Counter-intuitive. Report last connection time range instead.
Unfortunately, this requires a change in output format.
(coun): Report on all countries even to mortals. This used to be
done, and was most probably changed because it gave away too much
information. Carefully limit the information given to mortals, as
follows. Limit last access information to whether deities or allies
are logged on right now, no longer report connection time for deities
that are not logged on. Remove column time for mortals, rename it to
BTU for deities. Report status, but with less detail if HIDDEN is
enabled.
undocumented feature: When a buyer didn't have enough money at the
time of the trade, the seller *automatically* granted a high-interest,
medium term loan for up to 90% of the price. This is just a silly
trap for unwary sellers and buyers alike.
(N_FIN_TROUBLE, N_CREDIT_JUNK): Unused, remove.
(rpt): Update accordingly.
unowned sectors. The assembly point must now be owned or allied, or
have an owned or allied ship.
Info pages didn't match the old rule. Fix them to match the new rule.
transient server state, not persistent game state. Remove.
(player_main, edit): Remove uses.
(coun): Use getplayer() instead of nat_connected. Delete the message
on command being out of order.
Previously, it printed how many were selected, which can include old
members of the group.
(flee, army): The rather obscure feature to assign the fleet's /
army's retreat orders to members was broken. It ignored ownership,
and thus could copy some other player's retreat orders. Abusable.
Copying the first member's retreat orders is less than useful, in
particular for group ~. The code now chooses the first one in the
same sector with RET_GROUP set. RET_GROUP is never set for group ~.
a number of Subjects files to prevent name
conflicts where the only the case is difference.
Attack -> Attacking
Moving -> Transportation
Move -> Moving
Market -> Commerce
Nation -> Nations
Production -> Producing
Update -> Updating
(player): New member flags.
(PF_UTF8, NF_UTF8): New PF_UTF8 replaces NF_UTF8. Users changed.
(options_cmd): New.
(login_coms): New command `options'.
(toggle): Revert to the previous rev.
(NF_UTF8, togg): New client flag.
(flash, wall): User text input filtering.
(parse, prmptrd): Normal text input filtering.
(uprmptrd, ugetstring): New, to get user text.
(getele, flash, wall): Use them.
(getele): No need to filter out funny characters; input filtering
takes care of them.
(sendmessage, ufindbreak): Work on user text.
(uprnf): New, to print user text.
(rea, gamedown, show_motd): Use it.
(prnf): Unused, remove.
(pr, upr_player): Normal text output filtering (with highlighting).
(pr_flash): User text output filtering.
display_mark() to callers. buy() no longer accepts "all". It used to
display all lots, but didn't let you buy any. Similar nonsense
happened for "" if buy() prompted for it.
(display_mark): Fix size of cheapest_items[].
(player_coms): Document mark accepting "all".
its code is obviously not in working order. Remove.
(minmult, maxmult, configkeys): Unused configuration parameters,
remove.
(tradedesc): Remove code related to mult that had no effect.
(multread, commread, commwrite, commamt, commset, multset, commprice):
Dangerous, because code bypasses ef_read() & friends, remove.
(diss): Commodity cleanup uses the above, remove. Command is disabled
and unlikely to work anyway.
unitialized' warning. Funcional change: you can now change direction
without threshold (matches documentation, clarify it anyway). Change
prompt for the third argument to reflect that. Also provide context
when prompting for the fourth argument; this is sorely needed we
didn't prompt for the third argument.
silently (troff) or under protest (groff); table column width (also
fixed some .L arguments to match actual game output); spacing in
no-fill text; stray .FI, .in and .ce messing up indentation; stray .L;
misspelled request and escape names; escaping of control and escape
characters; properly ignore form-feed; argument quoting; extra
arguments to .NF. Still broken: .L abused for headings, which
triggers many groff warnings about negative indentation.
