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-Changes to Empire 4.3.33 - Wed May 20 18:17:43 UTC 2015
- * New client option -r for restricted mode. Contributed by Marisa
- Giancarla.
- * The add syntax deprecated in 4.3.29 is now gone.
- * The explore, move, test, transport syntax deprecated in 4.3.27 is
- now gone.
- * The bmap flag syntax deprecated in 4.3.27 is now gone.
- * Stricter configuration validation:
- - Reject odd WORLD_X instead of making it even silently.
- - Reject odd WORLD_Y.
- - Reject missiles that lack capability VTOL instead of adding VTOL
- silently.
- - Reject ships that can carry planes, but have neither capability
- plane nor miss, instead of adding miss silently.
- * Outlaw ships that can drop depth charges, but not fire. No such
- ships exist in the stock game. 4.3.31 permitted them, but keeping
- them working has turned out to be bothersome.
- * Changes to fire and torpedo:
- - Don't disclose that the torpedo's path to the target is blocked
- by land when the target is out of range. Screwed up in 4.2.2.
- - When a submarine gets hit by return fire after firing its deck
- gun, the defender again learns the submarine's UID and type, just
- like for surface ships. This is how it worked before Empire 2.3.
- - When a submarine gets hit by return fire after launching a
- torpedo, the defender again learns the submarine's UID. Before
- Empire 2.3, he learned UID and type.
- - Print "Kaboom" even when the target is out of range.
- - Always clear missions when firing guns or dropping depth charges.
- Screwed up when missions were added in Chainsaw.
- - Report "Sector X,Y ready to fire" instead of "Sector X,Y firing",
- because the sector isn't firing, yet, then. Also report ships
- and land units ready to fire.
- - Suppress bulletin when player shells or torpedoes his own ship.
- * When artillery on a bridge span shelled down the supporting bridge
- head, the bridge fell and the artillery drowned alright. But then
- the bridge rose right back. Broken in 4.3.14.
- * Fix board to charge mobility even when defender is less than 100%
- efficient. Broken in Empire 2.
- * The convert command charged security land units mobility until
- 4.3.16 broke that. Drop this undocumented feature instead of
- fixing it.
- * Fix news to report the actual owner of ships sunk by return
- torpedoes instead of POGO. Screwed up when return torpedoes were
- added in Chainsaw.
- * Don't disclose UID, type and owner of torpedoed submarines. The
- latter leaked through the news.
- * Changes to bomb:
- - Fix damage to mobility when bombing planes. Has always been
- broken.
- - Include position when reporting bombing of a land unit, like we
- do for ships.
- - Suppress bulletin when player bombs his own assets.
- - Report bombing of plane to owner once, not twice.
- - Don't permit bombing of dead planes. Missed when we did the same
- for dead ships and land units in 4.3.16.
- * Changes to retreat and lretreat:
- - Be less loquacious when changing orders.
- - Deprecate pseudo-condition 'c'. Use retreat path 'h' to cancel
- retreat orders.
- - Change query syntax from "retreat SHIPS" to "retreat SHIPS q".
- Consistent with mission, and makes prompting for arguments more
- usable. Keep accepting the old syntax for now, but deprecate it.
- - Reject invalid retreat paths instead of silently ignoring invalid
- characters during retreat. Unfortunately, the path needs to be
- valid even with deprecated pseudo-condition 'c', where it's not
- actually used. This might break some existing usage.
- - Fail without charging BTUs when the player gives no conditions.
- - Fix infinite loop when third argument contains '?'. Broken in
- 4.3.16.
- * Rename retreat flag "torped" to "torpedoed" in xdump retreat-flags.
- This could conceivably break clients. No actual breakage is known.
- * Rewrite automatic retreat to fix its many bugs and inconsistencies
- with navigate and march:
- - When a ship defeats a boarding party, but suffers enough damage
- to sink, retreat the victim's group (if any) instead of ship#0.
- - Permit retreat exactly when navigate and march would be
- permitted. Before, land units happily retreated while on the
- trading block (forbidden with march since 4.0.9), crewless
- (likewise since 4.0.0), kidnapped in a foreign sector
- (inconsistent since land units were added in Chainsaw 3), loaded
- on a ship (likewise) or a land unit (inconsistent since that
- became possible in 4.0.0). Ships retreated while on the trading
- block (forbidden with navigate since 4.0.9).
- - Land units can now retreat into foreign sectors exactly when they
- could march there: when the sector is allied, or when the land
- unit is a spy (with the usual risks).
- - Land units can now retreat into mountains.
- - Land unit retreat now resets fortification.
- - Group retreat now happens only along a single path. Before, you
- could scatter a group in several directions, and even retreat in
- far away places. The latter was a highly abusable design flaw.
- - Bulletins provide more useful information in fewer words. In
- particular, they always report the end sector.
- - Fix retreat after a torpedo hit to include the torpedo damage in
- its mobility cost calculation.
- - When retreat runs into a sector that cannot be entered, don't
- consume the retreat direction.
- - Don't charge mobility for retreating in direction 'h'
- - You can no longer make your own ships or land units retreat.
- - Clear mission only when the ship or land unit actually retreats.
- - Land unit group retreat could corrupt the land unit file or crash
- the server. Screwed up when Chainsaw added land unit retreat.
- - Fix ship retreat when helpless. Surface ships claimed to retreat
- in a bulletin, but that was a lie. Submarines didn't even
- pretend.
- * Don't tell the player he sunk a ship when it survives an attack
- with bomb, fire, launch or torpedo, but sinks during retreat. bomb
- even reported where it had retreated to when it sank.
- * Land mine fixes, affecting march and, if option INTERDICT_ATT is
- enabled, attack and assault:
- - Fix march sub-command 'm' to not let non-engineers hit mines.
- Broken in Empire 2. Fixed in 4.0.17 for ships only.
- - Engineers now risk hitting mines twice instead of once on sector
- entry, just like minesweepers.
- - No sweeping with zero mobility. Screwed up when Chainsaw added
- land units.
- * Navigate and march cleanup and bug hunt:
- - Stop on non-fatal mine hits, too. Before, we carried on, and
- ships that lost all crew were left behind only at the next
- prompt. Note that we already stop on non-fatal interdiction
- damage since Empire 2.
- - Fix use-after-free when a flagship or leader stays behind without
- a prompt following immediately.
- - When something other than movement charged mobility, the charge
- was lost on the next movement, unless there was a prompt in
- between. For instance, mobility lost to mine hits could come
- back.
- - Fix parser not to get confused by white-space.
- - Make ships use radar always, not just most of the time.
- - Land units now use radar automatically like ships.
- - Report flagship and leader changes immediately, and always.
- Before, they were reported only around a prompt.
- - Wipe mission and retreat orders less eagerly. Before, they where
- sometimes wiped even for ships and land units the command
- rejected.
- - Give up fortification only when a land unit actually moves or
- sweeps.
- - Report where exactly ships and land units sweep mines.
- - Nicer error messages for sub-command 'm'.
- - Fix sub-command 'm' not to drop engineers without mobility from
- the march.
- - When denying ships entry to an unfriendly sector with canals,
- don't disclose whether it's above 2%.
- - Both navigate and march now require all their ships and land
- units to be in the same sector. Support for scattered ships and
- land units complicates the code and blows up the test matrix.
- It's also rather obscure; I suspect accidental use has been more
- frequent than intentional use.
- - Check for sector abandonment before anyone marches instead of
- right before moving the last land unit. Fixes a bug that could
- scatter the group when something interferes while waiting for the
- player to confirm abandonment.
- - When marching a mixed group of spies and non-spies into a
- non-allied sector, remove non-spies from the group, and move the
- spies. Before, only the spies before the first non-spy moved
- into the non-allied sector, which could scatter the group.
- Screwed up when 4.0.0 added spy units.
- - Don't permit trains to march out of sectors without rail.
- - When navigating a mixed group of ships with and without canal
- capability into a canal, remove incapable ships from the group,
- and move the capable ships. Before, only the ships before the
- first incapable ship moved into the canal, which could scatter
- the group. Broken in 4.3.0.
- - Fix navigate buffer overrun for impossibly long paths taken. No
- remotely sane game configuration provides a ship fast enough to
- trigger it. Broken in 4.0.0.
- * Remove option SAIL (commands follow, mquota, sail, unsail; ship
- selectors mquota, path, follow) and autonav (commands order,
- qorder, sorder; ship selectors xstart, xend, ystart, yend,
- cargostart, cargoend, amtstart, amtend, autonav) due to multiple
- issues:
- - The orders are executed at the update. Crafty players can use
- them to get around the update window.
- - Usability is poor, especially for autonav.
- - Few players use them.
- - Documentation is inaccurate.
- - Code has bugs, some of them critical.
- - It's almost 1300 lines of rather crufty code nobody wants to
- touch.
- - Code sharing complicates maintenance of the navigate command.
- * Configuration tables reader and empdump improvements:
- - Better error messages.
- - Export now omits redundant data by default. Use empdump -c to
- include it.
- - Import can cope with omitted sectors and realms. Omitted sectors
- become sea, and omitted realms become empty.
- - Column order is now unrestricted. Before, some tables required
- an ID field to come first.
- - Support splitting any table. Before, tables sect, news, lost,
- realm, game, infrastructure could not be split.
- - Support strings longer than 65535 characters.
- * Fix empdump -i to reject strings that are one character too long.
- The bug affected ship table columns path, name and rpath, land
- table column rpath, nat table columns cname, passwd, ip, hostname
- and userid.
- * Reject nat selectors relations, contacts and rejects, because they
- don't actually make sense. They exist just for xdump.
- * Drop the code to resolve player IP address. It's been disabled
- since 4.2.13. Deprecate nat selector hostname.
- * Fix bridge spans next to a bridge tower or head taking damage to
- fall when they should with EASY_BRIDGES off. Has always been
- broken.
- * Fix bridge spans next to a collapsing bridge tower to fall when
- they should with EASY_BRIDGES on. Broken in 4.3.12.
- * When you scrap a plane, you get crew back only proportionally to
- plane efficiency.
- * Changes to build:
- - Fail the attempt to build a bridge not next to land or bridge
- tower more nicely.
- - Deities can now build anywhere, without materials, work or money.
- - Building a plane no longer uses at least one military. Military
- for crew are now rounded just like the other materials. The
- special case dates back to 4.2.3.
- - Report missing materials more nicely.
- - You now need the required materials rounded up to be present.
- Actual use is still randomly rounded. Before, crafty players
- could exploit the rounding to save materials, or build
- sufficiently cheap things without materials. In the stock game,
- linf and many plane types could be built without materials.
- * Remove option TREATIES. Usability is very poor, virtually nobody
- uses them, conditions are incomplete, the code is buggy, and a
- burden to maintain.
- * Test suite improvements:
- - Coverage extended to commands build, navigate, march, fire,
- torpedo, retreat, lretreat, falling bridges, automatic retreat,
- command info page completeness, and the empdump utility program.
- - Maintainability of tests much improved.
- - Test harness refactoring.
- Much work remains.
- * Adjust stack sizes. Stack overflow was possibly for tiny worlds.
- * Fix start, stop to not operate on dead units when used by a deity.
- Screwed up when start, stop were extended to units in 4.3.6.
- * Nukes can be grouped into stockpiles, just like ships can be
- grouped into fleets. The new command stockpile does for nukes what
- fleet does for ships. Likewise the new nuke selector stockpile.
- * wingadd no longer costs BTUs, for consistency with fleetadd and
- army.
- * Changes to edit:
- - Keep missions centered on ship, plane or land unit centered when
- teleporting it. Screwed up when Chainsaw added missions.
- - Preserve "does not follow" when copying ships. Preserve "no
- distribution center" when copying sectors, and don't mess up
- coastal flag. Screwed when Chainsaw added the means to copy a
- ship or sector.
- - You can now edit nukes.
- - Suppress bulletin on no-op ship, plane, land unit location
- change. Screwed up in 4.3.32.
- - You can now edit ship, plane and land unit types.
- - Changing the owner of a ship, plane or land unit away from POGO
- now works.
- * Fix "make uninstall" to remove HTML info pages (which are not
- installed by default) and directory share/empire/.
- * Fix "make install" to remove stale formatted info pages.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup, portability improvements.
- * Info file fixes and improvements.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.32 - Sun Aug 25 07:55:34 UTC 2013
- * Fix an LWP stack overflow observed on AIX 7.1.
- * Fix portability bug in standalone client Makefile
- * Fix portability bug in configure test for curses.
- * The break command now honors new designation of sanctuaries.
- * Changes to edit, give, setsector, setresource, swapsector:
- - Generalize edit to multiple objects: accept
- <SECTS|SHIPS|PLANES|LANDS|NATS> argument instead of just
- <SECT|SHIP|PLANE|LAND|NAT>. Obsoletes setsector and setresource.
- - Make interactive "edit c" detect and handle concurrent updates,
- like other edits do.
- - Don't reprint edited object when done with it.
- - Always print a message describing the actual change. Necessary
- to give the deity a chance to catch unexpected changes, e.g. a
- player moving away stuff right before a give command, leaving
- fewer items than the deity intends to take. Existing messages
- improved, missing ones added.
- - Consistently send bulletins to the victim / beneficiary of deity
- meddling, except when changing stuff mortals can't see.
- - Report much more deity meddling in the news (subject to option
- GODNEWS).
- - More robust argument checking. Before, careless deity edits
- could cause internal errors. Much bounds checking was missing,
- inconsistent or wrong.
- - Teleport planes and land units to carrier on load.
- - Refuse to move planes and land units on carriers.
- - Fix stack smash in edit l key 'L' that can mess up sector file.
- - Fix setsector to again print actual landmine change for occupied
- sectors. Broken in 4.3.31.
- - Suppress bulletins for acts of god to himself.
- - Suppress news for acts of god to gods.
- - Suppress news and bulletins on no-op acts of god.
- - Always send bulletins from POGO. Name the meddling deity in the
- bulletin text instead. Inconsistent since Chainsaw.
- - Make interactive edit accept empty key argument again.
- - Make interactive edit treat blank input like empty input.
- - Don't let edit put a land unit or plane on two carriers
- - Do not disclose when a deity destroys a ship, tell the ex-owner
- only that he lost it.
- - edit p and u now show the edited unit like edit s.
- - edit s now shows the edited ship even when its owner is invalid.
- * Clean up output of satellite, land, sorder and mission for world
- sizes between 200 and 1998. cutoff and level still have issues
- there.
- * Plug harmless file descriptor leak on OpenBSD with IPv6. Broken in
- 4.3.31.
- * New doc/contributing explains how to contribute to Empire.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup.
- * Info page, manual page and documentation fixes and clarifications.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.31 - Sun May 12 16:58:34 UTC 2013
- * Fix read beyond end of conditional argument on missing operand.
- * Don't put broken links into info pages formatted as HTML.
- * Permit ships that can drop depth charges, but not fire. No such
- ships exist in the stock game.
- * Consistently require guns for dropping depth charges. Before, only
- the fire command required guns (since 4.3.12 and before 4.0.6).
- * Change econfig key rollover_avail_max from 0 to 50.
- * Make sector production more predictable. Commands production and
- budget are now a bit more accurate.
- * Fix bugs that messed up xdump lost and xdump trade on big endian
- hosts (broken in 4.3.8), and made the server fail during startup on
- most big endian hosts (broken in 4.3.12).
- * Build process robustness fixes.
- * Use "Level: Obsolete" to mark obsolete info pages, and drop "info
- Obsolete".
- * Server now uses IPv4 format for IPv4-mapped addresses. Simplifies
- safe use of econfig key privip.
- * Server logs a few more network connection details.
- * Fixes and workarounds for econfig key listen_addr "" (which is the
- default) when the system has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
- configured:
- - Server accepted only IPv6 connections on Windows and BSDs. Fix
- to accept IPv4 ones, too.
- - Except for OpenBSD, where the fix doesn't work. Accept IPv4
- connections instead of IPv6 ones there, and document how to get
- IPv6 accepted instead.
- - Linux systems are frequently configured in a way that makes the
- server accept only IPv4 connections. Document workaround: use
- listen_addr "::".
- * Change fairland island size probability distribution: roll two dice
- instead of one. This makes extreme sizes much less likely.
- * Make fairland record the island number in the deity territory.
- * Fix extension of market bidding time when high bidder changes.
- Introduced broken in 4.0.7, with insufficient fixes in 4.0.9 and
- 4.2.0.
- * Fix market not to mess up ridiculously high unit prices. Has been
- broken since 4.0.0 introduced the market.
- * Fix melting of big piles of stuff by ridiculously heavy fallout.
- Has been broken since fallout exists.
- * Fix crash on edit s, p, u key 'U' with negative argument.
- * When a deity builds ships or land units in foreign sectors, they're
- given to the sector owner. This lets POGO build them, and it's how
- build works for planes and nukes.
- * Fix PRNG (pseudo-random number generator) seeding to resist
- guessing: seed with a kernel random number. If we can't get one,
- fall back to a hash of high-resolution time and process ID. This
- should happen only on old systems or Windows. Far worse than a
- kernel random number, but far better than just low-resolution time.
- Fairland's seeding used to be low-resolution time and process ID,
- but regressed in 4.2.20 to just time.
- * Switch PRNG from BSD random() to Mersenne Twister. This is a is a
- proven, high-quality PRNG.
- * Fix tiny error in distribution of some die rolls.
- * Increase land unit retreat chance and nuclear damage's chance to
- destroy a nuke by one percentage point, for simplicity.
- * Merge news items a bit more aggressively.
- * Fix a year 2038 bug in news item merging.
- * Retire the nightly build.
- * New make target check. Just a few tests for now, derived from the
- smoke test that used to be part of the nightly build.
- * Really fix accepting connections from "long" IPv6 address. The fix
- in 4.3.23 could mess up player's host address in player output and
- logs, and cause extra "Last connection" messages.
- * Take ship cost into account when picking missile interdiction
- target. Broken in 4.3.8.
- * Really fix give, setsector and setresource not to wipe out
- concurrent updates. The fix in 4.3.27 was insufficient.
- * Fix setsector not to disclose number of landmines to occupier.
- * Make capital fail more nicely when the sector is unsuitable. Its
- argument must now be a single sector. Before, it silently picked
- the first suitable one when the argument selected several. Has
- always been that way, and never documented.
- * Changes to option GODNEWS:
- - Deity command give could downgrade the deity's relations to the
- sector owner when GODNEWS was enabled. No more.
- - Likewise, deity commands edit and setsector can no longer
- downgrade the victim's relations to the deity.
- - News enabled by GODNEWS no longer affect news headlines.
- * Fix bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sweep to again accept a
- destination sector equal to the assembly point. Broken in 4.3.27.
- * Fix portability bug in configure test for Windows API.
- * More user friendly server startup: journal open errors are detected
- while the server still runs in the foreground, which makes it
- possible to complain to stderr and to exit unsuccessfully.
- * Market changes:
- - Forbid selling conquered populace. Only relevant when the deity
- allows selling civilians, which is probably a bad idea.
- - Permit selling military by default.
- - Forbid selling ships and land units carrying unsalable cargo.
- * Scrapping ships and land units now spreads the plague
- * Don't let scrap give away civilians, kill them off instead.
- * Pilots and air cargo now spread the plague.
- * Don't let fly and drop give away civilians.
- * Fix fly to permit flying civs to a carrier in an occupied sector.
- Broken in 4.2.17.
- * Don't let planes fly to a carrier without sufficient space.
- Before, planes that didn't fit were teleported home, which could be
- abused. Broken in 4.3.17. Almost the same bug was previously
- fixed in 4.2.17.
- * Fix tend to foreign ships:
- - Refuse to tend civilians to foreign ships.
- - Don't leak friendly foreign ships' commodity cargo.
