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Changes from the Empire3 server to the Empire4 Server

There have been several changes/fixes made to the Empire3 code in the new Empire4 Server. This outlines the various changes and how they will affect you, the player. These were coded as the Wolfpack project, and bug-reports should be sent to .

Changes to Empire 4.3.33 - Wed May 20 18:17:43 UTC 2015
* New client option -r for restricted mode. Contributed by Marisa Giancarla.

* The add syntax deprecated in 4.3.29 is now gone.

* The explore, move, test, transport syntax deprecated in 4.3.27 is now gone.

* The bmap flag syntax deprecated in 4.3.27 is now gone.

* Stricter configuration validation:

- Reject odd WORLD_X instead of making it even silently.

- Reject odd WORLD_Y.

- Reject missiles that lack capability VTOL instead of adding VTOL silently.

- Reject ships that can carry planes, but have neither capability plane nor miss, instead of adding miss silently.

* Outlaw ships that can drop depth charges, but not fire. No such ships exist in the stock game. 4.3.31 permitted them, but keeping them working has turned out to be bothersome.

* Changes to fire and torpedo:

- Don't disclose that the torpedo's path to the target is blocked by land when the target is out of range. Screwed up in 4.2.2.

- When a submarine gets hit by return fire after firing its deck gun, the defender again learns the submarine's uid and type, just like for surface ships. This is how it worked before Empire 2.3.

- When a submarine gets hit by return fire after launching a torpedo, the defender again learns the submarine's uid. Before Empire 2.3, he learned uid and type.

- Print "Kaboom" even when the target is out of range.

- Always clear missions when firing guns or dropping depth charges. Screwed up when missions were added in Chainsaw.

- Report "Sector X,Y ready to fire" instead of "Sector X,Y firing", because the sector isn't firing, yet, then. Also report ships and land units ready to fire.

- Suppress bulletin when player shells or torpedoes his own ship.

* When artillery on a bridge span shelled down the supporting bridge head, the bridge fell and the artillery drowned alright. But then the bridge rose right back. Broken in 4.3.14.

* Fix board to charge mobility even when defender is less than 100% efficient. Broken in Empire 2.

* The convert command charged security land units mobility until 4.3.16 broke that. Drop this undocumented feature instead of fixing it.

* Fix news to report the actual owner of ships sunk by return torpedoes instead of POGO. Screwed up when return torpedoes were added in Chainsaw.

* Don't disclose uid, type and owner of torpedoed submarines. The latter leaked through the news.

* Changes to bomb:

- Fix damage to mobility when bombing planes. Has always been broken.

- Include position when reporting bombing of a land unit, like we do for ships.

- Suppress bulletin when player bombs his own assets.

- Report bombing of plane to owner once, not twice.

- Don't permit bombing of dead planes. Missed when we did the same for dead ships and land units in 4.3.16.

* Changes to retreat and lretreat:

- Be less loquacious when changing orders.

- Deprecate pseudo-condition 'c'. Use retreat path 'h' to cancel retreat orders.

- Change query syntax from "retreat SHIPS" to "retreat SHIPS q". Consistent with mission, and makes prompting for arguments more usable. Keep accepting the old syntax for now, but deprecate it.

- Reject invalid retreat paths instead of silently ignoring invalid characters during retreat. Unfortunately, the path needs to be valid even with deprecated pseudo-condition 'c', where it's not actually used. This might break some existing usage.

- Fail without charging BTUs when the player gives no conditions.

- Fix infinite loop when third argument contains '?'. Broken in 4.3.16.

* Rename retreat flag "torped" to "torpedoed" in xdump retreat-flags. This could conceivably break clients. No actual breakage is known.

* Rewrite automatic retreat to fix its many bugs and inconsistencies with navigate and march:

- When a ship defeats a boarding party, but suffers enough damage to sink, retreat the victim's group (if any) instead of ship#0.

- Permit retreat exactly when navigate and march would be permitted. Before, land units happily retreated while on the trading block (forbidden with march since 4.0.9), crewless (likewise since 4.0.0), kidnapped in a foreign sector (inconsistent since land units were added in Chainsaw 3), loaded on a ship (likewise) or a land unit (inconsistent since that became possible in 4.0.0). Ships retreated while on the trading block (forbidden with navigate since 4.0.9).

- Land units can now retreat into foreign sectors exactly when they could march there: when the sector is allied, or when the land unit is a spy (with the usual risks).

- Land units can now retreat into mountains.

- Land unit retreat now resets fortification.

- Group retreat now happens only along a single path. Before, you

could scatter a group in several directions, and even retreat in

far away places. The latter was a highly abusable design flaw.

- Bulletins provide more useful information in fewer words. In

particular, they always report the end sector.

- Fix retreat after a torpedo hit to include the torpedo damage in

its mobility cost calculation.

- When retreat runs into a sector that cannot be entered, don't

consume the retreat direction.

- Don't charge mobility for retreating in direction 'h'

- You can no longer make your own ships or land units retreat.

- Clear mission only when the ship or land unit actually retreats.

- Land unit group retreat could corrupt the land unit file or crash

the server. Screwed up when Chainsaw added land unit retreat.

- Fix ship retreat when helpless. Surface ships claimed to retreat

in a bulletin, but that was a lie. Submarines didn't even

pretend.

* Don't tell the player he sunk a ship when it survives an attack

with bomb, fire, launch or torpedo, but sinks during retreat. bomb

even reported where it had retreated to when it sank.

* Land mine fixes, affecting march and, if option INTERDICT_ATT is

enabled, attack and assault:

- Fix march sub-command 'm' to not let non-engineers hit mines.

Broken in Empire 2. Fixed in 4.0.17 for ships only.

- Engineers now risk hitting mines twice instead of once on sector

entry, just like minesweepers.

- No sweeping with zero mobility. Screwed up when Chainsaw added

land units.

* Navigate and march cleanup and bug hunt:

- Stop on non-fatal mine hits, too. Before, we carried on, and

ships that lost all crew were left behind only at the next

prompt. Note that we already stop on non-fatal interdiction

damage since Empire 2.

- Fix use-after-free when a flagship or leader stays behind without

a prompt following immediately.

- When something other than movement charged mobility, the charge

was lost on the next movement, unless there was a prompt in

between. For instance, mobility lost to mine hits could come

back.

- Fix parser not to get confused by white-space.

- Make ships use radar always, not just most of the time.

- Land units now use radar automatically like ships.

- Report flagship and leader changes immediately, and always.

Before, they were reported only around a prompt.

- Wipe mission and retreat orders less eagerly. Before, they where

sometimes wiped even for ships and land units the command

rejected.

- Give up fortification only when a land unit actually moves or

sweeps.

- Report where exactly ships and land units sweep mines.

- Nicer error messages for sub-command 'm'.

- Fix sub-command 'm' not to drop engineers without mobility from

the march.

- When denying ships entry to an unfriendly sector with canals,

don't disclose whether it's above 2%.

- Both navigate and march now require all their ships and land

units to be in the same sector. Support for scattered ships and

land units complicates the code and blows up the test matrix.

It's also rather obscure; I suspect accidental use has been more

frequent than intentional use.

- Check for sector abandonment before anyone marches instead of

right before moving the last land unit. Fixes a bug that could

scatter the group when something interferes while waiting for the

player to confirm abandonment.

- When marching a mixed group of spies and non-spies into a

non-allied sector, remove non-spies from the group, and move the

spies. Before, only the spies before the first non-spy moved

into the non-allied sector, which could scatter the group.

Screwed up when 4.0.0 added spy units.

- Don't permit trains to march out of sectors without rail.

- When navigating a mixed group of ships with and without canal

capability into a canal, remove incapable ships from the group,

and move the capable ships. Before, only the ships before the

first incapable ship moved into the canal, which could scatter

the group. Broken in 4.3.0.

- Fix navigate buffer overrun for impossibly long paths taken. No

remotely sane game configuration provides a ship fast enough to

trigger it. Broken in 4.0.0.

* Remove option SAIL (commands follow, mquota, sail, unsail; ship

selectors mquota, path, follow) and autonav (commands order,

qorder, sorder; ship selectors xstart, xend, ystart, yend,

cargostart, cargoend, amtstart, amtend, autonav) due to multiple

issues:

- The orders are executed at the update. Crafty players can use

them to get around the update window.

- Usability is poor, especially for autonav.

- Few players use them.

- Documentation is inaccurate.

- Code has bugs, some of them critical.

- It's almost 1300 lines of rather crufty code nobody wants to

touch.

- Code sharing complicates maintenance of the navigate command.

* Configuration tables reader and empdump improvements:

- Better error messages.

- Export now omits redundant data by default. Use empdump -c to

include it.

- Import can cope with omitted sectors and realms. Omitted sectors

become sea, and omitted realms become empty.

- Column order is now unrestricted. Before, some tables required

an ID field to come first.

- Support splitting any table. Before, tables sect, news, lost,

realm, game, infrastructure could not be split.

- Support strings longer than 65535 characters.

* Fix empdump -i to reject strings that are one character too long.

The bug affected ship table columns path, name and rpath, land

table column rpath, nat table columns cname, passwd, ip, hostname

and userid.

* Reject nat selectors relations, contacts and rejects, because they

don't actually make sense. They exist just for xdump.

* Drop the code to resolve player IP address. It's been disabled

since 4.2.13. Deprecate nat selector hostname.

* Fix bridge spans next to a bridge tower or head taking damage to

fall when they should with EASY_BRIDGES off. Has always been

broken.

* Fix bridge spans next to a collapsing bridge tower to fall when

they should with EASY_BRIDGES on. Broken in 4.3.12.

* When you scrap a plane, you get crew back only proportionally to

plane efficiency.

* Changes to build:

- Fail the attempt to build a bridge not next to land or bridge

tower more nicely.

- Deities can now build anywhere, without materials, work or money.

- Building a plane no longer uses at least one military. Military

for crew are now rounded just like the other materials. The

special case dates back to 4.2.3.

- Report missing materials more nicely.

- You now need the required materials rounded up to be present.

Actual use is still randomly rounded. Before, crafty players

could exploit the rounding to save materials, or build

sufficiently cheap things without materials. In the stock game,

linf and many plane types could be built without materials.

* Remove option TREATIES. Usability is very poor, virtually nobody

uses them, conditions are incomplete, the code is buggy, and a

burden to maintain.

* Test suite improvements:

- Coverage extended to commands build, navigate, march, fire,

torpedo, retreat, lretreat, falling bridges, automatic retreat,

command info page completeness, and the empdump utility program.

- Maintainability of tests much improved.

- Test harness refactoring.

Much work remains.

* Adjust stack sizes. Stack overflow was possibly for tiny worlds.

* Fix start, stop to not operate on dead units when used by a deity.

Screwed up when start, stop were extended to units in 4.3.6.

* Nukes can be grouped into stockpiles, just like ships can be

grouped into fleets. The new command stockpile does for nukes what

fleet does for ships. Likewise the new nuke selector stockpile.

* wingadd no longer costs BTUs, for consistency with fleetadd and

army.

* Changes to edit:

- Keep missions centered on ship, plane or land unit centered when

teleporting it. Screwed up when Chainsaw added missions.

- Preserve "does not follow" when copying ships. Preserve "no

distribution center" when copying sectors, and don't mess up

coastal flag. Screwed when Chainsaw added the means to copy a

ship or sector.

- You can now edit nukes.

- Suppress bulletin on no-op ship, plane, land unit location

change. Screwed up in 4.3.32.

- You can now edit ship, plane and land unit types.

- Changing the owner of a ship, plane or land unit away from POGO

now works.

* Fix "make uninstall" to remove HTML info pages (which are not

installed by default) and directory share/empire/.

* Fix "make install" to remove stale formatted info pages.

* Code refactoring and cleanup, portability improvements.

* Info file fixes and improvements.

Changes to Empire 4.3.32 - Sun Aug 25 07:55:34 UTC 2013

* Fix an LWP stack overflow observed on AIX 7.1.

* Fix portability bug in standalone client Makefile

* Fix portability bug in configure test for curses.

* The break command now honors new designation of sanctuaries.

* Changes to edit, give, setsector, setresource, swapsector:

- Generalize edit to multiple objects: accept

 argument instead of just

. Obsoletes setsector and setresource.

- Make interactive "edit c" detect and handle concurrent updates,

like other edits do.

- Don't reprint edited object when done with it.

- Always print a message describing the actual change. Necessary

to give the deity a chance to catch unexpected changes, e.g. a

player moving away stuff right before a give command, leaving

fewer items than the deity intends to take. Existing messages

improved, missing ones added.

- Consistently send bulletins to the victim / beneficiary of deity

meddling, except when changing stuff mortals can't see.

- Report much more deity meddling in the news (subject to option

GODNEWS).

- More robust argument checking. Before, careless deity edits

could cause internal errors. Much bounds checking was missing,

inconsistent or wrong.

- Teleport planes and land units to carrier on load.

- Refuse to move planes and land units on carriers.

- Fix stack smash in edit l key 'L' that can mess up sector file.

- Fix setsector to again print actual landmine change for occupied

sectors. Broken in 4.3.31.

- Suppress bulletins for acts of god to himself.

- Suppress news for acts of god to gods.

- Suppress news and bulletins on no-op acts of god.

- Always send bulletins from POGO. Name the meddling deity in the

bulletin text instead. Inconsistent since Chainsaw.

- Make interactive edit accept empty key argument again.

- Make interactive edit treat blank input like empty input.

- Don't let edit put a land unit or plane on two carriers

- Do not disclose when a deity destroys a ship, tell the ex-owner

only that he lost it.

- edit p and u now show the edited unit like edit s.

- edit s now shows the edited ship even when its owner is invalid.

* Clean up output of satellite, land, sorder and mission for world

sizes between 200 and 1998. cutoff and level still have issues

there.

* Plug harmless file descriptor leak on OpenBSD with IPv6. Broken in

4.3.31.

* New doc/contributing explains how to contribute to Empire.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Info page, manual page and documentation fixes and clarifications.

Changes to Empire 4.3.31 - Sun May 12 16:58:34 UTC 2013

* Fix read beyond end of conditional argument on missing operand.

* Don't put broken links into info pages formatted as HTML.

* Permit ships that can drop depth charges, but not fire. No such

ships exist in the stock game.

* Consistently require guns for dropping depth charges. Before, only

the fire command required guns (since 4.3.12 and before 4.0.6).

* Change econfig key rollover_avail_max from 0 to 50.

* Make sector production more predictable. Commands production and

budget are now a bit more accurate.

* Fix bugs that messed up xdump lost and xdump trade on big endian

hosts (broken in 4.3.8), and made the server fail during startup on

most big endian hosts (broken in 4.3.12).

* Build process robustness fixes.

* Use "Level: Obsolete" to mark obsolete info pages, and drop "info

Obsolete".

* Server now uses IPv4 format for IPv4-mapped addresses. Simplifies

safe use of econfig key privip.

* Server logs a few more network connection details.

* Fixes and workarounds for econfig key listen_addr "" (which is the

default) when the system has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

configured:

- Server accepted only IPv6 connections on Windows and BSDs. Fix

to accept IPv4 ones, too.

- Except for OpenBSD, where the fix doesn't work. Accept IPv4

connections instead of IPv6 ones there, and document how to get

IPv6 accepted instead.

- Linux systems are frequently configured in a way that makes the

server accept only IPv4 connections. Document workaround: use

listen_addr "::".

* Change fairland island size probability distribution: roll two dice

instead of one. This makes extreme sizes much less likely.

* Make fairland record the island number in the deity territory.

* Fix extension of market bidding time when high bidder changes.

Introduced broken in 4.0.7, with insufficient fixes in 4.0.9 and

4.2.0.

* Fix market not to mess up ridiculously high unit prices. Has been

broken since 4.0.0 introduced the market.

* Fix melting of big piles of stuff by ridiculously heavy fallout.

