ARENA: Latest News

From: srt@aero.org (Scott R. Turner)

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 1994 00:07:51 +0000

* Death is now a possibility in Arena.  As usual, new features mean
  new bugs, so please report to me any problems you encounter.

* This has never been a problem before, but a number of players have
  submitted order sheets devoid of carriage returns (i.e., the orders
  are one long line).  This results in some very strange character
  names, such as:

Rothwain DESCRIPTION A male human ATTRIBUTE STRENGTH 3 ATTRIBUT

Hmm.  If you're one of these unfortunates I suggest sending in a
  retire order for your misnamed character and trying again.  I also
  suggest applying some common sense.

* Other players have excessively long or excessively strange mail
  addresses, such as

"Shawn Helmueller, adventurer and intelectual" <HELMUELLERS@UW

and

"(|/?*\  ./|) The Eternal Midnight Sun Person" <foo@bar>

Guess what?  If you make a stupid and long enough mail address for
  yourself you won't get any mail back from Arena!  I try to deal with
  reasonable mail problems, but I have little inclination to fix this
  type of thing.  Consider yourself warned.

Incidentally, if you change your e-mail address, Arena will consider
  you a new person and prevent you from accessing your old characters.
  The best you can do is retire your old character (using your old
  e-mail address) and start him again.  I do not change the ownership
  of characters in this case, so don't ask.

-- Scott T.