The cheesy test for repeated messages broke down when working on more
than one sector. Reword the message so that repetition is fine, and
drop the test.
improve() attempted not to spend the last dollar, but screwed up when
improving more than one sector. This could bankrupt the player.
Replace the flawed code by the same simple method that is used
elsewhere: break the loop when there's not enough money left for the
current sector.
Complicated by the fact that conv() ran the conversion code twice,
first for adding up the cost for chkmoney(), then for actually
converting. chkmoney() asks the player to confirm when he's about to
spend more than half his cash. Get rid of that, not worth the
complexity. This merges do_conv() back into conv().
Complicated by the fact that demo() ran the demobilization code twice,
first for adding up the cost for chkmoney(), then for actually
demobilizing. chkmoney() asks the player to confirm when he's about
to spend more than half his cash. Get rid of that, not worth the
complexity. This merges do_demo() back into demo().
It also removes the command's virtually undocumented fourth argument.
Update player_coms[] accordingly. While there, make it require money;
it won't do anything useful without money anyway.
RET_SYS was used for commands failing due to internal or environmental
errors, but not really systematically. The difference to RET_FAIL is
how dispatch() treats them: RET_SYS got logged, and cost no BTUs.
More specific logging is possible at the point of failure than in
dispatch(). Make sure that's done for all failures that used to
return RET_SYS.
The change in BTU charging affects commands consider, offer, repay,
trade failing due to internal errors. It also affects deity commands
reload and turn (irrelevant because deities get unlimited BTUs), and
commands apropos, info and motd (irrelevant because they cost no
BTUs).
Behave like plane_bomb() and land_bomb(): deal with leading whitespace
and signs in the input, print a message when asked to bomb a ship that
is not there.
land_bomb() failed to reduce flak proportional to efficiency. Missed
in commit c7f68f2e, v4.3.6.
Also change it to round randomly instead of down, to match
ac_landflak().
Change planesatxy() not to list embarked planes, plane_bomb() not to
bomb them, and land_bomb() not to bomb embarked land units.
Curiously, embarked land units were not listed as targets before, but
could be bombed all the same.
4.0.17 made missiles that miss their target do collateral damage to
the target sector. The code didn't work: it did collateral damage
even when the launch failed or the missile got intercepted. 4.0.18
disabled it again for the launch command (see also commit fa7e3aa9).
Disable it for automatically launched missiles, too, in
msl_launch_mindam().
This is the human-readable buddy of xdump product, which dumps pchr[].
It duplicates much of the information in show sect c, but in more
accessible form. It's in show_product().
Remove product information from info Quick-ref. show reflects the
actual game, is more complete, and should be just as readable.
show_sect_stats() used to show packing bonuses for military,
uncompensated workers, civilians, bars and lcms. The bonus for lcms
was labelled "other", which was okay only as long as all other
commodities receive the same packing bonuses.
Show packing bonus type instead. The actual bonus for each commodity
and packing type is already shown by show item. But change its header
for the NPKG column from "rg" to "no", because packing type NPKG is
shown by show se s as "normal".
show_sect_build() showed only sectors with unusual build
characteristics. Which begged the question what the usual build
characteristics are. Add a line to show them.
The old code used getstarg() to get an argument with a different
prompt than snxtitem() uses, then passed the value to snxtitem()
unchecked. If the player aborts, getstarg() returns a null pointer,
and snxtitem() prompts again. Affected:
* load/lload plane/land third argument; load_plane_ship(),
load_land_ship(), load_plane_land(), load_land_land()
* bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sweep second argument;
get_planes()
* tend and ltend second and fourth argument; ltend(), tend(),
tend_land()
* mission second argument; mission()
Fix by making snxtitem() taking a prompt argument, null pointer
requests the old prompt.
Use that to simplify multifire() and torp(). Change the other callers
to pass NULL.
The old code didn't return RET_SYN when aborting at the prompts for
the third and fourth argument.
While there, return RET_SYN instead of RET_OK when the tender can't
hold the commodity to be tended.
This affects commands bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sweep.
The failure to abort was harmless, because all callers get additional
arguments, and abort then.
There were two checks meant to enforce positive numbers, both dating
back to the earliest known versions of the code, and both wrong.
The first one applied only to thresholds given with the command, not
ones prompted for, and it incorrectly rejected numbers starting with +
or prefixed by whitespace. Remove it.
The second one failed to reject negative numbers when prefixed by
whitespace. Fix.
Fortunately, the update doesn't conjure up stuff to satisfy negative
thresholds.
The old code didn't return RET_SYN when aborting at the following
prompts:
* designate second argument
* morale second argument
* route second argument
* set third argument
* tend fourth argument
* zdone last argument
Fail the command when the designation isn't allowed for mortals, or
when the player can't afford it.
Treat '=' and '@' like the other designations not allowed for mortals,
not like invalid designations. Change failure for invalid designation
from RET_FAIL to RET_SYN.
bdes() failed to do that when the player aborted at the prompt for the
new designation.
desi() failed to do it when it failed the command because the new
designation was bad.
