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 4.2.14 - Wed Mar 17 07:31:30 UTC 2004
+Changes to Empire 4.2.16 - Wed Jun 16 18:56:16 UTC 2004
+ * Previous version broke sector production when part of the work is
+ used for sector construction.
+ * Add rudimentary tests to nightly build. From Marc Olzheim.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.2.15 - Wed May 26 17:55:58 UTC 2004
+ * test command no longer asks whether to abandon the sector.
+ * explore command could generate a bogus `lost' record when it
+ regains an abandoned start sector.
+ * edit command now properly updates stats when editing tech level of
+ ships, planes or land units. A few of these stats can be edited
+ separately, which doesn't make much sense, and is now deprecated.
+ * edit command no longer accepts efficiency values that would destroy
+ the edited unit. Deities can still delete units by setting the
+ owner to zero.
+ * upgrade command used to charge an amount of avail that didn't match
+ info upgrade. Neither the implemented nor the documented amount
+ made much sense. Change it to 15% of the full build cost. Rewrite
+ info upgrade.
+ * Commands upgrade and build could be off by one when reporting
+ required avail.
+ * upgrade command reported rounded cost but charged unrounded
+ cost. Round cost of upgrade down to match behavior of build.
+ * Upgrading planes now preserves range when it is less than the
+ maximum range. It used to set it to the new maximum range.
+ * show bridge and show tower no longer claim bridge building requires
+ `workers' (whatever that is), since it doesn't.
+ * Replace option ROLLOVER_AVAIL by econfig parameter
+ rollover_avail_max, which is the maximum amount of avail that rolls
+ over. Previously, avail was limited after rollover, and even when
+ ROLLOVER_AVAIL was off. Fix that.
+ * Ships weren't always charged mobility for firing with option
+ NOMOBCOST off.
+ * Fix shell use of return torpedoes.
+ * designate no longer complains twice about deity only designations.
+ * Ensure designate zaps efficiency only when sector type really
+ changes.
+ * Fix strength to always report mines to deities.
+ * Remove option SHIP_DECAY.
+ * Fix bug in sonar that could crash or yield unpredictable results
+ near the true origin.
+ * Fix buffer overflow in flash and wall.
+ * Fix wall not to strip out first word of message.
+ * Change market and order to use item types instead of mnemo
+ characters internally.
+ * Market now reports sales with full item names instead of single
+ letter codes.
+ * buy now requires first argument to be an item name, as documented.
+ * production command handled production backlog incorrectly, failed
+ to limit production for production efficiency greater than one,
+ e.g. agribusiness, and incorrectly limited raw material
+ consumption. Also fix a rounding error. With help from Ron
+ Koenderink.
+ * Sector work was accidentally truncated to even.
+ * Fix coordinate parsing for large numbers when WORLD_X or WORLD_Y
+ don't divide SHRT_MAX+1.
+ * Properly diagnose over-long unit lists.
+ * 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.
+ * 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
+ than items and resources.
+ * Rewrite info build, since it was inaccurate and poorly structured.
+ * Fix info fire on required military. From Marc Olzheim.
+ * New fairland argument -R to set the PRNG seed. Print the seed.
+ This allows you to recreate the same world again.
+ * New facilities to deal with internal errors. These crash when the
+ server is started with -d, which is appropriate for debugging, and
+ potentially disastrous for running a real game.
+ * Automated nightly builds.
+ * Code cleanups.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.2.14 - Mon Mar 22 09:04:12 UTC 2004
* Options NEWPOWER, NEW_STARVE and NEW_WORK are no longer optional.
* Gripe about unknown options in econfig.
* Remove option GRAB_THINGS.
* Utility program files takes new option -f.
* Remove utility programs land, ore and perfect, which don't compile
since 4.2.0 (Oct '98).
+ * fairland no longer warns when it added resources, but when it
+ didn't.
* Fallout code could claim destruction of more items than actually
existed.
* Fix recursive resupply (resupply from supply land unit triggering a
outbreaks silently deleting deliveries.
* Remove disabled commands dissolve and mult. Remove configuration
parameters minmult and maxmult.
- * Trade command indexed an array out of bounds when attempting to
+ * trade command indexed an array out of bounds when attempting to
display the plague as commodity. Fix.
* New make goal interix. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.
* The type selector now prefers an exact match to a partial match.
players as '?'. Radar commands now display all wilderness and
plains as '?'.
* Fix power timestamp for Windows. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.
- * Do the right thing for Windows so ^C aborts to the current command,
- as it should. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.
+ * Make client abort the current command on ^C under Windows, as
+ everywhere else. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.
* Command line parser interpreted trailing whitespace as an another
(empty) argument. Ignore it instead.
* Properly declare stuff in headers, include proper system headers.
* Fix payoff (was broken in 4.2.13).
* Capability fish didn't work together with capability oil.
* Fix and clarify plague outbreak chance in info Plague.
+ * Fix RES_POP maximum population in info Research.
* Fix info telegram and info announce on ~ escapes.
+ * Update info Selector to match code.
+ * Document all undocumented unit capabilities and stats.
+ * Document submarines' ability to carry landspies.
+ * Fix info shoot on security units.
* Various small info file fixes.
* Many fixes in the troff macro package for info files.
* Many fixes for translating info files to HTML.
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