MAJESTY(tm): THE FANTASY KINGDOM SIM

UPDATE#3 README FILE (US)

Last Updated: 6/12/00



Thank you for purchasing the Majesty CD-ROM game. The following text describes the features of Update#3, designed primarily to enhance the enjoyment of the multiplayer game. This software update incorporates all the data from Update#1 and #2, as well.



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All contents ©2000 Cyberlore Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

"Majesty" is a trademark of Cyberlore Studios, Inc.

http://www.cyberlore.com





For more information, visit the official Majesty Website at:

http://www.majestyquest.com





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We are constantly updating our web sites so stop by and visit us frequently. With events and new additions planned, you won't want to miss out.



Duplication of Majesty and it's related updates are strictly forbidden.



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CONTENTS:



1-  Update#3 Content and Function

2 - Technical Support

3 - Hasbro Product License Agreement



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(1) UPDATE#3 CONTENT AND FUNCTION



Most of the features in this update were created as a direct response to gamer feedback on the official Majesty forum. We have also done significant optimization to the mechanics of the Last Palace Standing multiplayer game. The details of these fixes follow. We've broken them into three categories: New Features, Multiplayer Modifications, and Bug Fixes.





NEW FEATURES:



- Downloadable quest compatibility - 



Downloadable quests will be posted in, the "Downloads" section of the Majesty Website at

http://www.cyberlore.com/Majesty/index.htm



To launch a downloaded quest, select "Play Game" from the main menu.  Scroll to the lower left hand corner of the map, and click on the large star in the middle of the ocean.  The large star graphic will not appear until you have downloaded a quest.

A new menu will appear with a list of all the quests which you have downloaded.  Select the desired quest and press the "Load Quest" button. 



- Rats have had their hit points reduced in order to make their combats more realistic for both low and high level characters.



- To improve the balance in the economic system, we put a cap on how much revenue the Palace can generate during a given economic cycle and made it so some buildings (mostly those without cost-multipliers) don't count towards Palace revenue building bonus. This is mainly Ballista Towers and Wizards Towers.



- To improve the Rangers, their combat statistics have been tweaked up a little.



- CD music track transition system has been improved.



- Chats scroll more slowly to make them easier to read and help call attention to them.



- To provide more challenge after a scenario is completed we've included a method of adding excitement to post-victory gameplay.  We've added the ability to enter commands calling monster waves. Use this as you would send a chat message, by pressing enter, typing the text, and then pressing enter again. These are:



	Command: "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD"

	Action: Releases undead bad guys all over the map

	Result Msg.: "They just won't stay dead!"



	Command: "PREPARE TO DIE"

	Action: Releases Dragons and Rock Golems to storm your town. (The hardest wave)

	Result Msg.: "Uh oh.  I'm really in for it now!"



	Command: "PUMP UP THE VOLUME"

	Action: Releases general monsters all over the map

	Result Msg.: "Let's make this a little more interesting..."



	Command: "GOBLIN RUSH"

	Action: Makes a bunch of goblins rush your town!

	Result Msg: "Goblins, Goblins everywhere!"



	Command: "GIVE ME ACTION"

	Action: Sends in a Minotaur wave

	Result Msg.: "I'll take you all on!"



- Improved graphics cache handling in order to aid game speed.





MULTIPLAYER ("LAST PALACE STANDING" ONLY) MODIFICATIONS:



- There are new "No monsters" force pattern settings for more focused head-to-head play.



- To improve the economic balance, each additional Marketplace built will result in reduced income for ALL your Marketplaces. The overall amount of money generated will still be greater, but with diminishing returns.



- Each additional Trading Post built will result in reduced Caravan gold from ALL your trading posts. The overall amount of money generated will usually still be a little greater, but if your newer Trading Posts are closer to your kingdom than the older ones, it may actually total less gold.



- Rage of Krolm is now longer in duration and gives (only) Barbarians a 4 point armor bonus.



- The cost multiplier for Inns and Royal Gardens has been increased.



- Reduced Elven economic bonus so that Elves now increase your Marketplace income by +50% instead of +100%.



- To provide a better pace in multiplayer, the build rates of magical structures have been reduced and Peasant/hero (Gnome/Dwarf) repair rates have been slowed down.



- Reduced and capped the potential of Agrela healing spells.



- Lightning storm now does less damage per pulse. Keep in mind that armor or magic bonuses can reduce this damage further.



- We've added an additional loyalty check to see if a reward-flagged unit belongs to the same team as the unit that is considering responding. 



- Healers' loyalty statistic has been raised, making it so that they heal enemies much less frequently.



- To improve combats between high-level heroes, we've done two things. First, we've given heroes a damage bonus that is derived from their current level when they are attacking heroes or buildings that are on another team. Second, we put a cap on how high any given unit's parry and dodge can rise through both level-advancement and spell-induced methods.



- All heroes now get a minimum 30% chance to resist any (resistible) spell.



- Heroes have a substantial increase in the amount of damage they can inflict on buildings.



- Trading Posts have a much larger area of exclusion, meaning they must be build at greater distances from Marketplaces and other Trading Posts.



- Repair rates slightly increased for Peasants and heroes.



- Caps applied to total number of autobuilt structures in your kingdom: Housing (6), Sewers (3), Graveyards (2).



- When a player is defeated, all their buildings (including autobuilt ones) and flags are removed from the game. Their remaining heroes may be tempted to join another kingdom if there are spaces available in their associated guilds.





BUG FIXES AND GENERAL MODIFICATIONS:



- Heroes will not regard a Guardhouse as hostile unless it's been upgraded to fire arrows (upgrade not available in "Last Palace Standing" mode).



- The rare bug that would  occasionally cause multiplayer games to diverge (one player sees events happen one way, while others players see something completely different happen) has been fixed.



- Fixed crash bug when Liche Queen, standing close to the map edge, tries to summon a monster into an illegal (off-map) position.



- Made it such that when the Illusionary Hero spell was cast on Flowering Strangleweed, the illusionary plant remained stationary.



- Corrected the behavior where Rangers who were resurrected after dying while following a Barbarian got paralyzed while evaluating their next action.



- Made it such that other players in a multiplayer game would not pause indefinitely/crash if a player that paused the game crashed.  Now the pause is automatically aborted in such conditions and the remaining players are allowed to continue playing.



- Windstorm and other area effect spells will now damage the Hooligan in the Wizard's Curse quest.



- Trading Post and Marketplace build location restrictions are no longer invalidated when Market Day is in progress.



- Treated the problem where the Zone would drop all/some players if one person's connection speed was slightly sub-standard.



- Fixed bug where if a hero dies while being "leeched of levels" (Wizard's Curse quest) there's a chance that his gravestone won't time out.



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(2) TECHNICAL SUPPORT



If you are having technical difficulties with the Majesty CD-ROM game, please consult this README.TXT file before calling technical support. If you call technical support, please have the following information available (and be ready to take notes):	

		

		1. The correct name of the game.

		2. The type of computer you are running the game on.

		3. Exact error message reported (if any).



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You may communicate with our technical support directly from the Internet or through popular commercial online providers, such as America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe. Direct any E-mail questions concerning the Majesty CD-ROM game to: HI@hasbro.com





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