changes.7

A Backlog of Hardcode Changes in TinyMARE v1.0.8816-v1.0.9557, Winds Year 0011.

----June 22, 2002
 1. Message Id while reading +mail now shows your specific message number
     instead of the system-wide message number.
----June 26, 2002
 1. The weather almanac now has better checking for record dates that occur
     before BEGINTIME.
 2. Using @init on an NPC with a combat status will reset its HP/MP/EN to
     maximum values, clear conditions, and send the NPC home (if it's inside
     itself) as if it had just died. The "Dead" condition will not be set.
 3. Death now clears all temporary conditions, not just Normal and Duration.
 4. Fixed seeing double EXP messages when you're a member of a +party of at
     least 2 players and you're in a room by yourself.
----June 27, 2002
 1. Disconnected players that die now correctly get sent home.
 2. Fixed several bugs dealing with deaths of players that do not have a combat
     status set. @akill on Game Driver now gets triggered regardless if the
     player is connected or not.
----July 3, 2002
 1. Optimized the internal UFC Crypt library and the BITCOUNT algorithm for all
     64-bit architectures.
 2. Reordered the makefiles so that -j >= 2 can be used for faster compilation
     when multiple CPUs are present.
 3. Password encryption now uses a MD5 hashing algorithm for all new accounts.
     Passwords now can be longer than 8 characters and contain spaces in them.
----July 4, 2002
 1. Fixed a major bug where @destroying a zone object set with the Universal
     flag did not remove itself from the list of UZO's for $ and ! events.
----July 5, 2002
 1. Added an optimization for BITCOUNT for Alpha EV67 and newer processors.
----July 7, 2002
 1. Added a second argument to the @wipeout command to specify the type of
     objects to destroy on a player.
----July 8, 2002
 1. Added a different message to '@link here' if the dropto was already unset.
----July 9, 2002
 1. Established a new algorithm for matching combat items through the normal
     #dbref object matching procedure.
 2. Recoded the 'look' command to use this new procedure for items.
----July 10, 2002
 1. Added a new type field to races to specify hidden entries in @list races to
     those without POW_COMBAT.
 2. Rewrote the class.db parser to allow keywords with spaces to be read
     correctly. This is useful for guildnames with spaces in them.
----July 31, 2002
 1. Stopped the coalescing of items from multiple planes in the room list.
 2. Event keys now get sent the template number for items 10000 and greater.
 3. Recoded the 'take' and 'drop' commands to use the new combat item matching
     procedure.
----August 1, 2002
 1. Replaced internal references to delete_equipment with del_tech, as this
     properly removes user-defined spells 10000 and above.
 2. Recoded 'use' using the new item matching procedure.
 3. Deleting a container index now removes the value from the correct container
     item held by the player.
 4. Added variable % mastery for individual spells, skills, and techniques.
 5. Added 'Kills' as a @dbtop entry.
----August 2, 2002
 1. Added the 'weapons' command to list Weapon Proficiencies.
----August 6, 2002
 1. Added @treasure display to the enemy 'status' screen.
----August 7, 2002
 1. Implemented automatic technique-point accumulation for spells being studied
     via the Study skill.
----August 8, 2002
 1. Implemented all 4 versions of the new Treasure System.
 2. Enemy familiars and NPCs now drop carried items when defeated.
----August 12, 2002
 1. Fixed a memory leak in treasure object creation.
----August 15, 2002
 1. Once again separated the 'give' and 'put' commands so that 'give' scans
     objects in the room and 'put' scans recipients in your inventory. You
     also can no longer give money into objects in your inventory.
----August 19, 2002
 1. Coded the 'give' and 'put' commands to use the new combat item matching
     procedure. This also lets you put items into combat containers now!
 2. Dropping or giving containers with legendary items in them will now send
     those items to the player's inventory so they cannot be discarded.
 3. Added functions spname(), spcon(), items(), techlist(), spmatch(), and
     hasitem().
----August 20, 2002
 1. Coded in the 'unequip' command.
 2. Items found in a container when dropped or given to a NPC that has an
     @eventkey set now have those items returned to the player's inventory.
----August 21, 2002
 1. Added hooks for match_thing() to match only inventory items for equipment.
 2. Fixed a bug in comparing two item templates if both item numbers are 10000
     or higher and both have no template set.
 3. Coded the 'grab' command to use the new item matching procedure.
 4. 'inv' screen shows full amount of kilograms carried without encumbrance
     reductions (due to containers) factoring in now.
 5. Added a small dictionary of words to the pluralize() function that do not
     follow normal grammar rules when making the word plural.
----August 22, 2002
 1. Looking at containers will now show their percentage capacity full.
 2. Improved the message shown to others when you look at an item inside a
     container.
 3. Redefined combat-item matching to match distinctly a player's inventory,
     equip slots, key items, and location, for objects.
 4. @delteching a container item now moves its contents into the parent
     container of a player's inventory.
 5. Fixed the bug where putting containers into containers checked the
     container's reduced weight instead of the total weight.
 6. 'give' and 'grab' commands can now give and take items from containers in
     the room.
 7. Prevented normal objects from using the take/drop/give/grab commands on
     combat items. Objects must have either a combat status or POW_COMBAT.
 8. Fixed @deleq to match objects in different planes in rooms.
----August 23, 2002
 1. Clothes equipped no longer reduce encumbrance by 1/2.
----August 25, 2002
 1. Mare will now correctly display @decompile data for items 10000 and above.
----August 28, 2002
 1. Monster familiars will now drop items carried when killed using 'slay'.
----August 30, 2002
 1. Rewrote the tech_entry() function as an inline macro.
 2. Players can now take/drop/give/grab combat items regardless if they have a
     combat status. Carry-weight checking is also turned off in this case.