Has been broken since fallout exists.

* Fix crash on edit s, p, u key 'U' with negative argument.

* When a deity builds ships or land units in foreign sectors, they're

given to the sector owner. This lets POGO build them, and it's how

build works for planes and nukes.

* Fix PRNG (pseudo-random number generator) seeding to resist

guessing: seed with a kernel random number. If we can't get one,

fall back to a hash of high-resolution time and process ID. This

should happen only on old systems or Windows. Far worse than a

kernel random number, but far better than just low-resolution time.

Fairland's seeding used to be low-resolution time and process ID,

but regressed in 4.2.20 to just time.

* Switch PRNG from BSD random to Mersenne Twister. This is a is a

proven, high-quality PRNG.

* Fix tiny error in distribution of some die rolls.

* Increase land unit retreat chance and nuclear damage's chance to

destroy a nuke by one percentage point, for simplicity.

* Merge news items a bit more aggressively.

* Fix a year 2038 bug in news item merging.

* Retire the nightly build.

* New make target check. Just a few tests for now, derived from the

smoke test that used to be part of the nightly build.

* Really fix accepting connections from "long" IPv6 address. The fix

in 4.3.23 could mess up player's host address in player output and

logs, and cause extra "Last connection" messages.

* Take ship cost into account when picking missile interdiction

target. Broken in 4.3.8.

* Really fix give, setsector and setresource not to wipe out

concurrent updates. The fix in 4.3.27 was insufficient.

* Fix setsector not to disclose number of landmines to occupier.

* Make capital fail more nicely when the sector is unsuitable. Its

argument must now be a single sector. Before, it silently picked

the first suitable one when the argument selected several. Has

always been that way, and never documented.

* Changes to option GODNEWS:

- Deity command give could downgrade the deity's relations to the

sector owner when GODNEWS was enabled. No more.

- Likewise, deity commands edit and setsector can no longer

downgrade the victim's relations to the deity.

- News enabled by GODNEWS no longer affect news headlines.

* Fix bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sweep to again accept a

destination sector equal to the assembly point. Broken in 4.3.27.

* Fix portability bug in configure test for Windows API.

* More user friendly server startup: journal open errors are detected

while the server still runs in the foreground, which makes it

possible to complain to stderr and to exit unsuccessfully.

* Market changes:

- Forbid selling conquered populace. Only relevant when the deity

allows selling civilians, which is probably a bad idea.

- Permit selling military by default.

- Forbid selling ships and land units carrying unsalable cargo.

* Scrapping ships and land units now spreads the plague

* Don't let scrap give away civilians, kill them off instead.

* Pilots and air cargo now spread the plague.

* Don't let fly and drop give away civilians.

* Fix fly to permit flying civs to a carrier in an occupied sector.

Broken in 4.2.17.

* Don't let planes fly to a carrier without sufficient space.

Before, planes that didn't fit were teleported home, which could be

abused. Broken in 4.3.17. Almost the same bug was previously

fixed in 4.2.17.

* Fix tend to foreign ships:

- Refuse to tend civilians to foreign ships.

- Don't leak friendly foreign ships' commodity cargo.

- Continue with remaining target ships after skipping a foreign one

when tending a negative amount of commodities.

All broken when Chainsaw 2 added tending to allies.

* march sub-command 'm' can now sweep own landmines.

* Land units no longer sweep allied landmines, except when executing

march sub-command 'm'. They don't hit them since 4.3.27. Sweeping

was forgotten then.

* Fix bmap commands not to parse empty flags argument as "revert".

Broken in 4.3.27.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Info page fixes and clarifications.

Changes to Empire 4.3.30 - Tue May 22 18:34:52 UTC 2012

* Disable damage to base sector or ship when missile explodes on

launch for now, because damage done to other missiles there can be

wiped out in some cases. Broken in Empire 2.

* Fix navigate and march not to wipe out concurrent updates.

Abusable, but probably not worthwhile.

* Fix some buffer overruns in fairland. Has always been broken.

* Fix arm to require nuke and plane to be in the same sector. A

remote nuke got teleported to its plane when the plane moved.

Broken in 4.3.3.

* Change login command kill (used by client option -k) to kill less

ruthlessly: send a flash message and try to flush output, exactly

like a server shutdown does.

* Fix server shutdown to wait for player threads to reach a safe

state. Before, player threads raced with shutdown, and failed to

update the treasury, record play time, and write log entries when

they lost. Bug goes back to Empire 2. Patched partially or

unsuccessfully in 4.2.10, 4.2.12, 4.2.20, 4.3.6, 4.3.10 and 4.3.23.

The race was hard to lose in practice, until an unrelated

"simplification" in 4.3.23 could get player threads stuck sending

output after shutdown aborted a command.

* Idle timeout changes:

- The grace period for clients to complete login and logout is now

separate from the idle timeout. Configurable with new econfig

key login_grace_time, default is 120 seconds.

- The idle timeout for visitors is now separate from the one for

players. Configurable with new econfig key max_idle_visitor,

default is five minutes.

- Fix the idle timeout when the connection gets stuck sending

output. Broken in 4.3.20.

- Idle timeout during execute now terminates the connection, not

just the execute command.

* Fix stack smash in build. Remote hole! Broken when Empire 2 added

the confirmation prompt.

* Fix stack smash in scrap and scuttle. Remote hole! Broken when

Chainsaw added the confirmation prompt. Additionally, the

confirmation prompt is misleading when the player supplies

conditionals. Redesign the flawed prompt.

* Fix execute's echo of the command. Broken in 4.3.28.

* The mobility cost of retreating a defending land unit was

calculated for an uninitialized sector. This could charge

incorrect mobility, prevent retreat, or, if the stars align just

right, crash the server. Broken in 4.3.6.

* Commands cutoff, headlines, land, lstat, motd, neweff, payoff,

qorder, sorder, and wall now behave like the other information

query commands when the player's connection can't take more output:

they pause to let other code run.

* Revised command permissions:

- arm and disarm no longer require money, for consistency with the

other commands to move stuff around.

- satellite no longer requires money, for consistency with lookout,

radar, sonar and skywatch.

- qorder, sorder, survey and test no longer require a capital, for

consistency with the other commands that report on stuff the

player owns.

- start and stop no longer require a capital, for consistency with

the other commands to control production.

- fortify now requires a capital, for consistency with mission,

morale and range.

- Anybody may now use country, echo and financial.

- Visitors can no longer use census, commodity, map, nmap,

sinfrastructure (useless without sectors), read (visitors don't

get any telegrams), and change (always failed).

- Players can no longer use map and nmap before break. 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.

- Players can now use resource before break, just like census.

* read could swallow the first telegram header when showing the

telegrams that arrived while waiting for the player to confirm

deletion. Broken in 4.3.29.

* Fix 'm' in path argument of explore, move, transport:

- Don't moan about deprecated argument syntax ('m' without a space

before its argument) even when there's no argument.

- Recognize the flags argument again.

Broken in 4.3.27.

* Market fixes:

- Command market is no longer available to visitors, because it

triggers execution of trades that have become ready.

- Fix a race condition that could cause commodity trades to be

executed multiple times. Abusing this to duplicate commodities

seems tricky, but possible. Broken in Empire 3.

- Don't expropriate sellers of units. POGO got the the money, the

telegrams and made the news, the seller got nothing. Broken in

4.3.17.

* Login command quit and server shutdown could lose player output.

4.3.23 tried to fix the shutdown case, but the fix was incomplete.

* Fix login command quit to really quit. It sometimes just swallowed

buffered input, at least on some systems.

* 4.2.22's fairer command scheduling failed to cover the execute

command. Fix that.

* When a client shuts down input transmission to log out, output

could get lost. Our client never does that.

* Don't skip post command treasury update and status notification on

EOF from player, after quit command, and when command is aborted by

server shutdown. An unluckily timed EOF or shutdown can deprive a

player of money gained from scuttling tradeships or sacking a

capital. Can be abused to build bridges and infrastructure free of

charge. Can also be abused to designate sectors for free, but the

stock game's sector types are all free anyway. Has always been

broken.

* Fix client not to send an empty line on player interrupt (normally

^C) before the first command. This was missed in 4.3.26.

* Code and info page cleanup.

* Documentation fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.29 - Fri Jan 20 19:20:20 UTC 2012

* drop and fly from carrier could fail to load last civilian or

military.

* Telegram and announcement changes:

- wire no longer loops to show announcements that arrived while

waiting for the player to confirm deletion.

- At most five seconds worth of messages are now squashed together

into one. Before, only the time between adjacent telegrams was

limited, not the total time.

- When telegrams arrived while read was waiting for the player to

confirm deletion, and we then showed them, we nevertheless

claimed "you have new telegrams" before the next command prompt.

Only with toggle inform off. Known bug since Empire 2.

- Fix read not to clobber asynchronous notification of telegrams

arriving while waiting for the player to confirm deletion.

- Fix wire not to reset number of pending telegrams with toggle

inform on. Broken when Empire 2 introduced toggle inform.

- The number of pending announcements was off when announcements

were squashed together.

- More careful error handling and logging.

* Ensure all of an update's output goes into a single production

report:

- Avoid splitting it up when the update is slow. Empire 2 already

did that for the number of pending telegrams, but not for read.

- Don't turn parts of it into BULLETINs. Autonav and sail could do

that since Empire 2.

* files now creates POGO with user interface flags beep, coastwatch,

sonar and techlists set, for consistency with add.

* Change newcap back to not wiping the country (it wiped since

4.3.12). Additionally, leave levels and telegrams alone.

* Changes to deity command add:

- Require confirmation for unadvisable actions.

- Refuse to touch a country while it's being played.

- Don't crash on negative country number.

- Create deities with money, just like files creates POGO.

- Always reset the country completely, not just when adding a

player or a visitor.

- Rename argument "new" to "player". Keep recognizing "new" for

now, but deprecate it.

- Drop argument "active". If you really want to create a player

country without a capital, add the player country normally, then

activate it with edit instead of newcap.

- Drop the obscure sector check and wipe option. If you really

need to wipe out a country, there's much more to wipe than just

sectors.

- Drop the undocumented land unit destruction feature.

* Permit no-op country name change again. Accidentally outlawed in

4.3.20.

* Plug a few minor memory and file descriptor leaks.

* Fix use-after-free when plane gets shot down or aborted in

dogfight. Broken in 4.3.27.

* Code cleanup.

* Info page and manual page fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.28 - Sat Jul 16 11:30:53 UTC 2011

* Don't let POGO (#0) navigate dead ships, and march dead land units.

The ghosts even got sighted and interdicted, and could hit mines.

Has always been that way.

* llook can't see land units and planes loaded on land units anymore.

* Fix board to ignore land units loaded on land units when testing

whether a sector can board. Broken in 4.0.17.

* Fix transport to reject planes loaded on land units. The plane

remained on its carrier. When the land unit moved, the plane was

teleported right back to it. Broken since Chainsaw 3 added land

units.

* Fix lradar not to let land units loaded on land units use radar.

Broken since 4.0.0 added trains.

* Fix strength to ignore land units loaded on land units. Broken in

4.2.0.

* Fix navigate and march to find paths longer than a few sectors

again (7 for 64 bit hosts, 3 for 32 bit hosts). Broken in 4.3.27.

* march sub-command 'i' now shows number of military and land units

loaded.

* New server option -F to force start even when state looks bad.

Risks crashes and further corruption, but gives deities a chance to

fix up a bad game state with edit commands and such.

* empdump -x no longer refuses to export game state that looks bad.

Gives deities another tool to fix up a bad game state.

* Land units loaded on land units fight che again, as they used to

before 4.3.26.

* When a land unit dies fighting che, land units loaded on it get

unloaded, and planes loaded on it die. Before, the update left

them stuck on their dead carrier. Impact like the next item.

Abusable. Broken since Chainsaw 3 added land units.

* The update no longer destroys ships, planes and land units for lack

of maintenance. Before, it left any embarked planes, land units

and nukes on their dead carrier. In this state, units behaved as

if their carrier was still alive, with additional protection from

the fact that a dead carrier can't be damaged or boarded. If

another unit with the same number got built, it picked up the stuck

cargo. The cargo got teleported to its new carrier when the

carrier moved. Abusable, but it involves going broke, so it's

rarely practical. Slightly more practical before 4.3.6 removed

budget priorities. Broken for ships and land units when Empire 2

added their maintenance cost, and for planes when 4.3.3 replaced

nuclear stockpiles by nuke units.

* Fix bogus internal error triggered by navigate and march

sub-commands 'r', 'l' and 's'. Broken in 4.3.27.

* Fix client not to reject redirections and execute containing

non-ASCII characters with a bogus scary warning when using UTF-8.

* Fix execute not to mangle non-ASCII characters in the argument when

prompting for it while login option utf-8 is on.

* Fix handling of non-ASCII and control characters in batch files.

* Conversion from UTF-8 to ASCII ate the character following a

replaced non-ASCII character. Buffer overrun possible if the

terminating zero gets eaten. Could happen in players, read, flash,

wall, and execute.

* Fix handling of empty commands:

- Time used was not updated.

- Mortal player wasn't logged off for game hours, game down, and

time limit.

- Notifications were delayed: going broke, becoming solvent, new

telegrams (toggle inform off only), new announcements, capital

lost.

* Minor tweaks to nightly build.

* Server's and empdump's sanity checking of configuration and game

state is now more rigorous.

* Deity xdump no longer dumps unused countries' realms.

* Remove option LANDSPIES. Deities can customize the land table to

disable spy units.

* Remove option TRADESHIPS. Deities can customize the ship table to

enable trade ships.

* Configuration table changes (builtin and custom):

- Rows must be in ascending uid order.

- Omitting rows in tables item, sect-chr and infrastructure is no

longer permitted.

- Custom tables now replace the builtin table completely. Before,

omitted rows defaulted to the builtin version, except at the end

of a table. Commenting out unwanted stuff just works now.

- Permit custom table product having fewer than 14 entries.

- Reject custom tables where customization has no effect (updates,

table, meta, all symbol tables) or where it's unsafe (news-chr).

- Input is checked more rigorously.

* empdump -i fixes:

- Don't touch plane file when import fails.

- Refuse import of incorrectly sized table instead of silently

creating one the server will reject.

- Replace old state completely. Before, omitted rows in the dump

defaulted to the old state, except at the end of a table.

- Input is checked more rigorously.

* Fix xdump updates not to dump bogus extra updates.

* Fix use-after-free when a plane got shot down or aborted by flak.

Broken in 4.3.27.

* Friendlier diagnostics in the build command.

* Fix build to set nuke's tech exactly like for ships, planes and

land units. It's not currently used for anything.

* Research required for nukes was slightly off sometimes due to

incorrect rounding.

* Bridge building required 0.005 tech less than advertised, fix.

* "show nuke" now obeys toggle techlists.

* Fix "show land s" to show columns xpl and lnd again. Broken in

4.3.15.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Documentation on custom tables and xdump updated.

* Info file fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.27 - Sun Apr 17 11:36:29 UTC 2011

* License upgrade to GPL version 3 or later.

* Fix buy not to wipe out concurrent updates. Can be abused to

duplicate commodities.

* Don't let fighters, SAMs and ABMs intercept while on trading block.

* Don't let missiles interdict ships or land units while on trading

block.

* Fix client to log long input lines untruncated.

* Fix client crash for long input lines.

* info subject pages now mark unusually long pages with a !.

* The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.15, 4.3.17 and 4.3.20 are

now gone.

* Fix give, setsector and setres not to wipe out concurrent updates.

* Fix explore, move, test, transport not to ignore spaces in path

arguments. Broken in 4.3.7. Deprecate use of 'm' without space

before its argument.

* Improvements to map drawing commands:

- Don't fail silently when asked to draw a map around an invalid

unit, explain the problem.

- Deprecate bmap flag "r". Use (a prefix of) "revert" instead.

