max_idle applies in state PS_PLAYING, login_grace_time before (login,
state PS_INIT) and after (logout, state PS_SHUTDOWN).
Cut login_grace_time to two minutes, from max_idle's 15. Two minutes
is plenty to complete login and logout. Makes swamping the server
with connections slightly harder, as they get dropped faster. While
that makes sense all by itself, the real aim is making increasing
max_idle safe. The next commit will complete that job.
Spy units are now enabled when a land unit type with capability spy
exists. To disable them, deities have to customize table land-chr.
Before, spy units types were ignored when option LANDSPIES was
disabled. Except for xdump land-chr, which happily dumped unusable
spy unit types.
Trade ships are now enabled when a ship type with capability trade
exists. No such type exists by default; to enable trade ships,
deities have to customize table ship-chr.
Before, trade ship types were ignored when option TRADESHIPS was
disabled. Except for xdump ship-chr, which happily dumped unusable
trade ship types.
Redundant information, but incredibly useful when you want to figure
out what happened without a (still nonexistent) journal replay tool.
The redundancy could help making a journal replay tool more robust.
To enable, set econfig key keep_journal to at least 2. Output events
are *not* flushed to disk immediately.
A deity can easily break BRIDGETOWERS by reducing etu_per_update
without compensating customization of buil_tower_bh,
rollover_avail_max or bridge span maxpop.
Document the issue in output of pconfig (which is installed as
$prefix/etc/empire/econfig).
To increase the chance deities actually read the documentation,
disable BRIDGETOWERS.
Why upgrade? I'm not a lawyer, but here's my take on the differences
to version 2:
* Software patents: better protection against abuse of patents to
prevent users from exercising the rights under the GPL. I doubt
we'll get hit with a patent suit, but it's a good move just on
general principles.
* License compatibility: compatible with more free licenses, i.e. can
"steal" more free software for use in Empire. I don't expect to steal
much, but it's nice to have the option.
* Definition of "source code": modernization of some details for today's
networked world, to make it easier to distribute the software. Not
really relevant to us now, as we normally distribute full source code.
* Tivoization: this is about putting GPL-licensed software in hardware,
then make the hardware refuse to run modified software. "Neat" trick
to effectively deny its users their rights under the GPL. Abuse was
"pioneered" by TiVo (popular digital video recorders). GPLv3 forbids
it. Unlikely to become a problem for us.
* Internationalization: more careful wording, to harden the license
outside the US. The lawyers tell us it better be done that way.
* License violations: friendlier way to deal with license violations.
This has come out of past experience enforcing the GPL.
* Additional permissions: Probably not relevant to us.
Also include myself in the list of principal authors.
SLOW_WAR has issues:
* The check whether the attacker old-owns the attacked sector is
broken, because att_abort() uses sect.sct_oldown uninitialized.
Spotted by the Clang Static Analyzer.
* Its implementation in setrel() is somewhat scary. It's actually
okay, because that part of setrel() only runs within decl(). Other
callers don't reach it: update_main() because player->god != 0
there, and the rest because they never pass a rel < HOSTILE.
* Documentation is a bit vague.
SLOW_WAR hasn't been used in a public game in years. Fixing it is not
worth it, so remove it instead.
With RAILWAYS, highway-like sectors double as rail. They need to be
at least 5% efficient to be operational, and then they additionally
extend rail into adjacent sectors that are at least 60% efficient.
New opt_RAILWAYS, SCT_HAS_RAIL(), sct_rail_track(). Update
sector_mcost(), bp_neighbors(), lnd_mar_one_sector() for RAILWAYS
mobility rules. Update sinfra(), spyline(), satdisp_sect() to show
rail track instead of rail infrastructure for RAILWAYS.
New virtual sector selector track, implemented by nsc_sct_track().
Planes and land units on ships are sold along with the ship, but trade
showed them only when SHOWPLANE was enabled. Show them always.
Planes on land units are not sold along with the land unit, but trade
showed them when SHOWPLANE was enabled. Don't.
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.
Remove selector fuel from ship_ca[] and land_ca[], and selectors
fuelc, fuelu from mchr_ca[] and lchr_ca[]. Remove fields fuelc, fuelu
from ship.config and land.config.
Remove command fuel from player_coms[].
Deprecate edit key 'B' in doship(), dounit(), and don't show it in
pr_ship(), pr_land().
Drop opt_FUEL code from build_ship(), shi(), sdump(), ship_damage(),
show_ship_stats(), do_mob_ship(), nav_ship(), build_land(), land(),
ldump(), land_damage(), show_land_stats(), do_mob_land(),
resupply_all(), resupply_commod(), get_minimum(), has_supply(),
unit_list(), vers().
Remove opt_FUEL, fuel_mult, struct shpstr member shp_fuel, struct
mchrstr members m_fuelc and m_fuelu, M_OILER, struct lndstr member
lnd_fuel, struct lchrstr members l_fuelc and l_fuelu, fuel(), and
auto_fuel_ship().
