### CaravelNet Usage

If you have a connection to the Internet, you can keep up with the latest CaravelNet news on the title screen as you play by enabling the "Connect to CaravelNet" check box in your player profile on the Change Settings screen.

CaravelNet Login. With a CaravelNet user license, you may take advantage of special online features and receive special game information from the CaravelNet site and forum. To login to CaravelNet, check "Connect to CaravelNet" and enter your registered CaravelNet username into the CaravelNet Name field. Then click "Request New Key" and a new password key will be emailed to you. Copy-and-paste the key into the CaravelNet Key field to login to CaravelNet from the game.

Logging in to CaravelNet enables you to:

- Record your progress in user-published and official Caravel levels online. As you play, DROD will automatically upload your progress to CaravelNet in the background.
- Compete for the best scores online. When you reach score points in the game, your score will be uploaded to the Caravel high score tables, where others will be able to bear witness of your keen intellect. Your high scores display both your CaravelNet username and the name of your local player profile.
- Download and install new levels in-game as they become available.
- Chat with other players in-game through global and private messenging.
- Have the option of taking part in privileged beta tests of upcoming holds on CaravelNet by invitation.
- If you're an aspiring level designer, you can coordinate your own beta testing group in a private space on the Caravel Forum.

Click "Report My Progress" to submit a record of rooms you have explored while playing offline to your CaravelNet account. You may interrupt the upload at any time by pressing ESC, then resume it again later.

An icon in the corner of the Title Screen depicts the status of DROD's connection to CaravelNet.

A grayed out icon indicates DROD is not trying to connect to the Internet.

A color icon indicates that DROD is set to connect and is successfully connecting to CaravelNet news.

An icon with a checkmark over it indicates that you are logged in as a registered CaravelNet user.

An icon with an "X" over it indicates DROD cannot connect to the Internet or the CaravelNet key set in your player settings is not valid and you must enter a valid key to login to CaravelNet.

Click "Request New Key" to have a new password key sent to the email address specified in your CaravelNet user account profile. Copy and paste this key into the CaravelNet Key text box. You may also request a key from your user profile page on the Caravel Forum web site.

Privacy notice: No personal information is gathered from your computer by DROD with Internet access enabled. Only relevant, DROD-specific data is used, and it is only for the purpose of accessing special play features in DROD. The CaravelNet site is the only Internet site that DROD accesses. We do not share this information with any third-party companies or sites.

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