 3. @text now only reports 'Binary file' if a null byte is found in the first
     1024 characters.
 4. Added item types Petfood and Money to @list types.
 5. Added $itemtype1 and $itemtype2 to restrict the types of items that can be
     put inside a container.
----August 31, 2002
 1. Fixed a bug during initialization of the 'levels' array when etc/class.db
     cannot be loaded.
----September 2, 2002
 1. Equipment effects on a combat item's template are now displayed during an
     examine.
 2. Coded EQFX Regen.
 3. Added new death type 'Cursed' for cursed armor that kills a player due to
     negative regeneration.
----September 3, 2002
 1. Added a new spell attribute $unused, which is just a wizard-utility that
     darkens a line in '@list spells'. It is meant as a note to coders to
     designate an item as 'unused' in the game thus far--nobody uses or can get
     this item yet. It is expected that the builder who uses this item on a
     monster or treasure chest will unset $unused after adding it in. Set to 1
     to enable feature.
 2. Added spell attribute $eqfail to display a message to a player when he
     can't equip something due to EQFX Restrict.
 3. Added the weapon() function to get a player's right- or left-hand weapon.
 4. Changed the article for some item names from 'a' to 'a pair of'. Works with
     Warp Boots, Knuckles, etc.
----September 4, 2002
 1. Coded in the 'equip' command!
 2. Corrected Attack Power for weapons and shields equipped in hand slots.
----September 5, 2002
 1. Added a new command, @spfail, which can set the result of a spell inside an
     $action attribute (returns Success otherwise). @spfail must be called on
     the top-level of $action and not inside a queued @force or @trigger.
----September 6, 2002
 1. Allowed a second argument to @addeq to specify the quantity of an item to
     give to the player.
----September 13, 2002
 1. Added a new item type Lamp, used for torches and lanterns.
 2. Added a NoDrop condition to keep monsters from dropping items carried.
 3. Fixed a bug in awarding treasure chests if only equipment was available.
 4. Added spell attribute $damp to hold a seconds count until the item becomes
     dry again. Used for clothes and torches.
 5. Recoded the 1-second timer used for Torches, Clothes-drying, and Swamp
     poison.
 6. Added the 'douse' command to extinguish a light source.
 7. Added the ability to light equipped torches and oil lamps with 'use'.
 8. Fixed a bug where Aggressive enemy familiars try to attack in a room set
     X-Zone.
----September 14, 2002
 1. Corrected an issue where an item wrongly disappeared like a torch if
     $lightsrc has the Lit flag and $lighttotal is 0 or lower.
 2. Players are now forced to 'look' in a room when torches are lit or doused
     and the room's lighting changes.
 3. Torches are now given a 20-second penalty when doused, to prevent players
     from repeatedly lighting them without spending any fuel.
----September 17, 2002
 1. Optimized loops on string arrays using a new macro NELEM() which returns
     the number of elements in an array.
 2. Fixed giving things to *playernames with POW_REMOTE.
 3. Split conditions/languages/bitmaps in the race array and cleaned up reading
     attributes from class.db.
 4. Fixed a crash bug in the weapon() function.
 5. Added miscellaneous condition Lavawalk.
----September 18, 2002
 1. @list types can now be given a <type> argument.
 2. $attribute commands can now take a spell name/number beginning with $.
 3. Players can now equip/unequip items on belts. Belts must be preconfigured
     with $itemlimit and $capacity just like a container.
----September 19, 2002
 1. The location of user-defined spells (10000 and up) is now shown during
     'examine'.
----September 20, 2002
 1. The condition of equipment and torches is shown during a 'look' now.
 2. Fixed an uninitialized-pointer bug when lighting a torch.
 3. Added configuration variable RANDOM_ENEMY_HP to define the randomness of an
     enemy's HP when created. HP is anywhere from MAXHP to MAXHP - 1/x.
----September 21, 2002
 1. Added the $cname spell attribute.
----September 24, 2002
 1. Added an itemtype() function to determine the name of a type in @list
     types.
----September 26, 2002
 1. Fixed an error with Dance and Chance Dice events when no arguments are
     specified.
 2. Corrected the use of items when $action is specified but $event1 is not.
 3. Fixed a bug in take/drop/give/grab that prohibited objects from moving
     non-combat items.
----September 27, 2002
 1. Equipping items that lower Maximum HP/MP/EN now lower your Current HP/MP/EN
     if it's higher than the maximum.
 2. Removed Amulet and added Skill and Ability to the list of item types.
 3. Fixed a display error in @decompile when listing events and EQFX on user-
     defined items.
----September 28, 2002
 1. Gave more lenience to what symbols could appear in spell names.
----September 30, 2002
 1. Added skills to the combat system.
 2. Gave skills the ability to be enabled or disabled using the command:
     'skill <name>=<on|off>'.
 3. Added the sklvl(player,skill) function to get the Mastery% of a hardcoded
     skill category.
 4. Cleaned up some code by introducing a isnumber() macro to determine if a
     string consists solely of digits.
 5. Looking at game-created Treasure Chests no longer says it is "dead".
----October 1, 2002
 1. The 'ex me=tech' command is now replaced with 'ex me/tech[=optional slot]',
     'ex me/techbits[=slot]', and 'ex me/tactics' for individual displays.
