This document outlines the various changes to the game and how they
will affect you, the player. These were coded as the Wolfpack project.
.NF
-Changes to Empire 4.4.1 - Sun Jan 17 2021
+Changes to Empire 4.4.1 - Sat Feb 21 2021
* Fix land unit casualties in guerrilla fighting. Broken in 4.4.0.
* Changes to edit:
- You can now edit bars on ships and land units, and missile
when it can't place all the islands the deity asks for. You
can't fill the world with islands anymore by asking for
impossibly many of them.
- - Fix silent failure to place place mountains. Fairness issue.
+ - Fix silent failure to place mountains. Fairness issue.
- Fix unfair mountain resources. Neglected when Empire 3 made
mountains produce gold dust.
- Drop undocumented, silent limit of 1000 mountains per island.
- Manual page improvements.
- Code refactoring and cleanup.
* Test suite improvements:
- - Fix empdump-test for "make check-accept". Has been broken its
- addition in 4.3.33.
+ - Fix empdump-test for "make check-accept". Has been broken since
+ its addition in 4.3.33.
- Improve give and edit coverage.
- Cover load and tend. There are known gaps.
- Improve fairland coverage.
systems: read from standard input in canonical mode with echo
turned off. Before, it commonly read from /dev/tty in noncanonical
mode.
- * The server crashed on systems when bomb, launch and interdiction
- miss the target. Fix that.
+ * The server crashed on some systems when bomb, launch and
+ interdiction missed the target. Fix that.
* Fix truncated "info Empire4.3" on systems with a losing nroff.
* Make client's fancy line editing and persistent history work on
more systems.
third more than before.
* Fix crash when a deity runs neweff or production on a sea sector.
Broken in 4.4.0.
- * Don't let embarked engineers work. Screwed up when the command was
- added in Empire 2.
- * Fix buy error messages on concurrent lot change.
+ * Don't let embarked engineers work. Screwed up when the work
+ command was added in Empire 2.
+ * Fix buy to handle concurrent lot change more robustly. The flawed
+ handling goes back to 4.0.0 and 4.0.2.
+ * Fix MOB_ACCESS mobility update for ships owned by countries with
+ even country number. Broken in 4.4.0.
+ * Journal entries for output are no longer flushed to disk right
+ away.
* Code refactoring and cleanup.
* Info page, manual page and documentation fixes and clarifications.