-Changes to Empire 4.3.16 - Sun Aug 3 01:26:36 UTC 2008
+Changes to Empire 4.3.25 - Tue Mar 16 20:40:54 UTC 2010
+ * Missile exploding on launch could not damage its base if it was
+ armed with a nuke. Broken in 4.3.23.
+ * When a torpedo attack triggered a return torpedo, the news reported
+ it to be fired by the attacker instead of the defender.
+ * Interdiction attacked submarines with surface-only weapons. Broken
+ in 4.3.24.
+ * Fix a bug in lradar, path, radar, route, satellite, sect and survey
+ that could leak maps to other players. Broken in 4.2.0. Fixed in
+ 4.2.8 for bmap, lbmap, lmap, map, nmap, pbmap, pmap, sbmap and smap
+ only.
+ * files could clobber the game when reading confirmation fails.
+ * fairland no longer rejects small worlds without trying.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.24 - Tue Jan 26 21:29:14 UTC 2010
+ * The client sometimes hung under Windows when the server closed the
+ connection. Broken in 4.3.23.
+ * Fix navigate and march not to crash the server when a path argument
+ consists of a valid path plus whitespace. Broken in 4.3.7.
+ * When a client sent a blank line in the login phase, the server
+ crashed on some systems.
+ * Fix crash bug in bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail. Broken
+ in 4.3.16.
+ * Fix bogus internal error on escort, recon, and satellite launch.
+ Mostly harmless, as error recovery worked fine. Broken in 4.3.23.
+ * Stop ship and land unit movement on interdiction even when it does
+ no damage.
+ * When an interdiction did no or only collateral damage, the planes
+ that intercepted it from interdicted carriers used no petrol, and
+ interdicted land units were immune to collateral damage.
+ * The limit for the number of sectors, ships, planes, land units,
+ nukes, and so forth is now large enough not to matter. It used to
+ be 32768 on common machines. The sector limit was introduced in
+ 4.3.12. World x- and y-size are still limited to 65536 on common
+ machines.
+ * News use much less space, and thus I/O. Space was wasted in
+ 4.3.12. Side effects of the change:
+ - Expiry of old news no longer updates news timestamps. Updating
+ timestamps was wrong, because it defeated incremental xdump news.
+ - The empdump utility can no longer update timestamps of imported
+ news. Unfortunate, as it breaks incremental xdump news.
+ * New news selector duration, the time span covered by this news item
+ in seconds.
+ * ABMs failed to charge supplies when their sector was the
+ intercepted missile's target. The stock game's ABMs use no
+ supplies.
+ * Ship anti-missile defense failed to charge shells when the ship was
+ the missile's target.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.23 - Sun Dec 13 16:34:49 UTC 2009
+ * Fix missile interception not to intercept tactical and marine
+ missiles attacking missiles or satellites. No such missiles exist
+ in the stock game. Interception of tactical ABMs could crash the
+ server. Broken in Empire 2.
+ * Missiles missing their target do collateral damage again. Was
+ disabled because of bugs in 4.0.18 for manual launch and in 4.3.16
+ for automatic launch.
+ * News reported victim as actor for sub-launched anti-sat and ABM.
+ * Defense value of missiles vs. ABMs and satellites vs. anti-sats
+ failed to improve with tech.
+ * Fix a bug that let missiles interdict ships outside their op area.
+ This could happen when a group navigating together was partly
+ inside the op area.
+ * Only bomb strategic and launch at sector can use nukes. Before,
+ they could also be used by missions, bomb pinpoint, and launch at
+ ships, but there were several bugs and inconsistencies, and the
+ code was messy. The arm command now rejects marine missiles in
+ addition to satellites, ABMs and SAMs, and clears the mission. The
+ mission command now rejects planes armed with nukes.
+ * Missiles exploding on launch pad no longer set off their nukes.
+ * The launch command now more accurately reports why a missile can't
+ be equipped. It no longer draws supplies automatically.
+ * Manually launched anti-sat now always kills when it hits, for
+ consistency with automatically launched ones.
+ * Don't permit nukes on satellites, ABMs and SAMs. Nukes on
+ satellites could be armed and disarmed even in orbit. Nukes on
+ ABMs and SAMs were lost without effect when their missile
+ intercepted. The stock game is not affected, because its
+ satellites, ABMs and SAMs all have zero load.
+ * Remove obsolete plane capabilities stealth and half-stealth. Not
+ used by the stock game.
+ * Penalize fighter combat value for any load, not just bombs. The
+ stock game's fighters can't carry anything but bombs.