- - Continue with remaining target ships after skipping a foreign one
- when tending a negative amount of commodities.
- All broken when Chainsaw 2 added tending to allies.
- * march sub-command 'm' can now sweep own landmines.
- * Land units no longer sweep allied landmines, except when executing
- march sub-command 'm'. They don't hit them since 4.3.27. Sweeping
- was forgotten then.
- * Fix bmap commands not to parse empty flags argument as "revert".
- Broken in 4.3.27.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup.
- * Info page fixes and clarifications.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.30 - Tue May 22 18:34:52 UTC 2012
- * Disable damage to base sector or ship when missile explodes on
- launch for now, because damage done to other missiles there can be
- wiped out in some cases. Broken in Empire 2.
- * Fix navigate and march not to wipe out concurrent updates.
- Abusable, but probably not worthwhile.
- * Fix some buffer overruns in fairland. Has always been broken.
- * Fix arm to require nuke and plane to be in the same sector. A
- remote nuke got teleported to its plane when the plane moved.
- Broken in 4.3.3.
- * Change login command kill (used by client option -k) to kill less
- ruthlessly: send a flash message and try to flush output, exactly
- like a server shutdown does.
- * Fix server shutdown to wait for player threads to reach a safe
- state. Before, player threads raced with shutdown, and failed to
- update the treasury, record play time, and write log entries when
- they lost. Bug goes back to Empire 2. Patched partially or
- unsuccessfully in 4.2.10, 4.2.12, 4.2.20, 4.3.6, 4.3.10 and 4.3.23.
- The race was hard to lose in practice, until an unrelated
- "simplification" in 4.3.23 could get player threads stuck sending
- output after shutdown aborted a command.
- * Idle timeout changes:
- - The grace period for clients to complete login and logout is now
- separate from the idle timeout. Configurable with new econfig
- key login_grace_time, default is 120 seconds.
- - The idle timeout for visitors is now separate from the one for
- players. Configurable with new econfig key max_idle_visitor,
- default is five minutes.
- - Fix the idle timeout when the connection gets stuck sending
- output. Broken in 4.3.20.
- - Idle timeout during execute now terminates the connection, not
- just the execute command.
- * Fix stack smash in build. Remote hole! Broken when Empire 2 added
- the confirmation prompt.
- * Fix stack smash in scrap and scuttle. Remote hole! Broken when
- Chainsaw added the confirmation prompt. Additionally, the
- confirmation prompt is misleading when the player supplies
- conditionals. Redesign the flawed prompt.
- * Fix execute's echo of the command. Broken in 4.3.28.
- * The mobility cost of retreating a defending land unit was
- calculated for an uninitialized sector. This could charge
- incorrect mobility, prevent retreat, or, if the stars align just
- right, crash the server. Broken in 4.3.6.
- * Commands cutoff, headlines, land, lstat, motd, neweff, payoff,
- qorder, sorder, and wall now behave like the other information
- query commands when the player's connection can't take more output:
- they pause to let other code run.
- * Revised command permissions:
- - arm and disarm no longer require money, for consistency with the
- other commands to move stuff around.
- - satellite no longer requires money, for consistency with lookout,
- radar, sonar and skywatch.
- - qorder, sorder, survey and test no longer require a capital, for
- consistency with the other commands that report on stuff the
- player owns.
- - start and stop no longer require a capital, for consistency with
- the other commands to control production.
- - fortify now requires a capital, for consistency with mission,
- morale and range.
- - Anybody may now use country, echo and financial.
- - Visitors can no longer use census, commodity, map, nmap,
- sinfrastructure (useless without sectors), read (visitors don't
- get any telegrams), and change (always failed).
- - Players can no longer use map and nmap before break. This is
- consistent with all the other commands to examine the
- environment. It also prevents people from trying multiple
- unbroken countries in a blitz to find the one with the nicest
- vicinity.
- - Players can now use resource before break, just like census.
- * read could swallow the first telegram header when showing the
- telegrams that arrived while waiting for the player to confirm
- deletion. Broken in 4.3.29.
- * Fix 'm' in path argument of explore, move, transport:
- - Don't moan about deprecated argument syntax ('m' without a space
- before its argument) even when there's no argument.
- - Recognize the flags argument again.
- Broken in 4.3.27.
- * Market fixes:
- - Command market is no longer available to visitors, because it
- triggers execution of trades that have become ready.
- - Fix a race condition that could cause commodity trades to be
- executed multiple times. Abusing this to duplicate commodities
- seems tricky, but possible. Broken in Empire 3.
- - Don't expropriate sellers of units. POGO got the the money, the
- telegrams and made the news, the seller got nothing. Broken in
- 4.3.17.
- * Login command quit and server shutdown could lose player output.
- 4.3.23 tried to fix the shutdown case, but the fix was incomplete.
- * Fix login command quit to really quit. It sometimes just swallowed
- buffered input, at least on some systems.
- * 4.2.22's fairer command scheduling failed to cover the execute
- command. Fix that.
- * When a client shuts down input transmission to log out, output
- could get lost. Our client never does that.
- * Don't skip post command treasury update and status notification on
- EOF from player, after quit command, and when command is aborted by
- server shutdown. An unluckily timed EOF or shutdown can deprive a
- player of money gained from scuttling tradeships or sacking a
- capital. Can be abused to build bridges and infrastructure free of
- charge. Can also be abused to designate sectors for free, but the
- stock game's sector types are all free anyway. Has always been
- broken.
- * Fix client not to send an empty line on player interrupt (normally
- ^C) before the first command. This was missed in 4.3.26.
- * Code and info page cleanup.
- * Documentation fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.29 - Fri Jan 20 19:20:20 UTC 2012
- * drop and fly from carrier could fail to load last civilian or
- military.
- * Telegram and announcement changes:
- - wire no longer loops to show announcements that arrived while
- waiting for the player to confirm deletion.
- - At most five seconds worth of messages are now squashed together
- into one. Before, only the time between adjacent telegrams was
- limited, not the total time.
- - When telegrams arrived while read was waiting for the player to
- confirm deletion, and we then showed them, we nevertheless
- claimed "you have new telegrams" before the next command prompt.
- Only with toggle inform off. Known bug since Empire 2.
- - Fix read not to clobber asynchronous notification of telegrams
- arriving while waiting for the player to confirm deletion.
- - Fix wire not to reset number of pending telegrams with toggle
- inform on. Broken when Empire 2 introduced toggle inform.
- - The number of pending announcements was off when announcements
- were squashed together.
- - More careful error handling and logging.
- * Ensure all of an update's output goes into a single production
- report:
- - Avoid splitting it up when the update is slow. Empire 2 already
- did that for the number of pending telegrams, but not for read.
- - Don't turn parts of it into BULLETINs. Autonav and sail could do
- that since Empire 2.
- * files now creates POGO with user interface flags beep, coastwatch,
- sonar and techlists set, for consistency with add.
- * Change newcap back to not wiping the country (it wiped since
- 4.3.12). Additionally, leave levels and telegrams alone.
- * Changes to deity command add:
- - Require confirmation for unadvisable actions.
- - Refuse to touch a country while it's being played.
- - Don't crash on negative country number.
- - Create deities with money, just like files creates POGO.
- - Always reset the country completely, not just when adding a
- player or a visitor.
- - Rename argument "new" to "player". Keep recognizing "new" for
- now, but deprecate it.
- - Drop argument "active". If you really want to create a player
- country without a capital, add the player country normally, then
- activate it with edit instead of newcap.
- - Drop the obscure sector check and wipe option. If you really
- need to wipe out a country, there's much more to wipe than just
- sectors.
- - Drop the undocumented land unit destruction feature.
- * Permit no-op country name change again. Accidentally outlawed in
- 4.3.20.
- * Plug a few minor memory and file descriptor leaks.
- * Fix use-after-free when plane gets shot down or aborted in
- dogfight. Broken in 4.3.27.
- * Code cleanup.
- * Info page and manual page fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.28 - Sat Jul 16 11:30:53 UTC 2011
- * Don't let POGO (#0) navigate dead ships, and march dead land units.
- The ghosts even got sighted and interdicted, and could hit mines.
- Has always been that way.
- * llook can't see land units and planes loaded on land units anymore.
- * Fix board to ignore land units loaded on land units when testing
- whether a sector can board. Broken in 4.0.17.
- * Fix transport to reject planes loaded on land units. The plane
- remained on its carrier. When the land unit moved, the plane was
- teleported right back to it. Broken since Chainsaw 3 added land
- units.
- * Fix lradar not to let land units loaded on land units use radar.
- Broken since 4.0.0 added trains.
- * Fix strength to ignore land units loaded on land units. Broken in
- 4.2.0.
- * Fix navigate and march to find paths longer than a few sectors
- again (7 for 64 bit hosts, 3 for 32 bit hosts). Broken in 4.3.27.
- * march sub-command 'i' now shows number of military and land units
- loaded.
- * New server option -F to force start even when state looks bad.
- Risks crashes and further corruption, but gives deities a chance to
- fix up a bad game state with edit commands and such.
- * empdump -x no longer refuses to export game state that looks bad.
- Gives deities another tool to fix up a bad game state.
- * Land units loaded on land units fight che again, as they used to
- before 4.3.26.
- * When a land unit dies fighting che, land units loaded on it get
- unloaded, and planes loaded on it die. Before, the update left
- them stuck on their dead carrier. Impact like the next item.
- Abusable. Broken since Chainsaw 3 added land units.
- * The update no longer destroys ships, planes and land units for lack
- of maintenance. Before, it left any embarked planes, land units
- and nukes on their dead carrier. In this state, units behaved as
- if their carrier was still alive, with additional protection from
- the fact that a dead carrier can't be damaged or boarded. If
- another unit with the same number got built, it picked up the stuck
- cargo. The cargo got teleported to its new carrier when the
- carrier moved. Abusable, but it involves going broke, so it's
- rarely practical. Slightly more practical before 4.3.6 removed
- budget priorities. Broken for ships and land units when Empire 2
- added their maintenance cost, and for planes when 4.3.3 replaced
- nuclear stockpiles by nuke units.
- * Fix bogus internal error triggered by navigate and march
- sub-commands 'r', 'l' and 's'. Broken in 4.3.27.
- * Fix client not to reject redirections and execute containing
- non-ASCII characters with a bogus scary warning when using UTF-8.
- * Fix execute not to mangle non-ASCII characters in the argument when
- prompting for it while login option utf-8 is on.
- * Fix handling of non-ASCII and control characters in batch files.
- * Conversion from UTF-8 to ASCII ate the character following a
- replaced non-ASCII character. Buffer overrun possible if the
- terminating zero gets eaten. Could happen in players, read, flash,
- wall, and execute.
- * Fix handling of empty commands:
- - Time used was not updated.
- - Mortal player wasn't logged off for game hours, game down, and
- time limit.
- - Notifications were delayed: going broke, becoming solvent, new
- telegrams (toggle inform off only), new announcements, capital
- lost.
- * Minor tweaks to nightly build.
- * Server's and empdump's sanity checking of configuration and game
- state is now more rigorous.
- * Deity xdump no longer dumps unused countries' realms.
- * Remove option LANDSPIES. Deities can customize the land table to
- disable spy units.
- * Remove option TRADESHIPS. Deities can customize the ship table to
- enable trade ships.
- * Configuration table changes (builtin and custom):
- - Rows must be in ascending UID order.
- - Omitting rows in tables item, sect-chr and infrastructure is no
- longer permitted.
- - Custom tables now replace the builtin table completely. Before,
- omitted rows defaulted to the builtin version, except at the end
- of a table. Commenting out unwanted stuff just works now.
- - Permit custom table product having fewer than 14 entries.
- - Reject custom tables where customization has no effect (updates,
- table, meta, all symbol tables) or where it's unsafe (news-chr).
- - Input is checked more rigorously.
- * empdump -i fixes:
- - Don't touch plane file when import fails.
- - Refuse import of incorrectly sized table instead of silently
- creating one the server will reject.
- - Replace old state completely. Before, omitted rows in the dump
- defaulted to the old state, except at the end of a table.
- - Input is checked more rigorously.
- * Fix xdump updates not to dump bogus extra updates.
- * Fix use-after-free when a plane got shot down or aborted by flak.
- Broken in 4.3.27.
- * Friendlier diagnostics in the build command.
- * Fix build to set nuke's tech exactly like for ships, planes and
- land units. It's not currently used for anything.
- * Research required for nukes was slightly off sometimes due to
- incorrect rounding.
- * Bridge building required 0.005 tech less than advertised, fix.
- * "show nuke" now obeys toggle techlists.
- * Fix "show land s" to show columns xpl and lnd again. Broken in
- 4.3.15.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup.
- * Documentation on custom tables and xdump updated.
- * Info file fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.27 - Sun Apr 17 11:36:29 UTC 2011
- * License upgrade to GPL version 3 or later.
- * Fix buy not to wipe out concurrent updates. Can be abused to
- duplicate commodities.
- * Don't let fighters, SAMs and ABMs intercept while on trading block.
- * Don't let missiles interdict ships or land units while on trading
- block.
- * Fix client to log long input lines untruncated.
- * Fix client crash for long input lines.
- * info subject pages now mark unusually long pages with a !.
- * The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.15, 4.3.17 and 4.3.20 are
- now gone.
- * Fix give, setsector and setres not to wipe out concurrent updates.
- * Fix explore, move, test, transport not to ignore spaces in path
- arguments. Broken in 4.3.7. Deprecate use of 'm' without space
- before its argument.
- * Improvements to map drawing commands:
- - Don't fail silently when asked to draw a map around an invalid
- unit, explain the problem.
- - Deprecate bmap flag "r". Use (a prefix of) "revert" instead.
- - bmap flags following "t" are no longer ignored. However, info
- pages previously documented an argument "true" in addition to
- flag "t". To keep that working, keep ignoring flags following
- "t" when they're bad. But deprecate that usage.
- - Reverting the bmap no longer draws a map.
- - Bad conditionals could make the commands misinterpret their first
- argument.
- - The commands now fail when they reject their second argument.
- * The xdump syntax deprecated in 4.3.12 is now gone.
- * Fix satellite to fail on bad conditionals instead of ignoring them.
- * Journal improvements:
- - Optional logging of output.
- - Long lines are no longer truncated.
- - Login phase input is now logged, too.
- - Commands are now logged. Allows making sense of input without
- context.
- * Option BRIDGETOWERS is now disabled by default.
- * Bridge towers now take 300 hcms to build, down from 400.
- * Fix stop orders to expire even when the country is broke. Broken
- in 4.3.8.
- * Fix march and navigate not to advise on "legal directions" when
- path finding fails.
- * New path finder:
- - Much faster, especially for distribution, i.e. where it matters
- most. Speedups in excess of 30x have been observed for updates
- taken from real games.
- - Old land path finder leaked memory occasionally.
- - Old land path finder overran buffers for very long paths. A
- malicious player can arrange sufficiently long paths, but it
- takes a lot of land. Distribution, the distribute command, land
- unit reaction, and automatic supply now handle arbitrary long
- paths. Commands explore, move, test, transport, march, navigate
- and path now handle paths up to 1023 characters. Command
- bestpath shows paths longer than 1023 characters with the tail
- replaced by "...".
- - Old sea and air path finder treated destinations as unreachable
- when the best path was longer than 99 characters. Command sorder
- now handles arbitrary long paths. Commands bomb, drop, fly,
- paradrop, recon, sweep and sail now handle paths up to 1023
- characters. Autonav considers up to 1023 characters at the
- update. Planes can fly missions up to 1023 sectors from their
- base.
- * Automatic supply charged mobility for the path back to the source
- instead forward to the sink.
- * Make bestpath work for deities in foreign land.
- * More robust savecore example script.
- * Fix buffer overruns in the lookout, spy, map and nmap commands when
- WORLD_X * WORLD_Y is not a multiple of 16.
- * The path command's maps weren't always fitted to the path
- correctly. Broken in 4.3.17.
- * Land units no longer hit allied mines.
- * Change sharebmap with yourself to do nothing instead of telling you
- you're not friendly to yourself.
- * You can now flash yourself. Enjoy!
- * A race condition could make the flash command claim an ally was not
- logged on when he was. Hard to trigger outside the lab.
- * The flash command no longer prints "Flash sent" for deities. It's
- annoying. It never did that for mortals.
- * Plug memory leaks in mission code on a number of conditions:
- - Submarines moving where own planes would interdict hostile
- submarines
- - Ground combat where countries hostile to one of the parties would
- support if relations were right (allied to one party, at war with
- the other)
- - Ships or land units moving within hostile missile mission op
- areas
- - Any player action within marine missile mission op areas that
- could trigger the missile owners' missions.
- * Attack fixes:
- - When you ordered a sector to attack with military, but lost the
- sector before the attack was executed, and the new owner was
- allied to you, the server got confused: it let the military
- attack even though they were already dead, but not occupy.
- - When you ordered a land unit to attack from an allied sector, and
- the sector got lost before the attack was executed, the server
- reported things as if you had owned the sector yourself. The
- land unit still attacked when the new owner was also allied to
- you. No more.
- - When a land unit attacked out of an allied sector, its mobility
- cost was computed as if the ally owned the land unit. Attacking
- sectors old-owned by that ally was too cheap, and taking back
- one's own was too expensive.
- * Fix trade ships to pay off in own harbor. Broken in 4.3.17.
- * Remove option SLOW_WAR. It hasn't been enabled in a public game
- for years, and the code implementing it was buggy.
- * Fix a bug in sail that limited the sail path to 27 instead of the
- intended 28 characters.
- * Fix race condition in transmission of flash and telegram
- information messages that could double output and possibly crash
- the server.
- * Planes get to sweep and sonar only after flak and interception.
- * Don't limit the radar command's range to fit its output into a
- world map without clipping. The limiting goes back to Chainsaw 2.
- * Make flak vs. pinpoint bombing consistent with ordinary flak:
- - 4.3.6 reduced the plane abort chance on damage, but missed the
- additional flak vs. pinpoint bombing. Fix that.
- - Fix to charge mobility appropriate for damage.
- * Prettier flak damage reporting.
- * Fix bugs that could cause bmap updates from recon and satellite to
- be lost.
- * Fix lookout to properly report sector ownership to deities.
- * Suppress bogus messages deities with non-zero country number got
- when attempting to navigate foreign ships or march foreign land
- units. Such deity use hasn't worked since Empire 2.
- * Deities can no longer fly foreign planes. It didn't fully work
- since Chainsaw 3, and can trigger internal errors since 4.3.11.
- * Don't split lines over several bulletins. The read command
- normally merges these bulletins, but if they are more than five
- seconds apart (clock jumped somehow), we get a bulletin header in
- the middle of a line. Broken since Empire 2.
- * Don't beep when plane, land unit or nuke die on a collapsing
- bridge. Not nice, because it could beep many times, and could put
- beeps in bulletins. Beeping was added in 4.0.18.
- * Minor improvements to nuclear damage reporting.
- * When a deity dropped a foreign nuke, parts of the output went to
- the owner of the nuke instead of the deity.
- * When a player triggered a foreign missile launch (mission or
- interception), and the missile exploded on launch, part of the
- report went to the player instead of the missile owner. This
- disclosed the missile owner's origin. Broken in Empire 2.
- * When autonav reported to a ship owner that it can't load or unload
- foreign civilians, it used the sector owner's coordinate system.
- This disclosed the sector owner's origin. Abusable.
- * When nuclear damage bounced off a sanctuary, the bulletin to the
- sanctuary owner used the attacker's coordinate system. This
- disclosed the attacker's origin.
- * When a deity used sweep, lmine, sail or sabotage with a foreign
- plane, land unit or ship, its location was reported in the foreign
- coordinate system.
- * When a deity asked for a foreign nation report, the capital
- location was reported in the foreign coordinate system.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup.
