                       Pawn Shop LORD IGM -- What's New
              Covers v3.00, v3.10, and v3.40 official versions:

              ** v3.40 officially released on July 03, 2004: **

              Prepared by Donald Tidmore, for Chris MacPherson.
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Welcome to the Pawn Shop.  Stick around and buy some great stuff.
The following changes were made to the IGM, starting with v2.00
as the basis, in December 2002.  

{ v3.11-3.40 Development notes are listed at the end of
the version 3.10 Notes, at the END of this file.}

Notations:
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1) IGMDrive material was removed from IGM by Charlie Wardick and
   reworked using his personal BBS code library routines and
   the A.N.G.E.L. Toolkit. in late December 2002 and early January
   2003 programming update work. That got rid of the RTE200 problem.
   Some tweaking was required in early January 2003 to deal with IGM
   stability problems, which were permanently removed.

2) IGM tested by myself, Charlie Wardick, Chris MacPherson, Joe Kinjin,
   Paul Koukos, and evaluated by other beta testers, using MS Windows
   98, MS Windows 2000, MS Windows ME, and MS Windows XP operating
   systems.  IGM testing was done using LORD v3.55, v4.00, v4.00a
   -- patched for RTE200 -- without any usage problems.  Tested using
   LORD 4.02, 4.05pb, 4.06, and 4.07 beta with no IGM-usage problems
   found.

3) The shop owner may now Deposit or Withdraw Gems in 3.00+ versions.
   Provided that the Vault is above 250,000 Gems, withdrawal of Gems
   is permitted.  Gold Deposits are permitted until Vault Gold balance
   reaches 2 Billion.  Note: Gold withdrawal is allowed only when
   Shop has over 1,000,000 Gold.

3-B) Spousal benefits: The shop owner's spouse is allowed to enter IGM
   at any time, sleep in shop Office, deposit/withdraw gold/gems, view
   IGM stats.  They are allowed to rob shop if they want to do so.
   Spouse is NOT granted protection from mercenary attack like owner is.
   All Office Menus options are usable by the owner's spouse.

3-C) Spousal Responsibility:  If current shop owner's spouse attacks
   the owner IN the IGM, it triggers an automatic divorce.  Marital
   couples do NOT go around killing each other in this IGM without
   there being a price to pay.

4) Shop owner may receive ONE free healing from Wendy, in Ask Blessing
   option, per day.  Note: Owner's spouse does not get free healing
   from Wendy.

5) Short status summary is provided for shop owner player, or for their
   spouse, following each gems/Gold withdrawal.

6) Player Stats screen was redesigned, and now displays info on
   Lays and Games Won. In Skills section, if player has 40+ Skill
   points, the word (MASTERED) is displayed, before their Skill
   Use Points are displayed, for each of the three Skill Classes.

   The Spy Stats screen was revised to include Lays and Dragon Kills
   info in version 3.00.  In v3.40, it is now a two-column display,
   for most of the info covered by the Mercenary Service.

7) Title screen updated, along with IGM documentation files.
   Spelling/grammar fixes made throughout IGM update process.

8) In purchasing mercenary services from Blackey, the purchase
   costs now include commas.  To kill another player's horse, user
   may type either DEATH CRYSTAL or VAPORIZE.

   Player may inquire of Blackey as to how much Wendy's protection
   service will cost, and may purchase info on the shop Vault's
   content.  Hints are given in random statements to some new
   Blackey codes.  The protection service's cost starts at 1.2
   Million * Level, and goes up to 25% of player's Total Gold.

9) Weapons/Armour purchase menus, and other IGM menu screens
   revised using new Color Codes.  Includes spelling fixes.
   Once player sells a Weapon, they may go straight from Sell Weapon
   menu to Buy Weapon menu, the next logical destination.  Same for
   Armour sale/purchase.

10) When trading Gems for Elixirs, player may now exchange Gems for
    Charm Points, in addition to Max Hitpoints, Strength, and Defense
    Points.  All 4 fields obey LORD's 32,000 points maximum limit.

