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Concept - (game explanation)
Inventory - (explanation of inventory feature)
Winlist - (explanation of winlist)
Partyline - (explanation and features)
Moderators - (what moderators are for)
Server - (what is and how to set up a TetriNet server)
Client - (what a client is)
Teams - (explanation of teams)
 

 TetriNET v1.13 PUBLIC
 By:      St0rmCat
 E-mail:  stormcat@citilink.com

 Gee, Tetris?  What's that?
 Yeah, yeah, so it's beendone 2 billion times before,
 but this is different!  Yes, all you tetris addicts
 out there be prepared for even MORE excitement..
 Internet Tetris!  Now you can play your five best
 buddies in one of the most well known games in
 existence!

 TetriNET is for Windows95/NT machines and WILL NOT RUN
 WITH WIN32S.  TetriNET operates best on a display
 capable of 256 colors or more.  If your screen resolution
 is 640x480, you may have to set your windows taskbar to
 auto-hide while playing to see both windows entirely.

Concept: Menu
 According to how the server has modified the settings,
 occasionally a sphere block with a letter will appear in
 your playing field.  When you make one or more lines with
 any of the lines containing one or more of these special
 blocks, the special blocks in the lines will be added
 to your inventory which is located near the bottom of the
 window.  These special blocks do different things to players.
 Each effect for the special blocks will be explained below.
 The more lines you clear at the same time and the more
 special blocks that are in those lines will put more
 special blocks in your inventory.  A player loses when
 his/her blockstack reaches the top of the field.  The Winner
 is the player left after the other players have lost.

 Again, Depending on how the server has modified settings,
 you will gain a level (or more) overtime you clear
 out a certain amount of lines.  When you gain levels,
 the fall speed of the blocks coming down will increase
 making it harder to find a decent place for the
 blocks.  The maximum level you can be at is 100.
 

Inventory:Menu

 As said above, special blocks are added to your inventory
 when you clear lines with special blocks in them.  You
 are only able to use the special block inside the red
 box.  The red box cannot be moved or the game would be
 incredibly easy.  The description of what the special block
 does to a player is located to the left of the inventory.
 To use the current special block, press the player number of
 the player you want to attack.  If the special block is a
 GOOD block, use it on yourself by pressing your player
 number.

 Here is a list of all the special blocks:

 *  'A' Block:  This is the add line block.  It will add
                a "junk line" to the players field that
                you choose.
 $  'C' Block:  This is the clear line block.  It clears
                the line farthest to the bottom in the
                playing field.
 $  'N' Block:  This removes all blocks from a playing
                field giving the player a "fresh start".
 *  'R' Block:  This removes 10 random blocks from
                a player's field.
 *  'S' Block:  This switches your playing field with
                another player's field depending on which
                player number you pressed.  If either of
                the fields' block stack is over 16 blocks
                high, the stack will be lowered.
 *  'B' Block:  This removes all special blocks from
                a players field.
 $  'G' Block:  This "gravity" block takes all the blocks
                on the field and "pulls" them all towards
                the bottom of the field eliminating any
                gaps in the blockstack.
 *  'Q' Block:  This causes each of the lines of blocks
                on a players field to randomly shift left
                or right or not at all.
 *  'O' Block:  This is the block bomb, when used on a
                player, it clears 3x3 portions on their
                field anywhere there are 'o' blocks.
                Any blocks that were in the 3x3 areas
                are scattered around the field.

 IMPORTANT:   Blocks with a '*' at the beginning of the line
              are ATTACK special blocks; use these on
              other players.

              Blocks with a '$' at the beginning are DEFENSE
              blocks and should be used on yourself because
              they are GOOD

 You can also press the letter 'D' and it will discard
 the first block in your inventory.

 When your inventory becomes full, any special blocks
 you get cannot go into your inventory.  You
 will have to use up some of your inventory blocks.
 

Win List:Menu
 The win list keeps track of how points each person
 or team has.  The person or team with the most points
 is at the top.  A player or team gets 3 points
 when they are the last standing in a game.  2 points
 to the player/team that is the last person to lose
 and 1 point to the 2nd to last loser.

 When a team wins, their team name is put in the
 win list along with a <T> in front of it to show
 everyone that it's a team and not a person.

 The win list on each of the player's clients are
 the same. The server can reset the win list at any
 time by pressing the 'Reset Winlist' button on the
 Server screen.
 

Partyline Screen:Menu

 This is where the players connected to the server can
 talk among each other.  You can do bold/underline/italic
 by surrounding the text you want affected with characters
 made from pressing CTRL B/U/I respectively.  You
 can also do actions on the partyline by typing:
 /ME

 Next to the partyline box is a list of all the players
 currently connected to the server.  The server can kick
 a player out by selecting his/her name in the nicklist
 and pressing the KICK button. The server can also
 ban someone from the server completely by selecting
 their nickname and pressing Ban.  For the ban to take
 effect, you must kick them.  Also, when you click
 on the player's nickname in the list, (only if you're
 a server) their IP will be shown above the box.

 To change the font of the main partyline box, press
 the right mouse button in the window and then click
 on the 'Change Font...' menu item.

 You can also easily talk while the game is going by
 pressing ' T ' while on the Playing Fields window and
 then entering your message.  After you press return
 the message will be broadcasted to the rest of the
 players and will be shown in the black box near the
 bottom.  You can press ESCAPE while putting text
 in the edit box and it will hide the edit box. When
 you press ' T ', you can start typing again.
 