+ * Make bomb work for non-tactical cargo bomber. No such planes exist
+ in the stock game.
+ * Revised cargo plane rules: a cargo flight can be either an airlift
+ or an airdrop now. Airlifts carry more cargo than airdrops. A
+ cargo drop or paradrop with a non-VTOL plane is an airdrop.
+ Anything else is an airlift. This makes paradrop loads consistent
+ with drop loads. Paradrop with VTOL transports now carries twice
+ the punch, and drop with non-VTOL transports hauls less than fly.
+ In particular, the stock game's tr can't drop guns anymore.
+ * Enforce plane selection rules more tightly:
+ - bomb command can select only planes with capability bomber or
+ tactical. Before, other planes with non-zero load flew along,
+ but their bombs were silently lost.
+ - sweep command can select only planes with capability sweep.
+ Before, other planes performed ordinary reconnaissance instead.
+ - drop command can select only planes with capability cargo.
+ Before, other planes flew along but dropped nothing.
+ * Fix paradrop to fail without destroying the paratroopers when the
+ player owns the target sector.
+ * Launching an anti-sat now takes the target plane as argument.
+ Before, it took a sector argument, and targeted the lowest-numbered
+ satellite there. Rather inconvenient when your own satellite masks
+ one of the enemy's.
+ * Remove option PINPOINTMISSILE. Deities can customize the plane
+ table to disable marine missiles.
+ * Ridiculously impotent nukes could do unpredictable interdiction
+ damage. No such nukes exist in the stock game.
+ * The production command could mispredict resource-depleting level
+ production. No such products exist in the stock game. In fact,
+ they'd be highly unusual.
+ * The update could crash or corrupt the game when a (misconfigured)
+ product depleted resource "none".
+ * Revamp the Windows port based on ideas stolen from Gnulib. Share
+ the code between server and client.
+ * Don't log out player when update aborts a command under Windows.
+ Broken in 4.3.20, and not fully fixed in 4.3.21.
+ * Fix accepting connections from hosts with "long" IPv6 address. The
+ internal buffer had insufficient space.
+ * Delay shutdown up to 3s to let player output buffers drain.
+ * Fix a race between main thread and player threads, which could
+ theoretically make the server crash on start.
+ * Clean up synchronization between commands, update and shutdown, and
+ when player threads sleep on I/O.
+ * Clean up the cruft that has accumulated in and behind the empio
+ interface, and, to a lesser degree, the empthread interface.
+ * Fix time difference underflows in pthread and Windows code. They
+ could potentially cause hangs, although none have been observed.
+ * Make budget's "Sector building" line look better.
+ * Make sector maintenance cost configurable. New sect-chr selector
+ maint. Capitals now pay maintenance regardless of efficiency.
+ * Overhaul show sect b.
+ * Fix mine production resource limit for sector peffic != 100. This
+ affects mountains in the stock game, but only with an impractically
+ large number of ETUs per update.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+ * Info file fixes and improvements.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.22 - Sat Apr 25 11:56:29 UTC 2009
+ * Fix a Windows client bug that could lead to hangs, at least with
+ some versions of the C run-time. Broken in 4.3.11.
+ * Allow building without curses terminfo. Highlighting in the client
+ doesn't work then.
+ * Really fix bomb not to wipe out plane updates made while it asked
+ for pinpoint targets. The fix in 4.3.21 didn't cover escorts.
+ * Fix tend land not to wipe out concurrent updates.
+ * Fix a bug in automatic supply:
+ - Ships with just two shells could fire a torpedo to return fire or
+ interdict.
+ - Ships with just one shell could use their anti-missile defense.
+ - Land units were considered in supply even when they had not quite
+ enough supplies. Such land units could defend without penalty,
+ attack and react.
+ Broken in 4.3.20.
+ * Fix update to take dead units off carriers.
+ * Standalone client distribution built empire instead of empire.exe
+ for Windows. Broken in 4.3.0.
+ * Fix client to abort script execution on SIGINT.
+ * Fix Windows client not to hang on EOF on standard input when that
+ is a tty.
+ * Fix a client bug that could make it hang when EOF on standard input
+ follows an execute command closely.
+ * Seamines under bridge spans were disabled a long time ago, in
+ Empire 2. The drop command refuses to mine there. Change mine
+ command to do so as well.
+ * Seamines under bridge spans were mistaken for landmines by ground
+ combat, land units retreating from bombs, and non-land unit ground
+ movement.
+ * When a bridge tower collapsed, its landmines magically became
+ seamines.
+ * Don't log out player when he interrupts a command. Broken in
+ 4.3.19.