- bmap flags following "t" are no longer ignored. However, info

pages previously documented an argument "true" in addition to

flag "t". To keep that working, keep ignoring flags following

"t" when they're bad. But deprecate that usage.

- Reverting the bmap no longer draws a map.

- Bad conditionals could make the commands misinterpret their first

argument.

- The commands now fail when they reject their second argument.

* The xdump syntax deprecated in 4.3.12 is now gone.

* Fix satellite to fail on bad conditionals instead of ignoring them.

* Journal improvements:

- Optional logging of output.

- Long lines are no longer truncated.

- Login phase input is now logged, too.

- Commands are now logged. Allows making sense of input without

context.

* Option BRIDGETOWERS is now disabled by default.

* Bridge towers now take 300 hcms to build, down from 400.

* Fix stop orders to expire even when the country is broke. Broken

in 4.3.8.

* Fix march and navigate not to advise on "legal directions" when

path finding fails.

* New path finder:

- Much faster, especially for distribution, i.e. where it matters

most. Speedups in excess of 30x have been observed for updates

taken from real games.

- Old land path finder leaked memory occasionally.

- Old land path finder overran buffers for very long paths. A

malicious player can arrange sufficiently long paths, but it

takes a lot of land. Distribution, the distribute command, land

unit reaction, and automatic supply now handle arbitrary long

paths. Commands explore, move, test, transport, march, navigate

and path now handle paths up to 1023 characters. Command

bestpath shows paths longer than 1023 characters with the tail

replaced by "...".

- Old sea and air path finder treated destinations as unreachable

when the best path was longer than 99 characters. Command sorder

now handles arbitrary long paths. Commands bomb, drop, fly,

paradrop, recon, sweep and sail now handle paths up to 1023

characters. Autonav considers up to 1023 characters at the

update. Planes can fly missions up to 1023 sectors from their

base.

* Automatic supply charged mobility for the path back to the source

instead forward to the sink.

* Make bestpath work for deities in foreign land.

* More robust savecore example script.

* Fix buffer overruns in the lookout, spy, map and nmap commands when

WORLD_X * WORLD_Y is not a multiple of 16.

* The path command's maps weren't always fitted to the path

correctly. Broken in 4.3.17.

* Land units no longer hit allied mines.

* Change sharebmap with yourself to do nothing instead of telling you

you're not friendly to yourself.

* You can now flash yourself. Enjoy!

* A race condition could make the flash command claim an ally was not

logged on when he was. Hard to trigger outside the lab.

* The flash command no longer prints "Flash sent" for deities. It's

annoying. It never did that for mortals.

* Plug memory leaks in mission code on a number of conditions:

- Submarines moving where own planes would interdict hostile

submarines

- Ground combat where countries hostile to one of the parties would

support if relations were right (allied to one party, at war with

the other)

- Ships or land units moving within hostile missile mission op

areas

- Any player action within marine missile mission op areas that

could trigger the missile owners' missions.

* Attack fixes:

- When you ordered a sector to attack with military, but lost the

sector before the attack was executed, and the new owner was

allied to you, the server got confused: it let the military

attack even though they were already dead, but not occupy.

- When you ordered a land unit to attack from an allied sector, and

the sector got lost before the attack was executed, the server

reported things as if you had owned the sector yourself. The

land unit still attacked when the new owner was also allied to

you. No more.

- When a land unit attacked out of an allied sector, its mobility

cost was computed as if the ally owned the land unit. Attacking

sectors old-owned by that ally was too cheap, and taking back

one's own was too expensive.

* Fix trade ships to pay off in own harbor. Broken in 4.3.17.

* Remove option SLOW_WAR. It hasn't been enabled in a public game

for years, and the code implementing it was buggy.

* Fix a bug in sail that limited the sail path to 27 instead of the

intended 28 characters.

* Fix race condition in transmission of flash and telegram

information messages that could double output and possibly crash

the server.

* Planes get to sweep and sonar only after flak and interception.

* Don't limit the radar command's range to fit its output into a

world map without clipping. The limiting goes back to Chainsaw 2.

* Make flak vs. pinpoint bombing consistent with ordinary flak:

- 4.3.6 reduced the plane abort chance on damage, but missed the

additional flak vs. pinpoint bombing. Fix that.

- Fix to charge mobility appropriate for damage.

* Prettier flak damage reporting.

* Fix bugs that could cause bmap updates from recon and satellite to

be lost.

* Fix lookout to properly report sector ownership to deities.

* Suppress bogus messages deities with non-zero country number got

when attempting to navigate foreign ships or march foreign land

units. Such deity use hasn't worked since Empire 2.

* Deities can no longer fly foreign planes. It didn't fully work

since Chainsaw 3, and can trigger internal errors since 4.3.11.

* Don't split lines over several bulletins. The read command

normally merges these bulletins, but if they are more than five

seconds apart (clock jumped somehow), we get a bulletin header in

the middle of a line. Broken since Empire 2.

* Don't beep when plane, land unit or nuke die on a collapsing

bridge. Not nice, because it could beep many times, and could put

beeps in bulletins. Beeping was added in 4.0.18.

* Minor improvements to nuclear damage reporting.

* When a deity dropped a foreign nuke, parts of the output went to

the owner of the nuke instead of the deity.

* When a player triggered a foreign missile launch (mission or

interception), and the missile exploded on launch, part of the

report went to the player instead of the missile owner. This

disclosed the missile owner's origin. Broken in Empire 2.

* When autonav reported to a ship owner that it can't load or unload

foreign civilians, it used the sector owner's coordinate system.

This disclosed the sector owner's origin. Abusable.

* When nuclear damage bounced off a sanctuary, the bulletin to the

sanctuary owner used the attacker's coordinate system. This

disclosed the attacker's origin.

* When a deity used sweep, lmine, sail or sabotage with a foreign

plane, land unit or ship, its location was reported in the foreign

coordinate system.

* When a deity asked for a foreign nation report, the capital

location was reported in the foreign coordinate system.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Info file improvements.

Changes to Empire 4.3.26 - Mon May 24 16:37:40 UTC 2010

* Land units loaded on ships or land units can no longer fight che.

* When foreign land units were present, a che revolt could damage

them instead of the defending land units. This could let defenders

survive the revolt. They were captured or blown up if che took

over the sector.

* Fix che revolt to damage only land units that actually fight

* Fix loading x-light missiles on ships without capability plane.

These ships could only use their x-light slots for x-light planes,

not their plane slots. Broken in 4.3.17.

* Update bmap when nuclear detonation makes wasteland.

* Fix fly and drop to report discarded cargo items correctly.

* New client option -s to specify server host and port.

* Hitting landmines could crash the server. When not, the damage

reduction for capability engineer was applied unpredictably.

Broken in 4.3.24.

* Fix retreat and lretreat condition 'c'. Broken in 4.3.16.

* coastwatch and skywatch could see too far. Up to one sector for

practical radar ranges.

* skywatch now reports satellite uids. The uid is required for

launching a-sats since 4.3.23.

* Fix client not to send an empty line of input before aborting the

command on player interrupt (normally ^C).

* Fix sabotage not to kill the spy every time. Broken in 4.3.17.

* Code cleanup.

* Info page fixes, manual page improvements.

Changes to Empire 4.3.25 - Sun Mar 21 08:27:37 UTC 2010

* Hitting seamines could crash the server. When not, the damage

reduction for capability sweep was applied unpredictably. Broken

in 4.3.24.

* When an interdiction did damage other than collateral damage, the

planes that intercepted it from interdicted carriers used no

petrol. 4.3.24 fixed only the "no damage" case.

* Ship anti-missile defense failed to charge shells when the ship was

interdicted. The fix in 4.3.24 covered only launch.

* Fix a bug in navigate and march that let players lay mines free of

charge. Also fix them not to prompt for the number of mines.

* Missile exploding on launch could not damage its base if it was

armed with a nuke. Broken in 4.3.23.

* When a torpedo attack triggered a return torpedo, the news reported

it to be fired by the attacker instead of the defender.

* Interdiction attacked submarines with surface-only weapons. Broken

in 4.3.24.

* Fix a bug in lradar, path, radar, route, satellite, sect and survey

that could leak maps to other players. Broken in 4.2.0. Fixed in

4.2.8 for bmap, lbmap, lmap, map, nmap, pbmap, pmap, sbmap and smap

only.

* files could clobber the game when reading confirmation fails.

* fairland no longer rejects small worlds without trying.

Changes to Empire 4.3.24 - Tue Jan 26 21:29:14 UTC 2010

* The client sometimes hung under Windows when the server closed the

connection. Broken in 4.3.23.

* Fix navigate and march not to crash the server when a path argument

consists of a valid path plus whitespace. Broken in 4.3.7.

* When a client sent a blank line in the login phase, the server

crashed on some systems.

* Fix crash bug in bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail. Broken

in 4.3.16.

* Fix bogus internal error on escort, recon, and satellite launch.

Mostly harmless, as error recovery worked fine. Broken in 4.3.23.

* Stop ship and land unit movement on interdiction even when it does

no damage.

* When an interdiction did no or only collateral damage, the planes

that intercepted it from interdicted carriers used no petrol, and

interdicted land units were immune to collateral damage.

* The limit for the number of sectors, ships, planes, land units,

nukes, and so forth is now large enough not to matter. It used to

be 32768 on common machines. The sector limit was introduced in

4.3.12. World x- and y-size are still limited to 65536 on common

machines.

* News use much less space, and thus I/O. Space was wasted in

4.3.12. Side effects of the change:

- Expiry of old news no longer updates news timestamps. Updating

timestamps was wrong, because it defeated incremental xdump news.

- The empdump utility can no longer update timestamps of imported

news. Unfortunate, as it breaks incremental xdump news.

* New news selector duration, the time span covered by this news item

in seconds.

* ABMs failed to charge supplies when their sector was the

intercepted missile's target. The stock game's ABMs use no

supplies.

* Ship anti-missile defense failed to charge shells when the ship was

the missile's target.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.23 - Sun Dec 13 16:34:49 UTC 2009

* Fix missile interception not to intercept tactical and marine

missiles attacking missiles or satellites. No such missiles exist

in the stock game. Interception of tactical ABMs could crash the

server. Broken in Empire 2.

* Missiles missing their target do collateral damage again. Was

disabled because of bugs in 4.0.18 for manual launch and in 4.3.16

for automatic launch.

* News reported victim as actor for sub-launched anti-sat and ABM.

* Defense value of missiles vs. ABMs and satellites vs. anti-sats

failed to improve with tech.

* Fix a bug that let missiles interdict ships outside their op area.

This could happen when a group navigating together was partly

inside the op area.

* Only bomb strategic and launch at sector can use nukes. Before,

they could also be used by missions, bomb pinpoint, and launch at

ships, but there were several bugs and inconsistencies, and the

code was messy. The arm command now rejects marine missiles in

addition to satellites, ABMs and SAMs, and clears the mission. The

mission command now rejects planes armed with nukes.

* Missiles exploding on launch pad no longer set off their nukes.

* The launch command now more accurately reports why a missile can't

be equipped. It no longer draws supplies automatically.

* Manually launched anti-sat now always kills when it hits, for

consistency with automatically launched ones.

* Don't permit nukes on satellites, ABMs and SAMs. Nukes on

satellites could be armed and disarmed even in orbit. Nukes on

ABMs and SAMs were lost without effect when their missile

intercepted. The stock game is not affected, because its

satellites, ABMs and SAMs all have zero load.

* Remove obsolete plane capabilities stealth and half-stealth. Not

used by the stock game.

* Penalize fighter combat value for any load, not just bombs. The

stock game's fighters can't carry anything but bombs.

* Make bomb work for non-tactical cargo bomber. No such planes exist

in the stock game.

* Revised cargo plane rules: a cargo flight can be either an airlift

or an airdrop now. Airlifts carry more cargo than airdrops. A

cargo drop or paradrop with a non-VTOL plane is an airdrop.

Anything else is an airlift. This makes paradrop loads consistent

with drop loads. Paradrop with VTOL transports now carries twice

the punch, and drop with non-VTOL transports hauls less than fly.

In particular, the stock game's tr can't drop guns anymore.

* Enforce plane selection rules more tightly:

- bomb command can select only planes with capability bomber or

tactical. Before, other planes with non-zero load flew along,

but their bombs were silently lost.

- sweep command can select only planes with capability sweep.

Before, other planes performed ordinary reconnaissance instead.

- drop command can select only planes with capability cargo.

Before, other planes flew along but dropped nothing.

* Fix paradrop to fail without destroying the paratroopers when the

player owns the target sector.

* Launching an anti-sat now takes the target plane as argument.

Before, it took a sector argument, and targeted the lowest-numbered

satellite there. Rather inconvenient when your own satellite masks

one of the enemy's.

* Remove option PINPOINTMISSILE. Deities can customize the plane

table to disable marine missiles.

* Ridiculously impotent nukes could do unpredictable interdiction

damage. No such nukes exist in the stock game.

* The production command could mispredict resource-depleting level

production. No such products exist in the stock game. In fact,

they'd be highly unusual.

* The update could crash or corrupt the game when a (misconfigured)

product depleted resource "none".

* Revamp the Windows port based on ideas stolen from Gnulib. Share

the code between server and client.

* Don't log out player when update aborts a command under Windows.

Broken in 4.3.20, and not fully fixed in 4.3.21.

* Fix accepting connections from hosts with "long" IPv6 address. The

internal buffer had insufficient space.

* Delay shutdown up to 3s to let player output buffers drain.

* Fix a race between main thread and player threads, which could

theoretically make the server crash on start.

* Clean up synchronization between commands, update and shutdown, and

when player threads sleep on I/O.

* Clean up the cruft that has accumulated in and behind the empio

interface, and, to a lesser degree, the empthread interface.

* Fix time difference underflows in pthread and Windows code. They

could potentially cause hangs, although none have been observed.

* Make budget's "Sector building" line look better.

* Make sector maintenance cost configurable. New sect-chr selector

maint. Capitals now pay maintenance regardless of efficiency.

* Overhaul show sect b.

* Fix mine production resource limit for sector peffic != 100. This

affects mountains in the stock game, but only with an impractically

large number of ETUs per update.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Info file fixes and improvements.

Changes to Empire 4.3.22 - Sat Apr 25 11:56:29 UTC 2009

* Fix a Windows client bug that could lead to hangs, at least with

some versions of the C run-time. Broken in 4.3.11.

* Allow building without curses terminfo. Highlighting in the client

doesn't work then.

* Really fix bomb not to wipe out plane updates made while it asked

for pinpoint targets. The fix in 4.3.21 didn't cover escorts.

* Fix tend land not to wipe out concurrent updates.

* Automatic supply fixes:

- Ships with just two shells could fire a torpedo to return fire or

interdict.

- Ships with just one shell could use their anti-missile defense.

- Land units were considered in supply even when they had not quite

enough supplies. Such land units could defend without penalty,

attack and react.

Broken in 4.3.20.

* Fix update to take dead units off carriers.

* Standalone client distribution built empire instead of empire.exe

for Windows. Broken in 4.3.0.

* Fix client to abort script execution on SIGINT.

* Fix Windows client not to hang on EOF on standard input when that

is a tty.

* Fix a client bug that could make it hang when EOF on standard input

follows an execute command closely.

* Seamines under bridge spans were disabled a long time ago, in

Empire 2. The drop command refuses to mine there. Change mine

command to do so as well.

* Seamines under bridge spans were mistaken for landmines by ground

combat, land units retreating from bombs, and non-land unit ground

movement.

* When a bridge tower collapsed, its landmines magically became

seamines.

* Don't log out player when he interrupts a command. Broken in

4.3.19.

* Code cleanup and portability improvements.

* Info file and documentation fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.21 - Mon Mar 9 21:34:52 UTC 2009

* Fix swapsector not to wipe out concurrent changes to the swapped

sectors.