Moderators:Menu
 A moderator is the first person on a server whether
 it is the person that is actually operating the
 server, or if the server isn't playing, the first
 player that connects to the server.  A moderator
 person has a '*' next to their nickname in the nickname
 list on the partyline screen.  A moderator can
 start/stop/pause/unpause games on a server.

Server:Menu
 To play, you must have someone be the TetriNET server.
 The server should be fast so the game isn't too lagged.
 A 28.8 modem is great for a fun TetriNET game.
 The server can set all of the settings available for
 the game, and decides when the game starts, etc.
 Fill in your Nickname into the correct edit box and any
 options under that.

 When you press the Block Occurancy button on the server
 screen, a window will pop up.  On this window you
 can set how often the different pieces and special blocks
 appear (or not at all) throughout the game.  You enter in the
 percentage for each piece/block.  100 means the piece/block
 will appear every single time; 0 means it wont appear at all.
 Note:  All the percents of the pieces and special blocks
 must add up to be 100 percent before you can play.

 The ban box on the server screen is where you can put
 IPs of people you don't want on your TetriNET server.
 To ban a person, place only their IP ADDRESS on its
 own line in the ban box.  You can use wildcards like
 '*' and '?'  Besides NOT allowing someone on the
 server, you can also ALLOW certain people on it with
 the '!' prefix before a person's IP.  When you prefix
 an IP with '!' in the ban box, this overrides any other
 bans in the box and lets the person with this IP join.
 If you put '*' as the first line in the box (it bans
 EVERYONE), and then put '!204.246.67.9' on a line
 after that, the person with that IP would be allowed
 in but no one else would be.

 When done, press the Start Server button.  Now players
 can connect to your IP.  When a player connects, a join
 message will be shown in the partyline box.  When a message
 is added to the partyline box and you are currently
 on another screen, the partyline button text will turn
 green to notify you.  When everyone is ready to play,
 click on the Start New Game button.

 Originally, the levels of each player are individual
 and when a player's level increases, only THEIR
 level increases.  The 'All Have Players' Averaged
 Levels' option will make all players have the same
 level throughout the game.  When a player's REAL
 level increases, it is averaged in with the rest
 of the players' levels and that is the ACTIVE level
 of everyone on the server.

 The server also has the option to play or not to.
 Enabling the 'Server Play' checkbox on the server
 screen will put yourself in the game as player 1.
 If there was any player on as player 1, they are
 kicked out.  Unchecking this box will take you
 off and you will not play.

 To speed up a game of TetriNET, there is an option
 on the server screen for after a certain amount of
 minutes playing, the game will start adding lines
 to all players every certain amount of seconds.  This
 is useful to keep players on your server if they lose
 early and get bored.

 Another option is the Classic Multiplayer Rules.  This
 makes the game play like the old 2 player gameboy
 version of tetris.  When a player clears lines, lines
 are added to everyone else's field.  If you clear 1 line,
 no lines are added to everyone else.  If you clear 2 lines,
 1 line is added to everyone else.  If you clear 3, 2 is
 added.  If you clear 4, 4 lines are added to everyone.
 NOTE:  This option is best when you set the 'Special
   Blocks Added at a Time' option to '0'.

Client:Menu
 A client is just a person playing that is not the server.
 A client connects to a server.  Find the IP of a server with
 people you want to play with and put that in to the
 correct edit box.  Then put your nickname in the
 Nickname box and press the Connect button.  You should
 then see the nicknames playing pop up in the partyline
 window and any teams the players are on.

 When the game has started, click on the Show Fields
 button and a window with all 6 fields will be shown.
 The fields will be updated every time a player's block
 is placed onto their field to keep everyone updated
 on who's winning.
 

Teams:Menu

 Teams are now possible in TetriNET.  You can now have
 matches with 3 teams of 2 people or whatever you want!
 To be on a team, just fill out the Team edit box
 with the team you would like to be on, if on a server
 click the button right next to the box to update your
 team name.  The team name is not case-sensitive.

 When you are on a team, if one of the players that is
 on your team wins a TetriNET game, you win too and
 your team name is placed in the Win List instead of
 your individual names.

[...]

New Name
      St0rmCat was a little worried about the Tetris people being angry with him for the name "Tetrinet" because of how close it was to "Tetris" So expect a new name for Tetrinet with the new release!

Cheats
      The cheat commands AND the hex problem are to be fixed! So don't worry about other people cheating on you! ;-)

New Look
      Expect a whole new CONSOLE! Yup, those Not Pleasing To The Eye buttons are to be changed, so expect a new graphical interface! From what St0rmCat was saying, he was not too pleased with the console and thought it was pretty ugly, which it was. So hopefully this new console will be way cool!

New Type of Themes
      The THEMES programming in Tetrinet will be totally changed and, from what I heard, will be a little more complicated. Because of this, expect to see a whole new THEMES EDITOR to be released by St0rmCat himself soon, most likely with the new version of Tetrinet!
Who knows, maybe someday we'll trade TetriNet Skins ;-)

Animation
      That's right, St0rmCat said something about Animations to be added in Tetrinet.. maybe it'll be in the special blocks (?) . That would ROCK! Who knows...?

New Chat Features
      New features will be added to the PartyLine feature! PRIVATE MESSAGING and TEAM MESSAGING!!! So Teams, get your strategies ready!! It'll be a war out there now... ;-)

Changes in Special Blocks
      The way you get Gravities, Nukes, Switches etc. may be changed. It may be implemented that you will have to make a tetris, or a 2-liner or 3-liner to get a chance to have a Gravity or a Nuke show up.