- * Info file improvements.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.26 - Mon May 24 16:37:40 UTC 2010
- * Land units loaded on ships or land units can no longer fight che.
- * When foreign land units were present, a che revolt could damage
- them instead of the defending land units. This could let defenders
- survive the revolt. They were captured or blown up if che took
- over the sector.
- * Fix che revolt to damage only land units that actually fight
- * Fix loading x-light missiles on ships without capability plane.
- These ships could only use their x-light slots for x-light planes,
- not their plane slots. Broken in 4.3.17.
- * Update bmap when nuclear detonation makes wasteland.
- * Fix fly and drop to report discarded cargo items correctly.
- * New client option -s to specify server host and port.
- * Hitting landmines could crash the server. When not, the damage
- reduction for capability engineer was applied unpredictably.
- Broken in 4.3.24.
- * Fix retreat and lretreat condition 'c'. Broken in 4.3.16.
- * coastwatch and skywatch could see too far. Up to one sector for
- practical radar ranges.
- * skywatch now reports satellite UIDs. The UID is required for
- launching a-sats since 4.3.23.
- * Fix client not to send an empty line of input before aborting the
- command on player interrupt (normally ^C).
- * Fix sabotage not to kill the spy every time. Broken in 4.3.17.
- * Code cleanup.
- * Info page fixes, manual page improvements.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.25 - Sun Mar 21 08:27:37 UTC 2010
- * Hitting sea mines could crash the server. When not, the damage
- reduction for capability sweep was applied unpredictably. Broken
- in 4.3.24.
- * When an interdiction did damage other than collateral damage, the
- planes that intercepted it from interdicted carriers used no
- petrol. 4.3.24 fixed only the "no damage" case.
- * Ship anti-missile defense failed to charge shells when the ship was
- interdicted. The fix in 4.3.24 covered only launch.
- * Fix a bug in navigate and march that let players lay mines free of
- charge. Also fix them not to prompt for the number of mines.
- * 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.
- * Automatic supply fixes:
- - 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.
- * Sea mines 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.
- * Sea mines 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
- sea mines.
- * 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. The edit command still accepts and ignores the
- land unit key 'P' for compatibility, but it is deprecated.
- * 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, and can be abused to duplicate supplies.
- * Make trade show exactly what's on sale, remove option SHOWPLANE.
- * 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.
- The edit command still accepts and ignores the plane key 'n' for
- compatibility, but it is deprecated.
- * 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:
- proportional to efficiency, and randomly rounded. Was missed in
- 4.3.6.
- * Don't permit bombing of embarked planes and land units.
- * Fix capital maintenance to charge at 60% efficiency.
- * launch command now requires only 40% plane efficiency, for
- consistency with other ways to launch missiles.
- * Disable collateral damage when automatically launched missiles miss
- their target. Collateral damage was done even when the launch
- failed or the missile got intercepted. It's been disabled for
- manually launched missiles since 4.0.18, for the same reason.
- * Fix a bug that corrupted the lostitems file. Broken in 4.3.12.
- * Show command changes:
- - Move product information from "show sect c" into new "show
- product", and reformat it to be easier to understand.
- - New column navigability in "show sect s".
- - "show sect s" now shows the packing bonus type instead of
- selected packing bonuses. "show item" shows the actual bonuses
- for each type.
- - "show sect b" now shows the usual values in addition to unusual
- ones.
- * Fix interdiction to obey op-area for missiles.
- * Fix a bug that caused a stale sources.mk to be distributed in the
- 4.3.14 an 4.3.15 tarballs. The latter does not build out of the
- box because of that.
- * Don't strip tab characters from quoted command arguments. Broken
- in 4.2.21.
- * shutdown commands now always take effect immediately. Before, they
- could be delayed by up to a minute.
- * shutdown could start multiple shutdown threads when you initiated a
- shutdown shortly after cancelling one. This screwed up the timing
- of the shutdown.
- * Deity syntax of zdone changed, and is now documented in info.
- * The threshold command could be tricked into accepting negative
- thresholds.
- * 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
- distribution center when the command got aborted.
- * Commands arm, bomb, deliver, drop, fire, fly, paradrop, recon,
- lmine, order, power, range, sail, shutdown, sweep and tend did not
- honor command abortion at some prompts.
- * Fix a bug in handling of EOF from client that could bite in the
- following ways:
- - EOF at target prompts for bombing commodities, ships, planes and
- land units sent the server into an infinite loop that ate all
- memory.
- - EOF at sail's path prompt crashed the server.
- - EOF at some prompts in deliver, designate, fly, morale, zdone,
- attack and assault didn't abort the command.
- Broken in 4.3.11.
- * Selector terr is now the same as terr0 for mortal players, and
- dterr for deities. This matches how the territory command works.
- Unfortunately, this required us to rename xdump sect field terr to
- terr0. Sorry about that.
- * Fix bomb not to let you bomb dead ships and land units.
- * Make the retreat command a bit more helpful on retreat conditions,
- and make it fail on bad conditions.
- * Fix the mapper scripts. Broken in 4.2.0.
- * Fix flying commands not to let planes do double duty as escorts.
- Broken in 4.3.12.
- * When a minesweeper hit a mine after sweeping, the mine wasn't used
- up. If it sank the minesweeper, the code accessed freed memory,
- which could clobber the ship file or worse. Broken in 4.0.17.
- * Don't let non-light units board ships that can't carry them.
- * Capitals can now employ up to 1000 civilians instead of 999.
- * Spy command changes:
- - Spy now requires sector military. Before, presence of land units
- was sufficient, but spies shot were only deduced from sector
- military. If you lost more spies than you had sector military,
- the rest came back from the dead.
- - Spy no longer ignores non-sea sectors without civilians, military
- and land units.
- - Remove columns lnd, pln from spy report. The values didn't match
- the reported land units and planes, and could leak the presence
- of spy units.
- - Establish contact when spy succeeds even though the spy was
- caught.
- * Fix news reporting and damage when land units interdict ships in
- sectors other than sea.
- * Fix land unit return fire damage to ships to take accuracy into
- account, like the fire command and interdiction does.
- * Remove the inconsistent shelling damage reduction for range. Fire
- command got damage reduced by 10-20% with a chance depending on
- range ("Wind deflects shells"). Ships interdicting got it reduced
- by half. Other ways to shell did not get damage reduced for range.
- * Fix ground combat to report defending land units. Broken in 4.3.4.
- * Info file and documentation fixes and improvements.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.15 - Sun May 18 08:59:30 UTC 2008
- * The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.10 are now gone.
- * fairland now obeys game file locks.
- * Do not leak world creation time in files utility, because that
- facilitates attacks against fairland's PRNG. Broken in 4.3.12.
- * Fix starvation not to starve one more than it should. The last man
- on a boat or land unit now can't starve anymore.
- * Fix a crash bug in satellite. Broken in 4.2.7 and not fixed
- correctly in 4.2.12.
- * Fix a coordinate normalization bug that could theoretically lead to
- buffer overruns and other unpleasantness. None have been
- reproduced, though. Broken in 4.3.12.
- * Remove option FUEL. The abstract idea of tying ships and land
- units to a logistical tether is sound, the concrete implementation
- as option FUEL is flawed. It adds too much busy-work to the game
- to be enjoyable. It hasn't been enabled in a public game for
- years. The code implementing it is ugly, repetitive, and a burden
- to maintain. The edit command still accepts and ignores the fuel
- keys for compatibility, but they are deprecated.
- * Fix pin-bomb not to report subs when there are none.
- * You now have to take a capital to capture the victim's money, loans
- or market lots. Merely obliterating the capital doesn't cut it.
- It still makes the victim lose money, though.
- * Fix a bug that could theoretically allow sacking of non-existant
- capitals of visitors, deities and such.
- * You now gain BTUs and MOB_ACCESS mobility before the first update
- again. You didn't since 4.3.10 introduced the ETU clock.
- * Fix edit to detect when the edited object changes while it's being
- edited.
- * Fix xdump nat for relations: it got HIDDEN backwards. Broken in
- 4.3.12.
- * Fix origin command not to prompt twice for its argument. Broken in
- 4.3.0.
- * Info file improvements.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.14 - Mon May 5 04:57:03 UTC 2008
- * Another round of fixes to the fire command:
- - Don't disclose where the target retreated to.
- - Charge the target shells for returning fire.
- - Always use guns when the target is out of range, even if it's a
- submarine. Before, the difference in shell use disclosed whether
- the target is a submarine. Loophole opened in 4.3.12.
- - Make depth charges again work with just one shell. Failing the
- command in that case lets players find out whether the target is
- a submarine. Loophole opened in 4.3.12.
- - Detect when the firing sector, ship or land unit changes across
- the target prompt. Can be abused to duplicate commodities, and
- more.
- * Fix parsing of anchor-relative time in update schedule. Broken in
- 4.3.13.
- * Fix logging of player input in the journal to include command
- interruption and EOF.
- * Fix oversights in 4.3.12's change to keep track of flying planes:
- planes could be erroneously reported damaged by their own ground
- strikes. Happened with missions and the launch command.
- * Fix load not load hardened missiles.
- * Fix harden not to harden missiles loaded on land units.
- * New server option -E to choose what to do on recoverable internal
- error. You can now make the server dump core and keep going (not
- implemented for Windows). New econfig key post_crash_dump_hook to
- run a program after crash-dumping. See scripts/savecore for an
- example.
- * Journal entries are now flushed to disk right away even when the
- server is not running in debug mode.
- * Don't let land units load trains.
- * Allow deity to display power report for all types of countries,
- with power c.
- * Fix designate's check for disallowed sector types. Broken in
- 4.3.12.
- * Documentation fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.13 - Tue Apr 15 19:03:11 UTC 2008
- * Work around strptime() lossage on some systems. Fixes the parsing
- of the schedule file there.
- * New selector maxnoc for xdump version.
- * Fix initialization of realms in newcap. Broken in 4.3.12.
- * Fix add for status arguments active, god, delete. Broken in
- 4.3.12.
- * Info file, manual page and documentation fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.12 - Wed Apr 2 05:35:06 UTC 2008
- * Fix rounding error in update that could result in more babies than
- food permits, and negative food.
- * Fix a bug that could lead to unfair thread scheduling under
- Windows.
- * Fix ship and land unit missile interdiction and ballistic missile
- interception to require a proper base. Before, missiles could
- launch from anywhere for that.
- * Launch bug fixes:
- - Don't allow launching from unowned sectors.
- - Don't destroy missiles stuck on foreign ships.
- - Use up the supplies required for launching an asat only when it
- actually launches.
- - Don't ignore satellites' fuel use.
- * Deity command newcap now requires its second argument (sanctuary
- coordinates). Before, it tried to pick a suitable location when
- none was given. The code implementing this feature had problems,
- and it's not worth fixing, because it is obscure, and rarely (if
- ever) used: no conscientious deity would use it for a real game,
- and for blitzes fairland does a better job.
- * Keep track of flying planes properly. This fixes a number of bugs:
- - While the bomb command awaited pin-bombing target input from the
- player, other players could interact with the pin-bombers and
- escorts as if they were sitting in their bases: spy them, damage,
- capture, load, unload, or upgrade them, even get intercepted by
- them. But any changes to those planes were wiped out when they
- landed. Abusable.
- - The bomb command could bomb its own escorts, directly (pin-bomb
- planes) or through collateral damage, strategic sector damage,
- collapsing bridges or nuke damage. The damage to the escorts was
- wiped out when they landed.
- - If you asked for a plane to fly both in the primary mission and
- escort, you got charged fuel for two sorties instead of one.
- * Plug memory leaks in plane interception.
- * Fix trade not to let the buyer teleport satellites (not in orbit)
- and asats to an arbitrary sector. Abusable, because abms
- intercepted from anywhere, and satellites could be launched from
- unowned sectors.
- * The PRNG seed is now logged in the journal.
- * Fix nightly build for Windows.
- * Fix crash bug that bit when custom tables contained columns names
- that existed, but weren't supposed to be in the custom table.
- * New timestamp selector for commodity, country, game, loan, nation,
- news, realm, trade, treaty to support incremental xdump.
- * Deity commands newcap and add wipe the nation more thoroughly. add
- no longer touches relations and flags for status active and god.
- * New utility program empdump to export and import game state as
- plain text. Check its manual for details, including limitations.
- * Plane, ship and land unit stats are no longer stored as game state,
- but recomputed from tech and base stats as needed.
- * xdump ver is no longer a special case. Syntax "xdump ver" is now
- deprecated. Use "xdump version *".
- * Fire and torpedo cleanup and bug hunt:
- - Plug memory leak in fire command.
- - Fix ammunition use when returning fire: resupply could lose
- shells when returning fire to multiple targets, and land units
- were charged per target instead of just once.
- - Interdicting land units now resupply shells automatically, for
- consistency with other ways to fire.
- - torpedo and fire no longer resupply shells automatically. The
- latter used to resupply land units only.
- - Land units no longer have to be in supply to fire actively, for
- consistency with other ways to fire.
- - Submarines with zero mobility can no longer interdict, for
- consistency with other ways to torpedo.
- - Fix bugs that let submarines without capability torp use
- torpedoes to return fire and interdict.
- - Fix torpedo command not to require a line of sight for return
- fire and depth charges, and to use torpedo range instead of
- firing range for return torpedoes.
- - Active fire and interdiction didn't work for ships with zero
- firing range, even though return fire and support did. No such
- ships exist in the stock game.
- - Let land units with zero firing range and non-zero firing damage
- fire, for consistency with ships. No such units exist in the
- stock game.
- - Ships required different numbers of military to operate their
- guns for the various kinds of fire. Unify to require 2*N-1
- military to fire N guns.
- - Ship ammunition use differed for the various kinds of fire.
- Unify to use one shell per two guns.
- - Forts could fire support even when there were not enough mil.
- - Fix automatic shell resupply in several places to supply exactly
- the shells actually fired, no more, no less.
- * Change depth charges back to how they are documented and worked
- before 4.0.6, mostly: require no guns, one military, do damage like
- shell fire from three guns (before 4.0.6: two guns), use two
- shells. In 4.0.6's model, they worked exactly like shell fire
- (require guns and gun crew, non-zero firing range, damage and
- ammunition use scales with available guns), except for missions,
- which was a bug. Note that depth charge damage for all ships is
- now like fire from three guns for two shells. No change for dd; af
- did two gun damage for one shell before, and nas did four gun
- damage for two shells.
- * The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.3 are now gone.
- * Fix build not to screw up automatic dependencies on certain compile
- errors.
- * Fix a bug that could prevent repeated news from properly
- aggregating into one news item.
- * Properly initialize all bits in game state files, even those that
- aren't used.
- * Fix explore's test for stopping on a splashed bridge. The bug made
- explore print to a bogus message.
- * Fix spelling of symbol airburst in table plane-flags. This could
- affect clients.
- * Change designate not to check total cost before executing the
- redesignation. The code implementing that was buggy and too ugly
- to live. Designate doesn't cost anything in the stock game.
- * Always charge land units at least as much mobility for assaulting
- from non-landing ships as from landing ships. Before, marines lost
- all mobility when assaulting from a non-landing ship, which could
- be less than what the same assault costs from a landing ship (half
- an update's worth).
- * Fix LWP's stack initialization for -s. It caused crashes on some
- systems.
- * Fix confused and buggy bridge splashing code:
- - Flying planes could be reported drowned.
- - Pin-bombing a bridge head failed to collapse bridge spans for
- lack of support, unless the pin-bombing caused collateral damage.
- - Corrupt sector file could lead to infinite recursion.
- * Relative names now work for econfig keys data and info.
- * Fix utility programs to abort on internal errors. They used to
- print a message and attempt to recover.
- * Fix off-by-one in fairland that ate the last expansion island.
- * Switch from CVS to git.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup.
- * Portability fixes.
- * Info file, manual page and documentation fixes and updates.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.11 - Tue Jan 1 18:57:38 UTC 2008
- * New sector selector elev. It's set by fairland, but has no effect
- on the game. It can be useful for deities to customize a world
- created by fairland.
- * The client now copes with IDs greater than 15. The Empire
- protocol currently uses 14 IDs.
- * Rewrite the client's code for reading server output during login.
- The old code could write one byte beyond the end of the buffer
- (theoretically a remote hole), got confused by long lines, and
- lines that didn't arrive in one piece.
- * Long country name, password or user name crashed the client.
- * Fix xdump not to deny access to game state tables when maximum
- minutes per day are exceeded.
- * The server considers a country bankrupt when its treasury is
- negative. Except when it doesn't. Fix that:
- - report misreported countries with $0 as broke.
- - If a command spent a few cents more than you had, commands requiring
- money became unavailable even when rounding brought you back to
- $0. But logging out and back in then bankrupted you.
- - If your treasury rose to exactly $0, commands requiring money
- remained unavailable.
- - If you had $0, sectors didn't build and sectors and ships didn't
- produce at the update.
- * Fix a bug in trade that made your money evaporate when a trade fell
- through because you couldn't fully pay. This bug was there since
- the introduction of the market in 4.0.0. It got aggravated by the
- removal of forced loans in 4.3.0.
- * Fix printing of the new group in army, fleet and wing. Broken in
- 4.3.5.
- * Fix flash not to screw up the message when the first argument
- contains white-space.
- * Don't let planes intercept when they are stuck in foreign bases, on
- inefficient ships or land units, or on land units loaded on ships
- or land units.
- * Fix a bug that made interception require petrol to be present even
- for planes that don't use fuel (SAMs). Broken in 4.3.3. Air
- defense missions weren't affected.
- * fairland and setsector now limit fertility to 100 instead of 120,
- like the other resources.
- * Generalize the autonav hack for fishing boats so it covers oil
- derricks as well.
- * Fix bug in path command that made it swallow every other step.
- Broken in 4.2.22.
- * The execute command no longer supports redirections and execute in
- batch files. Flaws in the Empire protocol make it next to
- impossible for clients to implement that correctly. See
- doc/clients-howto for an explanation.
- * Rewrite much of the client's code for sending commands and
- receiving server output:
- - No longer blocks on sending commands, which could deadlock the
- session.
- - Fix race condition that could cause server output to be discarded
- on EOF on standard input.
- - Don't discard server output when reading standard input fails.
- - Fix error handling for execute and other, more obscure cases.
- - More rigorous error checking for redirections and execute.
- Clearer error messages, too.
- - Fix execute redirected to file or pipe. Believed to be broken in
- 4.2.0.
- - The client now creates files for redirections with the same
- permissions whether the redirection is in a pipe or not. Before,
- redirections without a pipe created files with no permissions for
- group and others. This change may make your redirected output
- visible to other users on your system. Use the usual controls,
- like umask, to restrict permissions to your liking.
- - Reject unexpected redirections (violating the protocol). Before,
- they silently replaced the current one, and in the case of pipes
- leaked file descriptors and memory.
- - Redirections in batch files are not implemented. They didn't
- quite work before, and could leak memory and file descriptors. A
- flaw in the Empire protocol makes them next to impossible to
- implement correctly.
- - The execute command in batch files is not implemented. A flaw in
- the Empire protocol makes this practically useless anyway.
- - Old code leaked memory in various places.
- - Unfortunate incompatibility with older servers: if you type the
- EOF character (normally ^D) at an argument prompt, the session
- hangs. Use the interrupt character (normally ^C) to get out.
- * The client now supports options -h and -v.
- * The client no longer zaps its command line in a lame attempt at
- protecting users who foolishly specify passwords on the command
- line. Zapping annoys system administrators and creates a false
- sense of security.
- * Journal entries are now flushed to disk right away when the server
- is running in debug mode.
- * Fix bugs in load that could make loading operations fail noisily
- instead of silently on some systems.
- * Server now reliably shuts down session when it receives an
- end-of-file condition from the client. Before, it merely failed
- the current command when it got it at an argument prompt.