* Fix a bug in crash dumping that could mess up the journal and, at

least in theory, mess up commands info, read, turn, and wire;

announcement expiry, and reading of econfig and schedule.

* Fix bomb not to wipe out plane updates made while it asked for

pinpoint targets.

* When bombing ships with a force containing both planes with and

without capability ASW, the bomb command could fail to report

presence of submarines, and could refuse to bomb ships when there

were only submarines.

* Leaving land units behind after a victorious attack could in some

cases wipe out changes made to them since the victory.

* The timestamp selectors added to commodity, load and trade in

4.3.12 could lead to spurious command failures. None have been

observed in the wild.

* Don't log out player when update aborts a command. Broken in

4.3.20.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.20 - Fri Feb 20 18:14:20 UTC 2009

* Option LOANS is now disabled by default.

* Option RAILWAYS is now enabled by default.

* Many fixes to automatic supply:

- Planes flying interception or support missions, abms intercepting

ballistic missiles, and the launch command for missiles and

anti-sats could all supply more shells than necessary, lose

shells, or conjure them up.

- Ships shooting down marine missiles could supply more shells than

necessary, or lose shells.

- Supply ships could conjure up shells when firing guns using

multiple shells, or launching torpedoes, or dropping depth

charges, or shooting down marine missiles. No supply ships

capable of doing that exist in the stock game.

- Supply engineers could conjure up shells when laying mines. They

don't exist in the stock game.

- load, lload and supply could supply land units with enough food

from the sector containing them to starve the sector.

- Sectors were charged too much mobility for moving supplies

sometimes.

- Land units serving as supply source no longer draw supplies

recursively, because the bugs there are too hard to fix to be

worth it.

- Defending and reacting units only checked whether they could draw

supplies, but didn't actually draw them.

- load, lload, supply, assault and board no longer supply land

units from ships carrying them. This feature, added in 4.0.14,

was inconsistent with other ways to supply.

- Don't use automatic supply to avoid starvation at the update. It

adds complexity to the update. How much good it does to players

is highly doubtful; certainly nobody can rely on it. It isn't

covered by the starvation command. Ships or land units could

steal enough food from their sector to make it starve.

- lmine could only fetch shells for engineers that use ammo. The

stock game's engineers all do.

The changes listed for load and lload are actually lies, because

supply has been disabled there since 4.3.17.

* Don't let an engineer lay mines while it is on a ship or land unit,

or in a foreign sector.

* Sectors and ships no longer need shells to fire flak.

* Use IPv4 and v6 only when suitable interfaces are configured.

* Fix turn off not to fail when the message is empty. Broken in

4.2.20.

* Don't nag the deity about game hours restriction in force all the

time.

* Tell deity when the game is down, just like players. Also make the

information available in xdump, as game selector down.

* Corrupt mailboxes could crash the server.

* Fix reject accept. Broken in 4.3.4.

* If a player was at a prompt when the deity turned the game down, he

was allowed to enter one more command.

* Air defense is no longer separate from interception. Putting a

plane on air defense now merely changes where it intercepts.

Separate air defense added too much pointless complexity. Its

implementation violated design assumptions of the intercept code.

Because of that, the same plane could intercept both an air defense

mission and the planes that triggered it, and the damage it

received in the first interception was wiped out.

* Intercept the same all along the flight path. In each sector, any

country owning the sector, a surface ship or a land unit there gets

to intercept. Before, only the sector owner got to intercept,

except for the assembly point and the target sector. In the target

sector, any country owning surface ships or land units got to

intercept in addition to the sector owner. Thus, a sector owner

with surface ships or land units there got to intercept twice. The

sector owner did not get to intercept at the assembly point,

even when it was the target sector.

* Spotting rule changes:

- Ships and land units now spot overflying planes along all of the

flight path instead of just the target sector, and no longer

report allied planes.

- Planes now spot ships and land units only when flying recon or

sweep, and along all of their flight path instead of just the

target sector. It still takes a spy plane to identify ships and

land units.

- Planes now spot ships and land units in a sector even when all

planes abort there.

- Planes now spot all foreign ships and land units, not just

hostile ones.

* Fix SAM interception for intercepts other than the first.

* Fix air defense and flak over sectors allied to the planes. Air

defense was broken in Empire 2. Flak was broken in 4.2.8.

* Establishing contact by spotting planes from sectors didn't work.

* Fix reconnaissance patrols to use sonar when any capable plane is

present. Before, all planes had to be capable.

* Fix recon and sweep not to spy after all spy planes are gone.

* Fix a bug that made multiple clients running on the same Windows

machine interfere with each other. Broken in 4.3.11.

* Fix enforcing game hours for players already logged in. Broken in

4.3.19.

* Fix distribution not to abandon a distribution center by exporting

the last military.

* Many fixes to load, unload, lload and lunload:

- Now usable for deities.

- Plug loopholes that let you steal foreign commodities by making

load/lload unload and unload/lunload load through use of negative

amount arguments.

- Fix not to let you give away civilians.

- You can't use lload in foreign sectors or lunload with foreign

land units anymore. Loading stuff in foreign sectors was

prohibited already for ships.

- lload and lunload now work on foreign land units only when

they're explicitly named by uid. This matches behavior of load

and unload.

- Fix to test relations of foreign object's owner to player instead

of the other way round.

* Make sure land units with maximum mobility can attack mountains.

* Fix land unit attack mobility cost. Broken in 4.3.6.

* Conditions comparing string-valued selectors like wing to unquoted

values are now interpreted more smartly. Before, unquoted strings

were prone to be interpreted as selector names even when that made

no sense. You still have to disambiguate truly ambiguous cases

like w=w for planes, e.g. as wing=w or w='w'.

* Fix reporting of shot spies in news. Broken in 4.3.16.

* Remove econfig key mission_mob_cost. Questionable feature, and

hasn't been used in a long time.

* Reserve and escort missions now have an op-area, like all the other

missions.

* Land units now react only when on a reserve mission. The lrange

command is gone. The edit command still accepts and ignores the

land unit key 'P' for compatibility, but it is deprecated.

* Fix a bug that could mess up mission op-area when the range of

ship, plane or land unit on the mission decreases, e.g. through the

range command.

* Reserve missions no longer give a bonus to reaction range.

* Info file fixes.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.19 - Sun Dec 7 23:15:34 UTC 2008

* LWP doesn't work with Darwin due to OS bugs, avoid it for now.

* Don't let ships double-retreat first on 'i' (injured) and then on

'h' (helpless) when shelled.

* Fix a bug that suppressed the "sunk!" message. Broken in 4.3.17.

* Log out player when maximum time per day is exceeded. Before, he

could remain logged in with visitor privileges only, but once

logged out could not log back in.

* If a player was at a prompt when either game hours restriction

started or maximum time per day was exceeded, he was allowed to

enter one more command.

* Deitying a capital failed to charge money and report news. Broken

in 4.3.17.

* Overhaul accounting of play time, fixing minor inaccuracies.

* Fix parsing of 24:00 in econfig key game_hours and

update_demandtimes.

* New option RAILWAYS.

* Che ages just like military reserves (1% per 24 ETUs).

* Permit ships to assault the sector they're in.

* Sectors eating less than one unit of food don't make one unit of

food for free anymore. They still can't starve.

* New concept sector terrain. Deities can use it to make sectors

other than wilderness redesignatable. See sect.config for more

info.

* Represent play time in seconds rather than minutes. This affects

xdump: nat selector minused (counting minutes) is replaced by

timeused (counting seconds).

* Improved nightly build, with additional tests.

Changes to Empire 4.3.18 - Sat Oct 18 18:39:17 UTC 2008

* Fix building of planes, land units and nukes with uids that have

never been used before. This could crash the server on some

systems in certain states. Broken in 4.3.17.

* Improved nightly build, with restructured and extended tests.

Changes to Empire 4.3.17 - Sat Sep 20 16:07:44 UTC 2008

* Fix standalone client build for Windows. Broken in 4.3.11.

* Disable automatic supply of land units on load for now, it's

broken, and can be abused to duplicate supplies.

* Make trade show exactly what's on sale, remove option SHOWPLANE.

* Stop ships, planes, land units and nukes on violent takeover, just

like sectors.

* Wipe orders when ships, planes, land units and nukes are taken over

violently or given away peacefully. Fleet, wing, army and mission

were already cleared in many, but not all cases. Other orders were

never cleared: mission op-areas (visible in xdump), ship autonav

orders, ship sail path (including ship to follow and mobility

quota), land unit retreat orders, plane range limit, and land unit

retreat percentage.

* Fix takeover of stuff by attack, assault, board, lboard, paradrop

and pboard:

- Corrupt land unit file could lead to infinite recursion.

- Take over nuke armed on plane along with the plane. Broken in

4.3.3.

- Taking over land units with negative mobility increased mobility

to zero. Ditto for planes embarked on ships or land units.

* Fix a bug that made set and xdump not recognize unused trade lots

as such.

* Fix giving away stuff by trading it:

- When an armed nuke is sold separately from its plane, take it off

the plane. You couldn't do that before 4.3.3.

- Give away nuke armed on sold plane along with the plane. Broken

in 4.3.3.

- Don't zero mobility of planes and land units on sold ships.

* Fix giving away stuff by unloading from its carrier: Give away any

nukes armed on planes (broken in 4.3.3) and land units loaded on

land units. The latter can't happen in the stock game.

* Fix giving away stuff by scrapping or scuttling its carrier:

- Fix up output.

- Disarm the nuke from a plane instead of destroying it.

- Give away any loaded land units and planes, too.

* Tradeship fixes:

- Fix scuttle to ask for confirmation when scuttling a tradeship in

an unsuitable sector even when the tradeship is pirated. Broken

in 4.2.13.

- Fix scuttle to require 2% harbor efficiency for a trade ship to

pay. Also require at least friendly relations.

- Make autonav refuse scuttle orders in unsuitable sectors.

* Clean up rules on where you can scrap stuff:

- Ships in own or friendly, efficient harbors (relations used not

to matter, contrary to info)

- Planes in own or allied, efficient airfields (friendly used to

work as well, contrary to info)

- Land units in any own or allied sector (relations used not to

matter, and you couldn't scrap them on ships)

Also tell player why something can't be scrapped instead of

ignoring it silently.

* Rewrite the broken code to move land units, planes and nukes along

with their carrier. The old code was a hack that didn't update

timestamps (so incremental dumps didn't pick up the movement), and

it didn't cover all uses. The update, in particular, was prone to

see cargo in old locations, which could screw up repairs.

* Expire lost items at the update instead of continuously.

* Replace econfig key lost_items_timeout by lost_keep_hours.

* Minor Windows threading fixes.

* Journal now uses human-readable names to identify threads.

* Ship and land unit load counters are no longer stored in game

state, because they duplicate information already there. Same for

the type of nuke loaded on a plane. Remove field nuketype from

xdump plane. Clients can simply find the plane's nuke instead.

The edit command still accepts and ignores the plane key 'n' for

compatibility, but it is deprecated.

* Ship and land unit load counts as displayed by ship, sdump, land,

ldump, ship selectors nplane, nxlight, nchoppers, nland, and land

selectors nxlight, nland are now reliable. They used to get out of

sync at times.

* Ship load counts now reflect what is loaded, not how it is stored.

For instance, if a light carrier, capable of carrying 4 x-lights

and 20 light planes carries nothing but 5 sams, we now have

nxlight=5, nplane=0 instead of nxlight=4, nplane=1.

* New cargo lists data structure to let code find loaded planes, land

units and nukes easily and efficiently.

* Revamped upkeep of lost file. It should be reliable now.

* Disable the ill-advised error recovery on sector access that swept

bugs under the carpet rather than recovering from them.

* Occupied sectors no longer revert to the old owner when all

military and land units go away. This feature was added in

Chainsaw 3. It wasn't integrated properly with the che code

(things went wrong when che killed all defenders, but couldn't

convert the sector due to its loyalty), and combat code (if an

attack killed off all local defenders and got defeated by reacting

units, the sector changed ownership anyway, silently).

* Include destination coordinates in interception and plane mission

messages.

* Client could misdiagnose redirections and executes as unauthorized,

or die outright. Broken in 4.3.11.

* Fix xdump realm to dump player instead of absolute coordinates.

Disclosed the true origin. Broken in 4.3.0.

* Fix spy to reliably avoid spying same sector more than once.

* The map drawing code could smash the heap when the world was

ridiculously small.

* When a satellite's launch trajectory was off, its coordinates could

get screwed up, which made it invisible in skywatch.

* Fix several bugs that made the path command screw up when the path

spans large areas.

* Fix the default size of the map shown by move, test and transport

sub-command M.

* Fix bugs that could make arguments in area or dist syntax miss

ships, planes, land units and nukes at the border of the selected

area, if that area spans the whole world. In sufficiently small

worlds, it could also make radar miss satellites and ships, sonar

miss ships, satellite miss ships and land units, nuclear

detonations miss ships, planes, land units and nukes, automatic

supply miss ship and land unit supply sources, ships and land units

fail to return fire, ships fail to fire support.

* Maps sometimes showed x-coordinates as three lines instead of two

unnecessarily.

* Improved nightly build, tests in particular.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.16 - Sat Aug 9 15:56:52 UTC 2008

* Production command incorrectly limited the number of graduates,

happy strollers, technological breakthroughs and medical

discoveries produced by a sector to 999. Broken in 4.2.15.

* Fix a bug in improve that could let you spend more money than you

have.

* Fix work command not to spend more mobility than requested, and to

round mobility use randomly instead of down.

* Commands demobilize, convert and work no longer let you spend more

money than you have. Commands demobilize and convert no longer ask

for confirmation before spending more than half your money. Saving

that feature would have been more work than it's worth.

* Remove undocumented key 'd' at bomb ship, plane and land unit

target prompts.

* Fix land unit flak when pin-bombed to match flak when overflown:

proportional to efficiency, and randomly rounded. Was missed in

4.3.6.

* Don't permit bombing of embarked planes and land units.

* Fix capital maintenance to charge at 60% efficiency.

* launch command now requires only 40% plane efficiency, for

consistency with other ways to launch missiles.

* Disable collateral damage when automatically launched missiles miss

their target. Collateral damage was done even when the launch

failed or the missile got intercepted. It's been disabled for

manually launched missiles since 4.0.18, for the same reason.

* Fix a bug that corrupted the lostitems file. Broken in 4.3.12.

* Show command changes:

- Move product information from "show sect c" into new "show

product", and reformat it to be easier to understand.

- New column navigability in "show sect s".

- "show sect s" now shows the packing bonus type instead of

selected packing bonuses. "show item" shows the actual bonuses

for each type.

- "show sect b" now shows the usual values in addition to unusual

ones.

* Fix interdiction to obey op-area for missiles.

* Fix a bug that caused a stale sources.mk to be distributed in the

4.3.14 an 4.3.15 tarballs. The latter does not build out of the

box because of that.

* Don't strip tab characters from quoted command arguments. Broken

in 4.2.21.

* shutdown commands now always take effect immediately. Before, they

could be delayed by up to a minute.

* shutdown could start multiple shutdown threads when you initiated a

shutdown shortly after cancelling one. This screwed up the timing

of the shutdown.

* Deity syntax of zdone changed, and is now documented in info.

* The threshold command could be tricked into accepting negative

thresholds.

* Fix designate to always write updated bmap to disk.

* Fix bomb to fail on empty  argument instead of flying

without bombs.

* Fix a bug in distribute that screwed up the current sector's

distribution center when the command got aborted.

* Commands arm, bomb, deliver, drop, fire, fly, paradrop, recon,

lmine, order, power, range, sail, shutdown, sweep and tend did not

honor command abortion at some prompts.

* Fix a bug in handling of EOF from client that could bite in the

following ways:

- EOF at target prompts for bombing commodities, ships, planes and

land units sent the server into an infinite loop that ate all

memory.