 2. Moved around the technique types Money and Levelup to other slot numbers in
     @list techniques.
----October 3, 2002
 1. Added more variance to Item Name column widths when 'look'ing in the room
     and at players.
 2. Increased the <quantity> field maximum for Items, Equip, Shop, and Storage
     from 255 to 65535, and 999 for a player's inventory.
----October 5, 2002
 1. Messages passed through @relay no longer have their ANSI codes stripped.
----October 7, 2002
 1. Fixed an environment-substitution error in several functions when @cname
     and @caption were parsed containing a setq() or setr().
----October 8, 2002
 1. Fixed recording %0 through %9 in wildcard matching.
 2. Wildcard matching no longer strips leading spaces or ANSI escape codes in
     %0 through %9 during a @relay.
 3. @switch comparison with < or > is now numeric only if the right-hand-side
     is all digits.
 4. HTML 'who' list is now up-to-date when Combat is turned on.
 5. Applied $cname coloring to -< Combat >- technique announcements for spells.
 6. Added new feature: Explore %. @list Explore shows the rooms manually set
     for Explore data, and @addexplore <room#> or @delexplore <room#> can add
     or remove a room from the list. The game automatically decides on a bit
     number to set for each room added.
----October 9, 2002
 1. Added the @explore command to individually modify Explore % bits on a
     player.
 2. Added a @dbtop Explored entry listing the number of checkpoints explored.
 3. Added functions explore(player) and numexplore() for determining the
     percentage of rooms explored for a player.
 4. Fixed a crash bug when '+last me' is run by a non-player.
 5. Plane() function now correctly returns #-1 when used on rooms or zones.
 6. Fixed skipping over Tactics and Explore data when loading from the mdb file
     and compiled without Combat support.
 7. Removed the remaining instances where a room's Plane was checked when it
     shouldn't have been.
 8. The 'examine' command can now be used to examine distinct inventory items,
     equipment, and items found in the room.
 9. Coded EQFX Ability.
10. Added a new Junction bitmap attribute that acts like EQFX Ability and reads
     all EQFX from the specified spell number as if the item was equipped.
11. Fixed secure_string when displaying %0 through %9 to not strip ;'s in ANSI
     escape codes.
12. Wildcard matching in @relay no longer strips leading ANSI escape codes.
13. @addeq will now add items to rooms based on what @plane the player is in.
14. Coded EQFX Teach.
----October 10, 2002
 1. Players can now 'search' to uncover hidden money and items in rooms. Either
     the room or the room's zone must have a @treasure attribute set.
 2. Added a new command to instantly execute a spell: @attack <spell>=<target>.
 3. Treasure Chests can now be armed with traps.
 4. Added new functions maxweight() and itemweight().
 5. Function spattr() now takes spell names instead of just numbers.
 6. Rewrote spell messages to prioritize user-defined message attributes (such
     as 'c290' or 'c+') on players, and make them override $o* and $t* message
     alternatives. Parsing is now only done once per message.
----October 11, 2002
 1. Fixed a bug that allowed giving items to auto-created Treasure Chests.
 2. Added a new environment variable MONEY_COLOR to change the color of coins
     in the room items list.
 3. Fixed a bug that mistakingly swapped Money and Rare treasure types in the
     'status' screen.
 4. Allow for large quantities of items in the Treasure column in 'status'.
 5. Auto-created Treasure Chests now support multiple quantities of items.
 6. Added a new function pluralize() to return the plural form of nouns.
----October 17, 2002
 1. Race weapon-type vigor bonuses are now applicable.
 2. Added the function art() to return the correct "a" or "an" article for a
     noun.
 3. @deleq now accepts a quantity of items to remove, and it now uses the plane
     of the invoker when targetting rooms.
 4. Treasure chests now check the adventurer's carry-weight before giving the
     item (only works with system 0 and 2).
 5. Added missing function ipaddr() to return the IP Address of a connected
     player.
----October 18, 2002
 1. Added configuration variable COMBAT_WHOLIST to choose between 'normal' and
     'combat' whoflags as default when Combat is turned on.
----October 21, 2002
 1. Added functions isdbref(), isnum(), and isword().
----October 27, 2002
 1. Constrained @remit to send only to the contents of <thing>.
 2. Optimized the could_doit() lock-checking macro for blank locks.
 3. Internal functions notify_except() and notify_room() now check @vlock for
     sending move/battle messages to all players in the room.
----October 28, 2002
 1. Swimming skill is coded, and swimming checks are once again turned on.
 2. @damage for cliff-style exits is once again operational.
----October 29, 2002
 1. Corrected a problem in setting the $skill attribute to a hardcoded index.
 2. Fixed a bug in checking the wrong object's attribute during an @input.
 3. Combat commands that modify attributes on other players can now be used if
     the invoker has Builder permissions.
----November 4, 2002
 1. Added the attribute @lfight (Fight-lock).
 2. Coded the @moveeq command.
----November 5, 2002
 1. Fixed a bug in wildcard matching attribute text with 'examine'.
 2. Fixed a bug that allowed players to get combat configuration settings with
     config().
 3. Fixed an error while saving the database that stored the Explore % info per
     player with 8-bit longs instead of 4-bit ints.
 4. Fixed an error with @tactics that allowed item numbers > 9999 to be stored.
 5. Added a @config limit to the number of queued commands for both players and
     wizards.
 6. get() and v() can once again be used to match #num.attr attribute formats.
 7. Wizards can now view the items inventory of other players even if they are
     set Opaque.