+ * Code cleanup and portability improvements.
+ * Info file and documentation fixes.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.21 - Mon Mar 9 21:34:52 UTC 2009
+ * Fix swapsector not to wipe out concurrent changes to the swapped
+ sectors.
+ * Fix a bug in crash dumping that could mess up the journal and, at
+ least in theory, mess up commands info, read, turn, and wire;
+ announcement expiry, and reading of econfig and schedule.
+ * Fix bomb not to wipe out plane updates made while it asked for
+ pinpoint targets.
+ * When bombing ships with a force containing both planes with and
+ without capability ASW, the bomb command could fail to report
+ presence of submarines, and could refuse to bomb ships when there
+ were only submarines.
+ * Leaving land units behind after a victorious attack could in some
+ cases wipe out changes made to them since the victory.
+ * The timestamp selectors added to commodity, load and trade in
+ 4.3.12 could lead to spurious command failures. None have been
+ observed in the wild.
+ * Don't log out player when update aborts a command. Broken in
+ 4.3.20.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.20 - Fri Feb 20 18:14:20 UTC 2009
+ * Option LOANS is now disabled by default.
+ * Option RAILWAYS is now enabled by default.
+ * Many fixes to automatic supply:
+ - Planes flying interception or support missions, abms intercepting
+ ballistic missiles, and the launch command for missiles and
+ anti-sats could all supply more shells than necessary, lose
+ shells, or conjure them up.
+ - Ships shooting down marine missiles could supply more shells than
+ necessary, or lose shells.
+ - Supply ships could conjure up shells when firing guns using
+ multiple shells, or launching torpedoes, or dropping depth
+ charges, or shooting down marine missiles. No supply ships
+ capable of doing that exist in the stock game.
+ - Supply engineers could conjure up shells when laying mines. They
+ don't exist in the stock game.
+ - load, lload and supply could supply land units with enough food
+ from the sector containing them to starve the sector.
+ - Sectors were charged too much mobility for moving supplies
+ sometimes.
+ - Land units serving as supply source no longer draw supplies
+ recursively, because the bugs there are too hard to fix to be
+ worth it.
+ - Defending and reacting units only checked whether they could draw
+ supplies, but didn't actually draw them.
+ - load, lload, supply, assault and board no longer supply land
+ units from ships carrying them. This feature, added in 4.0.14,
+ was inconsistent with other ways to supply.
+ - Don't use automatic supply to avoid starvation at the update. It
+ adds complexity to the update. How much good it does to players
+ is highly doubtful; certainly nobody can rely on it. It isn't
+ covered by the starvation command. Ships or land units could
+ steal enough food from their sector to make it starve.
+ - lmine could only fetch shells for engineers that use ammo. The
+ stock game's engineers all do.
+ The changes listed for load and lload are actually lies, because
+ supply has been disabled there since 4.3.17.
+ * Don't let an engineer lay mines while it is on a ship or land unit,
+ or in a foreign sector.
+ * Sectors and ships no longer need shells to fire flak.
+ * Use IPv4 and v6 only when suitable interfaces are configured.
+ * Fix turn off not to fail when the message is empty. Broken in
+ 4.2.20.
+ * Don't nag the deity about game hours restriction in force all the
+ time.
+ * Tell deity when the game is down, just like players. Also make the
+ information available in xdump, as game selector down.
+ * Corrupt mailboxes could crash the server.
+ * Fix reject accept. Broken in 4.3.4.
+ * If a player was at a prompt when the deity turned the game down, he
+ was allowed to enter one more command.
+ * Air defense is no longer separate from interception. Putting a
+ plane on air defense now merely changes where it intercepts.
+ Separate air defense added too much pointless complexity. Its
+ implementation violated design assumptions of the intercept code.
+ Because of that, the same plane could intercept both an air defense
+ mission and the planes that triggered it, and the damage it
+ received in the first interception was wiped out.
+ * Intercept the same all along the flight path. In each sector, any
+ country owning the sector, a surface ship or a land unit there gets
+ to intercept. Before, only the sector owner got to intercept,
+ except for the assembly point and the target sector. In the target
+ sector, any country owning surface ships or land units got to
+ intercept in addition to the sector owner. Thus, a sector owner
+ with surface ships or land units there got to intercept twice. The
+ sector owner did not get to intercept at the assembly point,
+ even when it was the target sector.
+ * Spotting rule changes:
+ - Ships and land units now spot overflying planes along all of the
+ flight path instead of just the target sector, and no longer
+ report allied planes.