11) Various other changes are visible on-screen while playing
    the IGM, or when using the Setup/Configure/Maintenance
    functions of the Setup program.

12) If player attempts to rob shop office, and is caught, they
    were allowed to stay in the IGM in v1.xx.  As of v3.00, they
    are now immediately ejected out of the IGM and returned to LORD.
    Captured robber also loses all Thief Skill Uses, is beaten
    and left with 1 Hit-Point, loses 5% of their Experience,
    and they lose ALL Gems and Gold on Hand.  (v3.00)  In v3.40,
    Experience Loss is now 10%.

13) Player may trade Experience Points for Max Hitpoints, Strength,
    Defense, or Charm.  Provided that (a) they have at least 1,000
    Exp. points, and (b) that they are NOT on the shop's HATE list.
    IGM will NOT allow Experience to go negative, or exceed LORD's
    2 Billion points limit.

14) IGM does the best it can to protect player's Gold in Bank amount.
    During normal shop purchases, their Bank value is tracked.  If
    something happens to make Bank Gold go negative, the IGM will reset
    the Bank Balance to the amount you entered the IGM with. (v2.86+)

    Similarly, if something happens in the IGM that causes Experience
    Points to go negative, they will be restored to the amount
    recorded at IGM-entry.  If you entered the IGM with negative Exp.,
    the IGM will reset you to amount near to what your Game level
    entitles you to have.  E.g.. you are at Level 8. You will be reset
    to 500,000 Experience Points (v2.86+).

15) Now a player may resurrect a dead player provided that (a) they
    can afford the price, (b) they are entitled to talk to Wendy,
    (c) the requested player is dead, and (d) has not been revived
    previously that day by the IGM.  Limit of one resurrection per
    LORD player.  Resurrect Player uses is limited by its high cost:
    10% of your Experience, drop to 1 usable Hitpoint, you pay
    amount in Gold equal to 10% of your Experience points, and you
    lose 2% Max Hitpoints.  In v3.40, if the Shop Owner is dead, player
    may also Resurrect the dead owner.  And they are granted a discounted
    price for doing so by Wendy.

16) Each day the IGM limits how many potions you can get from Gems
    Trades, Experience Trades, or Gold purchases.  The default limit
    is 3200 potions or 20% of your Experience.  Once either limit is
    reached, you can't use potions Trade features until the next day.
    Actual limits are determined by sysop/end-user during IGM configuration
    or Installation.

    IGM will continue to allow purchase of potions, as long as you can
    pay for them.  Player's potions trading activity is tracked in
    binary database file EXPTRADE.DAT.  The shop owner or their spouse
    is able to monitor some of the database info using "List Potions
    Traders" menu option in the shop office.

17) Sysop/end-user may select values for the potions trading limits.
    IGM is hard-coded to not allow more than 50% of player's experience
    to be used each day in Experience Trade, and uses a default setting
    of 20%.  Default setting of 3,200 potions received via purchase
    or trading is in use.  IGM uses whatever value is in first line of
    PSLIMITS.CFG file to determine what to use for the Potions Limit.

18) Shop Vault robbery, if successful, is now limited to 25% of shop's
    Total Gold in Vault value, or to max limit of 500 million Gold,
    using whichever value is the lesser amount.  v2.60+.

19) Auto-claim of shop is performed automatically when a player attempts
    Take Over of Office and they find the current owner lying dead inside.
    At that point, the player becomes the new shop owner.  Vault Gold and
    Gems values are reset to basic New Owner settings.

    Owner Gold is reset to either 25% of the old value or to 25 Million,
    whichever is lower.  Owner Gems is reset to either 25% of existing
    value or to 100,000, whichever is lower.  If new owner is injured,
    or has new Max HitPoints, they are granted Free Healing.

20) v2.60+ beta. When purchasing new weapon, IGM now displays how
    many Strength points you receive. Amount is slightly higher than
    what LORD's Weapons Shop grants.  When purchasing new armour, IGM
    displays how many Defense points you receive.  Which is also
    slightly higher amounts than LORD's Armoury shop grants you.

