The old code recognized group retreat only when the first argument was
on the command line. Didn't make a difference, because it was only
used when there were at least two arguments on the command line.
The old code relied on rflags being represented as two's complement.
When given an empty retreat path, the old code deleted the retreat
path and set the retreat flags normally. The new code deletes both.
Neither is nice; it should perhaps keep the retreat path and only set
the flags.
Spies shot were only deduced from sector military; land units were
immune to losses; in fact they needn't have any military to spy.
Fix by requiring and using only sector military. Closes#758483.
Make spy() not skip sectors without civilians, military and land
units. There could be other interesting things to report there:
efficiency, gold bars, planes...
The values in these columns were computed by count_sect_units() and
count_sect_planes(), which included land units and planes in the count
that aren't shown by prunits() and prplanes(), namely own and embarked
units. Confusing. Moreover, count_sect_planes() and prunits() rolled
dice separately for spy units. This could leak the presence of spies
even when prunits() didn't show them.
All fixable, but not worth the trouble; just remove the counts.
Firing damage reduction for range is a feature that was always there
and never really documented. Different ways to fire reduced damage
differently for range, or not at all. Fix that by dropping the
reduction everywhere.
The reduction happened randomly, with probability p = (d/m)^2, where d
is the distance to the target, and m is the maximum firing range. The
fire command printed "Wind deflects shells" when it happened.
The old fire command (before MULTIFIRE) either halved damage (50%
chance), or reduced it by a factor of 1-p.
MULTIFIRE's fire command halved damage. v4.0.2 reduced that loss to
10-20%.
Interdiction halved damage, but only when firing from ships.
Other ways to fire (support, return fire, interdiction from forts and
land units) did not reduce damage for range.
People can be delivered since v4.0.0 (the check that disabled that was
commented out), and cutoff shows these deliveries since v4.0.2. The
change was documented in info Empire4, but info pages weren't updated.
Do that, and remove the commented out code.
This oopses on output dependency violations, e.g. two threads doing a
read-modify-write without synchronization, or the one thread nesting
several read-modify-writes. Such bugs are difficult to spot, and tend
to be abusable. I figure we have quite a few of them.
New struct emptypedstr member seqno. Make sure all members of unit
empobj_storage share it. Initialize it in files: main() and
file_sct_init(). Set it in ef_blank() and new ef_set_uid() by calling
new get_seqno(). Use ef_set_uid() when copying objects: swaps(),
doland(), doship(), doplane(), dounit(), delete_old_news(). Step it
in ef_write() by calling new new_seqno().
Factor do_read() out of fillcache() to make it available for
get_seqno().
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().
pin_bomb() computed the number of foreign subs as number of ships less
number of foreign surface ships. This counted own surface ships as
subs.
Change it to count foreign subs directly. Closes#906040.
However, shipsatxy(), the function for counting foreign ships, also
lists them. Add a parameter to suppress that, and change its callers.
Make caploss() transfer money, loans and market lots to the player
only if he actually took the capital, not if he obliterated it to
deity.
To make this work, caploss() needs to be called after the sector is
updated for damage and change of ownership. Change callers
accordingly.
Closes#914049.
Don't call bsanct() when desi() is redesignating a sanctuary. It's
pointless, because only deities can redesignate sanctuaries, and
bsanct() does nothing for them.
multifire() clobbered any changes to the target ship or sector made by
defend(). This let the target fire back for free.
multifire() retreated the target ship before reporting its location to
the player. This disclosed its new location.
Fix by damaging and retreating the target after calling defend().
multifire() drops depth charges if the target is a submarine, else it
fires guns. It fails if the target is out of range. But players
could still find out whether the target is a sub then, because depth
charge shell use differs from gun fire shell use. This loophole
existed before 4.0.6, and was reopened by commit a3ad623b (v4.3.12).
Change multifire() to always use guns if the target is out of range.
While there, treat failure from shp_dchrg() and shp_fire() the same,
so that the player can't distinguish the two cases. Failure there
should not happen.
multifire() failed to take into account that the firing firing sector,
ship or land unit can change while it is getting the target argument.
It thus clobbered any updates made to the firing object while it was
sleeping for the target argument. Abusable. Broken when Chainsaw
introduced MULTIFIRE.
This outlaws launch from unowned sectors. Also, non-VTOL missiles
require an efficient airfield now, except that such missiles don't
exist currently, because init_plchr() makes all missiles VTOL.
launch_sat() failed to call msl_equip(). Change msl_equip() to take
the mission character as argument, because the old hardcoded 'p' isn't
appropriate for satellites. Best fit for satellites is 'r' for
reconnaissance, but mission_pln_equip() doesn't accept that
(pln_equip() does). Fix that as well.
The code to find a suitable sanctuary location is flawed: to find
space and resources around the location, it does a depth-first search
limited to 300 sectors. Pretty useless when the limit is reached. A
breadth-first search would work, but why bother? This feature is
obscure and rarely (if ever) used: no conscientious deity would use it
for a real game, and for blitzes fairland does a better job. Remove
it.
Planes normally sit in their base (sector or carrier), where they can
be spied, damaged, captured, loaded, unloaded, upgraded and so forth.
All this must not be possible while they fly. There are two kinds of
flying planes: satellites in orbit, and planes flying a sortie.
Satellites in orbit have always been marked with flag PLN_LAUNCHED.
Works. What didn't work was tracking planes flying a sortie.
If you look at one sortie in isolation, up to three groups of planes
can be flying at any point of time: the primary group, which carries
out the sortie's mission (bomb, transport, ...), their escorts, and a
group of hostile planes flying interception or air defense.
The old code attempted to track these planes by passing those groups
to the places that need to know whether a plane is flying. This was
complex and incomplete, and broke down completely for the pin-bombing
command.
It was complex, because the plane code needs to keep track of all the
call chains that can lead to a place that needs to know whether a
plane flies, and pass the groups down the call chains. This leads to
a rather ugly passing of plane groups all over the place.
It was incomplete, because it generally failed to pass the escorts.
And the whole scheme broke down for the pin-bombing command. That's
because pin-bombing asks the player for targets while his planes are
loitering above the target sector. This yields the processor and lets
other code run. Which does not get the flying planes passed.
The new code marks planes and SAMs (but not other missiles) flying a
sortie with flag PLN_LAUNCHED (the previous commit laid the groundwork
for that), and does away with passing around groups of flying planes.
This fixes the following bugs:
* Many commands could interact with foreign planes flying for a
pin-bombing command as if they were sitting in their base. This
includes spying, damaging, capturing, loading, or upgrading them,
and even getting intercepted by them. Any changes to those planes
were wiped out when they landed. Abusable.
* The bomb command could bomb its own escorts, directly (pin-bomb
planes) or through collateral damage, strategic sector damage,
collapsing bridges or nuke damage. The damage to the escorts was
wiped out when they landed.
* If you asked for a plane to fly both in the primary group and the
escort group, you got charged fuel for two sorties instead of one.
* pln_put1() and pln_put() now recognize planes that didn't take off,
and refrain from making them land. Intercept (since commit
c64e2149) and air defense can do that. Making them land had no
ill-effects, but it was still wrong.
There's one new problem: if PLN_LAUNCHED doesn't get reset properly,
due to game crash during flight or some other bug, the plane gets
stuck in the air. Catch and fix that on game start in ef_verify().