+ - Planes now spot ships and land units only when flying recon or
+ sweep, and along all of their flight path instead of just the
+ target sector. It still takes a spy plane to identify ships and
+ land units.
+ - Planes now spot ships and land units in a sector even when all
+ planes abort there.
+ - Planes now spot all foreign ships and land units, not just
+ hostile ones.
+ * Fix SAM interception for intercepts other than the first.
+ * Fix air defense and flak over sectors allied to the planes. Air
+ defense was broken in Empire 2. Flak was broken in 4.2.8.
+ * Establishing contact by spotting planes from sectors didn't work.
+ * Fix reconnaissance patrols to use sonar when any capable plane is
+ present. Before, all planes had to be capable.
+ * Fix recon and sweep not to spy after all spy planes are gone.
+ * Fix a bug that made multiple clients running on the same Windows
+ machine interfere with each other. Broken in 4.3.11.
+ * Fix enforcing game hours for players already logged in. Broken in
+ 4.3.19.
+ * Fix distribution not to abandon a distribution center by exporting
+ the last military.
+ * Many fixes to load, unload, lload and lunload:
+ - Now usable for deities.
+ - Plug loopholes that let you steal foreign commodities by making
+ load/lload unload and unload/lunload load through use of negative
+ amount arguments.
+ - Fix not to let you give away civilians.
+ - You can't use lload in foreign sectors or lunload with foreign
+ land units anymore. Loading stuff in foreign sectors was
+ prohibited already for ships.
+ - lload and lunload now work on foreign land units only when
+ they're explicitly named by uid. This matches behavior of load
+ and unload.
+ - Fix to test relations of foreign object's owner to player instead
+ of the other way round.
+ * Make sure land units with maximum mobility can attack mountains.
+ * Fix land unit attack mobility cost. Broken in 4.3.6.
+ * Conditions comparing string-valued selectors like wing to unquoted
+ values are now interpreted more smartly. Before, unquoted strings
+ were prone to be interpreted as selector names even when that made
+ no sense. You still have to disambiguate truly ambiguous cases
+ like w=w for planes, e.g. as wing=w or w='w'.
+ * Fix reporting of shot spies in news. Broken in 4.3.16.
+ * Remove econfig key mission_mob_cost. Questionable feature, and
+ hasn't been used in a long time.
+ * Reserve and escort missions now have an op-area, like all the other
+ missions.
+ * Land units now react only when on a reserve mission. The lrange
+ command is gone.
+ * Fix a bug that could mess up mission op-area when the range of
+ ship, plane or land unit on the mission decreases, e.g. through the
+ range command.
+ * Reserve missions no longer give a bonus to reaction range.
+ * Info file fixes.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.19 - Sun Dec 7 23:15:34 UTC 2008
+ * LWP doesn't work with Darwin due to OS bugs, avoid it for now.
+ * Don't let ships double-retreat first on 'i' (injured) and then on
+ 'h' (helpless) when shelled.
+ * Fix a bug that suppressed the "sunk!" message. Broken in 4.3.17.
+ * Log out player when maximum time per day is exceeded. Before, he
+ could remain logged in with visitor privileges only, but once
+ logged out could not log back in.
+ * If a player was at a prompt when either game hours restriction
+ started or maximum time per day was exceeded, he was allowed to
+ enter one more command.
+ * Deitying a capital failed to charge money and report news. Broken
+ in 4.3.17.
+ * Overhaul accounting of play time, fixing minor inaccuracies.
+ * Fix parsing of 24:00 in econfig key game_hours and
+ update_demandtimes.
+ * New option RAILWAYS.
+ * Che ages just like military reserves (1% per 24 ETUs).
+ * Permit ships to assault the sector they're in.
+ * Sectors eating less than one unit of food don't make one unit of
+ food for free anymore. They still can't starve.
+ * New concept sector terrain. Deities can use it to make sectors
+ other than wilderness redesignatable. See sect.config for more
+ info.
+ * Represent play time in seconds rather than minutes. This affects
+ xdump: nat selector minused (counting minutes) is replaced by
+ timeused (counting seconds).
+ * Improved nightly build, with additional tests.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.18 - Sat Oct 18 18:39:17 UTC 2008
+ * Fix building of planes, land units and nukes with uids that have
+ never been used before. This could crash the server on some
+ systems in certain states. Broken in 4.3.17.
+ * Improved nightly build, with restructured and extended tests.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.17 - Sat Sep 20 16:07:44 UTC 2008
+ * Fix standalone client build for Windows. Broken in 4.3.11.
+ * Disable automatic supply of land units on load for now, it's broken
+ in a highly abusable way.
