bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sweep fail when given a
destination sector equal to the assembly point. Broken in commit
404a76f7, v4.3.27. Reported by Tom Johnson.
Before that commit, getpath() returned NULL on error, "" when input is
an empty path, "h" when it's coordinates of the assembly point, and a
non-empty path otherwise.
The commit accidentally changed it to return "" instead of "h".
Instead of changing it back, make it return NULL when input is an
empty path, and change bomb() & friends to accept empty flight paths.
This also affects sail: it now fails when you give it an empty path,
just like bomb & friends. Path "h" still works.
Deities can customize which commodities can be sold in table item.
Default is to allow anything but civilians and military. However,
this applies only to the commodity market, not to the unit market:
cargo of ships and land units is not restricted.
Make the two markets consistent: permit selling military by default,
forbid selling units carrying unsalable commodities. This outlaws
selling units carrying civilians by default.
Planes flying one-way with crew or cargo spread plague from their old
base to their new base. Planes dropping cargo spread plague from
their base to the drop's target sector.
msl_equip(), find_escorts() and perform_mission() memset() the plist,
then assign to all members but load. Just zero load instead, like
getilists(), msl_sel() and pln_sel() do.
Flying them to a foreign destination magically changes their
allegiance. Prohibit that.
Equivalent change was already in commit 35887222 (v4.2.17) but got
reverted immediately (commit 20199b22), because fly and drop should
stay consistent with load, which let you give away civilians then. No
more since commit 92a366ce (v4.3.20). This change makes fly and drop
consistent with load again.
New function reads and returns target sector/ship. Avoids reading the
target sector unnecessarily. Callers receive the target ship, not
just its number. Next commit will put it to use.
Tending a negative number of commodities takes from the target ships.
The target ships must be owned. Tend complains when the target
doesn't have the commodity loaded. It does that even for friendly
foreign ships. Don't.
Broken when Chainsaw 2 added tending to allies.
Tending a negative number of commodities takes from the target ships.
When a target ship is foreign, tend silently stops. This is wrong.
Fix it to skip foreign target ships instead.
Broken when Chainsaw 2 added tending to allies.
It happily arms a plane with a remote nuke. The nuke gets teleported
to the plane when the plane moves (a two-way sortie doesn't count as
move). Broken in 4.3.3. Reported by Harald Katzer.
Remote hole, can smash the stack. Additionally, the confirmation
prompt is misleading when the player supplies conditionals. Redesign
the flawed prompt.
Broken when Chainsaw added the confirmation prompt. Reported by Scott
C. Zielinski.
Create new command capability NONVIS. Give it to players in any state
except visitors (and STAT_UNUSED, but those must not exist). This
makes it possible to have commands available to anyone but visitors.
Command change fails when the player is a visitor. Simply make it
unavailable instead, by requiring NONVIS.
Make read unavailable to visitors, because it's useless: visitors
can't receive telegrams (typed_wu() fails).
Make census, commodity and sinfra unavailable to visitors. Visitors
don't normally have sectors.
Make map and nmap unavailable to visitors. Visitors don't have sectors,
so their maps are always empty.
Make them unavailable to new players (between add and newcap) and
players in sanctuary, too. This is consistent with all the other
commands to examine the environment. It also prevents people from
trying multiple unbroken countries in a blitz to find the one with the
nicest vicinity.
Make resource available to new players, for consistency with census
and commodity.
Make country, echo and financial available to anyone.
rea() loops if more telegrams arrive while we wait for the player to
confirm deletion. If the first new one is a continuation of the last
old one, its header is suppressed. Don't do that.
Broken in commit 17223e8f, v4.3.29.
When a ship, plane, land unit or nuke is sold, the seller is replaced
by POGO: POGO gets the money, the telegrams and makes the news.
Likewise when a sale fails because the buyer can't pay.
Broken in commit 94a3108b, v4.3.17. Reported by Scott C. Zielinski.
Before, rea() deleted the mailbox regardless of errors. Acceptable
only when the user gets a chance to avoid that after the problem is
reported. Not the case for "read y".
Not an issue for announcements, but treat them the same for
simplicity.
