomail posts from within MELEE.
  Line 25 allows you to tell MELEE that you are running it multi-nodal (under
  RA/QuickBBS only).
- Modified the combat routines slightly; Shield Bonuses were not being
  correctly figured into the defensive algorithms.
- Added ANSI screens for rotating intro screens by Lionel Loquias. Nice!
- FINALLY found and fixed the "feature" which kept someone who had been
  killed in a Blood Match from actually being fatally wounded.... Now their
  record is correctly changed to show them as dying irrevocably.
- MELEE maintenance now automatically backs up MELEE's data files prior
  to running maintenance (as long as PKZIP is in the path).
- F10 key will now turn off status bar.
- If MELEE was run on a machine without a com port, or with non-standard
  com ports, it would exit with a CTS timeout. Fixed. If there's a demand,
  future verions of MELEE will be configurable for non-standard com port
  interrupts.

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Changes to MELEE from v1.63 to 1.80(beta):

- No typing of ANY opponents' names is necessary now when going into the
  arena. Merely use the [NUMLOCK] up and down arrow keys!
- You can now visit the alley behind the Guild Hall to do some spying on your
  enemies.... and now check on their tactics as well!
- Full file locking is now supported, and MELEE can be run from up to 99
  nodes. MELEE can now run simultaneously on different nodes (but there is
  still no player interaction).
- Aborts due to "Stack Overflow Error" have been fixed. Thanks to Vince
  Laurent for driving home the point that MELEE had gotten so large that
  the default stack had gotten too small. This also fixes problems with
  message base posting and corrupted player.dat files--both were caused
  by variables getting corrupted when the stack maxed out.
- The rankings program has been cleaned up! No more Import/Export problems
  when memory is limited....
- Killing people with a successful counter now properly increments their
  (and your) won/loss records.
- Increased player salary. Also increased cost of weapon storage and initial
  cost of weapons and equipment.... (inflation...)
- Increased cost of Armor Improvement to make it more commensurate with
  Helm and Shield Improvement. This for game balance, eh?
- Fixed a bug which caused a disk read error when you refused an enemy's
  surrender and did physical damage to him with your Coup de Gras.
- More menu cleansing and aesthetic improvement.
- Max value for strength is now 20.
- Fixed a minor problem in the KillCharacter routine. Characters who had
  been struck down, and who did not have a clone, their god's favor, or
  any luck, and who hence died, were not being deleted correctly from the
  data base.
- Most menus now accept a default [C/R] to Return to Previous Menu.
- MELEE had problems reading the MELEE.INF file and determining a valid
  registration when the SysOp had only one name (ie., a handle) and when
  the BBS did not put a "." in as the last name (eg., Telegard) on the
  third line of the dorinfo file. Now fixed.
- Cleaned up the directory a bit (game now deletes temp files, etc).
- Fixed a logic problem that would cause a disk-read error if a player
  rambled up and down the resident Warriors list when selecting an opponent.
- Added some more combat strings, and improved the grammar...<ahem>
- Fixed the problem which occasionally resulted in a corrupted player.dat file
  when a player dropped carrier, or committed suicide.
- Archive now includes simple editor utilities which can be used to trim the
  Player.dat and Visitor.dat files.