+ * Make trade show exactly what's on sale, remove option SHOW_PLANE.
+ * Stop ships, planes, land units and nukes on violent takeover, just
+ like sectors.
+ * Wipe orders when ships, planes, land units and nukes are taken over
+ violently or given away peacefully. Fleet, wing, army and mission
+ were already cleared in many, but not all cases. Other orders were
+ never cleared: mission op-areas (visible in xdump), ship autonav
+ orders, ship sail path (including ship to follow and mobility
+ quota), land unit retreat orders, plane range limit, and land unit
+ retreat percentage.
+ * Fix takeover of stuff by attack, assault, board, lboard, paradrop
+ and pboard:
+ - Corrupt land unit file could lead to infinite recursion.
+ - Take over nuke armed on plane along with the plane. Broken in
+ 4.3.3.
+ - Taking over land units with negative mobility increased mobility
+ to zero. Ditto for planes embarked on ships or land units.
+ * Fix a bug that made set and xdump not recognize unused trade lots
+ as such.
+ * Fix giving away stuff by trading it:
+ - When an armed nuke is sold separately from its plane, take it off
+ the plane. You couldn't do that before 4.3.3.
+ - Give away nuke armed on sold plane along with the plane. Broken
+ in 4.3.3.
+ - Don't zero mobility of planes and land units on sold ships.
+ * Fix giving away stuff by unloading from its carrier: Give away any
+ nukes armed on planes (broken in 4.3.3) and land units loaded on
+ land units. The latter can't happen in the stock game.
+ * Fix giving away stuff by scrapping or scuttling its carrier:
+ - Fix up output.
+ - Disarm the nuke from a plane instead of destroying it.
+ - Give away any loaded land units and planes, too.
+ * Tradeship fixes:
+ - Fix scuttle to ask for confirmation when scuttling a tradeship in
+ an unsuitable sector even when the tradeship is pirated. Broken
+ in 4.2.13.
+ - Fix scuttle to require 2% harbor efficiency for a trade ship to
+ pay. Also require at least friendly relations.
+ - Make autonav refuse scuttle orders in unsuitable sectors.
+ * Clean up rules on where you can scrap stuff:
+ - Ships in own or friendly, efficient harbors (relations used not
+ to matter, contrary to info)
+ - Planes in own or allied, efficient airfields (friendly used to
+ work as well, contrary to info)
+ - Land units in any own or allied sector (relations used not to
+ matter, and you couldn't scrap them on ships)
+ Also tell player why something can't be scrapped instead of
+ ignoring it silently.
+ * Rewrite the broken code to move land units, planes and nukes along
+ with their carrier. The old code was a hack that didn't update
+ timestamps (so incremental dumps didn't pick up the movement), and
+ it didn't cover all uses. The update, in particular, was prone to
+ see cargo in old locations, which could screw up repairs.
+ * Expire lost items at the update instead of continuously.
+ * Replace econfig key lost_items_timeout by lost_keep_hours.
+ * Minor Windows threading fixes.
+ * Journal now uses human-readable names to identify threads.
+ * Ship and land unit load counters are no longer stored in game
+ state, because they duplicate information already there. Same for
+ the type of nuke loaded on a plane. Remove field nuketype from
+ xdump plane. Clients can simply find the plane's nuke instead.
+ * Ship and land unit load counts as displayed by ship, sdump, land,
+ ldump, ship selectors nplane, nxlight, nchoppers, nland, and land
+ selectors nxlight, nland are now reliable. They used to get out of
+ sync at times.
+ * Ship load counts now reflect what is loaded, not how it is stored.
+ For instance, if a light carrier, capable of carrying 4 x-lights
+ and 20 light planes carries nothing but 5 sams, we now have
+ nxlight=5, nplane=0 instead of nxlight=4, nplane=1.
+ * New cargo lists data structure to let code find loaded planes, land
+ units and nukes easily and efficiently.
+ * Revamped upkeep of lost file. It should be reliable now.
+ * Disable the ill-advised error recovery on sector access that swept
+ bugs under the carpet rather than recovering from them.
+ * Occupied sectors no longer revert to the old owner when all
+ military and land units go away. This feature was added in
+ Chainsaw 3. It wasn't integrated properly with the che code
+ (things went wrong when che killed all defenders, but couldn't
+ convert the sector due to its loyalty), and combat code (if an
+ attack killed off all local defenders and got defeated by reacting
+ units, the sector changed ownership anyway, silently).
+ * Include destination coordinates in interception and plane mission
+ messages.
