Wolfpack Empire - mirror of https://git.pond.sub.org/empserver
http://wolfpackempire.com/
Markus Armbruster
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Sector build cost is defined by sect-chr column build (struct dchrstr
member d_build). It's the cost per point of efficiency. In contrast,
unit build cost is defined for 100%, by ship-chr, plane-chr, land-chr,
nuke-chr column cost.
Switch sectors to cost per 100%, for flexibility and consistency:
replace struct dchrstr member d_build by d_cost, and replace selector
build by selector cost. Naming it cost for consistency with units is
possible only because the previous commit made the name available.
This is an xdump compatibility break. To provide the customary grace
period, we'd have to make selector build virtual instead, with value
bcost / 100 rounded up, and deprecate it. Deities would have to avoid
bcost values that aren't multiples of 100 for this to work fully. But
we're not bothering with maintaining xdump compatibility in this
release.
With bcost values that aren't multiple of 100, the cost of sector
building may have to be rounded. On the one hand, the cost of sector
demolition has always been rounded up. On the other hand, the cost of
producing stuff is rounded randomly. For now, round up, because
rounding randomly would affect subsequent random rounding, and upset
the smoke test.
Fortunately, show se b already shows build costs per 100%, since
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Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
Copyright (C) 1986-2016, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License (in file
`COPYING'), or (at your option) any later version.
See file `CREDITS' for a list of contributors.
Directory `doc' has additional information. File `doc/README'
describes the files there and what they talk about.
To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below.
(1) Unpacking the source tree
If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires
recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed. See
also doc/contributing.
(2) Building a server
Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001), GNU make, a
curses library, Perl, and either nroff or GNU troff (`groff').
See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
instructions. Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine
right from the build tree.
If configure reports "terminfo: no" in its configuration summary,
highlighting doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by not
having development libraries installed. On Linux, try installing
ncurses-devel.
If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
GNU make. Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.
Solaris supports POSIX.1-2001, but you need to set up your
environment for that. Try passing
SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
to make. See standards(5) for details.
(3) Creating a game
* Create a configuration for your game. make install installs one
in $prefix/etc/empire/econfig ($prefix is /usr/local unless you
chose something else with configure). You can use pconfig to
create another one.
* Edit your configuration file. See doc/econfig for more
information.
Unless you put your configuration file in the default location
(where make install installs it), you have to use -e with all
programs to make them use your configuration.
* Run files to set up your data directory.
* Run fairland to create a world. For a sample world, try
`fairland 10 30'. This creates file ./newcap_script, which will
be used below. You can edit it to change country names and
passwords.
Check out fairland's manual page for more information.
* Start the server. For development, you want to run it with -d
in a debugger, see doc/debugging. Do not use -d for a real
game!
* Log in as deity POGO with password peter. This guide assumes
you use the included client `empire', but other clients should
work as well.
For help, try `info'.
To change the deity password, use `change re <password>'.
* Create countries with `exec newcap_script'.
Your game is now up!
Naturally, there's more to running a real game than that, but that's
beyond the scope of this file.
Please report bugs to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> or via SourceForge
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver/> (registration required).
For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send
e-mail to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> and we'll try to answer if we
can. Also check out our web site at <http://www.wolfpackempire.com/>.
Have fun!
Wolfpack!