- * Fix bug in execute that could crash the server on some systems when
- it prompts for the argument.
- * Fix bug that let you check whether a non-allied carrier is
- efficient enough for takeoff when one of your planes got stuck
- there somehow.
- * Fix bug that let you attempt to escort a one-way mission to a
- carrier with non-light, non-interceptor escorts. Such planes don't
- fit on carriers, and the command then failed with a bogus error
- message. Before 4.2.17, the planes flew, and the escorts were
- teleported home.
- * Change the rules for fitting planes on ships slightly, so that the
- order of loading no longer matters. Choppers and x-lights can now
- use plane slots even when not light. X-light choppers, which don't
- exist in the stock game, can no longer use x-light slots.
- * The server now keeps its log file open, just like the journal.
- * New server option -R to set the PRNG seed. This is for
- reproducible tests. Change the Windows-only service uninstall
- options from -r/-R to -u/-U.
- * Supply a real PRNG for Windows instead of the leaky water-pistol
- Windows provides.
- * Threads sleeping until a specified time could return early under
- Windows. This could cause missed updates. Broken in 4.3.10.
- * Fix missing newline in show updates.
- * Power report didn't factor tech into power correctly. Broken in
- 4.3.3.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup.
- * Info file and documentation fixes and updates.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.10 - Thu Sep 6 17:59:53 UTC 2007
- * Bridge spans now cost $1000 instead of $2000, and bridge towers
- $3000 instead of $7500.
- * The Windows port now supports IPv6, but it still needs to be
- enabled manually at compile-time.
- * The custom table reader detects more errors.
- * Do not leak world creation time in files and fairland, because
- that facilitates attacks against the PRNG. This misfeature crept
- into 4.3.0.
- * Remove the ancient, crufty non-UCONTEXT system-dependent LWP code.
- Using it required manual hackery since 4.3.0.
- * Plug file descriptor leak in add command.
- * Don't kill player connections violently when their thread appears
- to be hung. Threads being aborted by update or shutdown could be
- misidentified as hung, and the violence could lead to resource
- leaks, locked out updates, and corrupted game state.
- * Fix LWP to reliably wake up threads sleeping for a time. Before,
- players with a sufficiently fast connection could starve out system
- threads, including the update.
- * Fix a class of bugs that made commands behave differently while the
- update is attempting to take control:
- - No MOB_ACCESS mobility was gained.
- - Telegrams were miscounted.
- - Bulletins got misfiled as production reports.
- - The navigate command ignored sail paths.
- - The declare command was more quiet, and declarations of war
- failed silently when SLOW_WAR was enabled.
- - Many messages got misdirected to bulletins.
- Some of these bugs go back all the way to Empire 2, ca 1995.
- * New deity command reload, effect similar to SIGHUP.
- * Not voting for a demand update no longer lets you veto further
- demand updates. This feature was flawed (it encourages players to
- vote late so that they can tactically vote no and thus build up
- veto rights), virtually unused, and buggy. The edit command still
- accepts and ignores the country key 'U' for compatibility, but it
- is deprecated.
- * Fix zdone not to claim to have triggered an update when they're
- disabled.
- * New update scheduler and ETU clock:
- - New schedule file. See doc/schedule for how to use it. Replaces
- econfig keys update_policy, adj_update, update_times, hourslop,
- blitz_time. A change of schedule does not require a server
- restart.
- - The force command can no longer force updates in the future.
- Edit the schedule file for that.
- - New command show updates to show the update schedule. Obsoletes
- the update command.
- - New xdump game and xdump updates.
- - New utility program empsched to help test update schedules.
- - Replace option DEMANDUPDATE and econfig key update_demandpolicy
- by econfig key update_demand.
- - econfig key update_demandtimes no longer applies to scheduled
- demand updates.
- - You now receive new BTUs at the update in addition to login.
- - You now always gain the same BTUs and MOB_ACCESS mobility per
- turn, even when the update schedule changes, updates get missed,
- or unscheduled demand updates run.
- - Remove the mobupdate command, because porting it to the new ETU
- clock is not worth it.
- * Redesign of synchronization between commands, update and shutdown,
- and how updates are triggered:
- - Simplify update to a single thread waiting for the trigger.
- Before, three update threads had to perform a carefully
- choreographed dance to make updates happen. The dance relied on
- thread priorities for correctness, which are only implemented by
- LWP. With pthreads and under Windows, demand updates were prone
- to two update threads starting up concurrently. Even with LWP,
- forced and demand updates could lead to double updates.
- - Use a lock for synchronization: commands take it shared, update
- and shutdown take it exclusive. This makes update and shutdown
- block until all aborted commands terminated and gave up their
- lock. Before, they proceeded blindly after waiting two or one
- seconds respectively, which was cheesy and unsafe.
- - New commands no longer fail while the update is pending, they are
- delayed until after the update.
- - New commands can no longer start during shutdown. Before, they
- could, but risked getting killed violently, possibly corrupting
- game state.
- - Fix command execution so that commands blocked in writing
- redirections are abortable. The bug allowed players to delay
- update and shutdown indefinitely.
- - Fix shutdown not to let player threads block on output. This
- let players delay shutdown indefinitely.
- - Fix reading of player input not to block again after update or
- 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
- starve out the threads that clean the lost file and kill idle
- connections. Drop them.
- * Show nuke rounded required research incorrectly.
- * Log unprintable characters as octal escapes rather than question
- marks in the journal file.
- * The files program no longer changes permissions of existing files.
- * The files program now creates all files with permissions ug=rw and
- all directories ug=rwx, modified by umask.
- * Fix a bug that could make arm, disarm and nuke detonation work with
- a used-up nuke instead of the armed one. This could be abused to
- detonate nukes multiple times. Broken in 4.3.3.
- * Fix nuke detonation output for zero blast radius.
- * Plug memory leaks in thread code.
- * Fix a bug that made LWP I/O wakeup unreliable.
- * New march sub-command v for view.
- * Journal was initialized before threads were, which was wrong.
- * Fix server not to create a journal on SIGHUP when it is disabled.
- * shutdown 0 now requests immediate shutdown instead of cancellation
- of a pending shutdown. shutdown -1 now cancels.
- * flash and wall no longer split long message lines.
- * Fix a bug in collect that screwed up a fully collected loan instead
- of deleting it. The screwed up loan could not be sharked or
- collected, but it could be repaid.
- * Remove the wait command, it's been broken and restricted to deity
- since Empire 2, ca. 1995.
- * Budget failed to take sector production into account for predicting
- unit repairs. Before 4.3.6, this bug bit only when you fooled
- around with budget priorities.
- * When unit repairs are limited by materials, the efficiency gain is
- now rounded down.
- * Ship repairs outside harbors and plane repairs by carriers used to
- consume commodities when and as far as available. Now, they
- consume the same fraction of the real cost of each commodity,
- i.e. commodity use is limited by the most scarce commodity.
- Neither old nor new behavior make much sense, but the new code is
- simpler.
- * Code refactoring and cleanup, in particular to make the Windows
- port less ugly.
- * Portability fixes.
- * Info file and manual page updates. All manual pages are now
- installed in section 6.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.9 - Sat Jan 6 12:42:19 UTC 2007
- * Fix declare to prevent the deity from changing relations for a
- player to self. Allow the deity to set the relations of a player
- towards the deity.
- * Fix arm not to put the same nuke on multiple planes (broken in
- 4.3.3).
- * New option AUTO_POWER.
- * Sectors now repair allied land units.
- * Sectors now repair only own and allied planes.
- * Fix repair of planes on foreign carriers: repair allied planes,
- ignore the others. Before 4.3.3, carriers destroyed rather than
- repaired foreign planes. Since 4.3.3, foreign planes were treated
- as recoverable error.
- * Fix automatic fortification of land units to use all excess
- mobility even when mobility delta exceeds mobility maximum.
- * Disable automatic fortification of land units when MOB_ACCESS is
- on, because it is prohibitively slow then (broken in 4.2.13).
- * Budget now shows level production (tech, education, research and
- happiness) rounded instead of randomly rounded.
- * Fix update not to randomly flush small level production to zero.
- * Fix overly restrictive game file locking under Windows (broken in
- 4.3.8).
- * Fix navigate to charge mobility for sweeping mines without moving
- (broken in 4.3.6).
- * Code cleanup.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.8 - Fri Oct 20 18:30:28 UTC 2006
- * Ships no longer produce stuff when the government is broke.
- * Fix land unit casualties in revolts.
- * Fix security units not to raid friendly che.
- * Fix update sequence to ensure stopped sectors don't work on the
- ships, planes and land units in the sector. Before 4.3.6, this bug
- bit only when you fooled around with budget priorities.
- * Fix canal loading (was broken in 4.3.0).
- * Fix tend not to tend land units that could not be loaded.
- * Make xdump command available before break, but deny access to game
- state.
- * Lock game files to prevent concurrent access by multiple programs.
- fairland does not yet obey the lock.
- * Fix production to consider sector item limit.
- * Fix swapsector to update coastal flag correctly (broken in 4.3.0).
- * Enhanced mapping sub-commands in move, test, explore and transport.
- * Code cleanup.
- * Info file fixes.
-
-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 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.
- * Fix heap smash in login command client. Remote hole!
- * Properly destroy nukes on collapsing bridges. Before, you could
- rescue them by building a new bridge or arming them on naval
- planes.
- * Nukes are now numbered like other units:
- - New selector type replaces selectors number and types.
- - New selector plane points to plane armed with this nuke.
- - New selectors effic, mobil, tech, group, opx, opy, mission,
- radius. Provided because all units have them; values are
- currently not interesting.
- - nuke command output redesigned.
- - ndump output changed subtly: nukes are no longer sorted by
- location, nukes in the same location no longer share id, and
- nukes on planes are shown.
- - transport nuke now works like transport plane.
- * arm and disarm now accept the common plane syntax, not just plane
- numbers.
- * Fix arm to let you change an armed plane's air-burst/ground-burst
- (broken in 4.2.6).
- * territory no longer re-prompts when supplied with a bad argument,
- it just fails.
- * edit lets you edit stuff that is actually computed from other
- state, like sector's coastal flag. This makes no sense and is now
- deprecated. Stuff deprecated since 4.2.15 is now gone.
- * Code cleanup.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.2 - Thu Apr 27 17:59:58 UTC 2006
- * Fix security units' raid at the update (broken in 4.0.0, fixed only
- for 100% units in 4.2.7). Back out 4.2.7's 2.5x deadliness
- increase. Make sure empty units don't kill anyone.
- * Fix bug in player_init(), which was most likely fatal on 64 bit
- hosts. Broken in 4.3.0.
- * Fix xdump not to disclose other countries' realms (new in 4.3.0).
- * The order in which sectors were visited for `*' arguments disclosed
- the real origin, fix. Mapping commands used to work around this
- bug, until 4.3.1 exposed it there as well.
- * Code didn't compile on some systems.
- * Fix edit plane not to truncate large values for keys 'a' and 'd'.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.1 - Sat Apr 15 11:40:47 UTC 2006
- * Fix check of game state on server startup (new in 4.3.0).
- * sail now accepts a destination sector.
- * Tend could send bogus bulletins (broken in 4.3.0).
- * Plug memory leaks in mission command.
- * Close loophole in navigate that allowed players to find all sectors
- that are unfriendly or inefficient harbors or bridges.
- * Server didn't start when default econfig was missing and user
- didn't supply one with -e (broken in 4.3.0).
- * Retreat condition 'h' (helpless) never worked, fix.
- * Fix retreating mine sweepers to use mobility for sweeping.
- * Fix retreating land units to hit mines with the same probability
- and to take the same damage as in normal movement. Before,
- hit probability was higher, and damage was lower.
- * Ships could retreat into sectors owned by whoever made them
- retreat, but not in their owner's sectors.
- * Fix 'm' at the movement prompt of transport and test.
- * Fix march and test not to apply conditionals to sectors mapped,
- which led to spurious error messages.
- * Fix break not to respect conditionals. The bug let players keep
- sanctuaries.
- * Fix retreat code not to respect conditionals. Attackers could
- abuse this to suppress fleet and army retreat orders.
- * Fix retreat and edit to zero-terminate retreat paths.
- Theoretically abusable for gaining information.
- * Fix format string crash bugs in load, spy and bomb.
- * Fix the telegram editor: empty telegrams were broken in 4.2.21, and
- ~p before the first line of text never worked.
- * Fix ancient bridge building race condition that could break the
- test whether the player can afford the bridge.
- * Fix trade lot change detection in set command. Can probably be
- abused to defraud sellers.
- * The pthread code now compiles under Solaris.
- * navigate and march now permit any whitespace between route and
- optional argument for radar, lookout, sonar, not just spaces.
- * Fix canal navigation (was broken in 4.3.0).
- * Info file fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.3.0 - Sun Mar 19 08:13:10 UTC 2006
- * version no longer pretends option SHIPNAMES still exists.
- * Remove files auth and ban. They could be used to restrict client
- address and user. Restricting user is useless, because players can
- send whatever they want. Banning IPs is better done with a packet
- filter. That leaves restricting deity IPs. Provide new econfig
- key privip for that. Apply it to session kill as well as login.
- * xdump escapes GUINEA_PIGS status:
- - xdump is now enabled unconditionally.
- - xdump sect now dumps selector coastal, because it can't be
- reliably computed from other xdump information.
- - New xdump realm and country. Realm information is now stored in
- a separate file, with appropriate selectors.
- - Reviewed for completeness and information leaks. See info xdump
- for remaining issues. New treaty selector uid, nat selectors
- relations, contacts. Removed useless selectors: news and lost
- uid, nat dayno.
- - Command syntax changed.
- - xdump opt is no more, option information is now in xdump ver.
- - xdump can now dump meta-data.
- - Header and footer changed to be more compact. You now need
- meta-data to identify fields.
- - Bug fixes.
- - Documentation in doc/xdump.
- * New econfig key builtindir.
- * New econfig key custom_tables lets you customize configuration
- tables without recompiling. Customizing tables other than unit
- tables is not recommended for now. See doc/econfig for
- instructions.
- * Check configuration and game state are sane on server startup.
- * Remove option NONUKES and NEUTRON. Deities can load a suitable
- nuke table to get the same effect.
- * Remove option DRNUKE. Use econfig key drnuke_const to control
- whether nukes need research.
- * Disqualify land units from performing missions while loaded on
- ships or trains.
- * Fix dump for strings without terminating zero.
- * Fix login command option not to send an extra prompt.
- * zdone now displays information about demand update vetoing.
- * The Windows port now requires Winsock version 2.
- * Remove econfig key powe_cost.
- * version report now shows all the configurable settings of interest
- to players.
- * carg and lcarg now display people as well.
- * ldump now dumps civ and uw as well.
- * Fix dangling pointer dereference in dogfighting code.
- * Tell sector owner when partisans take over. But don't disclose che
- casualties then.
- * emp_server, files, fairland now support options -h and -v.
- * Simplify baroque version numbering to a single version number.
- This affects output of version.
- * New show item and show news.
- * New build process:
- - Follow the usual steps: configure; make; make install. The
- latter is optional. The only file deities still have to edit is
- econfig.
- - Use GNU Autoconf for system configuration.
- - Use GNU Make for portability and features.
- - Support separate build trees.
- - Remake out-of-date dependencies automatically.
- - Remake out-of-date info files automatically.
- - Flatten info directory.
- - Formatted info files are no longer distributed in source tarball.
- - Use LWP only with UCONTEXT. Autoconfiguring the other LWP
- low-level options doesn't seem to be worth the effort, as
- UCONTEXT should be pretty portable.
- * Fix use of freed memory in sail.
- * sail could let large ships enter big cities.
- * Fix reject and accept not to require contact.
- * Fix sharebmap and telegram to prompt for a missing first argument.
- * Fix report to align column research correctly for deities.
- * When the optional newspaper argument doesn't work because HIDDEN is
- enabled, complain instead of ignoring it silently.
- * When BLITZ is enabled, fairland no longer permutes country numbers
- in newcap_script so that start islands are ordered from top left to
- bottom right.
- * Minimize output format differences between options:
- - census shows column fall regardless of FALLOUT.
- - show nuke now shows column res regardless of DRNUKE.
- - report no longer suppress column status when HIDDEN is enabled.
- HIDDEN limits status information like for the country command.
- - relations column width differed depending on option SLOW_WAR.
- Always use the wider format.
- * Fix a bug in edit that suppressed the player notification telex on
- military reserve change.
- * Fix command dispatch not to let deities use commands that are
- declared not to be available to them. The only command affected is
- break.
- * Fix the list command for visitor.
- * econfig key m_m_p_d no longer applies to deities.
- * Fix the origin command for country #0. Allow moving origin to
- another country's origin. Allow deities to reset origin to
- absolute 0,0. This turns origin into a superset of the offset
- command. Remove offset command.
- * Fix a bug that caused unpredictable flak damage when it should have
- been maximum damage (was broken in 4.2.19).
- * Don't store initial capital location, remove the associated nat
- selectors xstart, ystart.
- * Fix production command to consider resource depletion.
- * Fix justification of coordinate output in cutoff and mission.
- * Option UPDATESCHED is no longer optional. Disabling it didn't
- work anyway.
- * Support IPv6.
- * Turn options into ordinary econfig keys.
- * New econfig key start_cash.
- * BTU regeneration now depends on the capital's work percentage.
- * nation now supports an optional argument that lets deities ask for
- somebody else's nation report.
- * Fix nation to display SANCTUARY instead of VISITOR for countries in
- sanctuary.
- * Fix capital to let you use a regained sacked capital without
- activating another one in between.
- * Don't move capital when it is sacked.
- * New ship capability canal, replacing obscure formula based on build
- materials.
- * You now need a capital to request a demand update.
- * power now ignores landspies.
- * Fix LWP stack checking.
- * Clean up LWP, drop dead machine-specific code, fix portability bugs
- in UCONTEXT code.
- * census now shows the old owner instead of `*'. dump is unchanged
- to avoid breaking clients.
- * peek no longer prints the old owner.
- * When a bombed land unit retreated, collateral damage was applied to
- the wrong sector.
- * paradrop, drop and fly can no longer abandon the base sector.
- * Tending foreign ships now sends a bulletin to the owner.
- * Fix bug that permitted login for inactive countries, including ""
- * Fix tend for spies.
- * Change launch to fire all missiles selected at the same target.
- Previously, it prompted for a new target after each missile.
- * add, consider, build, launch and fire no longer re-prompt when
- supplied with a bad argument, they just fail. Consequently, the
- build command no longer lets you list types you can build. It
- points to the show command instead.
- * Fix add not to truncate country number.
- * Fix selector coastal to be accurate at all times.
- * Fix obscure bug in fairland: the sector added last to an island
- wasn't considered coastal. Affected resource computation.
- * Fix sector wiping in add command.
- * Remove options NO_LCMS, NO_HCMS, NO_OIL. They were broken in many
- ways. Custom configuration tables should become a serviceable
- replacement eventually.
- * Client no longer freezes on long lines of server output.
- * Fix uninitialized signal mask bugs.
- * Fix Windows service code's treatment of -e.
- * Sub interdiction disclosed sub owner through news' actor selector.
- * country reports on all countries, but carefully limits information
- disclosed to mortals. Output format changed.
- * Market no longer forces sellers to grant loans.
- * Fix potential crash bug in set command. Friendlier prompt and
- diagnostics.
- * Substantial code cleanup and portability fixes.
- * Extend empfile abstraction to cover game configuration.
- * Overhaul of game state storage.
- * The above includes major contributions from Ron Koenderink. Many
- thanks!
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.23 - Sun Oct 23 09:28:26 UTC 2005
- * Make version pretend option SHIPNAMES still exists, for the benefit
- of clients that still depend on it.