----November 6, 2002
 1. Defined new Area Attack flags to be used for the new targetting subsystem
     in combat.
 2. @list Explore now accepts a Lo-Hi range.
 3. @atime now triggers with the correct time interval on databases with less
     than 60 objects.
----November 9, 2002
 1. Rewrote Area Attack and automatic targetting for the new combat core.
 2. Implemented a grace time of 1.5 seconds to the start of each combat round
     for players to type their next turn's commands in without penalty.
----November 11, 2002
 1. Fixed a bug with aggressive wounded or dead enemies engaging in battle.
 2. Rewrote the random_enemy() method using bitflags for code clarity.
 3. Added a method to prioritize enemy attacks against living players rather
     than wounded ones.
----November 12, 2002
 1. Players can now target inventory items as an Area Attack.
 2. Spells/techniques as well as 'fight' now log attempted player-killing.
 3. Fixed auto-attack when secondary +party members enter the room with
     existing enemies.
 4. The +finger page now parses a player's @idle attribute for viewing.
 5. Added a new behavior, "Conquest", which is aggressive towards players as
     well as enemy familiars. Special skill required to select this option.
 6. Fixed auto-attack when players connect to the game. Both sides are taken
     off-guard for 4 seconds.
 7. The 'cast' and 'use' commands now correctly check Mute/Paralyze conditions.
 8. Added Battle-rings as a type of equippable weapon.
----November 17, 2002
 1. Added 'stop <player>' and 'stop All' as Wizard-only commands to force-stop
     battles in the player's current room.
----November 18, 2002
 1. Hostnames that match dotted-decimal IP addresses are now checked before
     calling DNS routines to look up the hostname. This results in much faster
     processing, especially on Windows.
----November 20, 2002
 1. Fixed many problems with 'run'. It now correctly checks for enemies
     attacking before determining if escape passages are blocked. It also now
     tallies up enemies' Agility scores correctly and makes you take longer to
     run if their Agility is relatively high.
 2. Fixed checks with 'enter' and 'leave' while fighting.
 3. Implemented Rebound and On-Death tactics in instantaneous-attacking mode.
 4. Explore # on rooms is now shown during an 'examine' if you have POW_COMBAT.
----November 22, 2002
 1. Recoded Slow and Haste conditions to accept a range from 1 to 7.
----November 25, 2002
 1. Weapon status or condition changes that are applicable to only the weapon
     being used in an attack (right vs. left hand) are now supported.
 2. Spells/Techniques that do not consist of multiple attacks now have Fumble
     checking done for the entire technique instead of splitting up targets
     between two events in a technique.
 3. MP and EN cost are now charged before the first event of the technique
     executes. Items are still consumed after the technique finishes (due to
     user-defined items disappearing when used).
----November 26, 2002
 1. notify_room() can now send messages to objects in remote rooms whose planes
     match the sender's.
----November 27, 2002
 1. Fixed a bug in @addeq/@forge searching for the next empty user-defined item
     slot 10000 and above.
 2. User-defined items now search for events on the template if none are
     specified on the item itself.
 3. Combat equations can now support functions with more than 1 argument.
----November 28, 2002
 1. Spell messages can now be called directly from @event functions with a
     spell number of -1.
----December 1, 2002
 1. Fixed the problem with individual elements not properly reflecting spells.
 2. Monster levelups now increase stats by average values.
----December 8, 2002
 1. Added itemloc() function to find the location of a user-defined equipment.
 2. Fixed yet another bug in displaying an enemy's shape based on HP% during a
     'look'.
----December 9, 2002
 1. Players can now turn weapon proficiencies on and off.
 2. Added a new spell-entry flag 'Forgotten', for a combat event that makes its
     targets forget spells and techniques.
----December 10, 2002
 1. Added sptext() to return a textual version of a numeric spell attribute.
 2. Drain element without the Limit flag no longer drains more HP than the
     target has remaining. The Limit flag corresponds to caster's own HP.
----December 11, 2002
 1. Light sources can once again be used. Unusable items once again mention the
     fact that you can't use them.
 2. Fixed a buffer reuse when parsing spell attributes for players in the room.
 3. On-Death attacks no longer check the caster's conditions, except for Stone.
 4. Tactics now check event usage using the EV_TEST command when selecting a
     potential technique to use.
 5. Added new tactics flag "Leader" and corresponding Combat Bitmap "Leader" to
     denote targetting the leader of an enemy group with tactics. This way,
     special tactics can be used by henchmen to aid their boss in a multi-enemy
     battle.
 6. Objects using 'give' with POW_MONEY no longer make their owners lose money.
 7. Fixed the problem where the 'You turn your attention' message wouldn't show
     when you fight something immediately after a cast or use command.
 8. Renamed all occurrences of 'Mineral' to 'Material' in the combat system.
 9. HP Scanning in enemy captions now only prints HP instead of HP/MaxHP if the
     enemy is wounded.
----December 16, 2002
 1. Enemies will no longer attack other enemies when one fumbles and hits
     another of its group.
 2. Added a new RAND_COMBAT flag to randomly target only those opponents
     currently engaged in combat.
----December 17, 2002
 1. Added @succverb, @osuccverb, and @odropverb to facilitate illusionatory
     exit event messages. Exit @succ/@osucc/@odrops can reference this verb
     using the %0 pronoun. Only @succverb needs to be used on most objects,
     since @osuccverb and @odropverb will reference it if missing.
 2. Typing 'stop all' in the room should now correctly halt other enemies'
     combat moves rather than re-engage in battle.
