Merc Release 2.0 Beta Sunday 04 April 1993 Furey mec@garnet.berkeley.edu Hatchet mitchell@ocf.berkeley.edu Kahn michael@web.berkeley.edu === Beta Release This is a beta test release. We expect you to look for bugs and report them to us. When 2.0 comes out, we expect you to discard your beta software and run the production release. Yeah, right. And everyone who's running Merc 1.0 sent us e-mail, and we've received many contributions of code and areas. NOT! Therefore we've removed certain features from the beta release, particularly loading of player files. (The internal data structures have changed sufficiently so that dumping in the 1.0 save code won't work, either.) We've also allowed any character to execute the 'advance' command, so that your test characters can advance to whatever level they need for testing. There are other beta-only changes in the code, which won't interfere at all with testing the code, compiling on new platforms, writing new areas, writing new skills and spells, and so on. If you want to run a production Merc mud, then run the 1.0 release. If you want to help 2.0 Beta become a production 2.0 faster, then send us your bug reports and bug FIXES so we can finish beta testing faster.