- * The change to conv in 4.2.22 could crash or compute incorrect
- maximum population.
- * Info updates missing in 4.2.22.
- * A few code cleanups.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.22 - Tue Oct 11 20:23:51 UTC 2005
- * Log player login, logout and session kill.
- * Close loophole in assembly point rules that allowed players to find
- all unowned sectors. The assembly point must now be owned by you
- or an ally, or you or an ally must have a ship there.
- * Don't let embarked land units fire flak.
- * Fix display of the last connection's host when the host name was
- not resolved.
- * Fix change command to accept full length representative (password),
- currently 19 characters. It used to chop off after eight
- characters.
- * Non-recon missions no longer establish contact to owners of
- overflown sectors, because those missions do not identify the
- owner. This matches info Hidden.
- * The following events now establish contact:
- - Catching a spy
- - Sighting a ship when toggle coastwatch is off
- - Spotting overflying planes
- - satellite spotting land units
- - lookout and llookout spotting ships, planes and land units
- - Any relations change
- * The country command's `temporary' state of disorder ended after
- ten years.
- * Telegram notifications could get lost in exotic circumstances,
- e.g. while a second client attempted to connect. Can be abused for
- stealthy attacks.
- * Remove option SNEAK_ATTACK.
- * Fix lboard not to let you board dead land units.
- * Fix stack smash in bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail.
- Remote hole!
- * bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail now deal with EOF
- correctly.
- * Fix fly to let the player abort the command at the last prompt.
- * Client no longer reads execute scripts in binary mode under
- Windows.
- * New econfig key listen_address.
- * econfig key port can now be a service name. Service empire no
- longer takes precedence over econfig.
- * Client falls back to compiled-in host only if environment doesn't
- supply one, not if it can't be resolved. Same for port.
- * Oil derrick could extract slightly more oil than was in the ground.
- * test command checked start sector for space and some other things
- instead of end sector.
- * convert now silently limits conversions to avoid exceeding maximum
- population.
- * shoot no longer limits you to 999 victims.
- * 4.2.19 broke pin-bombing commodities on some platforms.
- * Don't block on output while update is pending. This is required to
- ensure the update can abort commands.
- * Commands submitted while the update is waiting for commands to
- abort now fail.
- * The force command no longer waits for the specified time. It
- starts a scheduling thread instead, just like shutdown.
- * Correct grammar and punctuation in output of version.
- * Option SHIPNAMES is no longer optional.
- * Fix output of qorder and sorder for ships with sail path.
- * Don't change capital to agribusiness on retake. From Pat Loney.
- * bdes prompt for new designation was messed up for empty bmaps.
- * Client now supports pipes under Windows.
- * Care for subtle Windows socket incompatibilities.
- * Fix strength command not to lie about units reacting into
- mountains.
- * strength now yields the processor periodically, to keep the game
- responsive.
- * Schedule commands more fairly. Previously, a sufficiently fast
- player could starve out the others.
- * launch assumed plane maximum mobility 127 for calculating when
- satellites will be ready to use.
- * Drop support for for DCE threads.
- * Drop support for pthread implementations lacking pthread_kill().
- This includes ancient versions of OS X.
- * Code cleanups.
- * Minor info file fixes.
- * The above includes major contributions from Ron Koenderink. Many
- thanks!
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.21 - Sat Jul 16 17:51:01 UTC 2005
- * Don't let threads block on output to another player thread's
- socket. Such blocking violates basic design assumptions and can
- cause all kinds of grief. In particular, it causes player session
- hangs under Windows with 4.2.20. Broken since the introduction of
- flash and asynchronous telegram notification many years ago.
- * Threads sleeping until a specified time could return early under
- Windows. This could cause double-updates.
- * Fix fallout damage (was broken in 4.2.19).
- * Fix show sector s (was broken in 4.2.19).
- * Fix deliver not to deliver friendly civilians into occupied
- sectors.
- * Fix mil duplication in board (was broken in 4.2.14).
- * Fix stack smash in lrange, shoot and execute. Remote holes, and
- the last one doesn't even require authentication.
- * Fix crash bug in emp_config parsing.
- * Fix buffer overruns in turn and shutdown.
- * Fix second argument of shutdown.
- * 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.
- * Fix flash not to lie about recipients that are just logging in.
- * Remove obscure login command list.
- * Convert client from obsolete termcap to terminfo, and clean up
- terminal handling.
- * New fairland option -h to print usage information. Improved
- command line syntax diagnostics. Exit unsuccessfully on unknown
- options.
- * fleet and army now copy retreat orders of the fleet's or army's
- first member with group retreat orders in the same sector.
- Previously, they used the retreat orders of the first fleet or army
- member, which is less than useful, and failed to take ownership
- into account, which is an abusable bug.
- * New xdump nation.
- * Fix xdump not to disclose other countries' losses.
- * Fix exit status of files program when it can't create files.
- * Support UTF-8 encoded Unicode in human-human communications. This
- affects MOTD, game down message, telexes, announcements and flash
- messages. See new doc/unicode for technical details.
- * New login command `options' for client/server option negotiation.
- See new doc/clients-howto for technical details. The only option
- so far is utf-8.
- * emp_client -u now requests UTF-8. This requires a terminal that
- understands UTF-8.
- * Fix news for land unit defensive support.
- * Properly mark sea mines hit by retreating ships. Unmark mines
- cleared by bridges.
- * Fix diagnostics for unknown selector names in conditionals (was
- broken in 4.2.20).
- * Fix selector name clashes: rename ship selector mobquota to mquota,
- land selector for reaction range limit from rad to rmax.
- * Fix Windows services for relative file names on command line or in
- econfig (was broken in 4.2.20).
- * econfig keys ship_grow_scale, plane_grow_scale and land_grow_scale
- are now float. This gives deities finer control over maximum
- efficiency gain.
- * Fix production command for sectors with 60% efficiency.
- * Improve syntax of read for deities.
- * Code cleanups.
- * Some info topic names differed only in case, which loses on
- case-insensitive file systems, and is a bad user interface even
- when it works. Change those names. Rename deity command hidden to
- peek because its info topic clashed with that of option HIDDEN.
- * Thanks to Doug Wescott sheep are finally covered properly in info.
- * Documentation fixes.
- * Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink. Many thanks!
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.20 - Tue Mar 22 21:07:18 UTC 2005
- * When units in different sectors marched, only units in the sector
- with the highest-numbered unit were interdicted. A marching
- non-spy made all marching spies visible to interdiction regardless
- of location.
- * Fix crash when interdiction sinks second ship in a sector. Broken
- in 4.0.10.
- * Fix an ancient bug in simulation of level production that clobbered
- stack and could lead to low predictions, typically zero, which
- screwed up budget. The bug had no effect until 4.2.19.
- * When a sector revolts, and there wasn't enough space to liberate
- all uw, the number of remaining uw got the wrong sign. Broken in
- 4.2.14.
- * Log and abort when LWP stack check detects stack smash. Server
- option -s no longer implies -p.
- * The native Windows build now supports -p and -s.
- * The native Windows build now properly deals with ^C when running in
- the foreground. It no longer prompts for a quit command on the
- terminal.
- * The meaning of server option -D in presence of -e is unclear.
- Other programs only support -e. Remove option -D. Use -e
- DIR/econfig instead of -D DIR.
- * New server option -v shows version information.
- * Fix the server's exit status with -h. Broken in 4.2.19.
- * The linux-pthreads build failed to shut down on signals.
- * Fix threading bugs in the native Windows build that made shutdown
- unsafe and screwed up update aborting commands.
- * New econfig key pre_update_hook to allow automatic, safe backup
- right before the update. See scripts/backup for an example.
- * The server now prints log messages to stderr as well when running
- in the foreground.
- * Fix potential buffer overflows in logerror() and lwpStatus().
- * Server now requires POSIX signals. It no longer catches SIGUSR1.
- * Remove support for ancient versions of HP-UX.
- * Fix seeding of PRNG broken in 4.2.19.
- * Don't reseed the PRNG in commands, it hurts randomness and could be
- abused by crafty players.
- * The server now makes the data directory its working directory.
- This also gets rid of a bug that changed the file name of the
- sector, power, nation and lostitems file unless econfig could not
- be read.
- * The server now writes a pid file. Thanks to Daniel O'Connor.
- * More user friendly server startup: more errors are detected while
- the server still runs in the foreground, which makes it possible to
- complain to stderr and to exit unsuccessfully.
- * Early log messages went to the log file in the default data
- directory, even though econfig specifies another data directory.
- * Specifying an econfig file on the command line that can't be read
- is now fatal.
- * Errors in econfig are now fatal.
- * The server now refuses to start when it can't open data files.
- * News are now sorted and expire sanely.
- * Conditionals can now compare strings as well.
- * Corrupted down and motd files could cause buffer overflows.
- * Fix recon to let player abort at the flight path prompt.
- * power no longer rounds worldwide numbers for deities.
- * power command failed to recognize deities with non-zero country
- number.
- * Change output of production command so that columns are aligned
- even for large values. Replace column wkfc by more useful column
- avail.
- * neweff and production miscalculated work when mil exceeded
- population limit.
- * neweff miscalculated work when the population limit exceeded 999.
- * Fix capping of avail when a big city is torn down.
- * Fix a bug in fire that allowed players to find all submarine UIDs.
- * Maximum sector population is no longer hardcoded, and now covered
- by xdump. Option RES_POP now affects mountains and plains as
- well. From Ray Hyatt.
- * Fix fina and news not to ignore errors in conditions.
- * The native Windows build now requires Windows Sockets 2.
- * The native Windows build now supports multiple instances of the
- service. The ability to supply additional startup parameters to
- the service has been removed.
- * Implement fairland command line parsing under Windows.
- * Improved fairland and emp_server usage message.
- * Code cleanups.
- * Minor info file and documentation fixes.
- * Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink. Many thanks!
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.19 - Thu Dec 23 20:24:24 UTC 2004
- * Fix order not to unload into full sectors.
- * Fix scrap not to dump stuff into full sectors. Excess stuff is now
- destroyed.
- * Fix distribute not to conjure up a civilian when importing
- civilians from a dist center that doesn't have any.
- * Fix flak to resupply no more shells than actually needed.
- * Fix rounding error in shoot that could result in more people shot
- than actually there.
- * Fix info and apro error handling. In particular, do not leak
- potentially sensitive information on the server to players.
- * info no longer shows a random matching page when the topic argument
- is ambiguous. Instead, it lists all matching topics.
- * Embarked land units and overflying planes no longer spot each
- other.
- * Fix show command to show only sectors that players can designate
- (was broken in 4.2.18).
- * Fix a rounding error in production command column `max'.
- * Fix production command for overpopulated mountains and plains.
- * Fix tradeship ally cut to match documentation.
- * Fix plague, which was was broken in 4.2.14: it got stuck in stage I.
- * Fix a bug in aerial sonar where ships could mask submarines with
- the same number modulo 256.
- * Don't allow bombing of subs that were not detected.
- * MOTD and the game down message are now entirely separate: use `turn
- motd' for the MOTD, and `turn on' and `turn off' for the game down
- message. `turn on' no longer lets you edit the MOTD.
- * Remove option NUKEFAILDETONATE.
- * Option ORBIT is no longer optional.
- * New option GUINEA_PIGS to control experimental stuff not ready for
- prime time. If your deity enables this in a serious game, run!
- * Many xdump fixes. xdump is now enabled by option GUINEA_PIGS.
- * New ship and land selectors rflags, rpath.
- * New ship selectors for order: xstart. xend, ystart, yend,
- cargostart, cargend, amtstart, amtend
- * New ship selectors for sail: mobquota, path, follow.
- * New news selector uid.
- * Implement command line parsing under Windows where it was missing.
- * emp_server and and files print a usage message on command line
- syntax errors.
- * Fix how emp_server exits after being panicked by a signal. It can
- now dump core when this happens.
- * Fix bug in client that could crash it when a line of input starts
- with '?'.
- * Client now gets user name from environment variable LOGNAME if set,
- else from system.
- * The native Windows build can now run as a service.
- * Redirecting client input now works under Windows.
- * Code cleanups.
- * Don't confuse work with loyalty in info Citizens.
- * Minor info file and manual page fixes.
- * Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink and Marc
- Olzheim. Many thanks!
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.18 - Tue Sep 7 14:08:59 UTC 2004
- * Fix info to accept abbreviated arguments under Windows. From Ron
- Koenderink.
- * Buying planes or land units loaded on something didn't work when
- that something moved.
- * Fix a bug that could produce update cascades with update policy
- UDP_TIMES.
- * Fix delivery and distribution to grant packing bonus only to
- efficient sectors, just like move. Previously, delivery ignored
- efficiency, and distribution behaved as if it were an efficient
- sector without special bonuses.
- * New sector selectors loyal, access; ship selectors radius, access,
- xbuilt, ybuilt, builder, name; plane selectors radius, access,
- theta; land unit selectors radius, react, nland, access; lost
- selector id.
- * Fix sector selectors che, che_target; plane selectors att, def;
- nuke selector types; treaty selector exp; news selector time;
- commodity selectors type, xbuy, ybuy.
- * Option PLANENAMES is no longer optional.
- * Ensure config parameter variables and their description in
- configkeys[] are consistent. Inconsistencies there caused bugs in
- the past. From Marc Olzheim.
- * Complain if econfig file can't be read.
- * Better messages for errors in econfig file.
- * Remove unused econfig keys hard_tech and last_demand_update.
- * New econfig key news_keep_days to configure news expiry.
- * New econfig key anno_keep_days to configure announcement expiry.
- * Fix announcement expiry. It leaked file descriptors and memory,
- and could corrupt the anno file. From Ron Koenderink.
- * New command xdump: experimental extended dump. Disabled for now.
- * Bankers no longer round down debts, and they collect interest for
- the time debtors are idling at sub-prompts.
- * Loan interest calculation was broken at the due date and after a
- last payment made at the due date. With luck, debtors could abuse
- this to repay loans cheap (they couldn't gain cash, though), sharks
- to purchase loans cheap, and creditors to collect excessively.
- * Fix major bug in transport that allowed two cooperating countries
- to duplicate items.
- * Don't report interdiction damage twice when transporting planes.
- * Fix message for attempting to transport a plane in a sector not
- owned by the player.
- * Fix confusing diagnostics when refusing to improve defense because
- option DEFENSE_INFRA is off.
- * Simplify confusing code in budget.
- * Fix spacing in output of budget and show.
- * Change one-way plane sorties to match ordinary sorties: offer
- carriers regardless of the sector they're in, require carriers to
- be efficient.
- * Allow `realm #'.
- * Don't print owner of incoming missile twice when intercepting it.
- * Simplify constituent storage in product characteristics.
- * Replace remaining `variables' leftovers; mainly in unit
- characteristics.
- * Remove leading spaces in deity unit dumps.
- * Replace inappropriate uses of compile time constant ETUS by 60.
- Deities don't change ETUS, they change etu_per_update by editing
- econfig. This nonsense dates back at least to chainsaw 3.31.
- * Change ship production (fishing and drilling for oil) to match
- sector production. Ship efficiency and tech are now relevant, and
- all people on board work. From Ron Koenderink.
- * Code cleanups.
- * Minor info file fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.17 - Mon Aug 16 16:21:53 UTC 2004
- * Fix seeding of PRNG under Windows. The bug made updates occur at
- a predictable time in the update window. From Ron Koenderink.
- * Close major loophole in drop that allowed players to determine
- whether an arbitrary sector is sea, allied land, or other land.
- * fly could fly civilians into occupied sectors. For consistency
- with other means to move around stuff, this is no longer possible.
- * Don't allow flying to a carrier that doesn't have space for the
- planes. Previously, planes that did this were teleported home,
- which could be abused.
- * Close loophole in bomb that allowed players to find all
- sanctuaries.
- * Fix move and explore not to crash when moving civilians to a sector
- without civilians, and interdiction destroys them all. Found and
- debugged by Jeff Cotter.
- * Fix printing of messages entered with turn command. '%' characters
- could cause havoc, even crashes.
- * Use sector's actual maximum population to compute chance of plague
- outbreak. Previously, code used 9999 for big cities and 999 for
- other sectors, and info Plague said 999. This makes all crowded
- sectors equally vulnerable, even mountains, plains, and inefficient
- big cities.
- * Oil derricks no longer drill and deplete more oil than they can
- hold. From Ron Koenderink.
- * Version 4.2.15's coordinate and list parsing fixes reject trailing
- junk. That's too strict. Silently ignore trailing junk as long as
- it starts with whitespace.
- * Version 4.2.15's selector rewrite broke some type literals,
- e.g. `?des=n' was interpreted as `?des=newdes'. Change to prefer
- type literals to selectors.
- * Nightly build patches game to get repeatable PRNG results. From
- Marc Olzheim.
-
-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. Fix courtesy Jeff Cotter.
- * 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
- resupply of the land unit) when just testing for how much can be
- resupplied. The bug could have led to insufficient resupply.
- * Fix recursive resupply not to consume all fuel in supply units. No
- supply units consuming fuel exist in the stock game.
- * Limit delivery and distribution thresholds to ITEM_MAX (9999).
- Distribution threshold were previously limited to 10000, and
- delivery thresholds to 65528.
- * Limit items in sectors to ITEM_MAX (9999). Commands give and buy
- used to limit to 9990. Market transactions and commands explore,
- move, drop and fly to 32767. Limiting in autonav code (order
- command) didn't work. Item delivery used to stop at 9990,
- distribution at 9999. Food growing and sector production used to
- stop at 9999. Grind, assault lunchboxes, demobilization, mine
- sweeping and che liberating uw could theoretically attempt to
- increase items beyond 65535, which would have been ignored
- (destroying the increase).
- * Properly saturate fallout at FALLOUT_MAX (9999). Previously,
- fallout increases behaved inconsistently. Increases beyond 65535
- could get ignored, or fallout could saturate at 9999, or it could
- overflow at 65536 (that would take quite some nuking, though).
- * Properly saturate mines at MINES_MAX (65535). Previously, a mining
- operation that would have gone beyond 65535 was ignored.
- * Fix `are we loading or unloading' tests for load, unload, lload and
- lunload.
- * Fix editing of land unit attack and defense values. Implement
- editing of ship defense values. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.
- * edit now edits che number and target separately.
- * Fix edit to properly extend unit files. Contributed by Ron
- Koenderink.
- * Major internal reorganisation: Sectors need space for items,
- deliveries and distribution thresholds. To save space, the
- ancients invented `variables': a collection of key-value pairs,
- missing means zero value, space for `enough' keys. This
- complicates the code, as assigning to a `variable' can fail for
- lack of space. Over time, `enough' increased, and for quite some
- time now `variables' have been *wasting* space. Replace them,
- except in unit characteristics, where they are read-only, and will
- be replaced later. This also removes misfeatures like plague
- 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
- 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.
- ?type=sb now selects sb, not sbc, even when sbc happens to be found
- first.
- * Value of selector sell was always zero, remove it.
- * Clean up selector code.
- * satellite now displays all sectors owned by other players, and none
- else. It used to display all but sea, mountains, sanctuaries,
- wasteland and wilderness.
- * map commands now display wilderness and plains owned by other
- players as '?'. Radar commands now display all wilderness and
- plains as '?'.
- * Fix power timestamp for Windows. 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.
- Remove all nested external declarations. Source code is now fully
- prototyped. Enable appropriate gcc warnings.
- * Fix several type errors. Some may have been show-stoppers on big
- endian machines where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int).
- * Remove pre-ISO C compatibility cruft (hey, it's been only fifteen
- years).
- * Various portability fixes. Some bugs may have been show-stoppers
- when sizeof(long) != sizeof(int). With help from Marc Olzheim and
- Ron Koenderink.