21) Bankruptcy Event.  Changed IGM to reset Vault Gold balance to
    1 Million, instead of zero.  Vault Gems balance is reset to
    100,000 if amount is sub-zero or over 100,000.  v2.61+.

22) Elixir Potions sale. Spartan, Shredder, and Love Potion are now
    capped at maximum cost of 1 Million gold per drink.  Love Potion
    will give up to 24/20 Charm points, depending on player sex.
    Spartan will give 20 Defense, take away 10 Strength points.
    Shredder will give 20 Strength, take away 10 Charm points.

    Price caps:  Love Potion price is capped at 450,000 Gold.  Spartan
    Warrior is capped at 550,000 gold - its higher value reflects its
    ability to heal all wounds you have.  Shredder is capped at 500,000
    Gold.  Both Topsy-Turvy and Ultra Ale are capped at 500,000 Gold.

23) Vault Gold/Gems Max Limits:

       Total Vault Gold    - Limited to 2.10 Billion.
       Total Invested Gold - Limited to 2.00 Billion.

       Total Vault Gems    - Limited to 400 Million. {06/04/03}
       Total Invested Gems - Limited to 375 Million. {06/04/03}

24) Vault robbery amounts allowed to successful thief are higher
    as of May 21, 2003.

25) Daily Maintenance revision.  Salary paid to Wendy/Blackey will
    be between 300,000 and 500,000 Gold.  Salary paid to Guards
    will be between 150,000 and 250,000. Shop owner salary is
    limited to maximum of 50 Million Gold, as of 06/30/2004.  The
    Salary amounts are now displayed in the Daily Maint screen.

26) So that IGM is more fair to low-funds/low-level players, as of
    May 26, 2003, they can purchase Wendy's protection spell for
    equivalent of 25% of their combined Gold.  If that amount is
    lower than the normally charged Protection fee, the lower amount
    is what the player is told the service costs.  E.g.  If you only
    have 10 million combined gold, and are Level 10, your normal fee
    would be 12 million to get protection.  But with Wendy's special
    service fee, you'll only have to pay 2.5 Million. (as of v2.82+)

27) v2.73+. During Daily Maintenance, following processing of Bad
    Investment, if randomly selected, and payment of salary amounts
    to Wendy and Blackey, shop guards, and shop owner, utility will
    verify Config.Gold balance.  If zero or below zero, Psetup /m
    process will automatically run the Bankruptcy event.

    v2.77+: Reduced maximum limit for Bad Investment loss during
    Daily Maintenance from 500 Million to 400 Million.

28) v2.76+.  Player can trade 20 Gems for a Horse, in Trade Menu.
             Player can trade 40 Gems for a Fairy, in Trade Menu.

29) v2.77+.  Gems for Fairy Trade limit established. Configurable
    by sysop.  Default value of 2. Maximum limit of 4 trades/day.
    There are no limits on Gems Horse Trades made each day.

30) v2.78+.  If shop owner player enters IGM, with either Invested Gold
    or Invested Gems values that are negative, when they use View Vault
    Stats in the Office, the IGM will automatically reset the negative
    values.  In accordance with how IGM handles auto-claim of Office
    when prior owner is found dead, the Invested Gold is reset to 25
    Million, and Invested Gems is reset to 100,000.  10/13/03.

31) v2.78+. The Potions Info Report now tracks daily IGM uses, number
    of Gems Trades for a Horse or Fairy.  The Gems for Fairy trades
    are limited to a maximum of 4 Fairies per day, which is sysop
    configurable value in Pslimits.cfg file.

32) v2.80+.  Players are now shown their Number of IGM Visits in the
    game's Stats Screen.  The pawn-use.txt disk file report shows
    the same info given in the Potions Info Report screen for sysops
    to help them track player's daily uses of the IGM.  File is
    automatically over-written with each new IGM use.

33) v2.82+. Shop owner will only see the Shop Vault Limits message
    on their first visit to the Pawn Shop each day.

34) v2.86+: 11/27/03: Changed IGM to show Beta Notice, then Vault Limits
    Message to the shop owner player once per day, on their first visit
    to IGM.  Regular, non-owner, players will no longer see either screen.
    Beta Notice is not displayed in official release versions of IGM.

