====== Games ======

One server hosts several separate games, A to Z. Each has its own players, settings, news and mail, and players pick one from the game menu (or a BBS door goes straight into one with ''xtrn=A'').

===== A game's settings =====
Each game is a ''[Game X]'' section in ''lordsrv.ini'' and a folder of its own:

^ Setting ^ Default ^ What it does ^
| ''Name'' | Legend of the Red Dragon | On the game menu. |
| ''Dir'' | games\X | Its folder, from the server folder, or a full path such as ''D:\LORD\MAIN''. |
| ''MaxNodes'' | 20 | Players in the game at once (1 to 250). |
| ''TimeLimit'' | 60 | Minutes per visit. |
| ''Enabled'' | 1 | 0 closes it: it shows as closed on the menu. |

Add games on the settings form (**Add a game**), or add a section and type ''restart''. When the server starts, a new game folder is made and filled with LORD's files from the ''template'' folder. Removing a game from the server leaves its folder and players where they are, so it can be added back.

===== Setting up a game: config =====
''config A'' opens LORD's set-up program, lordcfg, for game A in a new window. Sysops can also run it over a connection with **[!]** on the game menu. On the server it is ''lordcfg -p C:\LORDSRV\games\A''.

^ Key ^ Menu ^
| 1 | Game options (''lord.ini''): forest fights per day, player fights, days before inactive players are deleted, bank transfers, clean mode, the IGM settings and more. Every option is on [[lordfp:game_options]]. |
| 2 | Tournament settings. |
| 3 | Player editor: any player's stats, or a new day for them. Turning Dead off for a killed player also sets their hit points back to full (1.3). |
| 4 | Weapons, armour, masters, monsters and the Red Dragon. |
| 5 | Game status. |
| O | Other Places: the DOS IGMs in ''3RDPARTY.DAT'' (see [[igms]]). |
| E | LADY events: extra forest, Inn and bank events (see [[lordfp:lady_scripts]]). |
| R | Reset the game. |
| 6, 7 | Today's and yesterday's daily news. |

Changes are used by the next player who enters the game; the server doesn't need a restart. **N** (node set-up) is for running LORD FP as a BBS door; the server doesn't use it. [[lordfp:lordcfg]] describes every screen.

===== Starting a game again: reset =====
''reset A'' asks first. Then it closes game A to newcomers, disconnects anyone in it (their games save and close), and deletes every player, all mail, the daily news and the game state, so the next visitor starts a new game. ''lord.ini'' and the item and monster tables are kept.

''lordcfg -p <folder> -reset'' does the same from a script; make sure the game's players are off first.

===== LADY scripts =====
''LORD.LDY'' (forest events) and ''EVENTS.LDY'' come with each game, as in LORD 4.06. More LADY events can be installed from lordcfg (**E**). See [[lordfp:lady_scripts]].

===== Daily maintenance =====
The game runs its daily maintenance itself, when the first player of a new day enters: the new day for everyone, deleting inactive players, the news. If the game folder has a ''MAINT.BAT'' (IGMs put their upkeep there), it runs then too, in DOSBox-X (see [[igms#maintbat|MAINT.BAT]]).