will affect you, the player. These were coded as the Wolfpack project,
and bug-reports should be sent to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com>.
.NF
-Changes to Empire 4.3.3 - Sun May 14 19:23:01 UTC 2006
+Changes to Empire 4.3.7 - Fri Jul 14 23:05:19 UTC 2006
+ * Sanctuaries are again fully populated with civilians (4.3.6 changed
+ the limit, but not the population). Food is now spread evenly
+ among them.
+ * Fix path finder to find shortest naval and aerial paths again
+ (broken in 4.3.4).
+ * transport's map sub-command now does the right thing for a unit
+ number argument.
+ * Fix bug in map sub-command of move, explore and transport that
+ passed junk to map command. Could theoretically crash.
+ * Food need reported by starvation was one short for sectors without
+ food.
+ * Change land unit ammunition use back to what it was before 4.2.3.
+ This lets deities customize ammunition use independent of damage.
+ It also substantially reduces ammunition consumption at high tech.
+ * navigation and march enhancements:
+ - Sub-command 'f' now takes an optional ship / land unit number.
+ - Mapping sub-commands now take an optional ship / land unit
+ number.
+ - New sub-command 'd' to drop mines.
+ * Let minesweepers retreat at their full speed (missed in 4.3.6).
+ * SUPER_BARS cannot be harmed, so don't interdict them.
+ * Don't let trains and non-trains march together for now, because it
+ the march code isn't prepared for that.
+ * New mapping flag 'n' to show nukes.
+ * Mapping flag '*' now shows nukes as well.
+ * New command nbmap to bmap around a nuke. Overload command nmap to
+ map around a nuke when given a nuke argument.
+ * Fix an inconsistency that gave tactical bombers a small bonus
+ vs. flak when pin-bombing.
+ * Fix production to show the designation that actually produces, not
+ the designation as it is now (broken in 4.3.6).
+ * Fix accidental whitespace change in output of sdump, pdump and
+ ldump that crept into 4.3.5.
+ * Support user-defined sector types and products in custom tables,
+ not just customization of existing ones.
+ * Fix off-by-one bug in budget that used to be masked by budget
+ priorities until their demise in 4.3.6. The bug could crash the
+ game on certain systems.
+ * Code cleanup.
+ * Info file fixes.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.6 - Tue Jun 20 18:46:18 UTC 2006
+ * The shutdown command now terminates the server process correctly
+ even with LinuxThreads pthreads under Linux 2.4 and earlier.
+ * Cope with old versions of groff (broken in 4.3.0).
+ * You can now arm allied planes with nukes.
+ * Taking a nuke off a plane gives it to the sector owner again.
+ Feature was accidentally dropped in 4.3.3. Recipient must be
+ allied.
+ * Naval path went bananas for impassable end sectors (broken in
+ 4.3.1).
+ * New econfig key disabled_commands.
+ * New territory selector dterr, restricted to deities. The territory
+ command defaults to it for deities.
+ * Let land units attack as long as they have positive mobility,
+ except for high-mobility terrain (mountains), where the rules
+ remain as they were: land units need to have all the mobility
+ charged for the attack, not counting combat and moving in to
+ occupy. Rationale: Making sure your land units reach attack
+ positions with enough mobility left is a pain in the neck.
+ Requiring only positive mobility is friendlier, but allowed rushing
+ of mountains, so we make an exception there.
+ * Can typeset info pages as PostScript. Result isn't exactly pretty.
+ * Support disabling of infrastructure in infra custom table. Remove
+ redundant option DEFENSE_INFRA. show command now shows only enabled
+ infrastructure.
+ * Fix crash on empty argument in bmap, lbmap, lmap, map, nmap, pbmap,
+ pmap sbmap, smap (broken in 4.3.1).
+ * New, simpler sector mobility cost formula:
+ - The basic cost is still a linear function of sector efficiency,
+ with customizable cost at 0% and at 100%. The latter used to be
+ derived from the former. The show command shows both parameters
+ now.
+ - Mountains are no longer a special case.
+ - Tweak costs: mountains now range from 2.4 to 1.2 instead of 2.174
+ to 1.304, highway, bridge head, bridge span and bridge tower
+ range from 0.4 to 0.001 instead of 0.2 to 0.001, and wilderness
+ is 0.4 flat instead of 0.6 to 0.4. All sector types mortal
+ players can designate now cost the same at 0%. That's a feature.
+ - Road infrastructure now reduces cost up to 90%, linear in road
+ efficiency (used to be close to that, but non-linear). Same for
+ rail infrastructure, but 99%. Adapted from Ice World V.
+ - Double land unit minimum cost to 0.02, to slow them down on
+ highways.
+ - Change land unit cost penalty in newly taken land to an extra 0.2
+ instead of a minimum of 0.2, to reduce penetration depth.
+ * Reduce bridge head defense and collect value to match highway's.
+ * sinfrastructure displayed bogus rail mobility costs when there was
+ no rail.