Fooling around with the file size is silly. It works only because
read has flag C_MOD set, so they can only arrive while we're sitting
at the delete confirmation prompt, not during reading.
Simply try to read more telegrams instead.
Telegram deletion deletes the mailbox. If more telegrams arrive while
we wait for the player to confirm deletion, the mailbox again contains
unread telegrams, so we can't just delete it. Instead, rea() loops to
read the new telegrams.
Announcements worked the same until Empire 3 put them in a single file
shared by all. Since then, deleting announcements merely updates
nat_annotim, and there's no need to read new announcements after
getting the player's confirmation. So don't.
Here's how telegram notification works with NF_INFORM off: typed_wu()
increments the telegram recipient's nat_tgms. status(), running right
before command prompts, notifies the player when nat_tgms > 0, and
resets it. Thus, we tell the player how many telegrams arrived since
the previous command prompt.
However, what we really want is something else, namely the number of
"new telegrams waiting". That's what the notification message says,
after all. Telegrams already printed by read shouldn't count, even
when they arrived since the previous command prompt.
Make them not count by clearing pending telegrams on read regardless
of toggle inform.
Same for announcements.
Reset number of pending telegrams before delete prompt instead of
after.
Before, the client claimed pending telegrams at that prompt, because
it wasn't C_INFORMed of the read, yet. Worse, if more telegrams
arrived while sitting at the prompt, the reset clobbered their number
and sent a bogus clear C_INFORM message, effectively hiding the new
arrivals from the player.
Adjacent telegrams are squashed together if type and sender are the
same, and the timestamp is "close enough". This is done in two
places: rea() and typed_wu(). They're inconsistent: typed_wu()
ignores the timestamp for production reports since Empire 2, but rea()
doesn't.
Record typed_wu()'s decision in new telstr member tel_cont. Use it in
rea().
typed_wu() counts telegrams to update nat_tgms and, since Empire 2,
send C_INFORM messages. Adjacent telegrams are squashed together if
type and sender are the same, and the timestamp is within TEL_SECONDS.
typed_wu() increments nat_tgms when it sends a telegram that read
doesn't squash into the previous one.
Since Empire 2, it also sends a C_INFORM message then. Inexplicably,
it fails to use the same condition: it tests just new_tele, not
new_tele || np->nat_tgms == 0. C_INFORM messages got missed, until
4.0.18 made rea() call clear_telegram_is_new(). Convoluted.
Send C_INFORM exactly when incrementing nat_tgms, and back out
4.0.18's fix.
Deleting a country in state STAT_SANCT, STAT_ACTIVE or STAT_GOD is
risky, because any references to this country become dangling, which
makes ef_verify() unhappy. For a reason: we may well have code that
isn't prepared for dangling references, and breaks.
Replacing a country that is being used is risky, because it can get us
into weird states. For instance, replacing a player by a visitor can
result in a visitor that owns stuff.
Just create sanctuaries, put country into STAT_SANCT, grant BTUs and
money, set origin and initial realms.
This reverts commit e1a68c72 (v4.3.12) as far as newcap is concerned.
Except we still set nat_access, because that needs to be set along
with nat_btu.
Additionally, leave levels and telegrams alone.
Should have no effect in practice, because newcap works only in
STAT_NEW, and we get there with the add command, which wipes the
country.
Before, add reset the country only when adding a player or a visitor.
When adding a deity or deleting a country, it set just nat_cnam,
nat_pnam and nat_state. Has always been that way.
Because of that, a newly minted deity country could inherit all kinds
of crap from a previous user of its country number: origin, realms,
relations, telegrams, ... Harmless if the country number has never
been used before, which is how add is generally used.
When adding a deity country, initial levels (start_education, ...) now
apply, relations start NEUTRAL instead of AT_WAR, and the usual
initial nation flags are set.
Reset on delete as well, just to get rid of the special case.
Argument "active" is obscure. It creates a country in STAT_ACTIVE
that doesn't have a capital, and has its origin at the true origin.
If you really want such a country, create it in STAT_NEW normally,
then use edit to go to STAT_ACTIVE.