35) v2.86+: After shop owner player defeats the Red Dragon, the first
    time they revisit the Pawn Shop, they meet the Tax Collector. He
    takes 50% of the shop's Gold and Gems.  Done several months, but
    it now does proper processing of the Gems tax portion.

36) v2.90+: The price of Gems sold by the Shop, and the value of Gems
    the Shop buys from the player, are based on math formulas.  They are
    based upon Experience Points and Game Level.  It is set up to ensure
    that player can't make a profit selling and re-buying gems.
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    Pawn Shop v3.10 Changes Summary:
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1) Pascal-based programs, at least those built with Turbo/Borland Pascal
   compilers, can not handle any binary Integer data that exceeds this
   amount: 2,147,483,647.  If such values are encountered, the IGM resets
   them to Zero.  When this happens to Config.Gold value, if Psetup /M
   is run before the next IGM usage, the old owner is classified as
   Bankrupt, and Banished from LORD for one day.  The Pawn Shop returns
   to being without an owner.

2) If Config.Gold is Zero when the current owner is inside the IGM's
   Office, the IGM is now configured to reset Total Vault Gold to the
   1 Million Gold allowed for a new shop owner.  The Config.PGold, if
   it also is Zero, is then reset to 50% of Config.Gold, or 500,000.

3) To avoid the MaxLongInt issues with Vault Gems, the IGM only allows
   Total Vault Gems to go up to 500 Million.  If it goes above that
   amount, it gets reset automatically.  The Total Owner Gems field
   likewise is limited to 475 Million.  And also while developing the
   Pawn Shop for the past year, I decided no one realistically in
   real BBS play would be able to accumulate anywhere close to either
   amount before a new owner took over, causing the normal IGM Reset
   functions to occur.

   Otherwise, all operations of Pawn Shop v3.10 work identically to
   how Pawn Shop v3.00 was designed to operate.

4) Fixed problems with Banish Players and Poison Players where they
   sometimes did not work properly, when executed by Daily Maintenance
   process.  Revised handling of Negative Total Vault Gold problem.

5) v3.05: Flirt with Wendy works now, but only for Male players.  Any
   female player - including shop owner, who tries to Flirt with her
   will lose valuable Charm points - and get fussed at for bad behavior.

6) v3.05: Increased amount of Gems player can get if they successfully
   rob the Vault in the Office.

7) v3.06: Psetup /Report. Provided you have exptrade.dat file, which
   is required, the pawn-use.txt will be created/updated.  The IGM
   will now automatically display the report on-screen after a short
   8-second delay.  Pawnrept.bat has been modified to the new format.
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    Pawn Shop v3.40 Changes Summary Notes:
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1) IGM previously was not always updating shop owner player's Bank account
   with their owner salary.  That was fixed.  If Owner Salary processed
   in Daily Maintenance is Zero, player is sent mail to that effect.

2) Revisions to Flirt With Wendy - seen by Male Players only.
   -- If experience is above 2 Billion, IGM automatically adjusts the
   Lord stat downward, by converting Wendy's reward into negative number.
   Adjusted amount is always difference between the Lord stat's value
   and Two Billion.
   -- If no experience points are awarded, up to 10 Charm points will
   be granted as a substitute reward.  If Charm is above 32,000, it will
   be reduced down to 32,000 points.

   Note about Flirting. Both men and women may flirt with a shop
   employee, but Wendy will only respond positively to men. And
   Blackey only responds positively to women.

3) When entering the IGM now, if player has over-range Experience,
   Gold in Hand, or Gold in Bank, those three stats are automatically
   reduced to Two Billion.  In accordance to Seth Robinson's request years
   ago that all LORD programs honor the upper/lower boundaries he established
   for each numeric LORD player stat.

4) v3.14+: If Config.PGold goes to Zero or negative amount during Daily
   Maintenance, it is now reset to 15% of the Config.Gold stat.