 3. Players will now instantly engage in battle when entering a room with
     aggressive enemies.
 4. Changed the variance on the Attack damage equation to 50-100% using the
     Pyramid function instead of the original 75-100%.
----December 18, 2002
 1. On-Death attacks now announce the caster summoning up all of his energy.
 2. Fixed rebound attacks to do a standard attack if no Tactics entry matches.
 3. Reprisals actually check target's Reprisal Rate now.
 4. Treasure Rate for Rare, Award, Trap, etc. now uses values 'n' out of 1000
     instead of 1 in 'n'.
 5. Added Usage information for @forge and @enemy when called with no args.
 6. Added combat variables HitRate, EvadeRate, and FumbleRate (1 in 0-100) as
     base values before equipment modifiers.
 7. Added combat variable TreasureRate (1 in 0-1000), which overrides the
     natural level-based treasure rate and race/guild attributes.
 8. Item 0 can now be used in treasure to randomly drop empty treasure chests.
----December 26, 2002
 1. Fixed an error in the @decompile output for Tactics commands when a
     function was present but no flags were set.
 2. Fixed an error in @enemy where the code doesn't check to see if the auto-
     target specified is in the correct room/plane.
----December 27, 2002
 1. @deleqfx now deletes EQFX indexes by moving higher-numbered indexes to fill
     in the empty place. Deleting index 3 will make 4 become 3, 5 become 4, and
     so on. Be careful when deleting multiple EQFX indexes.
 2. New added 'slot' argument in '@addeqfx spell/slot=eqfx,args' to insert a
     EQFX into <spell>'s list above index number <slot>.
----December 30, 2002
 1. Added new function sort(<word list>,<type>,<input delim>,<output delim>),
     where type can be one of a, i, n, f, d, which sorts words alphabetically,
     case-insensitive-alphabetically, numerically, floating-point, and #dbref.
----January 2, 2003
 1. Changed the DB v2 format to easily skip over any kind of combat structure
     stored on objects when loaded without combat support. This also shrinks
     the overall DB size by several kilobytes.
----January 8, 2003
 1. EQFX Status now supports Vigor modifications.
----January 9, 2003
 1. Implemented a new random number generator based on the "Mersenne Twister".
     It is faster than the one included in GNU Libc and ensures randomness
     across the lower bits on all architectures.
 2. Added new function shuffle(<word list>,<input delim>,<output delim>) to
     scramble items by word in a list, similar to scramble().
----January 10, 2003
 1. Added a new function srand(<number>,<seed>,<index>,<count>). See helptext
     for details.
----January 11, 2003
 1. Players can no longer 'look' while Asleep.
 2. Fixed an infinite-loop problem when flushing a player's current input.
 3. Fixed a bug that consumed MP or EN for each event listed on a spell.
 4. Corrected the target in the message of a 'use <key item>' command.
 5. Fixed the problem non-builders had when @linking exits within zones or
     @digging rooms when Restrict_Teleport is enabled.
 6. Objects can once again 'leave' other objects when RESTRICT_TELEPORT is not
     set or the object's owner is a Builder.
 7. Money can no longer be stored in a technique list for Plane 0. Use @pennies
     instead.
----January 13, 2003
 1. Selecting items for use during a round no longer resets your battle timer.
----January 14, 2003
 1. The "Weapon" flag now correctly works in EQFX Status and Condition rules.
 2. @dig now automatically sets an explore bit on the created room if the
     player owns the origin room, the player has POW_COMBAT, and the room is
     not inside a restricted zone. The builder is notified of the explore #.
----January 16, 2003
 1. Fixed a possible infinite-loop when reading a reply from the DNS socket.
----January 17, 2003
 1. Added $maxcost and $maxchant for scaling MP/EN Costs and Chant Rates as the
     spell or technique approaches Level 10.
 2. Implemented the $command attribute for skills, spells, and techniques.
 3. Removed the hardcoded shops, as they will no longer be supported.
 4. Added a 3rd argument to the hasitem() function which allows one or more of
     the flagwords to be specified: Items, Equipment, Events, Shop, Storage,
     and Containers. If none are specified, it defaults to all flags enabled
     except Storage.
 5. Added the "Virtue=<Value>:<Percent>" format as a damage modifier option in
     the Attack Event.
 6. Fixed 2 crash bugs when item 10000 is non-existant and other items > 10000
     still exist.
 7. Fixed several problems with awarding random treasure, items, and traps.
 8. Improved the security of secure_string() in environment variables %0-%9.
     Multiple bad characters are now outputted as one space instead of several.
----January 20, 2003
 1. Weapon-specific element types (Bludgeon, Pierce, Slash) are now applied to
     an attack when the "Weapon" event flag is given.
 2. Implemented the concept of Long-Range weapons and Flying monsters that can
     avoid melee attacks.
----January 23, 2003
 1. Rewrote Element/Reflect Damage% calculations.
 2. Enemies now counterattack if they were hit with a damaging Cure spell and
     refrain from attacking when absorbing HP from a non-Cure spell.
 3. Implemented the PhysAtk and MagicAtk elemental conditions.
 4. Fixed a bug in forgetting to update 'speaker' in the do_minute() loop.
 5. Fixed a @listen object=* error in that it did not restore %0 through %9
     after processing notify relays.
 6. Slight speedups to code in various files to use the stack rather than
     malloc() to save temporary environment variables %0 through %9.
 7. Weapons can now be set with the condition "MagicAtk Element" to inflict
     magical attacks.