- EOF at sail's path prompt crashed the server.

- EOF at some prompts in deliver, designate, fly, morale, zdone,

attack and assault didn't abort the command.

Broken in 4.3.11.

* Selector terr is now the same as terr0 for mortal players, and

dterr for deities. This matches how the territory command works.

Unfortunately, this required us to rename xdump sect field terr to

terr0. Sorry about that.

* Fix bomb not to let you bomb dead ships and land units.

* Make the retreat command a bit more helpful on retreat conditions,

and make it fail on bad conditions.

* Fix the mapper scripts. Broken in 4.2.0.

* Fix flying commands not to let planes do double duty as escorts.

Broken in 4.3.12.

* When a minesweeper hit a mine after sweeping, the mine wasn't used

up. If it sank the minesweeper, the code accessed freed memory,

which could clobber the ship file or worse. Broken in 4.0.17.

* Don't let non-light units board ships that can't carry them.

* Capitals can now employ up to 1000 civilians instead of 999.

* Spy command changes:

- Spy now requires sector military. Before, presence of land units

was sufficient, but spies shot were only deduced from sector

military. If you lost more spies than you had sector military,

the rest came back from the dead.

- Spy no longer ignores non-sea sectors without civilians, military

and land units.

- Remove columns lnd, pln from spy report. The values didn't match

the reported land units and planes, and could leak the presence

of spy units.

- Establish contact when spy succeeds even though the spy was

caught.

* Fix news reporting and damage when land units interdict ships in

sectors other than sea.

* Fix land unit return fire damage to ships to take accuracy into

account, like the fire command and interdiction does.

* Remove the inconsistent shelling damage reduction for range. Fire

command got damage reduced by 10-20% with a chance depending on

range ("Wind deflects shells"). Ships interdicting got it reduced

by half. Other ways to shell did not get damage reduced for range.

* Fix ground combat to report defending land units. Broken in 4.3.4.

* Info file and documentation fixes and improvements.

Changes to Empire 4.3.15 - Sun May 18 08:59:30 UTC 2008

* The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.10 are now gone.

* fairland now obeys game file locks.

* Do not leak world creation time in files utility, because that

facilitates attacks against fairland's PRNG. Broken in 4.3.12.

* Fix starvation not to starve one more than it should. The last man

on a boat or land unit now can't starve anymore.

* Fix a crash bug in satellite. Broken in 4.2.7 and not fixed

correctly in 4.2.12.

* Fix a coordinate normalization bug that could theoretically lead to

buffer overruns and other unpleasantness. None have been

reproduced, though. Broken in 4.3.12.

* Remove option FUEL. The abstract idea of tying ships and land

units to a logistical tether is sound, the concrete implementation

as option FUEL is flawed. It adds too much busy-work to the game

to be enjoyable. It hasn't been enabled in a public game for

years. The code implementing it is ugly, repetitive, and a burden

to maintain. The edit command still accepts and ignores the fuel

keys for compatibility, but they are deprecated.

* Fix pin-bomb not to report subs when there are none.

* You now have to take a capital to capture the victim's money, loans

or market lots. Merely obliterating the capital doesn't cut it.

It still makes the victim lose money, though.

* Fix a bug that could theoretically allow sacking of non-existant

capitals of visitors, deities and such.

* You now gain BTUs and MOB_ACCESS mobility before the first update

again. You didn't since 4.3.10 introduced the ETU clock.

* Fix edit to detect when the edited object changes while it's being

edited.

* Fix xdump nat for relations: it got HIDDEN backwards. Broken in

4.3.12.

* Fix origin command not to prompt twice for its argument. Broken in

4.3.0.

* Info file improvements.

Changes to Empire 4.3.14 - Mon May 5 04:57:03 UTC 2008

* Another round of fixes to the fire command:

- Don't disclose where the target retreated to.

- Charge the target shells for returning fire.

- Always use guns when the target is out of range, even if it's a

submarine. Before, the difference in shell use disclosed whether

the target is a submarine. Loophole opened in 4.3.12.

- Make depth charges again work with just one shell. Failing the

command in that case lets players find out whether the target is

a submarine. Loophole opened in 4.3.12.

- Detect when the firing sector, ship or land unit changes across

the target prompt. Can be abused to duplicate commodities, and

more.

* Fix parsing of anchor-relative time in update schedule. Broken in

4.3.13.

* Fix logging of player input in the journal to include command

interruption and EOF.

* Fix oversights in 4.3.12's change to keep track of flying planes:

planes could be erroneously reported damaged by their own ground

strikes. Happened with missions and the launch command.

* Fix load not load hardened missiles.

* Fix harden not to harden missiles loaded on land units.

* New server option -E to choose what to do on recoverable internal

error. You can now make the server dump core and keep going (not

implemented for Windows). New econfig key post_crash_dump_hook to

run a program after crash-dumping. See scripts/savecore for an

example.

* Journal entries are now flushed to disk right away even when the

server is not running in debug mode.

* Don't let land units load trains.

* Allow deity to display power report for all types of countries,

with power c.

* Fix designate's check for disallowed sector types. Broken in

4.3.12.

* Documentation fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.13 - Tue Apr 15 19:03:11 UTC 2008

* Work around strptime lossage on some systems. Fixes the parsing

of the schedule file there.

* New selector maxnoc for xdump version.

* Fix initialization of realms in newcap. Broken in 4.3.12.

* Fix add for status arguments active, god, delete. Broken in

4.3.12.

* Info file, manual page and documentation fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.12 - Wed Apr 2 05:35:06 UTC 2008

* Fix rounding error in update that could result in more babies than

food permits, and negative food.

* Fix a bug that could lead to unfair thread scheduling under

Windows.

* Fix ship and land unit missile interdiction and ballistic missile

interception to require a proper base. Before, missiles could

launch from anywhere for that.

* Launch bug fixes:

- Don't allow launching from unowned sectors.

- Don't destroy missiles stuck on foreign ships.

- Use up the supplies required for launching an asat only when it

actually launches.

- Don't ignore satellites' fuel use.

* Deity command newcap now requires its second argument (sanctuary

coordinates). Before, it tried to pick a suitable location when

none was given. The code implementing this feature had problems,

and it's not worth fixing, because it is obscure, and rarely (if

ever) used: no conscientious deity would use it for a real game,

and for blitzes fairland does a better job.

* Keep track of flying planes properly. This fixes a number of bugs:

- While the bomb command awaited pin-bombing target input from the

player, other players could interact with the pin-bombers and

escorts as if they were sitting in their bases: spy them, damage,

capture, load, unload, or upgrade them, even get intercepted by

them. But any changes to those planes were wiped out when they

landed. Abusable.

- The bomb command could bomb its own escorts, directly (pin-bomb

planes) or through collateral damage, strategic sector damage,

collapsing bridges or nuke damage. The damage to the escorts was

wiped out when they landed.

- If you asked for a plane to fly both in the primary mission and

escort, you got charged fuel for two sorties instead of one.

* Plug memory leaks in plane interception.

* Fix trade not to let the buyer teleport satellites (not in orbit)

and asats to an arbitrary sector. Abusable, because abms

intercepted from anywhere, and satellites could be launched from

unowned sectors.

* The PRNG seed is now logged in the journal.

* Fix nightly build for Windows.

* Fix crash bug that bit when custom tables contained columns names

that existed, but weren't supposed to be in the custom table.

* New timestamp selector for commodity, country, game, loan, nation,

news, realm, trade, treaty to support incremental xdump.

* Deity commands newcap and add wipe the nation more thoroughly. add

no longer touches relations and flags for status active and god.

* New utility program empdump to export and import game state as

plain text. Check its manual for details, including limitations.

* Plane, ship and land unit stats are no longer stored as game state,

but recomputed from tech and base stats as needed.

* xdump ver is no longer a special case. Syntax "xdump ver" is now

deprecated. Use "xdump version *".

* Fire and torpedo cleanup and bug hunt:

- Plug memory leak in fire command.

- Fix ammunition use when returning fire: resupply could lose

shells when returning fire to multiple targets, and land units

were charged per target instead of just once.

- Interdicting land units now resupply shells automatically, for

consistency with other ways to fire.

- torpedo and fire no longer resupply shells automatically. The

latter used to resupply land units only.

- Land units no longer have to be in supply to fire actively, for

consistency with other ways to fire.

- Submarines with zero mobility can no longer interdict, for

consistency with other ways to torpedo.

- Fix bugs that let submarines without capability torp use

torpedoes to return fire and interdict.

- Fix torpedo command not to require a line of sight for return

fire and depth charges, and to use torpedo range instead of

firing range for return torpedoes.

- Active fire and interdiction didn't work for ships with zero

firing range, even though return fire and support did. No such

ships exist in the stock game.

- Let land units with zero firing range and non-zero firing damage

fire, for consistency with ships. No such units exist in the

stock game.

- Ships required different numbers of military to operate their

guns for the various kinds of fire. Unify to require 2*N-1

military to fire N guns.

- Ship ammunition use differed for the various kinds of fire.

Unify to use one shell per two guns.

- Forts could fire support even when there were not enough mil.

- Fix automatic shell resupply in several places to supply exactly

the shells actually fired, no more, no less.

* Change depth charges back to how they are documented and worked

before 4.0.6, mostly: require no guns, one military, do damage like

shell fire from three guns (before 4.0.6: two guns), use two

shells. In 4.0.6's model, they worked exactly like shell fire

(require guns and gun crew, non-zero firing range, damage and

ammunition use scales with available guns), except for missions,

which was a bug. Note that depth charge damage for all ships is

now like fire from three guns for two shells. No change for dd; af

did two gun damage for one shell before, and nas did four gun

damage for two shells.

* The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.3 are now gone.

* Fix build not to screw up automatic dependencies on certain compile

errors.

* Fix a bug that could prevent repeated news from properly

aggregating into one news item.

* Properly initialize all bits in game state files, even those that

aren't used.

* Fix explore's test for stopping on a splashed bridge. The bug made

explore print to a bogus message.

* Fix spelling of symbol airburst in table plane-flags. This could

affect clients.

* Change designate not to check total cost before executing the

redesignation. The code implementing that was buggy and too ugly

to live. Designate doesn't cost anything in the stock game.

* Always charge land units at least as much mobility for assaulting

from non-landing ships as from landing ships. Before, marines lost

all mobility when assaulting from a non-landing ship, which could

be less than what the same assault costs from a landing ship (half

an update's worth).

* Fix LWP's stack initialization for -s. It caused crashes on some

systems.

* Fix confused and buggy bridge splashing code:

- Flying planes could be reported drowned.

- Pin-bombing a bridge head failed to collapse bridge spans for

lack of support, unless the pin-bombing caused collateral damage.

- Corrupt sector file could lead to infinite recursion.

* Relative names now work for econfig keys data and info.

* Fix utility programs to abort on internal errors. They used to

print a message and attempt to recover.

* Fix off-by-one in fairland that ate the last expansion island.

* Switch from CVS to git.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Portability fixes.

* Info file, manual page and documentation fixes and updates.

Changes to Empire 4.3.11 - Tue Jan 1 18:57:38 UTC 2008

* New sector selector elev. It's set by fairland, but has no effect

on the game. It can be useful for deities to customize a world

created by fairland.

* The client now copes with ids greater than 15. The Empire

protocol currently uses 14 ids.

* Rewrite the client's code for reading server output during login.

The old code could write one byte beyond the end of the buffer

(theoretically a remote hole), got confused by long lines, and

lines that didn't arrive in one piece.

* Long country name, password or user name crashed the client.

* Fix xdump not to deny access to game state tables when maximum

minutes per day are exceeded.

* The server considers a country bankrupt when its treasury is

negative. Except when it doesn't. Fix that:

- report misreported countries with $0 as broke.

- If a command spent a few cents more than you had, commands requiring

money became unavailable even when rounding brought you back to

$0. But logging out and back in then bankrupted you.

- If your treasury rose to exactly $0, commands requiring money

remained unavailable.

- If you had $0, sectors didn't build and sectors and ships didn't

produce at the update.

* Fix a bug in trade that made your money evaporate when a trade fell

through because you couldn't fully pay. This bug was there since

the introduction of the market in 4.0.0. It got aggravated by the

removal of forced loans in 4.3.0.

* Fix printing of the new group in army, fleet and wing. Broken in

4.3.5.

* Fix flash not to screw up the message when the first argument

contains white-space.

* Don't let planes intercept when they are stuck in foreign bases, on

inefficient ships or land units, or on land units loaded on ships

or land units.

* Fix a bug that made interception require petrol to be present even

for planes that don't use fuel (SAMs). Broken in 4.3.3. Air

defense missions weren't affected.

* fairland and setsector now limit fertility to 100 instead of 120,

like the other resources.

* Generalize the autonav hack for fishing boats so it covers oil

derricks as well.

* Fix bug in path command that made it swallow every other step.

Broken in 4.2.22.

* The execute command no longer supports redirections and execute in

batch files. Flaws in the Empire protocol make it next to

impossible for clients to implement that correctly. See

doc/clients-howto for an explanation.

* Rewrite much of the client's code for sending commands and

receiving server output:

- No longer blocks on sending commands, which could deadlock the

session.

- Fix race condition that could cause server output to be discarded

on EOF on standard input.

- Don't discard server output when reading standard input fails.

- Fix error handling for execute and other, more obscure cases.

- More rigorous error checking for redirections and execute.

Clearer error messages, too.

- Fix execute redirected to file or pipe. Believed to be broken in

4.2.0.

- The client now creates files for redirections with the same

permissions whether the redirection is in a pipe or not. Before,

redirections without a pipe created files with no permissions for

group and others. This change may make your redirected output

visible to other users on your system. Use the usual controls,

like umask, to restrict permissions to your liking.

- Reject unexpected redirections (violating the protocol). Before,

they silently replaced the current one, and in the case of pipes

leaked file descriptors and memory.

- Redirections in batch files are not implemented. They didn't

quite work before, and could leak memory and file descriptors. A

flaw in the Empire protocol makes them next to impossible to

implement correctly.

- The execute command in batch files is not implemented. A flaw in

the Empire protocol makes this practically useless anyway.

- Old code leaked memory in various places.

- Unfortunate incompatibility with older servers: if you type the

EOF character (normally ^D) at an argument prompt, the session

hangs. Use the interrupt character (normally ^C) to get out.

* The client now supports options -h and -v.

* The client no longer zaps its command line in a lame attempt at

protecting users who foolishly specify passwords on the command

line. Zapping annoys system administrators and creates a false

sense of security.

* Journal entries are now flushed to disk right away when the server

is running in debug mode.

* Fix bugs in load that could make loading operations fail noisily

instead of silently on some systems.

* Server now reliably shuts down session when it receives an

end-of-file condition from the client. Before, it merely failed

the current command when it got it at an argument prompt.

* Fix bug in execute that could crash the server on some systems when

it prompts for the argument.

* Fix bug that let you check whether a non-allied carrier is

efficient enough for takeoff when one of your planes got stuck

there somehow.

* Fix bug that let you attempt to escort a one-way mission to a

carrier with non-light, non-interceptor escorts. Such planes don't

fit on carriers, and the command then failed with a bogus error

message. Before 4.2.17, the planes flew, and the escorts were

teleported home.

* Change the rules for fitting planes on ships slightly, so that the

order of loading no longer matters. Choppers and x-lights can now

use plane slots even when not light. X-light choppers, which don't

exist in the stock game, can no longer use x-light slots.

* The server now keeps its log file open, just like the journal.

* New server option -R to set the PRNG seed. This is for

reproducible tests. Change the Windows-only service uninstall

options from -r/-R to -u/-U.

* Supply a real PRNG for Windows instead of the leaky water-pistol

Windows provides.

* Threads sleeping until a specified time could return early under

Windows. This could cause missed updates. Broken in 4.3.10.