+ * Client could misdiagnose redirections and executes as unauthorized,
+ or die outright. Broken in 4.3.11.
+ * Fix xdump realm to dump player instead of absolute coordinates.
+ Disclosed the true origin. Broken in 4.3.0.
+ * Fix spy to reliably avoid spying same sector more than once.
+ * The map drawing code could smash the heap when the world was
+ ridiculously small.
+ * When a satellite's launch trajectory was off, its coordinates could
+ get screwed up, which made it invisible in skywatch.
+ * Fix several bugs that made the path command screw up when the path
+ spans large areas.
+ * Fix the default size of the map shown by move, test and transport
+ sub-command M.
+ * Fix bugs that could make arguments in area or dist syntax miss
+ ships, planes, land units and nukes at the border of the selected
+ area, if that area spans the whole world. In sufficiently small
+ worlds, it could also make radar miss satellites and ships, sonar
+ miss ships, satellite miss ships and land units, nuclear
+ detonations miss ships, planes, land units and nukes, automatic
+ supply miss ship and land unit supply sources, ships and land units
+ fail to return fire, ships fail to fire support.
+ * Maps sometimes showed x-coordinates as three lines instead of two
+ unnecessarily.
+ * Improved nightly build, tests in particular.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.16 - Sat Aug 9 15:56:52 UTC 2008
+ * Production command incorrectly limited the number of graduates,
+ happy strollers, technological breakthroughs and medical
+ discoveries produced by a sector to 999. Broken in 4.2.15.
+ * Fix a bug in improve that could let you spend more money than you
+ have.
+ * Fix work command not to spend more mobility than requested, and to
+ round mobility use randomly instead of down.
+ * Commands demobilize, convert and work no longer let you spend more
+ money than you have. Commands demobilize and convert no longer ask
+ for confirmation before spending more than half your money. Saving
+ that feature would have been more work than it's worth.
* Remove undocumented key 'd' at bomb ship, plane and land unit
target prompts.
* Fix land unit flak when pin-bombed to match flak when overflown:
* Deity syntax of zdone changed, and is now documented in info.
* The threshold command could be tricked into accepting negative
thresholds.
- * Fix bdes and designate to always write updated bmap to disk.
+ * Fix designate to always write updated bmap to disk.
* Fix bomb to fail on empty <pin|strat> argument instead of flying
without bombs.
* Fix a bug in distribute that screwed up the current sector's
shutdown aborted it. The bug allowed players to delay update and
shutdown indefinitely.
* Thread priorities are only implemented by LWP and no longer used.
- With LWP, they let players with a sufficiently fast connection
+ With LWP, they let players with a sufficiently fast connection
starve out the threads that clean the lost file and kill idle
connections. Drop them.
* Show nuke rounded required research incorrectly.
in 4.0.2), and trains could be sent down paths without rail (never
worked). Also fixes unit reaction path cost.
* The custom table reader can now deal with sector, item, product and
- infra tables more comfortably.
+ infra tables more comfortably.
* Remove option BIG_CITY. Deities can customize the sect table to
get the same effect.
* Many more selectors can now be compared with names, not just
* Fix crash bug in emp_config parsing.
* Fix buffer overruns in turn and shutdown.
* Fix second argument of shutdown.
- * tele and turn now abort on EOF.
+ * announce, pray, telegram and turn now abort on EOF.
* Fix display of MOTD and game down message of maximum size.
* Correctly support telnet line termination on input. Previously,
carriage returns could slip into ship names and such.
* Rewrite selector code. Old code let players smash the stack by
supplying too many conditions. New code properly rejects ambiguous
abbreviations and prefers exact matches. Selectors with names that
- collide with types, like land units' rad and spy, now work. Selectors with
- non-integral values, like land units' att, now work.
+ collide with types, like land units' rad and spy, now work.
+ Selectors with non-integral values, like land units' att, now work.
* survey used to display hundreds for everything but variables. Now
it displays hundreds only for values that can be large.
* Rewrite info survey. Document ability to survey properties other
* News no longer call all sub-launched missiles nuclear.
* Incoming missiles are now reported with coordinates.
* Removed some code that served no purpose except crashing on
- Windows.
+ Windows.
* Fixed Mac OSX and AIX build problems.
* Don't resolve player IP addresses for now, because it can crash
with certain versions of GNU libc.
* Updated order of firing flak in Flak.t.
* Fixed 80% efficient planes on ships must be maintained.
* Fixed initial MOB_ACCESS check thread sleep time was set by an uninitialized
- variable.
+ variable.
* Removed "TEMPORARILY DISABLED" message from mission command for escort
missions. Escort missions have been re-enabled since 4.0.15.