 8. Players/enemies can no longer retaliate with physical attacks inside a
     Shaft (crawlspace). Also fixed several bugs that hung the fight queue
     entry for such players.
----January 24, 2003
 1. Added an item type 'Bait' for distracting monsters. Renamed the old Bait
     type (for fishing) to 'Lure'.
 2. Monsters can now gain a configurable set of stat modifications on levelup.
     Use the "Levelup Modifiers" techlist to store the maximum value for each
     stat multiplied by 10. The game will automatically pick a random amount
     between 25% and 100% for each stat.
 3. Renamed the bitmap "TechPts" to "TechValue" to be more consistent with Gold
     and EXP.
----January 27, 2003
 1. Fixed @weight so that negative values won't show up with odd results on the
     'inv' command.
----January 28, 2003
 1. Implemented the Fuel event for refueling oil lamps.
----January 30, 2003
 1. Fixed a bug with the Opaque flag in that objects inside opaque items could
     still be seen when players can see in the dark.
----January 31, 2003
 1. Added the option to move items/equipment between two different technique
     slots with @moveeq.
----February 11, 2003
 1. Fixed minor color anomalies in -< Battle >- Messages.
----February 19, 2003
 1. A hardcoded 'light' or 'douse' now only works on valid light source items,
     and is an unrecognizable command if an item doesn't match. This is done to
     allow softcode objects to continue to match $light and $douse events.
 2. Rewrote the Semaphore Queue system and added several semaphore types.
 3. Rewrote the Restore event to use console I/O semaphores during an Inn stay.
 4. Changed the syntax of the @event command, since <target> is rarely used.
----February 20, 2003
 1. Fixed a bug where no check was done for events that don't expect either
     combat items or living creatures as targets.
 2. The targetting system now allows an $areaatk with "All Exit" or "All Thing"
     for matching inanimate objects.
 3. Battle targets will no longer lock onto @vlocked objects.
 4. Caption variables for spell events are now documented and recorded from %1
     to %9 for each event set on the spell.
----February 27, 2003
 1. Rewrote the spell_message() internal procedure to facilitate more detailed
     combat messages.
 2. @pennies can now change the carried GP of things with a combat status set.
 3. Exits and rooms that defeat players are no longer awarded Gold Pieces--the
     Gold is instead lost forever.
 4. Added a new passthru system to skip non-important events when checking if a
     spell can be cast on <target>.
 5. Implemented the Message event (using aforementioned Passthru mode).
----February 28, 2003
 1. New internal event flag, EVT_SINGLE, which limits specific events to
     execute only for single targets.
 2. Restricted #dbref.attr matching for user-defined attributes and improved
     zoneattr() to return the first zone attribute with a nonzero string.
 3. Added new sector type Arctic.
 4. Fixed a major bug in immediate-queue commands not checking TYPE_GARBAGE for
     destroyed objects, and rewrote the @atime loop to still do status updates
     on GOING or HAVEN objects.
 5. Rewrote atr_str() to use stack-based recursion for looking up attributes on
     object parents.
----March 1, 2003
 1. Added new bitmap attribute HomePlane to store the players' plane whenever
     they use the 'save' command.
 2. @relay now performs pronoun substitution, and each destination now supports
     <dbref#>:<plane> if the object's owner has POW_PLANE.
 3. @relay messages are now only sent to the plane the original speaker is in.
 4. Fixed a bug with parsing delimiters in a string (such as ; commands) that
     occur right after an ANSI escape sequence.
 5. '@#dbref.attr object=value' format can now again be used to set a specific
     user-defined attribute when attribute names are ambiguous across different
     parents.
 6. You can now examine an attribute using the 'object/#dbref.attr' format.
 7. @teleport now supports <dbref#>:<plane> destinations.
 8. TinyMARE Version 1.0.9355 released.
----March 2, 2003
 1. Ansi codes are now stripped when determining if a player can spoof a
     message to the room using @emit.
----March 4, 2003
 1. Stationary, aggressive enemies who are @vlocked against players will no
     longer fight them as they enter the room.
 2. Exits can no longer get set Wounded during battle.
 3. The Restore event now distinguishes between a levelup and an Inn stay, in
     that only ailments are removed with a levelup and all conditions are
     removed during an Inn stay.
 4. @event command no longer requires its target to have a combat status.
----March 5, 2003
 1. @aclone and @oclone now store the object that did the @clone command in %#.
 2. The @ps command takes a snapshot of the queue before printing its results.
     This protects against an infinite loop that could occur if an object uses
     @ps and it has a @listen and @ahear set.
----March 6, 2003
 1. Area attacks no longer target objects who are @vlocked against the caster.
 2. Spell messages are corrected so that if $osucc or $tsucc are not specified,
     then $succ will prevail for all listeners in the room.
 3. Fixed lcon/lexits(room,plane) such that (plane == -1) works correctly, and
     that specified without a plane will always match the plane of the object
     using the function.
 4. Added the party(player) function to print the name of the party that a
     player belongs to.
 5. Fixed an internal error when trying to 'leave' from an object held by
     another player.
 6. Added the lparty() function, which lists all parties in the game separated
     by semicolons.
 7. Added the partyinfo(partyname,variable) function. Valid variables are:
     Name, Create, Members, Exp, Level, Formation, and Roster. Formation and
     Roster are restricted to being in the party or having POW_COMBAT.
 8. Objects held by players can no longer 'drop' players inside them such that
     players are inside each other.