- * Move some code to more logical places. Remove some unused code,
- some of which was hard to port.
- * The files program could print error messages to a log file in some
- circumstances. Make it print to stderr.
- * deliver can now change direction without changing the threshold.
- * deliver now provides appropriate context when prompting for
- thresholds.
- * Login command play no longer ignores up to two arguments if there
- isn't a third one.
- * 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.
- * Many info file markup fixes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.13 - Fri Feb 13 22:12:36 UTC 2004
- * Source code reindented and cleaned up somewhat.
- * Various small info file fixes.
- * Fixed change requiring 254 BTUs even when not charging any
- (BLITZ).
- * Fixed tactical non-marine missile crash.
- * Fixed spy unit detection chance for eff<100.
- * Fixed output of sorder.
- * `edit' can now work non-interactively. Contributed by Ron
- Koenderink.
- * Fixed and extended edit for sectors.
- * Fixed use of errno.
- * Minor security fix: doconfig now writes example auth entry as
- comment.
- * Fixed reading of country name and password in client for Windows.
- * Replace use of some obsolete non-portable library functions by
- portable equivalents.
- * designate now warns about redesignated capital only when it
- succeeds in redesignating the capital.
- * attack could be off by one when reporting required unit mobility.
- * Fixed command matching. Unique prefixes were not always
- recognized, and junk suffixes were ignored.
- * Removed bestdistpath. bestpath yields the same results.
- * Renamed lstats to lstat for consistency and to match info page.
- * Fixed non-portable fd_set * arguments of select().
- * New `map' flag `h' to highlight own sectors. Contributed by Marc
- Olzheim.
- * Fixed `sabo' reporting damage to player in deity coordinates.
- * New option ROLLOVER_AVAIL. Contributed by Drake Diedrich.
- * Fix Windows server shutdown on reading "quit" from stdin.
- * Land units now fortify automatically when mobility plus growth
- exceeds the maximum. With code from Marc Olzheim.
- * Wandering che are less predictable.
- * Land units no longer regenerate mobility faster while it is
- negative.
- * Fixed emp_client -k.
- * No longer allow pirates to ferret out where a ship was built.
- * Fixed map commands to reject bmap flags `t' and `r' instead of
- turning into bmap.
- * Fixed lmine shell resupply.
- * 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.
- * 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.
- * Fixed recording of lost nukes.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.12 - Mon Aug 18 16:54:21 MDT 2003
- * Corrected contact information for Wolfpack.
- * Sector isn't abandoned until move or explore is complete.
- * Fixed multiple cases where return value of getstarg() was
- used without being checked which crashed the server.
- * Used stdarg.h instead of varargs.h.
- * Call only_subs and save result before mission frees attacker
- list. Call with free list could cause server crash.
- * Fixed spy sat map for units on opposite side of world wrap.
- * Don't sleep in main thread when called from signal handler.
- * Fixed error checking in pthreads.
- * Properly detach pthreads.
- * Pass unlocked mutex to pthread_mutex_unlock.
- * Cope with interrupted sleep in pthread empth_sleep to prevent
- double update.
- * Added server configurable update window.
- * Initialized variables passed to setsockopt in accept.c.
- * Fixed bug where sharing bmap with uncontacted country crashes
- server.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.11 - Sun Sep 1 09:54:59 MDT 2002
- * Added compile option for the Mac OSX architecture.
- * Fixed bug in cargo where unit array was indexed by shp_maxno
- instead of lnd_maxno.
- * Fixed bug in reject where aborting the command crashes the
- server.
- * Can't buy land units into enemy headquarters.
- * Added sabotage command and commando unit.
- * Spies moving by themselves will not trigger interdiction.
- * Fixed error in map distance calculation that caused errant
- interdiction.
- * Ships going under -127 mobility will be set to -127 mob and
- not roll over to positive mobility.
- * Corrected plane cost in info Maintenance.
- * Changed error message for loans rejected for being too big.
- * Land units will take casualty damage proportional to their
- ability to carry mil.
- * Fixed bug where "route i *" crashes server.
- * Cannot upgrade planes in orbit.
- * Fixed bug in declare with deity aborting command at last
- prompt crashes the server.
- * Coastwatch notify works with NO_FORT_FIRE option.
- * Thread that kills idle connection will charge player for
- minutes the player was logged on.
- * Removed separate sendeof at end of execute from emp_client
- that logged players off on certain platforms.
- * Updated player idle counter during read prompt so players
- wouldn't be kicked off during long flashes or writing telegrams.
- * LOSE_CONTACT will work as advertised.
- * Allied units marching through 0 mobility conquered sectors
- are charged at least LND_MINMOBCOST.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.10 - Mon Aug 13 14:34:39 MDT 2001
- * Assault can reinforce own sector when SLOW_WAR is enabled.
- * emp_client no longer converts lines into tags but still verifies executes,
- pipes, and file redirect match players input.
- * Added pboard command to capture enemy planes in your territory.
- * Declaring war when at Sitzkrieg won't return relations to Mobilizing.
- * Declaring war won't charge money if you're already Mobilizing.
- * Added multiple territory fields.
- * "show nuke build" displays the proper avail.
- * retreating land units will only retreat to sectors owned by the player
- that owns the unit.
- * added hard cap of "250 + easy" to limit_level.
- * education p.e. calculation divides edu constant by etu per update.
- * Added patch for Linux for the PowerPC.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.9 - Sun Jan 7 15:49:13 PST 2001
- * Fixed data corruption when bogus target gets fired upon.
- * Increased size of ancillary stacks to prevent stack overflow.
- * Changed all references to empire.cx.
- * Ships, planes, and land units lost to lack of maintenance will now be
- lost.
- * No longer allowed to sack deity's capital.
- * Accuracy calculation in land unit support was backwards.
- * Corrected formula for likelihood of plague in info Plague.
- * Fixed files to correctly size map and bmap files from econfig file.
- * No longer allowed to add country 0. It corrupts deity country.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.8 - Mon Oct 9 17:35:35 MDT 2000
- * Fixed range in radar.t and Sector-types.t. Maximum range at infinite
- tech is 16.
- * Changed so that player can't drop civilians into occupied sectors.
- * Fixed bug that crashes update if etus/update is less than 8.
- * Fixed sometimes not reporting overflights
- * Fixing flak for units/ships to be in all sectors as they should be
- * 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.
- * 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.
- * Eliminated annoying error messages when using navigate with conditionals.
- * Fixed Technology.t to correctly add 1 before taking the logarithm.
- * Fixed bug that allowed players to steal opponents maps.
- * Put time limit for bidding on market and trade in econfig file.
- * Moved hours file information into econfig file.
- * Added comments on setting update policy in econfig file.
- * Added logging of cases where write extends data file by more than one id.
- * Option MARKET is turned off by default.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.7 - Fri Mar 10 18:41:04 PST 2000
- * Added new NF_SACKED flag to indicate when a country has had it's
- capital sacked. This flag is only cleared when the country actively
- redesignates it's capital using the "capital" command, and changed
- capital.t to reflect this (no more re-sacking after an update if the
- country doesn't reset and repeating until they are out of cash.)
- * Added land unit to edit command for planes.
- * Added nuketype to edit command for planes.
- * Changed so that if the leader of a group of units is a train, the
- railways are used for bestpath instead of roadways.
- * Changed mission command to also print reaction radius of reserve
- missions when set for land units.
- * Changed Flak.t to reflect guns having to be loaded onto a land unit
- for flak to fire.
- * Changed so that visitor countries cannot change their name or password.
- * Changed so that you cannot upgrade deity planes, ships or units.
- * Changed so that you know where missions are flown from.
- * Changed so that the airport owner you fly a mission from is informed.
- * Changed so that preperations for takeoff are reported to the owner of
- the sector, ship or unit a plane is taking off from if it is not owned
- by the owner of the plane.
- * Changed so that when a sector reverts during a guerrilla revolt, the
- mobility is not reset. When MOB_ACCESS is not enabled, this used to mean
- you would always get at least an updates worth of mobility. With
- MOB_ACCESS, sectors that reverted during the update were useless, since you
- got no mobility for a long time. This fixes that problem, and makes che
- more useful as well.
- * Changed so that air defense missions don't always send up every plane in the
- area, but instead always send up at most two times the number of incoming
- planes (for each interdicting country.) This helps to stop 1 plane from
- stripping the mobility from 25 air defense planes all at once, but doesn't
- limit it to n+1 as there is for regular interception.
- * Clarified deity reversion of sectors in Sector-ownership.t
- * Clarified production efficiency and added pointer to "show sector cap"
- in Product.t
- * Clarified nuketype selector for planes in Selector.t
- * Clarified that fortifying units does not affect mission status in info
- pages for mission and fortify.
- * Clarified fuel syntax upon error in fuel command in empmod.c.
- * Cleaned up comments causing minor complaints in some builds.
- * Fixed bug in loans where you could collect on proposed loans.
- * Fixed production command to be more accurate (though it *still* has some
- rounding errors, it's better.)
- * Fixed potential memory leak in air defense missions.
- * Fixed bug where you couldn't pinbomb some commodities if other commodities
- didn't already exist in the sector.
- * Fixed bug where you couldn't build 0 crew planes without military in the
- sector. (This is different from needing at least 1 military to build all
- planes that need a crew which introduced another related bug earlier.)
- * Fixed bug where scrapping land unit 0 could cause erroneous transfer
- messages to be displayed for deity owned planes.
- * Fixed bug where land units on ships in a sector taken over were blown
- up or captured.
- * Fixed bug where planes on ships in a sector taken over were blown up
- or captured.
- * Fixed bug in sdump printing origx and origy in deity coordinates.
- * Fixed bug in satellites showing wrong sectors (sometimes) when using the
- optional arguments.
- * Fixed bug in launch showing wrong satellite target (showed asat instead
- of the target satellite.)
- * Fixed bug where you could gain information not normally available using
- the "fire" command to determine sector type information.
- * Fixed bug in market/trade creating extra money when loans are taken out.
- * Fixed problem with land units not being reported sunk after being sunk
- on a ship that was nuked or wastelanded in a sector.
- * Fixed problem with Spies.t using "llook" instead of "llookout".
- * Fixed problem in lwp/arch.c including jmp_buf.h instead of setjmp.h
- on some Linux boxes.
- * Fixed problem with plague infection being way too high in cities when
- the BIG_CITY option is enabled.
- * Fixed bug in edit command getting confused with arguments.
- * Fixed bug in ask_move_in_off asking you to move in a negative number of
- troops (hey, it could happen. :) )
- * Fixed bug in add command not keeping flags or relations initially correct.
- * Fixed bug in torpedo command sometimes telling victim about torpedo
- sightings even when way out of range.
- * Fixed bug in spy command not reporting planes in adjacent sectors, as well
- as not formatting them properly when reporting them.
- * Fixed bug in satellite with noisy transmission causing a potential
- crash of the server with non-100% efficient satellites.
- * Fixed potential crashing of the server during satellite display when not
- calculating distances to ships and units correctly.
- * Fixed bug where planes in non-allied sectors, ships and units could be
- used on missions.
- * Fixed bug where planes on the trading block could be used on missions.
- * Fixed bug where planes and units that get traded don't have mobility set
- correctly when using MOB_ACCESS option.
- * Fixed bug which made security units virtually useless.
- * Fixed access times and mobility not being set right when building planes,
- ships, units, bridges and bridge towers when MOB_ACCESS is enabled.
- * Fixed minor formatting problem with launch of satellites.
- * Fixed minor formatting problem with planes with greater than 999 tech.
- * Fixed minor formatting problem with ships with greater than 999 tech.
- * Fixed problem with "llook" showing up in TOP info file.
- * Fixed problem with lwp Makefile choking on NT builds with clean target.
- * General cleanup of potentially ambiguous statements.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.6 - Fri Jun 4 05:55:20 PDT 1999
- * Added "TECH_POP" as an option where technology costs more to make
- as your population grows past 50K civilians. It is disabled by
- default.
- * Changed "produce" command to accurately print what the true p.e. is.
- * Changed "update" command to display if mobility updating is enabled for
- MOB_ACCESS option.
- * Fixed bug where toggling off the coastwatch flag also turned off
- forts firing on hostile ships coming into range.
- * Fixed bug where assaulting your own land would violate any treaties
- you have where assaults are a violation.
- * Fixed bug where all planes (even those without need for a crew, such
- as missiles) needed at least 1 military to build.
- * Fixed bug where when a ship sinks during the update due to lack of maint,
- land units and planes on it were left stranded.
- * Fixed bug where when a land unit dies during the update due to lack of
- maint, land units and planes on it were left stranded on it.
- * Fixed bug where nukes could be lost due to MOB_ACCESS updating mobility
- while arming.
- * Fixed bug in "show sector capabilities" not showing products correctly.
- * Fixed bug in "show tower build" printing "bridges" instead of "bridge
- towers".
- * 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.
- * Fixed bug in the way treaties are examined and sometimes produce
- wrong results.
- * Fixed edit to allow creating negative mobility for sectors.
- * Fixed setsector to allow creating negative mobility for sectors.
- * Fixed bug where when writing out the value of a sector that had
- negative mobility and was damaged in combat, mobility was being
- set back to 0.
- * Fixed Taxes.t info page to reflect that captured civvies only pay
- 1/4 taxes.
- * Fixed Technology.t info page to reflect TECH_POP option.
- * Fixed navigate.t info page to reflect that only ships in the fleet
- in the same sector that are fired upon have damage divided up.
- * Made techlists toggle on by default (so things are shown in order of
- technological advances.)
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.5 - Mon Mar 1 06:42:24 PST 1999
- * Added optimization to increasing mobility to check if an object is
- already at max mob, just return since it can't be increased.
- * Added "-ltermcap" for client libs for hp build (it was already in
- hpux build.)
- * Added clearing of telegram flags after the update so that the next
- telegram is flagged as new and not part of the update.
- * Fixed Update-sequence.t to reflect MOB_ACCESS.
- * Fixed bug where fortification amount was not being limited to
- maximum mobility for land units (land_mob_max).
- * Fixed bug where land unit fortification strength was being calculated
- by using 127 instead of land_mob_max.
- * Fixed bug where scrapping land units was creating military.
- * Fixed description of sect_mob_neg_factor in econfig file.
- * Increased speed of PT boats.
-
-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 doconfig not putting ipglob.c in the right place.
- * Fixed bug where attacking deity sectors will violate a treaty.
- * Fixed newspaper.t information file.
- * Fixed potential bug in fixing up timestamp information when restarting a
- game with MOB_ACCESS turned on.
- * 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
- restores of the data directory should be done.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.3 - Wed Jan 13 06:02:35 PST 1999
- * Added linux-pthreads target and build for using pthreads under Linux.
- * Added NO_FORT_FIRE option which disables the ability of forts to
- fire when enabled.
- * Added more error checking and recovery for corrupt data files.
- * Changed alphapos target to alpha-pthreads for better clarity.
- * Changed fairland to allow 0 sector distance to other islands and
- continents (James Risner)
- * Changed "frg" and "dam" land unit stats to "rng" and "fir" so they
- match the way ships are described (since this is how they really work.)
- * Changed Unit-types.t to now describe "rng" as firing range of a unit,
- and "fir" as the number of guns that a land unit fires.
- * Cleaned up misc. build warnings.
- * Changed artillery damage to be 5 + d6 per gun firing from just d6
- per gun firing and updated Damage.t to reflect this change.
- * Changed artillery firing ranges to be like ships ranges - divided
- by two, and modified them to make more sense.
- * Changed artillery units to be "slightly" :) more powerful.
- * Changed "cavalry" unit to tech 30 and lowered mil content to 20.
- * Changed "artillery" unit to tech 35.
- * Changed so that guns are no longer required to build units, and
- that guns must be loaded onto artillery units for them to fire.
- Client developers note: the show command has not changed yet to
- remove the 'guns' column (since guns are no longer required) but
- will in a future revision (possibly 4.2.4) so "be prepared" for
- "show land build" to change. :)
- * Fixed landunitgun to handle all the damage calculations like it should.
- * Fixed bug sinking planes when the ship they are on sinks.
- * Fixed bug destroying planes when the land unit they are on is destroyed.
- * Fixed bug where land units could fire support without enough military.
- * Fixed bug in abandoning sectors by marching out a land unit where it
- would not let you sometimes (uninitialized variable problem.)
- * Fixed gets problem in files.c (James Risner)
- * Fixed bug in determinig operations range of a ship.
- * Fixed bug in building planes where you could manufacture military.
- * Fixed warnings in threading package(s).
- * Fixed fire.t to reflect new firing changes.
- * Fixed lstat.t to reflect new firing changes.
- * Fixed sstat.t to reflect the way things really work.
- * Fixed Ship-types.t to reflect the way things really work.
- * Fixed the way shutdowns work to hopefully better protect data files.
- * Fixed bug in attacking when sector mobility is less than 0 and it would
- prompt for attacking with a negative amount of military.
- * Fixed typo in fire.t stating wrong parameters for firing from a sector.
- * Fixed bug in client when it prompts for country name it was putting
- an extraneous end of line on the end that needed to be stripped off.
- * Fixed problems running on Linux running on an Alpha machine. Thanks
- to Rocky Mountain Internet and Jeremy A. Cunningham for giving us time
- on a machine to work out the bugs. (Note that the only build that
- works on Linux/Alpha is the linux-pthreads)
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.2 - Sun Dec 27 12:46:34 PST 1998
- * Added some code optimizations into the update code when building paths.
- * Added some new cacheing for building paths to help speed up updates.
- * Added so that you can use "name" and "password" with the change command
- as well as "country" and "representative".
- * Added flag to power command so that if you are a deity and enter
- a negative number of countries you want to see, you see the power chart
- for that many countries without power numbers on the next line. Only
- useful for deities that want to see the chart un-broken up by that line.
- * Added new functionality to fortify command. You can now use a negative
- fortification value to cause the unit to be fortified and leave at
- least that much mobility on the unit. I.E. "fort * -67" will fortify
- all units and make sure the mobility of each unit doesn't go below
- 67. If the mobility is already below that level (or equal) the unit
- is left unchanged.
- * Added that the realm command prints "Realm #n is x:x,y:y" after
- you set a new realm.
- * Added TREATIES option and enabled it by default.
- * Added "no depth-charging subs" and "no new land units" treaty
- clauses.
- * Added Trannie Carter's basic client fix to use fgets instead of gets.
- * Changed market and command to only print the lowest priced lot of
- each given commodity by default. If you specify "all" it shows
- all lots on the market, and if you specify a specific item, it shows
- all lots of that item type.
- * Changed start command to only write out sector if it changed.
- * Changed stop command to only write out sector if it changed.
- * Changed how plane names were changed on server startup if the
- PLANENAMES option was enabled.
- * Changed move command to use standard askyn function for abandoning
- sector prompt.
- * Changed plane overlight sightings to take stealth into account,
- and if the planes managed to evade all flak and interceptors, they
- are not marked as "spotted" over enemy sectors.
- * Changed all units with the supply flag to have their marching speeds
- based on efficiency since that is their purpose. What this means is
- that supply units and trains are more effective at 100% than at 10%
- (just as fighting units are more effective at 100% than at 10%, but
- their effectiveness is determined by how well they fight, not how well
- they "run away, run away!" :) )
- * Changed so that flash toggle is on by default for POGO at setup
- time.
- * Changed so that when a sector is taken, all land units owned by the
- current owner are treated as planes are during takeovers (i.e. there
- is a pretty good chance they are blown up, and if not, they change owner
- to the attacker and are beat up pretty good.)
- * Fixed treaties to work again.
- * Fixed bug in taking over land units not using correct pointer (can
- cause a crash or data corruption.)
- * Fixed collect command to wipe deliver and distribution information
- correctly.
- * Fixed potential bug in bmap not working when destination bmap has
- blank spaces in it.