* Using sonar from the navigate command will print the sonar map.
* Fixed bug in sectors that don't revolt not showing up as lost items.
* Fixed bug where maps with an X of exactly 200 is not drawing third line.
* Fixed bug where MOB_ACCESS was not updating the mobility just before
- the update.
+ the update.
* Fixed bug in the way treaties are examined and sometimes produce
wrong results.
* Fixed edit to allow creating negative mobility for sectors.
* Fixed bug where scrapping land units was creating military.
* Fixed description of sect_mob_neg_factor in econfig file.
* Increased speed of PT boats.
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Changes to Empire 4.2.4 - Tue Feb 2 05:47:44 PST 1999
* Added check to make military values match up correctly for land
units.
* Fixed bug in explore command not setting mobility to correct
value when MOB_ACCESS was enabled.
* Fixed bug in enlist setting mobility incorrectly sometimes.
- * Added doc/backup file for deities which recommends how backups and
+ * Added doc/backup file for deities which recommends how backups and
restores of the data directory should be done.
Changes to Empire 4.2.3 - Wed Jan 13 06:02:35 PST 1999
* Fixed bug where satellites were not orbiting the world during the
update.
* Fixed bug in torpedos being too smart. They knew how to jump over
- land! :) Now the "line_of_sight" routine is used to determine if a
+ land! :) Now the "line_of_sight" routine is used to determine if a
torpedo has a straight path to the destination. If it doesn't, the
torpedo no longer jumps over land, but instead slams into it. This was
an interesting bug because you could torp ships on the other side of
destination sector. Goods are now attempted to be returned to the
start sector, and apporpriate steps taken if the start sector is no
longer available.
- * Fixed march to prompt you before you abandon a sector you own by
+ * Fixed march to prompt you before you abandon a sector you own by
marching out the last land unit.
- * Fixed check functions to only check the relevant portions of the structure
+ * Fixed check functions to only check the relevant portions of the structure
and not the timestamp info that doesn't affect how the object functions.
* Fixed bug in spy command that always told you if a spy unit was in a
non-owned sector.
gained information that you wouldn't normally know.)
* Merged bestpath and bestownedpath and wrote new wrappers, "BestShipPath"
and "BestAirPath" to use it properly. It is also good to note that
- bestownedpath is used to determine paths for ships and for planes,
+ bestownedpath is used to determine paths for ships and for planes,
and that best_path (which uses the A* algorithm) is used for all land
based paths, and that the two are never interchanged.
* Removed "jet recon" plane (it slipped in during the PLANENAMES conversion,
properly, and thus causing crashes when accessing certain plane
routines. This happened during the move to make the PLANENAMES option
run-time configurable.
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Changes to Empire 4.2.0 - Thu Oct 29 06:27:15 PST 1998
* Bumped rev to 4.2.0 since this is a major release (the server is now
run-time configurable for just about everything and is released under
* Updated Education.t
* Modified (increased) chances of hitting mines slightly.
* Removed unused variables from shp_check_mines.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.17 - Fri Jul 31 06:12:21 PDT 1998
* Added ability in edit to change coastal flag for sectors.
* Added ability in edit to edit plague values for ships.
(works for sea and land mines, used "lmine" to distinguish it from "min"
which determines mineral (iron) content of a sector.)
* No longer able to pin bomb land units on a ship.
- * Land units are required to have at least one military loaded to perform
+ * Land units are required to have at least one military loaded to perform
a mission.
* Firing land units are required to have at least on military loaded to
be able to fire (or return fire.)
they were not cargo capable.
* Fixed bug in potentially crashing in update code for nations tech/research.
* Fixed bug in execute putting you into execute mode incorrectly.
- * Fixed bug in board not allowing land units to board from 0 mobility
+ * Fixed bug in board not allowing land units to board from 0 mobility
sectors.
* Fixed bug where interdicted land units that were missed displayed
a "SPLASH! Bombs miss your ships" message.
before.)
* Fixed bug in neweff not reporting stopped sectors. It now (correctly)
reports them as not changing eff.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.15 - Wed May 20 12:35:53 EDT 1998
* Fixed the spelling of Markus' name in CHANGES4.0 files.
* Added Markus' patches/fixes. Some are detailed below.
* Fixed bug in setsector telling the deity coordinates of sectors being
granted/taken away.
* Fixed bug in setting budget of enlistment sectors to 0.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.14 - Wed Apr 8 08:47:54 EDT 1998
* Fixed time_t problem in common/log.c
* Fixed bug in headlines
* Fixed bug in printing of "No ship(s)" twice in cargo command when no
ships were selected.