* Fix missing newline in show updates.

* Power report didn't factor tech into power correctly. Broken in

4.3.3.

* Code refactoring and cleanup.

* Info file and documentation fixes and updates.

Changes to Empire 4.3.10 - Thu Sep 6 17:59:53 UTC 2007

* Bridge spans now cost $1000 instead of $2000, and bridge towers

$3000 instead of $7500.

* The Windows port now supports IPv6, but it still needs to be

enabled manually at compile-time.

* The custom table reader detects more errors.

* Do not leak world creation time in files and fairland, because

that facilitates attacks against the PRNG. This misfeature crept

into 4.3.0.

* Remove the ancient, crufty non-UCONTEXT system-dependent LWP code.

Using it required manual hackery since 4.3.0.

* Plug file descriptor leak in add command.

* Don't kill player connections violently when their thread appears

to be hung. Threads being aborted by update or shutdown could be

misidentified as hung, and the violence could lead to resource

leaks, locked out updates, and corrupted game state.

* Fix LWP to reliably wake up threads sleeping for a time. Before,

players with a sufficiently fast connection could starve out system

threads, including the update.

* Fix a class of bugs that made commands behave differently while the

update is attempting to take control:

- No MOB_ACCESS mobility was gained.

- Telegrams were miscounted.

- Bulletins got misfiled as production reports.

- The navigate command ignored sail paths.

- The declare command was more quiet, and declarations of war

failed silently when SLOW_WAR was enabled.

- Many messages got misdirected to bulletins.

Some of these bugs go back all the way to Empire 2, ca 1995.

* New deity command reload, effect similar to SIGHUP.

* Not voting for a demand update no longer lets you veto further

demand updates. This feature was flawed (it encourages players to

vote late so that they can tactically vote no and thus build up

veto rights), virtually unused, and buggy. The edit command still

accepts and ignores the country key 'U' for compatibility, but it

is deprecated.

* Fix zdone not to claim to have triggered an update when they're

disabled.

* New update scheduler and ETU clock:

- New schedule file. See doc/schedule for how to use it. Replaces

econfig keys update_policy, adj_update, update_times, hourslop,

blitz_time. A change of schedule does not require a server

restart.

- The force command can no longer force updates in the future.

Edit the schedule file for that.

- New command show updates to show the update schedule. Obsoletes

the update command.

- New xdump game and xdump updates.

- New utility program empsched to help test update schedules.

- Replace option DEMANDUPDATE and econfig key update_demandpolicy

by econfig key update_demand.

- econfig key update_demandtimes no longer applies to scheduled

demand updates.

- You now receive new BTUs at the update in addition to login.

- You now always gain the same BTUs and MOB_ACCESS mobility per

turn, even when the update schedule changes, updates get missed,

or unscheduled demand updates run.

- Remove the mobupdate command, because porting it to the new ETU

clock is not worth it.

* Redesign of synchronization between commands, update and shutdown,

and how updates are triggered:

- Simplify update to a single thread waiting for the trigger.

Before, three update threads had to perform a carefully

choreographed dance to make updates happen. The dance relied on

thread priorities for correctness, which are only implemented by

LWP. With pthreads and under Windows, demand updates were prone

to two update threads starting up concurrently. Even with LWP,

forced and demand updates could lead to double updates.

- Use a lock for synchronization: commands take it shared, update

and shutdown take it exclusive. This makes update and shutdown

block until all aborted commands terminated and gave up their

lock. Before, they proceeded blindly after waiting two or one

seconds respectively, which was cheesy and unsafe.

- New commands no longer fail while the update is pending, they are

delayed until after the update.

- New commands can no longer start during shutdown. Before, they

could, but risked getting killed violently, possibly corrupting

game state.

- Fix command execution so that commands blocked in writing

redirections are abortable. The bug allowed players to delay

update and shutdown indefinitely.

- Fix shutdown not to let player threads block on output. This

let players delay shutdown indefinitely.

- Fix reading of player input not to block again after update or

shutdown aborted it. The bug allowed players to delay update and

shutdown indefinitely.

* Thread priorities are only implemented by LWP and no longer used.

With LWP, they let players with a sufficiently fast connection

starve out the threads that clean the lost file and kill idle

connections. Drop them.

* Show nuke rounded required research incorrectly.

* Log unprintable characters as octal escapes rather than question

marks in the journal file.

* The files program no longer changes permissions of existing files.

* The files program now creates all files with permissions ug=rw and

all directories ug=rwx, modified by umask.

* Fix a bug that could make arm, disarm and nuke detonation work with

a used-up nuke instead of the armed one. This could be abused to

detonate nukes multiple times. Broken in 4.3.3.

* Fix nuke detonation output for zero blast radius.

* Plug memory leaks in thread code.

* Fix a bug that made LWP I/O wakeup unreliable.

* New march sub-command v for view.

* Journal was initialized before threads were, which was wrong.

* Fix server not to create a journal on SIGHUP when it is disabled.

* shutdown 0 now requests immediate shutdown instead of cancellation

of a pending shutdown. shutdown -1 now cancels.

* flash and wall no longer split long message lines.

* Fix a bug in collect that screwed up a fully collected loan instead

of deleting it. The screwed up loan could not be sharked or

collected, but it could be repaid.

* Remove the wait command, it's been broken and restricted to deity

since Empire 2, ca. 1995.

* Budget failed to take sector production into account for predicting

unit repairs. Before 4.3.6, this bug bit only when you fooled

around with budget priorities.

* When unit repairs are limited by materials, the efficiency gain is

now rounded down.

* Ship repairs outside harbors and plane repairs by carriers used to

consume commodities when and 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.

* Code refactoring and cleanup, in particular to make the Windows

port less ugly.

* Portability fixes.

* Info file and manual page updates. All manual pages are now

installed in section 6.

Changes to Empire 4.3.9 - Sat Jan 6 12:42:19 UTC 2007

* Fix declare to prevent the deity from changing relations for a

player to self. Allow the deity to set the relations of a player

towards the deity.

* Fix arm not to put the same nuke on multiple planes (broken in

4.3.3).

* New option AUTO_POWER.

* Sectors now repair allied land units.

* Sectors now repair only own and allied planes.

* Fix repair of planes on foreign carriers: repair allied planes,

ignore the others. Before 4.3.3, carriers destroyed rather than

repaired foreign planes. Since 4.3.3, foreign planes were treated

as recoverable error.

* Fix automatic fortification of land units to use all excess

mobility even when mobility delta exceeds mobility maximum.

* Disable automatic fortification of land units when MOB_ACCESS is

on, because it is prohibitively slow then (broken in 4.2.13).

* Budget now shows level production (tech, education, research and

happiness) rounded instead of randomly rounded.

* Fix update not to randomly flush small level production to zero.

* Fix overly restrictive game file locking under Windows (broken in

4.3.8).

* Fix navigate to charge mobility for sweeping mines without moving

(broken in 4.3.6).

* Code cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.8 - Fri Oct 20 18:30:28 UTC 2006

* Ships no longer produce stuff when the government is broke.

* Fix land unit casualties in revolts.

* Fix security units not to raid friendly che.

* Fix update sequence to ensure stopped sectors don't work on the

ships, planes and land units in the sector. Before 4.3.6, this bug

bit only when you fooled around with budget priorities.

* Fix canal loading (was broken in 4.3.0).

* Fix tend not to tend land units that could not be loaded.

* Make xdump command available before break, but deny access to game

state.

* Lock game files to prevent concurrent access by multiple programs.

fairland does not yet obey the lock.

* Fix production to consider sector item limit.

* Fix swapsector to update coastal flag correctly (broken in 4.3.0).

* Enhanced mapping sub-commands in move, test, explore and transport.

* Code cleanup.

* Info file fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.7 - Fri Jul 14 23:05:19 UTC 2006

* Sanctuaries are again fully populated with civilians (4.3.6 changed

the limit, but not the population). Food is now spread evenly

among them.

* Fix path finder to find shortest naval and aerial paths again

(broken in 4.3.4).

* transport's map sub-command now does the right thing for a unit

number argument.

* Fix bug in map sub-command of move, explore and transport that

passed junk to map command. Could theoretically crash.

* Food need reported by starvation was one short for sectors without

food.

* Change land unit ammunition use back to what it was before 4.2.3.

This lets deities customize ammunition use independent of damage.

It also substantially reduces ammunition consumption at high tech.

* navigation and march enhancements:

- Sub-command 'f' now takes an optional ship / land unit number.

- Mapping sub-commands now take an optional ship / land unit

number.

- New sub-command 'd' to drop mines.

* Let minesweepers retreat at their full speed (missed in 4.3.6).

* SUPER_BARS cannot be harmed, so don't interdict them.

* Don't let trains and non-trains march together for now, because the

march code isn't prepared for that.

* New mapping flag 'n' to show nukes.

* Mapping flag '*' now shows nukes as well.

* New command nbmap to bmap around a nuke. Overload command nmap to

map around a nuke when given a nuke argument.

* Fix an inconsistency that gave tactical bombers a small bonus

vs. flak when pin-bombing.

* Fix production to show the designation that actually produces, not

the designation as it is now (broken in 4.3.6).

* Fix accidental whitespace change in output of sdump, pdump and

ldump that crept into 4.3.5.

* Support user-defined sector types and products in custom tables,

not just customization of existing ones.

* Fix off-by-one bug in budget that used to be masked by budget

priorities until their demise in 4.3.6. The bug could crash the

game on certain systems.

* Code cleanup.

* Info file fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.6 - Tue Jun 20 18:46:18 UTC 2006

* The shutdown command now terminates the server process correctly

even with LinuxThreads pthreads under Linux 2.4 and earlier.

* Cope with old versions of groff (broken in 4.3.0).

* You can now arm allied planes with nukes.

* Taking a nuke off a plane gives it to the sector owner again.

Feature was accidentally dropped in 4.3.3. Recipient must be

allied.

* Naval path went bananas for impassable end sectors (broken in

4.3.1).

* New econfig key disabled_commands.

* New territory selector dterr, restricted to deities. The territory

command defaults to it for deities.

* Let land units attack as long as they have positive mobility,

except for high-mobility terrain (mountains), where the rules

remain as they were: land units need to have all the mobility

charged for the attack, not counting combat and moving in to

occupy. Rationale: Making sure your land units reach attack

positions with enough mobility left is a pain in the neck.

Requiring only positive mobility is friendlier, but allowed rushing

of mountains, so we make an exception there.

* Can typeset info pages as PostScript. Result isn't exactly pretty.

* Support disabling of infrastructure in infra custom table. Remove

redundant option DEFENSE_INFRA. show command now shows only enabled

infrastructure.

* Fix crash on empty argument in bmap, lbmap, lmap, map, nmap, pbmap,

pmap sbmap, smap (broken in 4.3.1).

* New, simpler sector mobility cost formula:

- The basic cost is still a linear function of sector efficiency,

with customizable cost at 0% and at 100%. The latter used to be

derived from the former. The show command shows both parameters

now.

- Mountains are no longer a special case.

- Tweak costs: mountains now range from 2.4 to 1.2 instead of 2.174

to 1.304, highway, bridge head, bridge span and bridge tower

range from 0.4 to 0.001 instead of 0.2 to 0.001, and wilderness

is 0.4 flat instead of 0.6 to 0.4. All sector types mortal

players can designate now cost the same at 0%. That's a feature.

- Road infrastructure now reduces cost up to 90%, linear in road

efficiency (used to be close to that, but non-linear). Same for

rail infrastructure, but 99%. Adapted from Ice World V.

- Double land unit minimum cost to 0.02, to slow them down on

highways.

- Change land unit cost penalty in newly taken land to an extra 0.2

instead of a minimum of 0.2, to reduce penetration depth.

* Reduce bridge head defense and collect value to match highway's.

* sinfrastructure displayed bogus rail mobility costs when there was

no rail.

* Retreating engineers took full landmine damage instead of half.

* Fix socket creation code not to print a null pointer.

* Fix login option code not to search beyond end of table (broken in

4.2.21).

* Spy planes and satellites can no longer spot landspies.

* Spy planes can now spot surface ships at sea. They can no longer

spot land units loaded on ships or land units.

* Fix train retreat mobility cost, and don't permit retreat off rail.

* Change maximum population to 100 for plains (was 49), mountains

(was 99), bridge spans and bridge towers (was 999), and to 1000 for

the other habitable sector types (was 999).

* Let minesweepers navigate at the speed their stats indicate by

letting them sweep on the move at no extra mobility charge.

* Reduce chance for planes to abort from 100-eff (if eff<80) to

80-eff. This should make it easier to punch through air defense,

flak in particular, and increase the risk of getting shot down.

* Ship and land unit flak intensity is now proportional to efficiency.

* Ship and land unit flak intensity is no longer scaled by the tech

of the owner of the last thing firing. It's still scaled by each

thing's tech.

* All ships and land units firing flak now spot the plane and are

spotted by the plane. Previously, spotting stopped as soon as flak

maxed out.

* Inefficient land units were overcharged mobility when reacting.

Broken when Empire3 changed land unit mobility use not to depend on

efficiency, except for supply units.

* New journal file to log complete player input plus selected

important events. Controlled by new econfig key keep_journal, off

by default.

* Fix unsafe shutdown on SIGINT and SIGTERM.

* Fix land unit path finding: paths weren't always cheapest (broken

in 4.0.2), and trains could be sent down paths without rail (never

worked). Also fixes unit reaction path cost.

* The custom table reader can now deal with sector, item, product and

infra tables more comfortably.

* Remove option BIG_CITY. Deities can customize the sect table to

get the same effect.

* Many more selectors can now be compared with names, not just

numbers. This includes nations, e.g. census ?old=Mirkwood. Does

not fully work for queer names like &&&.

* Let land units on missions support, just like ships.

* Don't let units loaded on a train react.

* Change update sequence to repair ships, planes and land units after

sectors produce. This makes repairs use new avail instead of old.

* Let players stop and start units.

* Remove budget priorities.

* Make plane report easier to understand.

* Change land report to show carriers in the same format as plane and

nuke report do.

* Code cleanup.

* Info file and manual page fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.5 - Sun May 28 07:49:54 UTC 2006

* In conditionals, ~ compared to a string selector now stands for an

empty string.

* Change encoding of `not in any group' from " " to "". This makes

fleet=~ work. It also affects xdump.

* Fix plane capture code to clear wing.

* People now eat and starve exactly the same in sectors, ships and

land units. There used to be small differences, and civilians and

uw loaded on land units didn't eat at all. The starvation command

has been updated accordingly.

* Fix bug that makes it impossible to assault or board with land

units (broken in 4.3.4).

* Code cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.4 - Thu May 25 05:46:10 UTC 2006

* Don't use non-portable groff features (broken in 4.3.0).

* Work around potential crash bugs in command argument access.

* Plug major information leak through nation selectors (broken in

4.2.21). The fix unfortunately exchanges the meaning of xdump

nation and xdump country. Sorry about that.

* Minimize redundancy between (mortal's) xdump nation and xdump

country.

* New nation selector rejects.

* xdump nation now shows foreign relations and no longer discloses

hidden relations.

* Fix crash bug in edit.

* Fix number of planes building in budget command (broken in 4.3.3).

* Selectors group, fleet, wing and army are now strings, and obvious

syntax like fleet#a works. xdump also shows the strings now.

Units not assigned to a group currently have group string " ", but

that may still change.

* Don't fold conditionals to lower case, because it breaks valid

conditionals like fleet#A.

* Mobility cost of a plane sortie is no longer limited to current

mobility + 32.

* Various formulas no longer truncate or round intermediate results.

* Interdiction mission charged twice the normal mobility cost for

torpedoes.

* Fix sail not to interpret negative x-coordinates as unsail

argument.

* Improved configure script.

* Code cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.3 - Tue May 16 21:35:47 UTC 2006

* power c can now show powerless countries. power c * works.

