Markus Armbruster
a109de948b
TREATIES has issues:
* Treaties can cover attack, assault, paradrop, board, lboard, fire,
build (s|p|l|n) and enlist, but not bomb, launch, torpedo and
enlistment centers.
* Usability is very poor. While a treaty is in effect, every player
action that violates a treaty condition triggers a prompt like this:
This action is in contravention of treaty #0 (with Curmudgeon)
Do you wish to go ahead anyway? [yn]
If you decline, the action is not executed. If you accept, it is.
In both cases, your decision is reported in the news.
You cannot get rid of these prompts until the treaty expires.
* Virtually nobody uses them.
* Virtually unused code is buggy code. There is at least one race
condition: multifire() reads the firing sector, ship or land unit
before the treaty prompt, and writes it back after, triggering a
generation oops. Any updates made by other threads while trechk()
waits for input are wiped out, triggering a seqno mismatch oops.
* The treaty prompts could confuse smart clients that aren't prepared
for them. WinACE isn't, but is reported to work anyway at least
common usage. Ron Koenderink (the WinACE maintainer) suspects there
could be a few situations where it will fail.
This feature is not earning its keep. Remove it. Drop command
treaty, consider treaty, offer treaty, xdump treaty, reject treaties.
Output of accept changed, obviously.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
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101 lines
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Perl
.TH Command NEWSPAPER
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.NA newspaper "The yellow press"
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.LV Basic
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.SY "newspaper <DAYS>"
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The news command prints a copy of the local newspaper published by
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The Empire News.
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.s1
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This \*Qmorning after\*U daily recounts financial exploits,
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the telegram traffic between countries,
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and political maneuvering
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in addition to the chronicling of such mundanities as shelling,
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attacking, and nuclear testing.
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.s1
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It's great breakfast reading!
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.s1
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Normally your edition of the news will only contain events that have
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occurred since you last read the news.
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You can specify what time period you'd like it to cover
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with the optional <DAYS> argument in the command line as in:
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.s1
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.EX news 2
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Which will print the news for the last two days.
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.s1
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You can select whose news to see with the ?actor or ?victim selectors,
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and what news to see with the ?action selector. Actions are:
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.nf
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1) Successful sector attack
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2) Unsuccessful attack
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3) Spy shot
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4) Telegram sent
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6) Loan made
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7) Loan repaid
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8) Goods sold
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9) Airspace violated
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10) Artillery fire on sectors
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11) Artillery fire on ships
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12) Attacking unowned land
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13) Ship torpedoed
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14) Gunners firing in self-defense
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15) Breaking sanctuary
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16) Planes bombing sectors
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17) Planes bombing ships
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18) Successful boarding actions
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19) Unsuccessful boarding actions
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21) Collecting on loans
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25) Ships hitting mines
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26) Alliance declaration
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28) War declarations
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29) Alliance dissolving
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30) War ending
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31) Plague outbreaks
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32) Plague deaths
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33) Name changes
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34) Starvation
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36) Air to air combat
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37) Nukes going off
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38) Terrorists
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39) Shooting civs & uw's
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40) Satellite launches
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41) ASAT attacks
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42) Deity giving things
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43) Deity aids country
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44) Deity hurts country
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45) Deity taking things
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46) ABM interceptions
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47) Missile firing on sectors
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48) Missile firing on ships
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49) Trade between countries
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50) Pirates fence loot
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51) Pirates keep loot
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52) Ship torps ship
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53) Sub bombed by ASW plane
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55) Unit bombed
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56) Unit hits land mine
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57) Fortress artillery supports attack
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58) Land unit artillery supports attack
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59) Naval artillery supports attack
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60) Capital sacking
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61) Upgrades relations to friendly
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62) Downgrades relations to friendly
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63) Upgrades relations to neutral
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64) Downgrades relations to friendly
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65) Upgrades relations to hostile
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66) Downgrades relations to friendly
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67) Missile hits sector
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68) Missile hits ship
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69) Settles on a new island
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70) ABM interception
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71) Missile hits units
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72) Sub-launched missile hits units
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73) Successful assault
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74) Successful paradrop
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75) Paradrop into unoccuppied land
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76) Failed assault
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77) Failed paradrop
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80) Insufficient funds to pay market
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81) Failed boarding of a land unit
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82) Successful boarding of a land unit
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.fi
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.s1
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.SA "headlines, Communication"
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