* Temporarily disabled escort missions until a fix is found. They are
- randomly crashing the server.
+ randomly crashing the server.
* Fixed morale.t to reflect that retreat percentage is based off of
morale_base and not 75.
* Fixed bug in bridgefall where planes and units on ship in a sector
* Fixed bug in produce command reporting incorrect costs (sometimes).
* Land units on ships will now try to draw supply from the ship they
are on.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.13 - Mon Mar 2 11:04:28 EST 1998
* Fixed bug in distribute when world sizes are other than 64x32
* Fixed bug in getcommand (not really a bug, just made it work like
* Fixed building of POSIX threads on Alpha running Digital Unix.
* Fixed line_of_sight prototype in sona.c
* Fixed fairland not to conuse stupid C++ compilers.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.12 - Tue Feb 24 11:27:31 EST 1998
* Fixed client build on linux (whoops)
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Changes to Empire 4.0.11 - Tue Feb 10 10:53:10 EST 1998
* AIX build seems to only work with gcc right now (but at least that works)
* Vax Ultrix (vaxultrix) build should work now (hopefully) out of the box.
* Fixed bug where spies were not dying when damaged.
* Fixed bug in HIDDEN mods in declare command not printing country # of
uncontacted country correctly (or at all as a matter of fact)
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Changes to Empire 4.0.10 - Mon Aug 18 12:34:58 EDT 1997
* Fixed bug where fleets were being interdicted but the damage was being
spread to ships not in the same sectors.
a sector.
* Documented mountains only holding and using 1/10th of the normal sector
population in Sector-types.t.
- * Fixed documentation on ship's firing ranges in fire.t to be less
+ * Fixed documentation on ship's firing ranges in fire.t to be less
ambiguous.
* Updated nukes in nuke.t
* Added apropos command (thanks to Mike Wise)
there are two files of the same name, and you don't get a complete match,
then whichever file is found first in the directory is used.
* Changed documentation in wantupd.h
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Changes to Empire 4.0.9 - Sat Apr 19 23:01:51 EDT 1997
* Fixed dump info pages that were getting formatted funny.
* Fixed improve info page.
This was major because it affected timestamp values which are more
than 65535.
* Fixed bug in sdump.c for typo in reporting the trade ships origin.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.7 - Mon Feb 24 22:48:54 EST 1997
* Fixed bug in aircombat.c when calculating the air combat odds. Negative
numbers were screwing things up good...
* Spies caught in Neutral or Friendly countries cause the Neutral or
Friendly country to go Hostile towards the owner of the spy.
* Tweaked ammunition numbers for artillery units.
- * No more automatic declarations of War should be made. You will go
+ * No more automatic declarations of War should be made. You will go
hostile, but since going to war doesn't increase your countries
defenses, and is purely political, it is left to the player to go
that final step.
* Fixed doconfig.c to create directories with right modes.
* Fixed install macros in makefiles to move binaries to the right
places.
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Changes to Empire 4.0.3 - Wed Dec 4 22:46:53 EST 1996
* Added HP/UX port.
* Fixed doconfig.c (put exit(0) at the end of main.)
* Fixed attack value in attack_val in lndsub.c
* Fixed lload in commands/load.c
* Fixed defense_val in lndsub.c - Made it a minimum of 1, so that units will
- always fight until dead or retreating. 0 makes them get stuck.
+ always fight until dead or retreating. 0 makes them get stuck.
* Fixed update/deliver.c - no delivery of non-oldowned civvies (or anything
else for that matter.)
* Fixed llook in commands/look.c
* Added NO_LCMS, NO_HCMS and NO_OIL options. When any of these options are
enabled, you don't need any of that type of material to build things.
If NO_HCMS is enabled, you don't need HCMS to build bridges, you need
- lcms. If both NO_HCMS and NO_LCMS are enabled, then you don't need
+ lcms. If both NO_HCMS and NO_LCMS are enabled, then you don't need
any materials to build a bridge.
* There is no mobility cost for assigning missions. But, there is also
no longer any benefit for being on a mission either.
* Che can now be lessened by making happiness. If you have more happiness
than your conquered populace, they don't fight as hard or recruit as
much. If you have less than them, they fight harder and recruit more.
- It's not much though - it ranges from 2.0 in your favor to only 0.8
+ It's not much though - it ranges from 2.0 in your favor to only 0.8
against you (whereas it was always 1.0 before.) So, it definitely
favors the attackers to make lots of happy now.
* Bridgeheads can only be built on coasts.
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