Remove option TREATIES

TREATIES has issues:

* Treaties can cover attack, assault, paradrop, board, lboard, fire,
  build (s|p|l|n) and enlist, but not bomb, launch, torpedo and
  enlistment centers.

* Usability is very poor.  While a treaty is in effect, every player
  action that violates a treaty condition triggers a prompt like this:

    This action is in contravention of  treaty #0 (with Curmudgeon)
    Do you wish to go ahead anyway? [yn]

  If you decline, the action is not executed.  If you accept, it is.
  In both cases, your decision is reported in the news.

  You cannot get rid of these prompts until the treaty expires.

* Virtually nobody uses them.

* Virtually unused code is buggy code.  There is at least one race
  condition: multifire() reads the firing sector, ship or land unit
  before the treaty prompt, and writes it back after, triggering a
  generation oops.  Any updates made by other threads while trechk()
  waits for input are wiped out, triggering a seqno mismatch oops.

* The treaty prompts could confuse smart clients that aren't prepared
  for them.  WinACE isn't, but is reported to work anyway at least
  common usage.  Ron Koenderink (the WinACE maintainer) suspects there
  could be a few situations where it will fail.

This feature is not earning its keep.  Remove it.  Drop command
treaty, consider treaty, offer treaty, xdump treaty, reject treaties.
Output of accept changed, obviously.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
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Markus Armbruster 2014-01-11 18:02:53 +01:00
parent b2090ed34f
commit a109de948b
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@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ and what news to see with the ?action selector. Actions are:
2) Unsuccessful attack
3) Spy shot
4) Telegram sent
5) Treaty signing
6) Loan made
7) Loan repaid
8) Goods sold
@ -44,8 +43,6 @@ and what news to see with the ?action selector. Actions are:
18) Successful boarding actions
19) Unsuccessful boarding actions
21) Collecting on loans
22) Considering treaty violation
23) Actual treaty violation
25) Ships hitting mines
26) Alliance declaration
28) War declarations