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Changes to Empire 4.3.16 - Sun Aug 3 01:26:36 UTC 2008
* 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 bdes and 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 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. * The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.10 are now gone.
* fairland now obeys game file locks. * fairland now obeys game file locks.
@ -134,6 +227,8 @@ Changes to Empire 4.3.12 - Wed Apr 2 05:35:06 UTC 2008
- Fix ammunition use when returning fire: resupply could lose - Fix ammunition use when returning fire: resupply could lose
shells when returning fire to multiple targets, and land units shells when returning fire to multiple targets, and land units
were charged per target instead of just once. 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 - torpedo and fire no longer resupply shells automatically. The
latter used to resupply land units only. latter used to resupply land units only.
- Land units no longer have to be in supply to fire actively, for - Land units no longer have to be in supply to fire actively, for
@ -253,7 +348,7 @@ Changes to Empire 4.3.11 - Tue Jan 1 18:57:38 UTC 2008
doc/clients-howto for an explanation. doc/clients-howto for an explanation.
* Rewrite much of the client's code for sending commands and * Rewrite much of the client's code for sending commands and
receiving server output: receiving server output:
- No longer blocks on sending commands. which could deadlock the - No longer blocks on sending commands, which could deadlock the
session. session.
- Fix race condition that could cause server output to be discarded - Fix race condition that could cause server output to be discarded
on EOF on standard input. on EOF on standard input.

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@ -7,6 +7,99 @@ new Empire4 Server. This outlines the various changes and how they
will affect you, the player. These were coded as the Wolfpack project, will affect you, the player. These were coded as the Wolfpack project,
and bug-reports should be sent to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com>. and bug-reports should be sent to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com>.
.NF .NF
Changes to Empire 4.3.16 - Sun Aug 3 01:26:36 UTC 2008
* 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 bdes and 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 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. * The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.10 are now gone.
* fairland now obeys game file locks. * fairland now obeys game file locks.
@ -143,6 +236,8 @@ Changes to Empire 4.3.12 - Wed Apr 2 05:35:06 UTC 2008
- Fix ammunition use when returning fire: resupply could lose - Fix ammunition use when returning fire: resupply could lose
shells when returning fire to multiple targets, and land units shells when returning fire to multiple targets, and land units
were charged per target instead of just once. 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 - torpedo and fire no longer resupply shells automatically. The
latter used to resupply land units only. latter used to resupply land units only.
- Land units no longer have to be in supply to fire actively, for - Land units no longer have to be in supply to fire actively, for
@ -262,7 +357,7 @@ Changes to Empire 4.3.11 - Tue Jan 1 18:57:38 UTC 2008
doc/clients-howto for an explanation. doc/clients-howto for an explanation.
* Rewrite much of the client's code for sending commands and * Rewrite much of the client's code for sending commands and
receiving server output: receiving server output:
- No longer blocks on sending commands. which could deadlock the - No longer blocks on sending commands, which could deadlock the
session. session.
- Fix race condition that could cause server output to be discarded - Fix race condition that could cause server output to be discarded
on EOF on standard input. on EOF on standard input.