File names in econfig need to be interpreted relative to configdir.
This wasn't the case everywhere for keys data and info.
Fix this by changing variables gamedir and infodir to hold absolute
names. Change builtindir likewise, for consistency. Store the values
from econfig in gamedir_conf, infodir_conf and builtindir_conf.
Uses new fnameat() to derive absolute names from possibly relative
ones.
by design (by voting last players can tactically vote no and thus
build up veto rights), and its implementation is buggy:
(update_missed): Remove.
(zdone): Don't show it.
(demand_check): Remove veto check.
(natstr, cou_ca): Remove member nat_missed and its selector.
(zdone): Don't clear and don't show it.
(update_removewants): Don't increment it. This was buggy anyway; it
incremented even on non-demand updates.
(prnat): Don't show it, remove key 'U'.
(docountry): Don't change it, deprecate the now useless key 'U'.
(schedulefil): New.
(set_dirs, set_paths): Rename. Initialize schedulfil.
(read_schedule): New. Can read several updates, which will be used in
later changesets.
(update_time): Change to array. Will be used in later changesets.
(update_schedule_anchor): New.
(update_init): Initialize it.
(update_get_schedule): New.
(update_init): Call it to initialize update_time[].
(update_sched): Rewrite.
(update_forced, update_wanted): Replace.
(update_reschedule): New.
(main): Call it on SIGHUP to reload the schedule.
(update_trigger, update_force, force, player_coms): Drop force's
capability to schedule updates in the future, because it's not worth
the trouble to implement again. Deities can simply edit the schedule
file to schedule updates. Remove update_force() and
update_trigger()'s parameter.
(upda): Update for new scheduler. Take care to keep output the same
as far as possible, even though it's ugly, to avoid breaking clients.
(update_policy, adj_update, update_times, hourslop, blitz_time):
econfig keys removed.
(update_demand, UPD_DEMAND_NONE, UPD_DEMAND_SCHED, UPD_DEMAND_ASYNC)
(update_demandpolicy, UDP_NORMAL, UDP_TIMES, UDP_NORMAL, UDP_BLITZ)
(UDP_MAX, UDP_DEFAULT, UDDEM_TMCHECK, UDDEM_COMSET, UDDEM_DISABLE)
(UDDEM_MAX, UDDEM_DEFAULT): econfig key and values replaced. Users
changed. wantupd.h is now empty, remove.
(demand_check): External linkage.
(update_policy_check): Now pointless, remove.
(is_daytime_near, min_to_next_daytime, regular_update_time)
(scheduled_update_time, next_scheduled_time, updatetime)
(next_update_time, next_update_check_time): Unused, Remove.
(demand_check, demandupdatecheck): Move call of demand_update_time()
from demand_check(), which controls all demand updates, to
demandupdatecheck(), which controls only unscheduled ones. Fixes
update command not to lie about the next scheduled demand update.
(demandupdatecheck): Check updates_disabled() so that zdone no longer
claims to trigger an update when it can't.
(opt_AUTO_POWER, update_power): New.
(update_main): Implement AUTO_POWER.
(powe): Disable power new when AUTO_POWER is on.
(powe): New power update.
(gen_power): Compute power into buffer passed by caller, make write to
power file optional.
instead of opt_DEFENSE_INFRA.
(improve): Test for it.
(show_sect_build): Show only enabled infrastructure.
(opt_DEFENSE_INFRA): Remove. Deities can edit infra.config instead.
(improve): Dumb down prompt.
(keep_journal): New econfig key.
(player_main): Log player login and logout.
(recvclient): Log player input.
(ef_open_srv, ef_close_srv): Log startup and shutdown.
(update_main): Log update.
Support the common SIGHUP log rotation idiom:
(empth_wait_for_shutdown, empth_wait_for_signal): Rename.
[EMPTH_LWP, EMPTH_POSIX] (empth_init, empth_wait_for_signal): Wait for
SIGHUP as well.
(main) [SIGHUP]: Reopen journal when empth_wait_for_signal() returns
SIGHUP.
files item.config, product.config, sect.config, infra.config.
(empfile): Declare the new config files. Reorder table entries so
that read_builtin_tables() reads the config files in the right order.
(bigcity_dchr, opt_BIG_CITY, init_dchr): Remove. Deities can edit
sect.config instead.
player can send whatever he wants. Banning IPs is better done with a
packet filter. That leaves restricting deity IPs.
(privip): New econfig key to restrict deity IPs.
(may_play): Implement it.
(match_user): Unused, remove.
(subst.in): Substitute it. Fix prerequisites.
(read_builtin_tables): New.
(main): Call it. This doesn't do anything, because no builtin tables
have been defined.
(config_tables): New econfig key.
(read_config_tables): New, implements config_tables.
(main): Call it. Need to call ef_init() and chdir(configdir) first.
(ef_init_srv): Don't call ef_init(), since main() did it already.
Remove old way to do the same:
(ef_load): Remove, along with calls.
(empfile): Set configuration tables' member file back to NULL.