5) v3.15+: For Local Mode players use only:  Keyboard inactivity timeout
   has been reset to 15 minutes, primarily to give me time to do compiler
   code work on IGM while it is running.  {01-21-2004}

6) v3.16+: If player already has 32,000 or more Gems, they no longer
   will be allowed to use Buy Gems IGM feature. {02-13-2004}

7) v3.16+: Usage of Foul Language with Blackey is now punished with loss
   of up to 360 Defense points, based on Game Level;  and with loss of up to
   480 Charm points, also level-based.  Added new FLCount variable to the
   IGM Player Database.  It will track foul language punishments per day.

   Once FLCount reaches 3, indicating player was punished by Blackey three
   times during day, the player goes on the HATE list.

8) v3.18: Added to Wendy Menu, Dead Warriors Listing. uses "W" menu key.

9) v3.22+: During Psetup Maintenance, when Bad Investment event is run,
   if shop owner's computed investment loss exceeds their Invested Gold
   amount, the invest loss is adjusted to amount of Invested Gold. Results
   in shop owner having Zero Invested Gold instead of a negative amount.

10) v3.24+: 05/10/04: Revised Configuration process to display
    LORD Directory Path, IGM Directory Path, and BBS Name values
    only when a pawnshop.cfg is found in directory PSETUP.EXE is
    being executed from.  If user needs/wants to change IGM Path
    or BBS Name info, they can use 1 or 2 keys to do so, during
    Configuration process.

11) v3.25+: 05/25/04: Added full Flirt with Blackey event support.
    Replaced Flirt.dat data file with Flirt-B.dat and Flirt-W.dat files.
    They will track flirt interaction with Blackey and Violet separately now.
    When player flirts with Blackey, if they are female, they may earn
    some Experience Points.  Sometimes they will earn or lose Defense points.

12) v3.26+: 05/29/04: Fixed problem where Bad Investment during Daily Maintenance
    was causing Config.Gold to go negative, thereby triggering Bankruptcy event.
    Problem was in Num_Bounds function in use by Psetup.pas - Fixed.

13) v3.28+: 05/29/04: PSETUP now scans for OUT files during uninstall process
    and will delete those that were created by The Pawn Shop.  OUT files made
    by other IGMs are NOT affected.   05/31/04:  The IGM now writes uninstall
    notice to Lognow.txt.  During installation, if Pawnshop.scr file is missing,
    a warning is given to the installer.  Also, when using Configure Daily
    Limits feature, default values are used if user just presses the ENTER key
    when prompted for the three daily limit variables.

14) v3.28+:  Gold robbery from other players is now limited to a maximum of
    250 Million per theft. Or to 25% of their Bank Account, whichever is smaller.

15) v3.28+:  Gems robbery from Vault improved to allow players to get more,
    based on their game level, how much Gems are in Vault, and on how many
    Gems they already have.  Gold robbery from Vault has new limits on how
    much Gold players at Levels 1-4 may get.

16) v3.30+:  Wendy's Resurrect Dead Warriors process is now usable with a
    Dead Shop Owner.  Price is lowered as she grants the player 3 discounts
    for caring so much about her boss's welfare.  Like the other revivals,
    once someone has been revived by Wendy, they can't be revived again on
    that day if the player is killed again.

17) v3.32+: In Office Menu, selecting the "L" option runs the normal Customers
    Info Report. After Pause statement, the screen is cleared, and a new, second
    Info report is displayed.  This one covers ExpTrade Limit, the four potions
    purchased/traded for -- Max Hitpoints, Strength, Defense, and Charm;  and
    the Bad Brews received.  List_Traders change was made in v3.34.

    PSETUP /REPORT is modified to display two IGM usage reports now, which
    are both in the pawn-use.txt data file.

PS-WHATS.TXT file created by Donald Tidmore, for Chris MacPherson,
on Jan. 22, 2003.

This file is named PS-Whats.txt to preclude whatsnew.txt files
used by many other BBS/non-BBS programs from overwriting it.

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 by Donald Tidmore and Chris MacPherson.

Current update:  July 03, 2004 at 11:35 am.

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