Damage due to lack of maintenance is now limited by the unit's minimum
efficiency.
Before, units could die. Unfortunately, the update left any embarked
units on their dead carrier. Should have seen this when I fixed a
related bug in commit c2c0d1ff, v4.3.22. Broken for ships and land
units when Empire 2 added their maintenance cost, and for planes when
commit 2e40a4bb (v4.3.4) replaced nuclear stockpiles by nuke units.
The common root cause of these bugs is the update bypassing pre-write
functions (bug#1010856).
If another unit with the same number got built, it picked up the stuck
cargo, triggering the oops from commit 6fb5caf6, which see.
In "stuck on dead carrier" state, units pretty much behave as if their
carrier was still alive, with additional protection from the fact that
a dead carrier can't be damaged or boarded.
The server detects this state on startup since commit 7da9aab5, and
refuses to start.
Only a deity can take units off a dead carrier.
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.
Replacing getrel(getnatp(US), THEM) by relations_with(US, THEM) makes
a difference only when US equals THEM.
Replace patterns like "us == them || getrel(getnatp(us), them)..." by
"relations_with(us, them)...".
upd_plane() upd_land() and left planes and land units lost to lack of
maintenance on their carriers. Cargo lists were fine anyway, because
unit_cargo_init() ignored dead units. But when the dead unit got
reused for building a new one, pln_prewrite() / lnd_prewrite() got
confused and attempted to take it off its carrier, which made
clink_rem() oops, because the unit wasn't on the cargo list. No real
harm done, as oops recovery was fine.
Fix upd_plane() and upd_land() to clear the carrier. Make
unit_cargo_init() oops when it finds dead units on carriers.
Use new pln_is_in_orbit() when we want to test for orbit specifically,
and test PLN_LAUNCHED when we want to test whether the plane not
sitting in the sector (because it is flying). This distinction is
pointless at this time, because the only way PLN_LAUNCHED gets set is
when a satellite goes into orbit. It will become useful in a later
commit, which will use PLN_LAUNCHED to mark flying planes.
type. Make it abstract because that's possible. Change data layout
so that the slots belonging to a sector are together in memory, it's
nicer to the cache.
(bp): The new type. Users changed.
(get_wp): Update accordingly.
(alloc_bp): New.
(update_main, calc_all): Use it. Before, calc_all() allocated 1/7
more than necessary.
(shiprepair, planerepair, landrepair): Use it. Behavioral change:
ship repairs outside harbors and plane repairs by a carrier can use
fewer materials. Before, such repairs consumed each required
commodity as far as available. Now, they consume the same fraction of
the real cost of each commodity, i.e. commodity use is limited by the
most scarce commodity. Neither old nor new behavior make much sense,
but the new code is simpler.
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.
(ltend, multifire, quite_bigdef, mine, landmine)
(do_loan, prod, printdiff, sell, sona, stre)
(tend, fire_dchrg, vers, work, ac_planedamage)
(ac_shipflak, ask_off, get_mine_dsupport, att_fight)
(ask_move_in_off, detonate, sd, land_gun)
(land_unitgun, lnd_fort_interdiction, lnd_fortify)
(perform_mission, pln_mine, pln_mobcost)
(retreat_ship1, retreat_land1, shp_sweep)
(shp_fort_interdiction, shp_missle_defense)
(new_work, growfood, upd_land, land_repair)
(get_materials, do_mob_ship, do_mob_land)
(load_it, unload_it, prod_plane, produce)
(guerrilla, upd_buildeff, spread_fallout)
(upd_ship, ship_repair, min, dmin, MIN):
Remove min() and dmin() functions and replace
with a MIN macro in misc.h. Remove local MIN
macros and use the new one in misc.h. This
change removes the need for the special
case for _WIN32.
(fuel, look_ship, multifire, mission, sona)
(plane_sona, ef_open, player_accept, player_main)
(ac_dog, att_get_combat, calc_mobcost)
(ask_move_in_off, intelligence_report)
(build_mission_list_type, perform_mission)
(show_mission, use_supply, dodistribute)
(allocate_memory, max, dmax, MAX):
Remove max() and dmax() functions and replace
with a MAX macro in misc.h. Remove local MAX
macros and use the new one in misc.h. This
change removes the need for the special
case for _WIN32.
NUK_BLD_WORK): New, to encapsulate the formula in one place.
(SCT_MINEFF): New. Use it instead of literal 20.
(buil): Use CANT_HAPPEN() for internal error.
(build_ship, build_land, build_bridge, build_nuke, build_plane,
build_tower): Simplify avail calculation.
(lupgr, supgr, pupgr): Charge 15% of total build avail instead of an
undocumented amount computed from build lcm and hcm.
(build_ship, build_land, build_bridge, build_nuke, build_plane,
build_tower, lupgr, supgr, pupgr): Fix reporting of required avail
when there's not enough. Closes#942823.
(lupgr, supgr, pupgr): Code printed cost rounded down, but required
and charged unrounded cost. Confusing. Round cost down, like the
build command. Closes#942811.
(UPGR_COST, UPGR_EFF, lupgr, supgr, pupgr): New UPGR_COST, UPGR_COST replace
literal values.
(show_bridge, show_tower): Don't claim bridge building requires
`workers' (whatever that is), since it doesn't.
instead of declaring them all over the place. This uncovered type
errors:
(s_p_etu, adj_update): Defined long, sometimes declared int. Kills
big endian machines where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int). Change to
int.
(set_option, delete_option, optstrset, intset, floatset, doubleset,
longset, optionset, optiondel, worldxset): Change linkage to static.