+ * Retreating engineers took full landmine damage instead of half.
+ * Fix socket creation code not to print a null pointer.
+ * Fix login option code not to search beyond end of table (broken in
+ 4.2.21).
+ * Spy planes and satellites can no longer spot landspies.
+ * Spy planes can now spot surface ships at sea. They can no longer
+ spot land units loaded on ships or land units.
+ * Fix train retreat mobility cost, and don't permit retreat off rail.
+ * Change maximum population to 100 for plains (was 49), mountains
+ (was 99), bridge spans and bridge towers (was 999), and to 1000 for
+ the other habitable sector types (was 999).
+ * Let minesweepers navigate at the speed their stats indicate by
+ letting them sweep on the move at no extra mobility charge.
+ * Reduce chance for planes to abort from 100-eff (if eff<80) to
+ 80-eff. This should make it easier to punch through air defense,
+ flak in particular, and increase the risk of getting shot down.
+ * Ship and land unit flak intensity is now proportional to efficiency.
+ * Ship and land unit flak intensity is no longer scaled by the tech
+ of the owner of the last thing firing. It's still scaled by each
+ thing's tech.
+ * All ships and land units firing flak now spot the plane and are
+ spotted by the plane. Previously, spotting stopped as soon as flak
+ maxed out.
+ * Inefficient land units were overcharged mobility when reacting.
+ Broken when Empire3 changed land unit mobility use not to depend on
+ efficiency, except for supply units.
+ * New journal file to log complete player input plus selected
+ important events. Controlled by new econfig key keep_journal, off
+ by default.
+ * Fix unsafe shutdown on SIGINT and SIGTERM.
+ * Fix land unit path finding: paths weren't always cheapest (broken
+ 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.
+ * 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
+ numbers. This includes nations, e.g. census ?old=Mirkwood. Does
+ not fully work for queer names like &&&.
+ * Let land units on missions support, just like ships.
+ * Don't let units loaded on a train react.
+ * Change update sequence to repair ships, planes and land units after
+ sectors produce. This makes repairs use new avail instead of old.
+ * Let players stop and start units.
+ * Remove budget priorities.
+ * Make plane report easier to understand.
+ * Change land report to show carriers in the same format as plane and
+ nuke report do.
+ * Code cleanup.
+ * Info file and manual page fixes.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.5 - Sun May 28 07:49:54 UTC 2006
+ * In conditionals, ~ compared to a string selector now stands for an
+ empty string.
+ * Change encoding of `not in any group' from " " to "". This makes
+ fleet=~ work. It also affects xdump.
+ * Fix plane capture code to clear wing.
+ * People now eat and starve exactly the same in sectors, ships and
+ land units. There used to be small differences, and civilians and
+ uw loaded on land units didn't eat at all. The starvation command
+ has been updated accordingly.
+ * Fix bug that makes it impossible to assault or board with land
+ units (broken in 4.3.4).
+ * Code cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.4 - Thu May 25 05:46:10 UTC 2006
+ * Don't use non-portable groff features (broken in 4.3.0).
+ * Work around potential crash bugs in command argument access.
+ * Plug major information leak through nation selectors (broken in
+ 4.2.21). The fix unfortunately exchanges the meaning of xdump
+ nation and xdump country. Sorry about that.
+ * Minimize redundancy between (mortal's) xdump nation and xdump
+ country.
+ * New nation selector rejects.
+ * xdump nation now shows foreign relations and no longer discloses
+ hidden relations.
+ * Fix crash bug in edit.
+ * Fix number of planes building in budget command (broken in 4.3.3).
+ * Selectors group, fleet, wing and army are now strings, and obvious
+ syntax like fleet#a works. xdump also shows the strings now.
+ Units not assigned to a group currently have group string " ", but
+ that may still change.
+ * Don't fold conditionals to lower case, because it breaks valid
+ conditionals like fleet#A.
+ * Mobility cost of a plane sortie is no longer limited to current
+ mobility + 32.
+ * Various formulas no longer truncate or round intermediate results.
+ * Interdiction mission charged twice the normal mobility cost for
+ torpedoes.
+ * Fix sail not to interpret negative x-coordinates as unsail
+ argument.
+ * Improved configure script.
+ * Code cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.3 - Tue May 16 21:35:47 UTC 2006
+ * power c can now show powerless countries. power c * works.
* Fortresses now require 5% efficiency to return fire and interdict.
* Range of ship return fire and support fire no longer depends on
efficiency.
* Fixed bug with scuttling a ship with units on it not scuttling the units
too.
-Changes to Empire 4.0.0 - Initial release
+Changes to Empire 4.0.0 - Wed Aug 21 1996
* Initial Wolfpack release - Long live the Wolfpack!!!!
* Cleaned up the build environment. Now all that is needed is to edit the
build.conf file, answer the questions there and type "make <arch>" to
projects / empserver / blobdiff