 9. Fixed a bug in the Restore event where HP/MP/EN got reset to the real
     values instead of to +/- values modified by equipment.
----March 9, 2003
 1. Introduced the +config command.
 2. Added descriptions to the options on the +term listing.
----March 10, 2003
 1. Minor speedups in command- and function-parsing and in a number of other
     procedures.
 2. Fixed the bug in player death messages not displaying in odd circumstances.
 3. Fixed a major bug in @enemy where user-defined items stored in technique
     lists were not copied to new item numbers.
 4. Rewrote the @deleq and @moveeq commands to accept item abbreviations.
 5. Fixed a "Nothing Happens" problem when enemies flee via Wimpy.
 6. Coded EQFX Technique.
 7. Added the 'limits' command to list your Limit Attacks.
----March 11, 2003
 1. Players can no longer see messages in the room while Asleep.
 2. Added the Master and Unique spell $flags.
 3. Carry-locks (@lock exit=#num or +#num) now search in all objects carried by
     the player, and their contents recursively.
----March 12, 2003
 1. 'search' can now take an argument: a database object in the room.
----March 13, 2003
 1. Fixed a bug in some targets not retaliating when struck by a multi-target
     spell event.
 2. PhysAtk/MagicAtk now applies multipliers to attacks correctly and allows
     curatives to supercede.
----March 17, 2003
 1. Added a @sitelock command for administrators to edit the list of site
     lockouts on the fly.
 2. Added a new power, POW_SITELOCK.
----March 18, 2003
 1. Fixed an infinite-loop bug when you try to take objects/items while inside
     yourself.
 2. Fixed an error that displayed the wrong room name in the default @odrop
     message.
----March 20, 2003
 1. @pemit can now send messages to any object in a room owned by the invoker.
 2. Coded the Nightvision condition.
 3. Added soul attributes Regen and RegenDelay for managing regeneration
     amounts and intervals during combat.
 4. Fixed auto-targetting based on Behavior level after defeating an enemy to
     correctly engage in battle between another monster in the room.
 5. @akill set on the GAME_DRIVER now overrides sending the player Home when
     killed in battle.
----March 21, 2003
 1. Coded the Divine condition.
----March 22, 2003
 1. Fixed a major bug in the select() loop which could knock everyone offline
     if getting an EINTR error code.
----March 24, 2003
 1. The @cycle command now works again, after a long hiatus.
 2. Changed the message displayed with the 'say' command to insert a comma
     after the "says".
 3. The 'search' command now executes @asearch instantly instead of using the
     command queue.
----March 25, 2003
 1. Fixed a bug in several if/truth() softcode functions that returned false
     for dbref#s.
 2. Added softcode functions setdiff(), setinter(), and setunion() for dealing
     with word sets.
----March 26, 2003
 1. Corrected the Hit/Miss equations during combat.
----March 28, 2003
 1. land() and lor() can now take more than 2 arguments.
 2. Added softcode functions iscombat(), fighting() and target().
     iscombat(<player>) returns 1 if <player> has a combat status, 0 if not.
     fighting(<player>) returns 1 if <player> is attacking or being attacked.
     target(<player>) returns the fight queue target of <player>, or #-1 if
     none is listed.
 3. Added ctext(<string>,<color codes>) to color <string>, just like @cname.
 4. Added a '@copytech dest=src' command to copy the full technique list for
     things like propagating conditions to monster familiars. The previous
     technique list on <dest> is removed.
----March 29, 2003
 1. Fixed a bug in selecting targets when you escape from a room and enemies
     instantly fight you.
----March 30, 2003
 1. Fixed several compile errors/warnings when compiling on FreeBSD on a Sparc
     computer.
----March 31, 2003
 1. Enemies no longer escape when fighting a Wounded player.
 2. The fight_que() routine now sets the appropriate Area Attack when called
     without one.
 3. @clone and @enemy now trigger @aenter on the room, @aoenter on objects and
     exits in the room, and @oclone shows after the '* has arrived.' message.
 4. +party formation now only shows the players in the current room, and it
     hilites your location in Yellow (instead of the leader's).
----April 1, 2003
 1. Defeated enemies once again emit "X has died." when they leave the room.
 2. A zone's inzone() is now stored in a linked list for fast access. This
     change also constitutes a DB format change.
 3. The has_a() function now accepts a zone# as its first argument to search
     for children in all rooms of the zone.
 4. The 'sector' command can now take a room# as an argument (requires
     POW_REMOTE).
 5. Fixed a bug that skipped zeroing the Explore% bitmap on players without a
     combat status when loading the database.
 6. Item locations of user-defined spells (10000 and up) are now stored in
     the spell database for fast access.
 7. Fixed a problem with the @deleq command when used on user-def equipment.
----April 2, 2003
 1. Players can no longer randomly find money while swimming, wounded, or dead.
 2. Changed the semantics of @oemit/@oremit. @oemit will send a message to
     everyone in <player>'s room except <player>. @oremit will do the same,
     except it will also exclude the room as a recipient. The message only gets
     sent to those in <player>'s plane.
 3. Added function spparse(player,spell#,attr) for correctly parsing $desc and
     $caption using <player>'s stats.
 4. Added functions sunset() and sunrise() to give the number of RL seconds
     until the next event.
 5. Added the function gameage() to return the number of RL seconds since the
     game was first opened. Essentially xtime() - config(BEGINTIME).
 6. The controls() function can now be used to determine if owned objects can
     control others, even if RESTRICT_HASPOW is set to 1.
