There is a problem with *ALL* compiles of Lord 4.07 beta that have been
sent out/done by Preslar this year, as of September 29.

I discovered it about two months ago.  Its Lady script engine destroys any primary
LORD Stat that you change the amount of in my Gem Trader Lady script, in
some  situations, resetting them to zero.  In my case, I was buying Max
hitpoints potions 
in my Gem Trader lady script, and BAM all of a sudden I have zero max hitpoints.  I 
did further tests, and the same thing happened with trades for Strength, Defense, 
and Charm points.  

I know for a fact that the script code is perfect.  I checked the debug log
(lady.log)
and it revealed that LORD was ignoring valid code segments, and setting the stats
to zero.  I keep all of the betalord.zip files I get during a year in my attachment
directory of my email program.  So I just started backtracking and installing each
one into my game.  Tested gemtrade.ldy with each one of the compiles of
4.07 beta that I had for 2004.  All of them through the one released in
December 2003
were all cuckoo, with a lady script engine that was screwed up.

I had to go all the way back to July 2003 before I found a compile of Lord
4.07 that behaved itself when executing Gem Trader script.  But in the
process, I found myself using a compile that had no major problems.  First,
i no longer had
Lord forgetting I was registered during maintenance.  And Second, the game
no longer was allowing player.dat to mushroom to megabyte-sized files.

So if you use GemTrade.ldy and have that problem, you will need to take the
script along with GemFairy.ldy out of usage.  Instead, use the IGM version,
which is safer and doesn't screw the users in any fashion.  With the
scripts, you can safely use them to buy children, horses or fairies.  But
if you use any compile dated 2004 for lord.exe, you won't be able to safely
use the gemtrade.ldy script in your lord game.  Unless you don't mind
having charm, defense, strength, and Max hitpoints for all of your
characters/users getting reset to zero every time the player makes a gems
trade for potions.

I reported this issue close to two months ago to Preslar in private email,
then in a LordNews list message.  Was ignored both times.  He simply does
not seem to provide anyone with technical support for Lord any more, in my
personal experiences this past year.  As for Fidonet, Preslar has not been
around here in Lord echo or Doorgames echo in well over a year.

In my view. there is not any valid technical support available for
registered users of Lord these days, unless one can get Gameport to get
involved.

If you want the last version of the Gem Trader IGM, you can get it here:
http://www.filegate.net/camelot/lordfile/gemtr220.zip - Gem trader 2.20.

Donald.

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