The following list of changes, fixes and enhancements was started in June of 1998, so over 2 years of change remains undocumented. And then I lapsed again for most of 1999... *sigh* documentation was never my strong point.
21 December 1999

The 'shadowing list was not complete in the "REPORT CONFIG" email command.

12 January 1999

EMail STALL command bug fixed. Robo now accept EMail stalls. Subject: STALL GAME <game>

20 October 1998 (reported 20 October 1998 by Marirosa)

FTP deletion forms were being posted for RST files that were not actually posted to the FTP site. Indeed they were being posted for ALL outstanding RST files where there was not a TRN file present.

20 October 1998 (reported 20 October 1998 by ABM and MA)

Games were not listening to the PCT good TRNs, ever since the PerDiem rates were put into effect. This was a bit tricky as games would only go into OVERDUE status if there was a LIFE member playing in the game with paid subscribers. Otherwise the PCT good TRNs parameter was simply ignored and the game would run when it should not.

25 September 1998 (reported 25 September 1998 by Bongohead, and earlier by someone else)

Raceplus special ships, that were supposed to be receiving an additional hull bonus were not. They were actually valued at zero. The bug has been fixed.

13 August 1998 (reported 13 August 1998 by Charlie Brown)

GMX routing was sending binary file attachements as Base64 encoded 'text/plain'. Robo's decoder was translating the '0A'x charaters into '0D0A'x character pairs, as is consistent with plain text. I've adjusted Robo to convert any Base64 encoded files from 'text/plain' into 'application/octet-stream'. The TRN garbled messages should be gone for the GMX players.

08 August 1998

Adding authorization checking to the return address of TRN files. This adds a level of security and will be a pain to some players. The purpose is to prevent shadows from submitting TRN files unless they are authorized to do so.

05 August 1998 (reported 05 August 1998 by Cannon)

The game due dates were 'creeping about', being set to different times depending on when the game ran. This was the result of an attempt to fix the incorrect dates that were being assigned.

01 August 1998

Robo has been invalidly re-assigning the same due date, instead of skipping to the next date when a game runs more than 2 days early.

13 July 1998

Make-a-game requests are limited by the rank of the player making the request.

27 June 1998

Automake function added. By filling in a web page a player declares their willingness to participate in a 'standard' game. They get to specify a list of priority races and add-on preferences. Robo will consider all the automake requests to try and fit players to games. Players may change their preferences by re-applying for the automake function, and their preferences will be listed on the AutoMake player summary page.

?? June 1998 (reported 26 June 1998 by Romatar)

Combat glory points for ships initially damaged was being reduced twice. The damage was used to factor down the ship value, but the VCR also had a reduced weapon count. This in effect, factored it down a second time.

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