* Fortresses now require 5% efficiency to return fire and interdict.

* Range of ship return fire and support fire no longer depends on

efficiency.

* Fix heap smash in login command client. Remote hole!

* Properly destroy nukes on collapsing bridges. Before, you could

rescue them by building a new bridge or arming them on naval

planes.

* Nukes are now numbered like other units:

- New selector type replaces selectors number and types.

- New selector plane points to plane armed with this nuke.

- New selectors effic, mobil, tech, group, opx, opy, mission,

radius. Provided because all units have them; values are

currently not interesting.

- nuke command output redesigned.

- ndump output changed subtly: nukes are no longer sorted by

location, nukes in the same location no longer share id, and

nukes on planes are shown.

- transport nuke now works like transport plane.

* arm and disarm now accept the common plane syntax, not just plane

numbers.

* Fix arm to let you change an armed plane's air-burst/ground-burst

(broken in 4.2.6).

* territory no longer re-prompts when supplied with a bad argument,

it just fails.

* edit lets you edit stuff that is actually computed from other

state, like sector's coastal flag. This makes no sense and is now

deprecated. Stuff deprecated since 4.2.15 is now gone.

* Code cleanup.

Changes to Empire 4.3.2 - Thu Apr 27 17:59:58 UTC 2006

* Fix security units' raid at the update (broken in 4.0.0, fixed only

for 100% units in 4.2.7). Back out 4.2.7's 2.5x deadliness

increase. Make sure empty units don't kill anyone.

* Fix bug in player_init, which was most likely fatal on 64 bit

hosts. Broken in 4.3.0.

* Fix xdump not to disclose other countries' realms (new in 4.3.0).

* The order in which sectors were visited for `*' arguments disclosed

the real origin, fix. Mapping commands used to work around this

bug, until 4.3.1 exposed it there as well.

* Code didn't compile on some systems.

* Fix edit plane not to truncate large values for keys 'a' and 'd'.

Changes to Empire 4.3.1 - Sat Apr 15 11:40:47 UTC 2006

* Fix check of game state on server startup (new in 4.3.0).

* sail now accepts a destination sector.

* Tend could send bogus bulletins (broken in 4.3.0).

* Plug memory leaks in mission command.

* Close loophole in navigate that allowed players to find all sectors

that are unfriendly or inefficient harbors or bridges.

* Server didn't start when default econfig was missing and user

didn't supply one with -e (broken in 4.3.0).

* Retreat condition 'h' (helpless) never worked, fix.

* Fix retreating mine sweepers to use mobility for sweeping.

* Fix retreating land units to hit mines with the same probability

and to take the same damage as in normal movement. Before,

hit probability was higher, and damage was lower.

* Ships could retreat into sectors owned by whoever made them

retreat, but not in their owner's sectors.

* Fix 'm' at the movement prompt of transport and test.

* Fix march and test not to apply conditionals to sectors mapped,

which led to spurious error messages.

* Fix break not to respect conditionals. The bug let players keep

sanctuaries.

* Fix retreat code not to respect conditionals. Attackers could

abuse this to suppress fleet and army retreat orders.

* Fix retreat and edit to zero-terminate retreat paths.

Theoretically abusable for gaining information.

* Fix format string crash bugs in load, spy and bomb.

* Fix the telegram editor: empty telegrams were broken in 4.2.21, and

~p before the first line of text never worked.

* Fix ancient bridge building race condition that could break the

test whether the player can afford the bridge.

* Fix trade lot change detection in set command. Can probably be

abused to defraud sellers.

* The pthread code now compiles under Solaris.

* navigate and march now permit any whitespace between route and

optional argument for radar, lookout, sonar, not just spaces.

* Fix canal navigation (was broken in 4.3.0).

* Info file fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.3.0 - Sun Mar 19 08:13:10 UTC 2006

* version no longer pretends option SHIPNAMES still exists.

* Remove files auth and ban. They could be used to restrict client

address and user. Restricting user is useless, because players can

send whatever they want. Banning IPs is better done with a packet

filter. That leaves restricting deity IPs. Provide new econfig

key privip for that. Apply it to session kill as well as login.

* xdump escapes GUINEA_PIGS status:

- xdump is now enabled unconditionally.

- xdump sect now dumps selector coastal, because it can't be

reliably computed from other xdump information.

- New xdump realm and country. Realm information is now stored in

a separate file, with appropriate selectors.

- Reviewed for completeness and information leaks. See info xdump

for remaining issues. New treaty selector uid, nat selectors

relations, contacts. Removed useless selectors: news and lost

uid, nat dayno.

- Command syntax changed.

- xdump opt is no more, option information is now in xdump ver.

- xdump can now dump meta-data.

- Header and footer changed to be more compact. You now need

meta-data to identify fields.

- Bug fixes.

- Documentation in doc/xdump.

* New econfig key builtindir.

* New econfig key custom_tables lets you customize configuration

tables without recompiling. Customizing tables other than unit

tables is not recommended for now. See doc/econfig for

instructions.

* Check configuration and game state are sane on server startup.

* Remove option NONUKES and NEUTRON. Deities can load a suitable

nuke table to get the same effect.

* Remove option DRNUKE. Use econfig key drnuke_const to control

whether nukes need research.

* Disqualify land units from performing missions while loaded on

ships or trains.

* Fix dump for strings without terminating zero.

* Fix login command option not to send an extra prompt.

* zdone now displays information about demand update vetoing.

* The Windows port now requires Winsock version 2.

* Remove econfig key powe_cost.

* version report now shows all the configurable settings of interest

to players.

* carg and lcarg now display people as well.

* ldump now dumps civ and uw as well.

* Fix dangling pointer dereference in dogfighting code.

* Tell sector owner when partisans take over. But don't disclose che

casualties then.

* emp_server, files, fairland now support options -h and -v.

* Simplify baroque version numbering to a single version number.

This affects output of version.

* New show item and show news.

* New build process:

- Follow the usual steps: configure; make; make install. The

latter is optional. The only file deities still have to edit is

econfig.

- Use GNU Autoconf for system configuration.

- Use GNU Make for portability and features.

- Support separate build trees.

- Remake out-of-date dependencies automatically.

- Remake out-of-date info files automatically.

- Flatten info directory.

- Formatted info files are no longer distributed in source tarball.

- Use LWP only with UCONTEXT. Autoconfiguring the other LWP

low-level options doesn't seem to be worth the effort, as

UCONTEXT should be pretty portable.

* Fix use of freed memory in sail.

* sail could let large ships enter big cities.

* Fix reject and accept not to require contact.

* Fix sharebmap and telegram to prompt for a missing first argument.

* Fix report to align column research correctly for deities.

* When the optional newspaper argument doesn't work because HIDDEN is

enabled, complain instead of ignoring it silently.

* When BLITZ is enabled, fairland no longer permutes country numbers

in newcap_script so that start islands are ordered from top left to

bottom right.

* Minimize output format differences between options:

- census shows column fall regardless of FALLOUT.

- show nuke now shows column res regardless of DRNUKE.

- report no longer suppress column status when HIDDEN is enabled.

HIDDEN limits status information like for the country command.

- relations column width differed depending on option SLOW_WAR.

Always use the wider format.

* Fix a bug in edit that suppressed the player notification telex on

military reserve change.

* Fix command dispatch not to let deities use commands that are

declared not to be available to them. The only command affected is

break.

* Fix the list command for visitor.

* econfig key m_m_p_d no longer applies to deities.

* Fix the origin command for country #0. Allow moving origin to

another country's origin. Allow deities to reset origin to

absolute 0,0. This turns origin into a superset of the offset

command. Remove offset command.

* Fix a bug that caused unpredictable flak damage when it should have

been maximum damage (was broken in 4.2.19).

* Don't store initial capital location, remove the associated nat

selectors xstart, ystart.

* Fix production command to consider resource depletion.

* Fix justification of coordinate output in cutoff and mission.

* Option UPDATESCHED is no longer optional. Disabling it didn't

work anyway.

* Support IPv6.

* Turn options into ordinary econfig keys.

* New econfig key start_cash.

* BTU regeneration now depends on the capital's work percentage.

* nation now supports an optional argument that lets deities ask for

somebody else's nation report.

* Fix nation to display SANCTUARY instead of VISITOR for countries in

sanctuary.

* Fix capital to let you use a regained sacked capital without

activating another one in between.

* Don't move capital when it is sacked.

* New ship capability canal, replacing obscure formula based on build

materials.

* You now need a capital to request a demand update.

* power now ignores landspies.

* Fix LWP stack checking.

* Clean up LWP, drop dead machine-specific code, fix portability bugs

in UCONTEXT code.

* census now shows the old owner instead of `*'. dump is unchanged

to avoid breaking clients.

* peek no longer prints the old owner.

* When a bombed land unit retreated, collateral damage was applied to

the wrong sector.

* paradrop, drop and fly can no longer abandon the base sector.

* Tending foreign ships now sends a bulletin to the owner.

* Fix bug that permitted login for inactive countries, including ""

* Fix tend for spies.

* Change launch to fire all missiles selected at the same target.

Previously, it prompted for a new target after each missile.

* add, consider, build, launch and fire no longer re-prompt when

supplied with a bad argument, they just fail. Consequently, the

build command no longer lets you list types you can build. It

points to the show command instead.

* Fix add not to truncate country number.

* Fix selector coastal to be accurate at all times.

* Fix obscure bug in fairland: the sector added last to an island

wasn't considered coastal. Affected resource computation.

* Fix sector wiping in add command.

* Remove options NO_LCMS, NO_HCMS, NO_OIL. They were broken in many

ways. Custom configuration tables should become a serviceable

replacement eventually.

* Client no longer freezes on long lines of server output.

* Fix uninitialized signal mask bugs.

* Fix Windows service code's treatment of -e.

* Sub interdiction disclosed sub owner through news' actor selector.

* country reports on all countries, but carefully limits information

disclosed to mortals. Output format changed.

* Market no longer forces sellers to grant loans.

* Fix potential crash bug in set command. Friendlier prompt and

diagnostics.

* Substantial code cleanup and portability fixes.

* Extend empfile abstraction to cover game configuration.

* Overhaul of game state storage.

* The above includes major contributions from Ron Koenderink. Many

thanks!

Changes to Empire 4.2.23 - Sun Oct 23 09:28:26 UTC 2005

* Make version pretend option SHIPNAMES still exists, for the benefit

of clients that still depend on it.

* The change to conv in 4.2.22 could crash or compute incorrect

maximum population.

* Info updates missing in 4.2.22.

* A few code cleanups.

Changes to Empire 4.2.22 - Tue Oct 11 20:23:51 UTC 2005

* Log player login, logout and session kill.

* Close loophole in assembly point rules that allowed players to find

all unowned sectors. The assembly point must now be owned by you

or an ally, or you or an ally must have a ship there.

* Don't let embarked land units fire flak.

* Fix display of the last connection's host when the host name was

not resolved.

* Fix change command to accept full length representative (password),

currently 19 characters. It used to chop off after eight

characters.

* Non-recon missions no longer establish contact to owners of

overflown sectors, because those missions do not identify the

owner. This matches info Hidden.

* The following events now establish contact:

- Catching a spy

- Sighting a ship when toggle coastwatch is off

- Spotting overflying planes

- satellite spotting land units

- lookout and llookout spotting ships, planes and land units

- Any relations change

* The country command's `temporary' state of disorder ended after

ten years.

* Telegram notifications could get lost in exotic circumstances,

e.g. while a second client attempted to connect. Can be abused for

stealthy attacks.

* Remove option SNEAK_ATTACK.

* Fix lboard not to let you board dead land units.

* Fix stack smash in bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail.

Remote hole!

* bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail now deal with EOF

correctly.

* Fix fly to let the player abort the command at the last prompt.

* Client no longer reads execute scripts in binary mode under

Windows.

* New econfig key listen_address.

* econfig key port can now be a service name. Service empire no

longer takes precedence over econfig.

* Client falls back to compiled-in host only if environment doesn't

supply one, not if it can't be resolved. Same for port.

* Oil derrick could extract slightly more oil than was in the ground.

* test command checked start sector for space and some other things

instead of end sector.

* convert now silently limits conversions to avoid exceeding maximum

population.

* shoot no longer limits you to 999 victims.

* 4.2.19 broke pin-bombing commodities on some platforms.

* Don't block on output while update is pending. This is required to

ensure the update can abort commands.

* Commands submitted while the update is waiting for commands to

abort now fail.

* The force command no longer waits for the specified time. It

starts a scheduling thread instead, just like shutdown.

* Correct grammar and punctuation in output of version.

* Option SHIPNAMES is no longer optional.

* Fix output of qorder and sorder for ships with sail path.

* Don't change capital to agribusiness on retake. From Pat Loney.

* bdes prompt for new designation was messed up for empty bmaps.

* Client now supports pipes under Windows.

* Care for subtle Windows socket incompatibilities.

* Fix strength command not to lie about units reacting into

mountains.

* strength now yields the processor periodically, to keep the game

responsive.

* Schedule commands more fairly. Previously, a sufficiently fast

player could starve out the others.

* launch assumed plane maximum mobility 127 for calculating when

satellites will be ready to use.

* Drop support for for DCE threads.

* Drop support for pthread implementations lacking pthread_kill.

This includes ancient versions of OS X.

* Code cleanups.

* Minor info file fixes.

* The above includes major contributions from Ron Koenderink. Many

thanks!

Changes to Empire 4.2.21 - Sat Jul 16 17:51:01 UTC 2005

* Don't let threads block on output to another player thread's

socket. Such blocking violates basic design assumptions and can

cause all kinds of grief. In particular, it causes player session

hangs under Windows with 4.2.20. Broken since the introduction of

flash and asynchronous telegram notification many years ago.

* Threads sleeping until a specified time could return early under

Windows. This could cause double-updates.

* Fix fallout damage (was broken in 4.2.19).

* Fix show sector s (was broken in 4.2.19).

* Fix deliver not to deliver friendly civilians into occupied

sectors.

* Fix mil duplication in board (was broken in 4.2.14).

* Fix stack smash in lrange, shoot and execute. Remote holes, and

the last one doesn't even require authentication.

* Fix crash bug in emp_config parsing.

* Fix buffer overruns in turn and shutdown.

* Fix second argument of shutdown.

* announce, pray, telegram and turn now abort on EOF.

* Fix display of MOTD and game down message of maximum size.

* Correctly support telnet line termination on input. Previously,

carriage returns could slip into ship names and such.

* Fix flash not to lie about recipients that are just logging in.

* Remove obscure login command list.

* Convert client from obsolete termcap to terminfo, and clean up

terminal handling.

* New fairland option -h to print usage information. Improved

command line syntax diagnostics. Exit unsuccessfully on unknown

options.

* fleet and army now copy retreat orders of the fleet's or army's

first member with group retreat orders in the same sector.

Previously, they used the retreat orders of the first fleet or army

member, which is less than useful, and failed to take ownership

into account, which is an abusable bug.

* New xdump nation.

* Fix xdump not to disclose other countries' losses.

* Fix exit status of files program when it can't create files.

* Support UTF-8 encoded Unicode in human-human communications. This

affects MOTD, game down message, telexes, announcements and flash

messages. See new doc/unicode for technical details.

* New login command `options' for client/server option negotiation.

See new doc/clients-howto for technical details. The only option

so far is utf-8.

* emp_client -u now requests UTF-8. This requires a terminal that

understands UTF-8.

* Fix news for land unit defensive support.

* Properly mark sea mines hit by retreating ships. Unmark mines

cleared by bridges.

* Fix diagnostics for unknown selector names in conditionals (was

broken in 4.2.20).

* Fix selector name clashes: rename ship selector mobquota to mquota,

land selector for reaction range limit from rad to rmax.

* Fix Windows services for relative file names on command line or in

econfig (was broken in 4.2.20).

