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.
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.
Add check to ensure a country by that name does not exist.
Ensure the length is not too long. Note this is a change
behaviour for edit and change commands which used to silently
truncate long names. Enforce that a country name can not have
control characters in it. Ensure that a country name is not
blank or just spaces.
A sector type's terrain (struct dchrstr member d_terrain) is the
sector type of its underlying terrain. Sector types occuring in
d_terrain are terrain types, and must have their own type in
d_terrain. Players can change sector types only to those with the
same terrain.
The builtin configuration defines terrain types sea, mountain,
wasteland, wilderness and plains. It gives bridge span and tower
terrain sea, and everything else terrain wilderness. Hence, the stock
game remains unchanged.
Deities can use terrain to create sector types that can be developed
only in limited ways.
The common nation wipe code is not quite identical, and it doesn't
wipe the nation thoroughly enough. The new code does.
Changes to both commands:
* Wipe nat_update, nat_ann, nat_access, and nat_contact. Bug: should
set nat_ann to the number of announcements.
Changes to add command:
* Don't wipe for status active and god. Before, nat_relate and
nat_flags where wiped then.
Changes to newcap command:
* Wipe nat_hostaddr, nat_hostname, nat_userid, nat_dayno, nat_minused,
nat_reserve, nat_last_login, nat_last_logout, nat_newstim,
nat_annotim, nat_relate, nat_rejects, nat_flags.
separate the MinGW environment from the MSVC environment and
WIN32 environment. Reorganize the order of the includes so
the system files are always loaded first to prevent with misc.h defines.
Remove system file includes from misc.h.
other. Ensure headers in include/ can be included in any order
(except for econfig-spec.h, which is special). New header types.h to
help avoid inclusion cycles. Sort include directives. Remove some
superflous includes.
(launch_sat, scra, scut, scuttle_ship, scuttle_land, knockdown)
(ac_planedamage, detonate, attack_val, defense_val, air_damage)
(msl_intercept, msl_launch_mindam, pln_prewrite, shp_prewrite):
Simplify unit destruction: just zero efficiency, leave makelost()
etc. to the prewrite callback.
That's what the vast majority of commands do.
(add): Do not silently truncate country number argument.
(add): Diagnostics were confusing because they lacked context.
than current time. Nation addition time is irrelevant.
(natstr): Document zero nat_last_login, nat_last_login mean never
logged in/out.
(player_main): Test nat_last_login zero instead of nat_hostaddr empty.
(player_main): Assign nat_userid, nat_hostname, nat_hostaddr straight
from player. The last connection's host is now shown as dotted quads
instead of nowhere when the name isn't known.
(natstr): Document that nat_userid, nat_hostname may be empty.
(player_main): Simplify printing last connection address: nat_hostaddr
can't be empty here; don't bother to substitute "nobody" for empty
user.
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.
defines, import these defines into plague.h, drop var.h and include
plague.h where appropriate.
Remove some 'register' keywords at the same time.
No functional changes.
PRI_LBUILD): Turn macros into enumeration constants. Value
SCT_MAXDEF+1 was previously unused; use it.
(PRI_MAX): New; replacing the horrible SCT_MAXDEF+8.
(show_sect_build): Simply examine all sector types, don't skip the
first five. The code ignores them just fine.
(show_sect_build, show_sect_stats, show_sect_capab): Don't try to show
sector types beyond SCT_MAXDEF. The table has some empty extra slots,
for whatever reasons; no use examining them.
Simplify. Split into member sct_che (number) and sct_che_target.
Users changed.
(get_che_cnum, set_che_cnum, get_che_value, get_che_value): Che
encoding/decoding functions; remove.
(CHE_MAX): Move from var.h to sect.h.
(prsect, doland): Print / edit the new field.
To save space, the ancients invented `variables': a collection of
key-value pairs, missing means zero value, space for `enough' keys.
This complicates the code, as assigning to a `variable' can fail for
lack of space. Over time, `enough' increased, and for quite some time
now `variables' have been *wasting* space. This changeset replaces
them, except in struct mchrstr, struct lchrstr and struct pchrstr,
where they are read-only, and will be replaced later. It is only a
first step; further cleanup is required. To simplify and minimize
this necessarily huge changeset, the new item[] arrays have an unused
slot 0, and the old variable types V_CIVIL, ... are still defined, but
must have the same values as the item types I_CIVIL, ...
effect. Replace calls by struct assignment where possible. Replace
clear buffer, copy string to buffer by strncpy(). Use assignment to
clear when that's clearer. Replace overlapping copy through bounce
buffer by memmove(). Replace rest by standard memset() and memcpy().
Also use sizeof() instead of literal array sizes for robustness, and
instead of symbolic array sizes for clarity.