 7. Added the techvalue(player,techtype,name[,value]) function for retrieving
     the base technique value stored on <player> (as opposed to mglvl/sklvl()
     which factors in EQ modifications). <value> is an optional keyword that is
     one of Quantity, Flags, Value, Level, Mastery, Kills, and Arg, depending
     on the type of technique. If <value> is omitted, the most prominent entry
     is shown (i.e. Level for spells and Value for everything else).
----April 3, 2003
 1. Added function can_equip(player,item#) to determine if a player can equip
     an item.
 2. +party join/leave now prints the messages in color on the party channel.
----April 4, 2003
 1. Fixed a bug that prevented @pemit from allowing you to send messages to any
     object you owned.
 2. @cname color:length now takes * as <length> to denote rest-of-string.
 3. randword() now correctly strips extraneous spaces away from beginning and
     end of word list.
 4. The @atime loop now processes objects by time-slice every 0.1 seconds to
     spread out work more evenly.
----April 6, 2003
 1. The 'run' command now works on exits with random @locks, as it no longer
     checks the exit's lock twice.
----April 8, 2003
 1. Two new verbs, 'run' and 'flee' are used in place of @succverb when players
     and monsters run from battle.
----April 9, 2003
 1. @delparent once again checks for the Bearing flag set for you to delete
     from parents you do not own.
----April 11, 2003
 1. The @damage attribute set on exits can now parse functions.
 2. The justify() function now strips ansi codes before justifying strings.
----April 26, 2003
 1. Corrected a problem with duplicate @atime calls when the time-slice is
     overrun.
 2. Overrun queue commands now have higher priority than @atime at the
     beginning of a time-slice.
----April 27, 2003
 1. Enemies now wander properly through exits with [rand()] in @locks.
----May 8, 2003
 1. Rewrote the is-carrying code to not hang the game if objects are inside
     each other.
----May 9, 2003
 1. @listen now correctly removes unprintable characters.
 2. @relay now includes the object it is relaying to, instead of just its
     contents. Further, relay targets can be prefixed with a = or + like in
     lock code. =#xxx means only the target, and +#xxx means only its contents.
----May 10, 2003
 1. Item descriptions no longer strip out %R characters.
 2. ! Events now match all messages sent to the object, like @listen. The
     speaker must still pass @ulock, though.
 3. @alevel now executes on room zones & universal zone objects as well as on
     the player/enemy who leveled.
 4. Players/enemies with a ExpRate of 0% no longer get any Experience Points.
 5. Fixed the bug where @akill would not trigger on a Boss set Monster.
----May 11, 2003
 1. Added and coded in the Minion condition, which destroys the monster when
     its Master (@leader bitmap) dies.
----May 12, 2003
 1. Recoded how @succ/@osucc/@odrop messages are filled in automatically.
 2. Coded in the 'Restrict' Area Attack flag and updated the helptext.
 3. Averaged out the Wander Interval duration over the list of things set
     Wander or Monster rather than over all database objects. This stops CPU
     Usage spikes that occur once per minute when most of the wandering objects
     are clumped near the end of the database.
 4. New environment configuration variable WANDER_INTERVAL, suggesting the time
     (in seconds) between any one object's moves.
 5. Added new variable WANDER_RATE, which denotes the number of loops through
     the Database from object #0 to #dbtop per WANDER_INTERVAL. Only objects
     whose modulus matches the current loop number will be triggered.
----May 13, 2003
 1. @encounters on rooms now invokes random enemy encounters if set with a list
     of #dbref's. The term "Always=#dbref" always invokes an encounter even if
     the player has entered the room recently.
 2. @aclone is now triggered for @enemy and random encounters with %# as the
     player who instigated the encounter.
 3. Added the option "Followers" to the partyinfo() function.
 4. Fixed a bug in @iter that relied on the Puppet flag set to process certain
     commands.
 5. Fixed a bug in @oemit and @oremit allowing spoofing in the room.
----May 14, 2003
 1. Added $+ entries in the "helptext.txt" file for Combat-specific help pages.
 2. Altered the helptext syntax highlighting to not bold standalone " or '
     characters and to make | characters cyan in the command/function lists.
----May 15, 2003
 1. Enemies set with the Minion condition no longer wander on their own.
 2. The immediate_que() function now restores the Speaker variable, fixing
     listeners such as @iter.
 3. Fixed the union structure in mare/config.c to not give a warning when
     compiled with GCC 3.3.
 4. Added a new combat function enabled(player,type), which returns 1 if
     <player> can perform <type>. Type is one of: General, Move, Fight, Items,
     Techs, Speech, Hands, and Chase.
----May 18, 2003
 1. Added the concept of semaphores to TinyMARE. '@wait <seconds>/<id>=<cmds>'
     will store a @wait entry with a mutually-exclusive ID phrase for that
     object. Repeated @waits will replace any existing command in the queue
     that matches the ID.
 2. '@cancel <obj>=<id>' was added to cancel all queued commands with that ID.
 3. '@semaphore <id>=<cmds>' (or @sema for short) places <cmds> into the queue
     with a mutually-exclusive ID, similar to what @wait 0/ID=<cmds> would do.
 4. Added the function waittime(<object>,<id>) to view the number of seconds
     remaining on a @waited semaphore.
 5. Added the function lsema(<object>) to list all active mutually-exclusive
     IDs in either the Command or @wait queue for <object>.
 6. Fixed a bug that didn't call flush_queue() with the correct arguments while
     loading a database.
----May 19, 2003
 1. Spell messages that target combat items now use %#=Caster instead of #-1.