ARENA: Introduction

From: srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner)

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1993 17:11:48 +0000

ARENA is a gladiator combat game similar to Blood Pit, Duelmaster,
etc.  You design a gladiator, selecting his statistics, weapons and
strategies.  You then send him into battle against gladiators designed
by other players.

Unlike Blood Pit, Duelmaster, etc., ARENA is a free, fully automated
PBEM game.  You send orders to an e-mail address, and every hour they
are processed and returned to you.

ARENA is still in "beta test".  It undoubtedly has bugs in it.  Please
be patient; I try to address bugs quickly once they are brought to my
attention.

The next two postings will contain the rules to ARENA and a sample
turn.  If you decide to play ARENA I ask that you follow a few simple
rules.

(1) Don't abuse the ARENA server.  Don't flood the ARENA server with
mail, don't send purposely weird input, and don't try to spoof another
person's mail.  ARENA is fairly well-protected against most kinds of
abuse, and of course if I catch you at it I'll ban you from ARENA, and
probably publically denigrate you.

(2) Please send feedback.  I'm interested in how ARENA might be
improved and expanded, and even if I don't immediately respond to your
mail, I'm sure to read it.  So let me know what you like, what you
dislike, and of course if you find any bugs please report them
immediately.

(3) I won't be maintaining an ARENA mailing list, so I'd suggest that
general comments be posted to r.g.pbm.  But please put "ARENA" in your
subject line so that uninterested parties can skip over these articles
easily.

-- Scott T.