- * Fixed bug in shark command not getting right nation structure.
- * Fixed bug in server where empty commands (for example, all spaces
- or tabs) were being reported as bogus commands. They are now just
- ignored.
- * Fixed bug in scrap not dropping land units off of scrapped units carrying
- them.
- * Fixed bug in news where boarding of land units was reported backwards.
- * Fixed bug in calculating new people when growing them during an update.
- * Fixed missing -ltermcap in HP/UX build.
- * Fixed setsector to limit mobility to 127 not 255 (255 was being caught
- later and being reset to 0 anyway)
- * Fixed Sector-types.t to show a '\' instead of a '/' for wasteland,
- since that is what it really is.
- * Fixed retreat.t documentation to reflect the "retreat upon failed
- boarding" flag.
- * 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
- 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
- a very skinny island as long as they were in range, even if there was
- no sea route possible.
- * Fixed bug when pinbombing and you run out of an object to pinbomb (land
- units for example) but you still have to pick something to bomb. For
- ships it worked ok (just aborted that it couldn't find any more ships)
- and this was fixed for land units and planes.
- * Fixed server crashing bug when flying a plane and not carrying
- any cargo.
- * Fixed bug in move losing commodities when it runs out of room in the
- 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
- marching out the last land unit.
- * 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.
- * Fixed bug in displaying of land unit missions not showing correct land
- unit range.
- * Fixed bug in wire command where new announcements that you read at
- the last second don't get wiped out properly.
- * Fixed bug where announcement file could be corrupted by very long lines.
- * Fixed bug where bmap was not set when player was told what kind of
- sector they were attacking (this was an old abusable bug that was
- removed long ago to fix the abuse, and it's been fixed in a non-abusable
- way finally.)
- * Fixed bug where change command would warn you about monetary and
- BTU costs, but not prompt you to break out if you didn't want to really
- change your country name.
- * Fixed bug in sub-launched nukes that are intercepted being reported in
- the news incorrectly.
- * Fixed bug in load where you could abandon a sector and not know it by
- loading your last civilians or military onto a ship.
- * Fixed potential memory leak in autonav code.
- * Fixed potential bug where you could possibly determine if a sector is
- owned or not using one way plane missions.
- * Fixed Damage.t info page to properly show damages for planes and
- land unit shelling.
- * Fixed deliver.t to include syntax for command.
- * Fixed country.t to include syntax for command.
- * Fixed bug where ships on orders were not adding radar information to
- the bmap during an update.
- * Fixed bug where ships on sail were not adding radar information to
- the bmap during an update.
- * Fixed bestownedpath code to use the bmap properly. Note this is a very
- important bug fix. When navigating a ship, players are no longer given
- free information that they would not normally know. For example, if you
- try sailing your ship off into uncharted areas of your bmap, the bestpath
- code will only use as much information as you have on-hand (i.e. your
- bmap) to plan out your path for you. If you have no information on an
- area, it just keeps forging on, until bumping into something. Of course,
- after the initial exploration through an area, the bmap will be set and
- used for all future sailings through that area. Harbors and bridges
- are still checked for construction worthiness if you know where they
- are (i.e. they are on your bmap.) (Overall, what happened before
- was that the bestpath code would route your ship around islands that
- you didn't even know were there, and you could use various commands
- to see how that ship was going to sail during the update and thus you
- 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,
- 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,
- and RECON was never used before.)
- * Removed extraneous "resnoise" and "resbenefit" functions and combined
- the two for setresource and setsector commands.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.2.1 - Tue Nov 3 12:56:20 PST 1998
- * Fixed problem with global/plane.c not defining last structure element
- properly, and thus causing crashes when accessing certain plane
- routines. This happened during the move to make the PLANENAMES option
- run-time configurable.
-
-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
- the GNU GPL.)
- * Put in official licensing information.
- * Re-arranged and commented the econfig (Empire Configuration) file. The
- auto-generated "data/econfig" file is now pumped out chock full of
- comments (which may or may not be useful.) Since the server is
- pretty much fully run-time configurable (MAXNOC is not, but it gets
- a default of 99 anyway) deities will probably be spending more time
- in the config file.
- * Added server support for building under NT, including mods from
- Doug Hay and Steve McClure to get the server building and running
- under NT. (This was built using MSVC++ 5.0 on NT 4.0 and command
- line "nmake nt")
- * Added Doug Hay's ntthread.c implementation for NT threading.
- * Added max pop column to "show sector stats" output.
- * Added lboard command for boarding land units from sectors. Only raw
- mil can board land units, and only mil and land units aboard the unit
- being boarded fight back.
- * Added GODNEWS option. When enabled, the deity giving people stuff
- is shown in the news.
- * Added bridge tower sector ('@')
- * Added BRIDGETOWERS option. When enabled you can build bridge towers
- from a bridge span. You can then build bridge spans from the tower.
- If the tower is destroyed ( <20% eff) bridges connected fall unless
- supported on the other side. You can only build bridge towers in open
- water not adjacent to land and other towers. Expensive.
- * Added plains sector ('~') - Max pop is 1/40th regular sectors, and
- it is deity creatable only (can't redesignate unless you wasteland it
- with a nuke :) )
- * Changed "info all" to no longer use printdir, instead it just uses the "all"
- info page which contains this information.
- * Changed so you can now load up to 2 spy units onto non-land unit carrying
- submarines if the LANDSPIES option is enabled. Useful for sneaking up
- to shore and spying on your neighbors.
- * Changed so spies unloaded from ships are not given as gifts, they are just
- unloaded quietly.
- * Changed build command to handle building towers ("build t")
- * Changed show command to show tower stats ("show t b")
- * Changed reject so you can now reject things from any country except
- deity countries (this now includes sanctuary countries and visitor
- countries you don't want to deal with)
- * Changed ndump to dump nuclear stockpile ID as well.
- * Changed flash so that if someone allied to you is either not logged on or
- not accepting flashes, you are notified. This is info you could gain
- otherwise since you can see other countries that are allied to you via
- players.
- * Fixed bug in news command when HIDDEN mods are enabled.
- * Fixed distribute command to only write out to the database if we
- actually changed the sector (i.e. if we really moved the dist
- center, we write. Otherwise, it makes no point.)
- * Fixed threshold command to only write out to the database if
- we actually changed the sector (i.e. if we really changed the
- threshold, we write. Otherwise, it makes no point.)
- * Fixed - population growth and truncation in "Update-sequence.t" info
- file is now clearer
- * Fixed the way fortify takes mobility away from a land unit if
- engineers are present.
- * Fixed bug in buying commodities at the last minute not resetting the
- time correctly in all situations.
- * Fixed bug in building nukes where it would always ask if you tried
- building more than one at a time.
- * Fixed bug where if you put (either by building or by transporting)
- more than 127 of one type of nuke in a sector, they all got lost. A
- negative wrapover sort of thing.
- * Fixed ndump to print # of stockpiles dumped.
- * Fixed ndump.t to reflect changes
- * Fixed bug in build command that didn't account for EOL characters.
- * Fixed bug where you could use planes to drop conquered populace
- * Fixed bug in distribute command in how it checked for current distribution
- sector.
- * Fixed pr_flash and pr_inform to no longer send messages if the player
- is still in the process of logging in (i.e. not in the PLAYING state)
- * Fixed report command output for deities.
- * Fixed bug in nuclear damage either taking out submarines when it
- shouldn't, or not taking them out when it should.
- * Fixed bug in loading units that are carrying units onto other units
- (note that it doesn't happen since only HEAVY units can carry other
- units and that check works, but that might change some day, and we
- don't want units carrying units to be carried by other units, etc. :) )
- * Fixed info pages to reflect new sector types.
- * Fixed info pages to reflect new spy unit capabilities.
- * Fixed show commands to only show trade ships if the TRADESHIPS option
- is enabled.
- * Fixed build command to only allow building of trade ships if the
- TRADESHIPS options is enabled.
- * Fixed up some definitions located in many places used for checking
- sectors for navigation rights.
- * Fixed power.t to correctly describe NEW_POWER formula.
- * Made HIDDEN option run time configurable.
- * Made LOSE_CONTACT option run time configurable.
- * Made ORBIT option run time configurable.
- * Made SAIL option run time configurable.
- * Made MOB_ACCESS option run time configurable.
- * Made FALLOUT option run time configurable.
- * Made SLOW_WAR option run time configurable.
- * Made SNEAK_ATTACK option run time configurable.
- * Made WORLD_X and WORLD_Y run time configurable.
- * Made MARKET option run time configurable.
- * Made LOANS option run time configurable.
- * Made BIG_CITY option run time configurable.
- * Made TRADESHIPS option run time configurable.
- * Made SHIPNAMES option run time configurable.
- * Made DEMANDUPDATE option run time configurable.
- * Made UPDATESCHED option run time configurable.
- * Made LANDSPIES option run time configurable.
- * Made NONUKES option run time configurable.
- * Made PLANENAMES option run time configurable.
- * Removed SMALL_SERVER stuff (unused baggage)
- * Removed trading post sector ('v')
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.18 - Thu Sep 24 06:54:27 PDT 1998
- * Fixed bug in aircombat where planes in flight could intercept air
- defense planes and take no damage (i.e. they got to fight twice,
- once for free.)
- * Fixed bug in freeing memory after performing missions that could crash
- the server (it mainly happened after an interdiction mission using
- planes and escorts, where some escorts came from airports that didn't have
- bombers going up. Freeing the leftover escorts was crashing the server.)
- * Fixed bug where you could load non-existant units if you were allied
- with country #0.
- * Fixed bug where you could pin-bomb a plane with itself.
- * Fixed bug where satellites over a bridge may get killed if the bridge
- is sunk.
- * Fixed bug where land units on a ship in the same sector as a bridge
- that is splashed may get sunk.
- * Fixed bug where planes on a ship in the same sector as a bridge
- that is splashed may get sunk.
- * Fixed doconfig with correct empire site text.
- * Fixed major problem with abms not firing, and sometimes crashing
- server.
- * Fixed bug in land units counting up loaded units wrong.
- * Fixed doconfig makefile to have doconfig.c as a dependency.
- * Fixed bug in resetting commodities (the comm_uid was not being
- properly set.)
- * Fixed bug in repaying loans not working correctly (the l_uid was not
- being properly set.)
- * Fixed bug in buying items from the trading block not allowing you
- to due to a perceived change in item status.
- * Fixed bug in mfir.c where a bogus input to a target could crash
- the server.
- * Fixed bug that after you read telegrams new telegrams may not send
- an inform message (the old telegram flags were not cleared.)
- * Fixed bug where fort support distance calculations are calculated
- twice instead of just once. This bug caused a lower percentage
- of support fire than designed.
- * Fixed bomb.t to reflect land unit changes.
- * Put in some integrity checking for planes returing from bombing runs.
- * Added ability to edit land unit that a land unit is loaded on in
- edit command.
- * Consolidated bridgefall code into "knockdown" function (this code
- existed in at least 3 places, and was different in all of them.)
- * Subs returning fire are no longer reported in the news.
- * Visitor countries can now use the 'motd' command.
- * When trying to use a visitor country, if it is in use, you are not told
- by whom, just that it is in use.
- * Optimized (slightly) support fire from forts not getting supply and
- shells if not needed (out of range)
- * Updated Education.t
- * Modified (increased) chances of hitting mines slightly.
- * Removed unused variables from shp_check_mines.
-
-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.
- * Added ability for "spy" to report all units/planes not owned by you
- that exist in the sector you are spying from.
- * Modified naval planes and anti-sub planes.
- * Changed so that missiles and bombs that miss their targets cause
- collateral damage in the target sector (they have to land somewhere!)
- * Changed llook so that non-spy units are required to have at least 1
- military personnel on board to see anything.
- * Fixed "llookout.t" to reflect change for military requirement.
- * Updated Plague.t
- * Updated upgrade.t
- * Added "lmine" flag for deities to see what sectors have mines in them
- (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
- a mission.
- * Firing land units are required to have at least on military loaded to
- be able to fire (or return fire.)
- * Spies are not always seen when being pinbombed. You have to look very
- carefully for them (as you usually would.)
- * Fixed typo in "Spies.t"
- * Added new info about spy ability to spy.t.
- * Updated tax information in Innards.t and Update-sequence.t
- * Fixed typo in fire.t information about units firing on ships.
- * Loading military onto land units now resets fortification. (You gotta
- re-fortify the new guys.)
- * Fixed bug where planes that were mine capable could not drop mines if
- 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
- sectors.
- * Fixed bug where interdicted land units that were missed displayed
- a "SPLASH! Bombs miss your ships" message.
- * Fixed bug in minesweeping sectors where, even with mobility or
- having the sweep ability, ships would get hit by mines for doing
- nothing.
- * Fixed bug in count_land_planes always writing out land units unnecessarily.
- * Fixed bug in count_planes always writing out ships unnecessarily.
- * Fixed bug in lnd_count_units always writing out land units unnecessarily.
- * Fixed bug in count_units always writing out ships unnecessarily.
- * Fixed bug in llook that reported units on ships.
- * Fixed bug in llook that reported satellites launched over the unit.
- * Fixed bug in llook that always reported spies (it should be a 10-100%
- chance)
- * Fixed bug in anti possibly not saving lost items correctly.
- * Fixed bug in planes getting extended range when on missions and the
- op center is not where the plane is located.
- * Fixed bug in land unit defensive strength not being based on the eff of
- the unit when calculating odds of a battle.
- * Fixed bug in board not reporting consistant information.
- * Fixed bug in the way land unit casualties were being taken.
- * Fixed bug where land units on ships could return fire.
- * Fixed bug where land units on other land units could return fire.
- * Fixed bug where land units on other land units could fire.
- * Fixed bug in attacks/assaults/boardings spreading plague incorrectly.
- * Fixed bug in updating plague for ships.
- * Fixed bug in updating plague for land units.
- * Fixed bug in updating plague for attacking/defending land units.
- * Fixed bug where you couldn't pin-bomb land units that were < 20% eff.
- * Fixed bug which revealed the owner of torping subs when on a mission.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.16 - Fri Jun 12 08:52:06 EDT 1998
- * Added patches sent in by Steve McClure, Sverker Wiberg and Curtis
- Larsen. They are described with other changes below.
- * Fixed bugs in the following commands that allowed two cooperating
- countries to create infinite numbers of any commodity and/or cash
- at any time (race conditions in the server): build, board, deliver,
- designate, distribute, explore, fuel, improve, load, ltend, mobquota,
- move, name, order, reset, sail, sell, set, tend, territory, test,
- threshold, torpedo, transport, unload
- * Fixed bug in board command giving out too much information about a
- non-owned sector when it shouldn't be.
- * Fixed bug in board command when firing on a sector in defense before
- checking mobility.
- * Fixed bug in rangeedit allowing plane(s) to possibly be stored wrong.
- * Fixed bug in launch allowing plane to possibly be stored wrong after
- launch.
- * Fixed bug in lrangeedit allowing land unit(s) to possibly be stored wrong.
- * Fixed bug in morale allowing land unit(s) to possibly be stored wrong.
- * Fixed bug in arm/disarm allowing a plane to possibly be stored wrong.
- * Fixed bug in loan sometimes not writing database correctly.
- * Fixed bug in collect.
- * Fixed bug in dropping mines from land units.
- * Fixed crashing bug in sector_strength routine when oceans take
- collateral damage.
- * Fixed bug in transport possibly decrementing too much mobility when
- moving a nuke.
- * Fixed some little warning type messages building with gcc -Wall.
- * Fixed problem compiling lwp threads with glibc6 under Linux.
- * Changed flash so that players can always flash deities.
- * Changed players command to always show deities and visitor countries
- that are logged on, and only show allied countries for normal player
- countries.
- * Fixed bug in anti command not stopping sectors when they revolt.
- * Fixed bug in set_coastal function not counting bridge spans as
- water based sectors (after all, the land is still a coastal sector,
- even if next to a bridge span.)
- * "flash" and "players" is re-enabled for visitor accounts.
- * Fixed bug in bleeding of technology and research to other players.
- * Fixed bug in explore not spreading plague correctly.
- * Fixed bug in move not spreading plague correctly.
- * Fixed bug in deliver not spreading plague correctly.
- * Fixed bug in distribute not spreading plague.
- * Included "postresults" script in the scripts directory which can be
- used to auto-post daily power chart/announcements to rec.games.empire.
- * Updated Plague.t
- * Updated Innards.t
- * Removed OVCONFIG from build.conf, and patched doconfig to match.
- * doconfig is only run if needed
- * emp_client and emp_server are only linked if needed
- * Added list of disabled options to the version command.
- * Fixed bug in survey allowing you to see hidden variables.
- * Re-enabled escort missions due to above bug fix most likely the problem.
- * Changed one instance of "restrict" to "restricted" in bestpath.c. For
- some reason, this was causing a problem on one of the Linux builds (??).
- * Added "show sector capabilities" functionality (this didn't exist
- before.)
- * Fixed bug in neweff not reporting stopped sectors. It now (correctly)
- reports them as not changing eff.
-
-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.
- * Added 'mipsultrix.gxx' build target.
- * Fixed doconfig to write ipglob.c in the correct target area.
- * Fixed a bunch of type casting that needed to be done correctly.
- * Only print out last connect by for non-visitor accounts.
- * 'players' command is only useable by non-visitor accounts.
- * Fixed ask_off in attsub.c to not print out allied sector mil counts
- when attacking from neighboring sectors.
- * Fixed targetting of che when taking over sectors.
- * 'anti' command only fights che that are targetted at you.
- * Fixed update not updating timestamps of objects (ships, planes, land
- units, sectors.)
- * Fixed bug delivering conquered populace.
- * Fixed potential bug scuttling ship with land units on it.
- * Moved heavy bombers to tech 90.
- * Fixed bug in setsector telling the deity coordinates of sectors being
- granted/taken away.
- * Fixed bug in setting budget of enlistment sectors to 0.
-
-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
- * Replaced vaxultrix build flags with proper vanilla ones.
- * Fixed bug in update/prepare.c (sometimes not getting charged for
- mil on units and ships)
- * 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.
- * 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
- that has a bridge collapse are being sunk.
- * Fixed bug in update/produce.c when a sector overflows it's capacity
- on production.
- * 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.
-
-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
- it used to so that the players command is useful for deities
- again)
- * 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.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.12 - Tue Feb 24 11:27:31 EST 1998
- * Fixed client build on linux (whoops)
-
-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.
- * Took out autosupply of airports when bombing or dropping shells.
- (This was the only commodity this was done for, and it was creating
- problems since supply is still somewhat broken somewhere)
- * Included Curtis Larsen's, Markus Armbruster's and Sverker Wiberg's
- submitted patches, which collectively included cleaning up most
- of the server prototypes and bogus declarations. Many thanks.
- * Increased incoming command buffer to 1024 from 512 bytes
- * Increased the # of parsed arguments from 64 to 100
- * 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)
-
-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.
- * Fixed but in market when buying goods without enough cash.
- * Planes in orbit over airports are no longer fixed up during updates.
- * Planes in orbit are no longer damaged when the sectors they are over
- are damaged.
- * Planes on ships are no longer damaged when the sectors they are in are
- damaged, unless the ship is damaged.
- * Fixed problem with no newline after partisan activity telegram in
- anti.c
- * Fixed problem in chan.c printing out change costs incorrectly.
- * Fixed problem in dispatch.c screwing things up on redirection.
- * financial should now handle 6 and 7 digit loans.
- * Planes on ships that are in sectors that revolt are no longer taken
- over.
- * Fixed bug in powe.c where the power report was mis-calculating the
- efficiency of planes.
- * Fixed doconfig.c to use STDC instead of multi-level #ifdefs.
- * Fixed bug in parse.c that was screwing up double quotes in conditional
- arguments.
- * Military in a sector now only produce up to maxpop, just like civvies
- and uw's. No more stuffing 6K mil into a mountain to max it out. You
- can still hold more mil there over the updates, but the extras just
- won't produce anymore.
- * Fixed bug in shark that allowed you to shark up loans even if you couldn't
- cover the debt.
- * Fixed bug in day of week calculation for server up time in common/keyword.c
- that is used for gamedays.
- * Documented what happens to standing military in collect.t when you collect
- 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
- ambiguous.
- * Updated nukes in nuke.t
- * Added apropos command (thanks to Mike Wise)
- * Added case-insensitivity to the info command (thanks to Mike Wise). If
- 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
-
-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.
- * Fixed bug in allied planes/units not moving when the carriers move.
- * Fixed bug in satellite output for <100% satellites.
- * Fixed bug in load/unload not putting a newline after some unloadings
- in allied sectors.
- * Fixed bug in harden not printing correct values.
- * Fixed bug in creating/moving/etc. nuclear stockpiles.
- * Fixed bug where subs were trying to torp commodities moving on land when
- on interdiction. (This was funny ;-) )
- * Fixed bug in "move" where you could keep a sector even after someone else
- took it from you.
- * Budget now correctly reports the # of units being built.
- * Mil on units & ships are now reported as normal military costs, not
- ship or unit maintainence costs in budget.
- * Fixed bug in update code where taxes could potentially be initialized
- incorrectly (affected budgets too.)
- * Fixed bug in nat.h header so that it uses SCT_MAXDEF instead of a fixed
- number (that was incorrect.)
- * Fixed bug with trains - they needed the xlight flag to carry planes.
- * Revamped and improved flak.
- * Added "Flak" info page.
- * Added "Fallout" info page.
- * Fixed repay/offer/consider to all need a capital to be used.
- * Fixed bug with air defense missions not running when not AT WAR. They now
- fly when HOSTILE.
- * plane/ship/unit short names are all now 4 characters, padded if needed.
- * pdump/sdump/ldump/ndump now just print the short name for the type.
- * sdump now has ship name at very end in quotes.
- These were done at the request of some client developers for ease of use.
- * Fixed extra space in the dump output.
- * Fixed fallout - not quite so nasty anymore.
- * Fixed fallout - things on ships/units are damaged now.
- * Fixed and balanced planes/ships/units/nukes in conjunction with each other.
- * Fixed bug in doconfig.c calculating wrong s_p_etu sometimes.
- * Fixed bug where harbors weren't being used to resupply.
- * Fixed bug where selling units loaded with planes and units wouldn't take
- the loaded planes or units - they are now dropped.
- * Fixed bug in arm/disarm where you could arm/disarm planes on the trading
- block.
- * Deities can now remove things from the trading block/market.
- * Fixed bug in "work" not charging engineers enough mob.
- * Fixed bug in "work" not adding teardown and buildup avail costs together.
- * Subs no longer need mobility to return fire when fired upon.
- * Fixed "reset".
- * Fixed bug in "trade" allowing 2 players to pay for the same item, but only
- the last player gets it.
- * Fixed bug where you couldn't launch missiles from allied ships or sectors.
- * Fixed bombing so that pin-bombing can cause collateral damage too.
- * Fixed sector damage to damage planes there too.
- * Fixed flag in lload so that it doesn't always print if not needed.
- * Fixed "sell.t" info page.
- * Fixed bug in "buy" where not entering the price correctly could cause
- a crash.
- * Fixed "sell" so that at least 1 mobility is required to sell goods. Keeps
- the midnight "raid and sell" abuse down. :)
- * Fixed "show plane cap" to move the last column over 1 more where it should
- be.
- * Fixed timestamps to be updated for units/planes on ships/units that move,
- since those units/planes move too.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.8 - Wed Feb 26 23:00:51 EST 1997
- * Fixed bug in nstr_exec that was wiping out the previous conditional.
- 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.
-
-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...
- * Fort sector's coordinates are no longer printed when auto-firing at
- ships.
- * Subs can now surface and fire deck guns (again) They can also be
- hit by return fire when doing so.
- * Fixed bug in setting of plane attack and defensive values so that
- negative numbers don't keep going further negative.
- * Fixed incorrect military control calculation in the sell command.
- * Trading posts are no longer required to sell goods from. You can sell
- from harbors and warehouses now too.
- * Spy now prints out the owner of land units you see when spying. Before
- this was assumed to be sector owner, which is no longer true.
- * Loading land units now prints out what was loaded onto each unit,
- just as loading ships do.
- * Added fallout, coast, c_del, m_del, c_cut and m_cut to dump output.
- * Added "GO_RENEW" option. This option means that gold and oil resources
- are renewable.
- * Added "lost_items_timeout" config variable, and set the default to
- 48 hours. This determines how long lost items stay in the lost items
- database.
- * Fixed land unit names to be more consistent.
- * Fixed mission.t info page.
- * Fixed bug in that if mission_mob_cost was set to 0, even negative
- mob units should be able to be put on missions.
- * Removed restriction on things needing to be at least 60% to be put
- on a mission. Note that while you can put them on missions at < 60%
- now, when trying to do the mission, it still checks the eff. This
- is to help in automatic setup (build, put on mission, forget) instead
- of having to come back repeatedly.
- * 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
- 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 bug in trade that wasn't incrementing the time if last second bidding.
- * Fixed bug in "lmine" that was crashing the server if the land unit was
- out of mobility.
- * Fixed buy so that if you specify a product, you can only bid on that
- type of product.
- * Added "lost.t" info page.
- * Added "lost items" database (EF_LOST)
- * Fixed bug where you could move in allied forces after an attack if they
- bordered the victim area.
- * Fixed nstr_comp to deal with values > 16 bits coming in from
- client for comparisons.
- * Changed last minute market/trade timers to increment 5 minutes. 2 minutes
- was too quick.
- * Fixed decode in lib/common/nstr_subs.c to deal with NSC_TIME better.
- * Commented out the logging of the market checking in server/marketup.c,
- lib/commands/buy.c and lib/commands/trad.c It was generating lots of
- pretty much useless data that made parsing the server.log file more
- more difficult than it needed to be.
- * Fixed crashing bug in ldump.
- * sdump, ldump, ndump, pdump and dump now print out the current
- timestamp on the "DUMP XXX" line.
- * Fixed denial of service bug in lib/player/accept.c in
- player_find_other function.
- * Fixed bug in shark reporting incorrect buyer of the loan.
- * Fixed bug in sdump.c (case 0 should have been case 10)
- * ldump and sdump now always print the fuel column if asked for,
- even if opt_FUEL is turned off. In the case that it is turned
- off, the fuel is listed as 0.
- * Added "timestamp" field, which is updated every time an item is
- changed.
- * Fixed up the Clients.t info page.
- * sdump now prints trade ship building origin.
- * sdump now always prints name even if SHIPNAMES isn't defined. If
- it is not defined, then the name is empty.
- * Added "timestamp" to info/Concepts/Selector.t
- * Added some more relevant info to info/Server/Empire4.t
- * Fixed Infrastructure.t info page to reflect the fact that infrastructure
- is no longer torn down when a sector is re-designated.
- * Fixed sell.t to more accurately reflect the time-delay market.
- * Fixed read.t and wire.t to reference accept and reject.
- * Fixed reject.t not referencing accept command.
- * Fixed collect.t to more accurately reflect what goes on when collecting
- sectors.
- * Fixed financial.t to reflect defaulted loans.
- * Fixed dump.t, sdump.t, ldump.t, ndump.t, pdump.t to reflect new
- timestamp info.
- * Fixed "census.t" (had incorrect reference to "info syntax" instead
- of "info Syntax".
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.6 - Thu Jan 16 11:33 EST 1997
- * Increased damage from depthcharges because on increased damage from
- torpedos. Sub frange decreased to be more balanced with destroyer frange.
- * Intelligence reports (spy) on units will now report the estimated number
- of mil on the unit.
- * Fixed equation for ship visibility so it will drop as tech increases.
- * Added new commands sdump, ldump, pdump, and ndump to dump data on ships,
- land units, planes, and nukes.
- * If fields are provided, dump will only supply those fields requested.
- * Decreased speed of subs.
- * When options NO_LCMS or NO_HCMS are set, those commodities are no longer
- required for infrastructure improvements.
- * Units that lose an assault or a boarding attempt from a ship will no
- longer swim back to the ship they came from.
- * Units that take extra casualties will no longer lose all their mil at
- once.
- * Infrastucture is retained when redesignating a sector.
- * Dieing spies will no longer crash the server.
- * Units, planes, and ships must have mobility to perform missions.
- * Units on ship being scrapped are transferred to harbor.
- * Food is no longer autoloaded onto units when they are built.
- * Fixed show plane stat to show correct range.
- * Infantries now take damage at same rate as casualties.
- * Fixed bug with hap_fact. Having more happiness now helps with fighting
- che.
- * Fixed anti to write back target country so che will continue to fight
- when they survive.
- * Fixed llookout to show correct estimate on number of mil on unit.
- * Added buildable architecture "hp". This type will build the server on
- a HP/UX machine using the standard compiler instead of gcc.
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.5 - Thu Dec 12 10:28:48 EST 1996
- * Fixed bug in update/distribute.c where pathcost was not being called with
- the MOB_ROAD argument (and thus distribution costs could be GREATLY
- affected.) - Thanks Ice!
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.4 - Mon Dec 9 11:00:00 EST 1996
- * Fixed Solaris port using gcc.
- * Fixed doconfig.c to create directories with right modes.
- * Fixed install macros in makefiles to move binaries to the right
- places.
-
-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 improve.c (moved the prompt[] string outside the fcn.)
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.2 - Mon Oct 14 12:26:40 EDT 1996
- * Put in LND_MINMOBCOST in land.h
- * Put in change in lnd_mobcost in lndsub.c
- * Put in new nuke costs in nuke.c
- * Put in fix so that total work can only be done by the max pop. No more extra
- civvies tossed in will do it anymore in human.c.
- * Put in fix for src/util/Makefile - beefed it up.
- * Put in fix to show where your ship is when it gets shelled in mfir.c.
- * Changed infrastructure of roads from .040 to .020 (122 instead of 150 in
- common/move.c)
- * Fixed Update-sequence.t.
- * Put in fix for mobcost bonus for 0% highways.
- * Fixed stop.t
- * Fixed commodity.t
- * Spruced up torpedo damage somewhat. :) :)
- * Fixed "assault bmap bug" in attsub.c
- * Fixed Produce.t (bars cost)
- * Changed mountains to get an automatic "2" for defensive bonus in attsub.c
- * Fixed consider.t
- * Fixed repay.t
- * Fixed offer.t
- * Fixed "offer" and "consider" not being legal commands in player/empmod.c
- * Fixed Damage.t
- * Fixed sstat.t
- * Fixed lstat.c, pstat.c and sstat.c
- * Fixed cutoff command in cuto.c
- * 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.
- * Fixed update/deliver.c - no delivery of non-oldowned civvies (or anything
- else for that matter.)
- * Fixed llook in commands/look.c
- * Fixed che bug in subs/nstr.c
- * Fixed bug in strv.c by overcompensating by 1 food per sector (minute amounts
- of people would starve.)
- * Fixed update/human.c - feed_people rounding problems (I hope.)
- * Fixed morale problem in update/land.c
- * Fixed count_bodies in attsub.c
- * Fixed lnd_mobcost.
- * Fixed subs/land,plane,ship.c to handle sunken units and planes correctly.
- * Fixed interest rate in commands/offe.c
- * Fixed bug in buy.c.
- * Put in DEFENSE_INFRA soption o you can turn on/off the use of the defensive
- infrastructure. When off, the defensive infrastructure is the same
- as the sector efficiency, and you can't improve it. This is OFF by
- default.
- * Fixed Empire4.t
- * Added Wolfpack.t
- * Land units are now built with a default reaction radius of 0.
- * Changed name of lt artilleries to "lat" from "lart" so you can now build
- "lar"s again.
- * Lowered the speed and firing range of pt boats.
- * Lowered the initial att strength of cavs from 1.5 to 1.3 (they were TOO
- powerful.)
- * Changed the max mob gain defaults of units/planes to 1.0 and ships to 1.5
- (This is * ETU_RATE, so it is equal to ETU_RATE for units/planes and
- 1.5 * ETU_RATE for ships.)
- * Conquered civvies only pay 1/4 taxes.
- * Railways don't get torn down when you rebuild sectors anymore (but roads
- and defenses do (if enabled.)
-
-Changes to Empire 4.0.1 - Wed Aug 28 11:35:40 EDT 1996
- * Added "extern double tradetax" to check_trade in trad.c
- * Improved description of data directory in build.conf
- * Fixed bug in attacking land units that retreat so they now get
- charged mobility for attacking.
- * Fixed dump to report road, rail and defense of a sector at the end.
- * Fixed doconfig bug in not checking the right directory to see if the
- "data" directory existed or not before trying to create it.
- * "change" now works for sanctuary countries.
- * Fixed the description of "sinfrastructure".
- * Added more info to "Infrastructure".
- * Units/planes are no longer reduced to 75% when bought from the trading
- block.
- * Supply units were slowed down to the speed of infantry units.
- * Trade-ship payoffs have been lowered to 2.5, 3.5 and 5.0
- * Bars interest is up to $250 per 1K again.
- * Civ taxes were raised back up to a 10:1 mil/civ tax ratio (was 20:1)
- * Fixed various info pages.
- * Fixed bug in people not getting truncated when broke (this was thought
- to be fixed, but wasn't. Now it is, dammit!)
- * Fixed bug with units marching across oceans (scuba gear not included. ;-) )
- * Market/trade taxes and trade ship payoff figures were added to version.
- * "cede" has been removed as a default command.
- * Makefile rule was fixed for depend build.
- * Fixed bug in mapdist not taking world edges into account nicely enough.
- * Added a "scuttle" order for autoscuttling trade ships. Makes using them
- easier. Cleaned up scuttle code while in there.
- * Fixed bug with scuttling a ship with units on it not scuttling the units
- too.
-
-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
- build for a specific architecture. Thus, no more reliance on gnumake
- or special shell scripts.
- * We are now shipping the pre-built info pages with the server for those who
- Don't want to build them. You can also still just type "make" and have
- the info pages build, but it doesn't completely work (i.e. rebuild new
- Subjects) if you don't have perl5 installed.
- * Put in the "help" command that does the same thing as "info".
- * Removed C_SYNC. This is done for 2 reasons. 1) None of us like it or
- wish to support it. 2) We envision a better scheme for doing similar
- things will come along.
- * Put in MOB_ACCESS - This allows real-time updating of mobility.
- * Put in MARKET - This is the time-based market (yes, still teleports,
- but it's not as bad as it was.)
- * Lots of the documenation has been updated, but there is more to do.
- * 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
- 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.
- * Damage is the same for all commodities (people too.) This means you
- can deity shell/bomb sectors again.
- * Units are now dependant on tech. What this means is that their statistics
- now increase with tech. In addition, there is only 1 type of each basic
- unit now (i.e. just "cavalry" instead of "cavalry 1", "cavalry 2", etc.)
- This reflects the idea that as you learn more, you learn how to not only
- build better units, but you learn to build units better. :) This also
- opens the door for a "lupgrade" command along the same lines as the
- "upgrade" command for ships.
- * Units now have a minimum mob cost for attacking a sector. Marching
- mob costs have not changed.
- * Starting units have been removed. This means that at the beginning, people
- may live a little longer since their neighbor can't come visiting quite
- as quick.
- * Shells are no longer required to build units.
- * Mil are no longer required to build units.
- * Mil are no longer an intrinsic part of a unit. They are now a loadable
- commodity. The way a unit's defense/att bonuses work now are
- attack = (att * mil * eff)
- defense = (def * mil * eff)
- In addition, when a unit takes damage, both the eff and the mil go
- down. You can quickly toss in new hacks, but you need to wait to repair
- the unit at the update. Thus, you can now look at unit's efficiency
- as their training.
- * You need at least 1 mil on a unit to march it (spies are the exception.)
- * Units always react if in range and they have the mobility, no matter
- what their efficency.
- * Units may now march anywhere - in your own sectors, deity owned sectors
- or allied sectors, with 1 exception, spies. Also, your units can get
- trapped if your ally declares non-alliance with you while your units
- are still in his country.)
- * Units always march at their speed, efficiency doesn't matter.
- * LANDSPIES was added - This creates land unit based spies. Spies may march
- anywhere, with a chance of getting caught (except in allied territory.)
- See "info Spies" for more info on them.
- * Planes may now be based out of allied airports. Landing planes on
- ships/sectors you do not own no longer changes thier owner. You can only
- land on owned/allied sectors/ships, and you may only
- fly/bomb/para/recon/drop from owned/allied sectors. So, if a country
- you are allied with goes hostile at you, your planes are now stuck there.
- Note that if you are using an allied airport, their commodities get
- sucked up, not yours (obviously.)
- * Planes are now tech-based. Their statistics increase as their tech
- increases. Deleted extraneous planes.
- * There is a new toggle, "techlists", which allows you to see what you
- can build/stats/capabilities sorted by tech instead of groupings.
- * Ships are now tech-based. Their statistics increase as their tech
- increases. Deleted extraneous ships.
- * 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
- 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.
- * Players command was fixed so you only see allies, and don't get
- approx #'s of players anymore.
- * POSIX threads support has been added.
- * The attack bmap bug has been fixed.
- * BTUs regenerate 3 times faster now.
- * GRAB_THINGS is off by default.
- * Big nuclear bombs are back, and FALLOUT has been fixed and enabled
- as a default (you couldn't make wasteland before with FALLOUT, now
- you can.)
- * You can now deliver military and civilians.
- * Added SHIP_DECAY option - off by default (turns off ships decaying out
- at sea if not enough mil.)
- * The reverting owner bug has been fixed in territory, thresh, dist
- and deliver. There are probably more, and when found, will be fixed.
- * The "sectors don't starve when stopped or broke" bug has been fixed.
- * The "people never get truncated" bug has been fixed.
- * Added infrastructure to sectors. What this means is that a sector
- can now have it's mobility improved by building both roads and
- railways. It also means that a sectors defense is now based on the
- defensive infrastructure you build into the sector (no more intrinsic
- better defenses based on the sector, you determine which sectors are
- defended heavily, and which aren't.)
- * The defensive value of a sector no longer relies on the efficiency of
- the sector. Instead, it relies on the defensive efficiency of the sector.
- Thus, the "production" and "defensive" aspects of sectors have been
- separated.
- * "show sect stats" now shows the maximum defensive value for sectors.
- * Changed sector structure to take floats for off/def values so we can use
- a base of 1 instead of 2.
- * Added "improve" and "sinfrastructure" to support the infrastructure
- concepts.
- * Added L_TRAIN units which can only travel along railways. Very fast on
- efficient railways, slow on non-efficient ones.
- * Added the ability for units to carry other units.
- * Fixed census (shortened up "fallout" and "coast" to "fall" and "coa".)
- * Forts only cost $500 to build and 100 hcms now (since they don't get any
- better defenses automagically.)
- * Modified "show sect build" to show the costs for building up the
- infrastructure of a sector.
- * Changed "spy" and the satellite recon stuff (which shows sector stuff for
- spyplanes too) to show the new infrastructure stuff, rounded of course.
- * Added Drake's info->html scripts, with some modifications, so you can
- now type "make html" and have your info pages built as html files too.
- This adds a new directory, "info.html", to the build tree.
- * Modified upgrade so that planes and land units may now be upgraded.
- * Added pstat command to list the statistics of your planes.
- * Added lstat command to list the statistics of your land units.
- * Added sstat command to list the statistics of your ships.
- * Added nmap command to show a map of your sectors after their new
- designations have taken place.
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