* econfig keys ship_grow_scale, plane_grow_scale and land_grow_scale

are now float. This gives deities finer control over maximum

efficiency gain.

* Fix production command for sectors with 60% efficiency.

* Improve syntax of read for deities.

* Code cleanups.

* Some info topic names differed only in case, which loses on

case-insensitive file systems, and is a bad user interface even

when it works. Change those names. Rename deity command hidden to

peek because its info topic clashed with that of option HIDDEN.

* Thanks to Doug Wescott sheep are finally covered properly in info.

* Documentation fixes.

* Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink. Many thanks!

Changes to Empire 4.2.20 - Tue Mar 22 21:07:18 UTC 2005

* When units in different sectors marched, only units in the sector

with the highest-numbered unit were interdicted. A marching

non-spy made all marching spies visible to interdiction regardless

of location.

* Fix crash when interdiction sinks second ship in a sector. Broken

in 4.0.10.

* Fix an ancient bug in simulation of level production that clobbered

stack and could lead to low predictions, typically zero, which

screwed up budget. The bug had no effect until 4.2.19.

* When a sector revolts, and there wasn't enough space to liberate

all uw, the number of remaining uw got the wrong sign. Broken in

4.2.14.

* Log and abort when LWP stack check detects stack smash. Server

option -s no longer implies -p.

* The native Windows build now supports -p and -s.

* The native Windows build now properly deals with ^C when running in

the foreground. It no longer prompts for a quit command on the

terminal.

* The meaning of server option -D in presence of -e is unclear.

Other programs only support -e. Remove option -D. Use -e

DIR/econfig instead of -D DIR.

* New server option -v shows version information.

* Fix the server's exit status with -h. Broken in 4.2.19.

* The linux-pthreads build failed to shut down on signals.

* Fix threading bugs in the native Windows build that made shutdown

unsafe and screwed up update aborting commands.

* New econfig key pre_update_hook to allow automatic, safe backup

right before the update. See scripts/backup for an example.

* The server now prints log messages to stderr as well when running

in the foreground.

* Fix potential buffer overflows in logerror and lwpStatus.

* Server now requires POSIX signals. It no longer catches SIGUSR1.

* Remove support for ancient versions of HP-UX.

* Fix seeding of PRNG broken in 4.2.19.

* Don't reseed the PRNG in commands, it hurts randomness and could be

abused by crafty players.

* The server now makes the data directory its working directory.

This also gets rid of a bug that changed the file name of the

sector, power, nation and lostitems file unless econfig could not

be read.

* The server now writes a pid file. Thanks to Daniel O'Connor.

* More user friendly server startup: more errors are detected while

the server still runs in the foreground, which makes it possible to

complain to stderr and to exit unsuccessfully.

* Early log messages went to the log file in the default data

directory, even though econfig specifies another data directory.

* Specifying an econfig file on the command line that can't be read

is now fatal.

* Errors in econfig are now fatal.

* The server now refuses to start when it can't open data files.

* News are now sorted and expire sanely.

* Conditionals can now compare strings as well.

* Corrupted down and motd files could cause buffer overflows.

* Fix recon to let player abort at the flight path prompt.

* power no longer rounds worldwide numbers for deities.

* power command failed to recognize deities with non-zero country

number.

* Change output of production command so that columns are aligned

even for large values. Replace column wkfc by more useful column

avail.

* neweff and production miscalculated work when mil exceeded

population limit.

* neweff miscalculated work when the population limit exceeded 999.

* Fix capping of avail when a big city is torn down.

* Fix a bug in fire that allowed players to find all submarine uids.

* Maximum sector population is no longer hardcoded, and now covered

by xdump. Option RES_POP now affects mountains and plains as

well. From Ray Hyatt.

* Fix fina and news not to ignore errors in conditions.

* The native Windows build now requires Windows Sockets 2.

* The native Windows build now supports multiple instances of the

service. The ability to supply additional startup parameters to

the service has been removed.

* Implement fairland command line parsing under Windows.

* Improved fairland and emp_server usage message.

* Code cleanups.

* Minor info file and documentation fixes.

* Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink. Many thanks!

Changes to Empire 4.2.19 - Thu Dec 23 20:24:24 UTC 2004

* Fix order not to unload into full sectors.

* Fix scrap not to dump stuff into full sectors. Excess stuff is now

destroyed.

* Fix distribute not to conjure up a civilian when importing

civilians from a dist center that doesn't have any.

* Fix flak to resupply no more shells than actually needed.

* Fix rounding error in shoot that could result in more people shot

than actually there.

* Fix info and apro error handling. In particular, do not leak

potentially sensitive information on the server to players.

* info no longer shows a random matching page when the topic argument

is ambiguous. Instead, it lists all matching topics.

* Embarked land units and overflying planes no longer spot each

other.

* Fix show command to show only sectors that players can designate

(was broken in 4.2.18).

* Fix a rounding error in production command column `max'.

* Fix production command for overpopulated mountains and plains.

* Fix tradeship ally cut to match documentation.

* Fix plague, which was was broken in 4.2.14: it got stuck in stage I.

* Fix a bug in aerial sonar where ships could mask submarines with

the same number modulo 256.

* Don't allow bombing of subs that were not detected.

* MOTD and the game down message are now entirely separate: use `turn

motd' for the MOTD, and `turn on' and `turn off' for the game down

message. `turn on' no longer lets you edit the MOTD.

* Remove option NUKEFAILDETONATE.

* Option ORBIT is no longer optional.

* New option GUINEA_PIGS to control experimental stuff not ready for

prime time. If your deity enables this in a serious game, run!

* Many xdump fixes. xdump is now enabled by option GUINEA_PIGS.

* New ship and land selectors rflags, rpath.

* New ship selectors for order: xstart. xend, ystart, yend,

cargostart, cargend, amtstart, amtend

* New ship selectors for sail: mobquota, path, follow.

* New news selector uid.

* Implement command line parsing under Windows where it was missing.

* emp_server and and files print a usage message on command line

syntax errors.

* Fix how emp_server exits after being panicked by a signal. It can

now dump core when this happens.

* Fix bug in client that could crash it when a line of input starts

with '?'.

* Client now gets user name from environment variable LOGNAME if set,

else from system.

* The native Windows build can now run as a service.

* Redirecting client input now works under Windows.

* Code cleanups.

* Don't confuse work with loyalty in info Citizens.

* Minor info file and manual page fixes.

* Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink and Marc

Olzheim. Many thanks!

Changes to Empire 4.2.18 - Tue Sep 7 14:08:59 UTC 2004

* Fix info to accept abbreviated arguments under Windows. From Ron

Koenderink.

* Buying planes or land units loaded on something didn't work when

that something moved.

* Fix a bug that could produce update cascades with update policy

UDP_TIMES.

* Fix delivery and distribution to grant packing bonus only to

efficient sectors, just like move. Previously, delivery ignored

efficiency, and distribution behaved as if it were an efficient

sector without special bonuses.

* New sector selectors loyal, access; ship selectors radius, access,

xbuilt, ybuilt, builder, name; plane selectors radius, access,

theta; land unit selectors radius, react, nland, access; lost

selector id.

* Fix sector selectors che, che_target; plane selectors att, def;

nuke selector types; treaty selector exp; news selector time;

commodity selectors type, xbuy, ybuy.

* Option PLANENAMES is no longer optional.

* Ensure config parameter variables and their description in

configkeys[] are consistent. Inconsistencies there caused bugs in

the past. From Marc Olzheim.

* Complain if econfig file can't be read.

* Better messages for errors in econfig file.

* Remove unused econfig keys hard_tech and last_demand_update.

* New econfig key news_keep_days to configure news expiry.

* New econfig key anno_keep_days to configure announcement expiry.

* Fix announcement expiry. It leaked file descriptors and memory,

and could corrupt the anno file. From Ron Koenderink.

* New command xdump: experimental extended dump. Disabled for now.

* Bankers no longer round down debts, and they collect interest for

the time debtors are idling at sub-prompts.

* Loan interest calculation was broken at the due date and after a

last payment made at the due date. With luck, debtors could abuse

this to repay loans cheap (they couldn't gain cash, though), sharks

to purchase loans cheap, and creditors to collect excessively.

* Fix major bug in transport that allowed two cooperating countries

to duplicate items.

* Don't report interdiction damage twice when transporting planes.

* Fix message for attempting to transport a plane in a sector not

owned by the player.

* Fix confusing diagnostics when refusing to improve defense because

option DEFENSE_INFRA is off.

* Simplify confusing code in budget.

* Fix spacing in output of budget and show.

* Change one-way plane sorties to match ordinary sorties: offer

carriers regardless of the sector they're in, require carriers to

be efficient.

* Allow `realm #'.

* Don't print owner of incoming missile twice when intercepting it.

* Simplify constituent storage in product characteristics.

* Replace remaining `variables' leftovers; mainly in unit

characteristics.

* Remove leading spaces in deity unit dumps.

* Replace inappropriate uses of compile time constant ETUS by 60.

Deities don't change ETUS, they change etu_per_update by editing

econfig. This nonsense dates back at least to chainsaw 3.31.

* Change ship production (fishing and drilling for oil) to match

sector production. Ship efficiency and tech are now relevant, and

all people on board work. From Ron Koenderink.

* Code cleanups.

* Minor info file fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.2.17 - Mon Aug 16 16:21:53 UTC 2004

* Fix seeding of PRNG under Windows. The bug made updates occur at

a predictable time in the update window. From Ron Koenderink.

* Close major loophole in drop that allowed players to determine

whether an arbitrary sector is sea, allied land, or other land.

* fly could fly civilians into occupied sectors. For consistency

with other means to move around stuff, this is no longer possible.

* Don't allow flying to a carrier that doesn't have space for the

planes. Previously, planes that did this were teleported home,

which could be abused.

* Close loophole in bomb that allowed players to find all

sanctuaries.

* Fix move and explore not to crash when moving civilians to a sector

without civilians, and interdiction destroys them all. Found and

debugged by Jeff Cotter.

* Fix printing of messages entered with turn command. '%' characters

could cause havoc, even crashes.

* Use sector's actual maximum population to compute chance of plague

outbreak. Previously, code used 9999 for big cities and 999 for

other sectors, and info Plague said 999. This makes all crowded

sectors equally vulnerable, even mountains, plains, and inefficient

big cities.

* Oil derricks no longer drill and deplete more oil than they can

hold. From Ron Koenderink.

* Version 4.2.15's coordinate and list parsing fixes reject trailing

junk. That's too strict. Silently ignore trailing junk as long as

it starts with whitespace.

* Version 4.2.15's selector rewrite broke some type literals,

e.g. `?des=n' was interpreted as `?des=newdes'. Change to prefer

type literals to selectors.

* Nightly build patches game to get repeatable PRNG results. From

Marc Olzheim.

Changes to Empire 4.2.16 - Wed Jun 16 18:56:16 UTC 2004

* Previous version broke sector production when part of the work is

used for sector construction. Fix courtesy Jeff Cotter.

* Add rudimentary tests to nightly build. From Marc Olzheim.

Changes to Empire 4.2.15 - Wed May 26 17:55:58 UTC 2004

* test command no longer asks whether to abandon the sector.

* explore command could generate a bogus `lost' record when it

regains an abandoned start sector.

* edit command now properly updates stats when editing tech level of

ships, planes or land units. A few of these stats can be edited

separately, which doesn't make much sense, and is now deprecated.

* edit command no longer accepts efficiency values that would destroy

the edited unit. Deities can still delete units by setting the

owner to zero.

* upgrade command used to charge an amount of avail that didn't match

info upgrade. Neither the implemented nor the documented amount

made much sense. Change it to 15% of the full build cost. Rewrite

info upgrade.

* Commands upgrade and build could be off by one when reporting

required avail.

* upgrade command reported rounded cost but charged unrounded

cost. Round cost of upgrade down to match behavior of build.

* Upgrading planes now preserves range when it is less than the

maximum range. It used to set it to the new maximum range.

* show bridge and show tower no longer claim bridge building requires

`workers' (whatever that is), since it doesn't.

* Replace option ROLLOVER_AVAIL by econfig parameter

rollover_avail_max, which is the maximum amount of avail that rolls

over. Previously, avail was limited after rollover, and even when

ROLLOVER_AVAIL was off. Fix that.

* Ships weren't always charged mobility for firing with option

NOMOBCOST off.

* Fix shell use of return torpedoes.

* designate no longer complains twice about deity only designations.

* Ensure designate zaps efficiency only when sector type really

changes.

* Fix strength to always report mines to deities.

* Remove option SHIP_DECAY.

* Fix bug in sonar that could crash or yield unpredictable results

near the true origin.

* Fix buffer overflow in flash and wall.

* Fix wall not to strip out first word of message.

* Change market and order to use item types instead of mnemo

characters internally.

* Market now reports sales with full item names instead of single

letter codes.

* buy now requires first argument to be an item name, as documented.

* production command handled production backlog incorrectly, failed

to limit production for production efficiency greater than one,

e.g. agribusiness, and incorrectly limited raw material

consumption. Also fix a rounding error. With help from Ron

Koenderink.

* Sector work was accidentally truncated to even.

* Fix coordinate parsing for large numbers when WORLD_X or WORLD_Y

don't divide SHRT_MAX+1.

* Properly diagnose over-long unit lists.

* Rewrite selector code. Old code let players smash the stack by

supplying too many conditions. New code properly rejects ambiguous

abbreviations and prefers exact matches. Selectors with names that

collide with types, like land units' rad and spy, now work.

Selectors with non-integral values, like land units' att, now work.

* survey used to display hundreds for everything but variables. Now

it displays hundreds only for values that can be large.

* Rewrite info survey. Document ability to survey properties other

than items and resources.

* Rewrite info build, since it was inaccurate and poorly structured.

* Fix info fire on required military. From Marc Olzheim.

* New fairland argument -R to set the PRNG seed. Print the seed.

This allows you to recreate the same world again.

* New facilities to deal with internal errors. These crash when the

server is started with -d, which is appropriate for debugging, and

potentially disastrous for running a real game.

* Automated nightly builds.

* Code cleanups.

Changes to Empire 4.2.14 - Mon Mar 22 09:04:12 UTC 2004

* Options NEWPOWER, NEW_STARVE and NEW_WORK are no longer optional.

* Gripe about unknown options in econfig.

* Remove option GRAB_THINGS.

* Utility program files takes new option -f.

* Remove utility programs land, ore and perfect, which don't compile

since 4.2.0 (Oct '98).

* fairland no longer warns when it added resources, but when it

didn't.

* Fallout code could claim destruction of more items than actually

existed.

* Fix recursive resupply (resupply from supply land unit triggering a

resupply of the land unit) when just testing for how much can be

resupplied. The bug could have led to insufficient resupply.

* Fix recursive resupply not to consume all fuel in supply units. No

supply units consuming fuel exist in the stock game.

* Limit delivery and distribution thresholds to ITEM_MAX (9999).

Distribution threshold were previously limited to 10000, and

delivery thresholds to 65528.

* Limit items in sectors to ITEM_MAX (9999). Commands give and buy

used to limit to 9990. Market transactions and commands explore,

move, drop and fly to 32767. Limiting in autonav code (order

command) didn't work. Item delivery used to stop at 9990,

distribution at 9999. Food growing and sector production used to

stop at 9999. Grind, assault lunchboxes, demobilization, mine

sweeping and che liberating uw could theoretically attempt to

increase items beyond 65535, which would have been ignored

(destroying the increase).

* Properly saturate fallout at FALLOUT_MAX (9999). Previously,

fallout increases behaved inconsistently. Increases beyond 65535

could get ignored, or fallout could saturate at 9999, or it could

overflow at 65536 (that would take quite some nuking, though).

* Properly saturate mines at MINES_MAX (65535). Previously, a mining

operation that would have gone beyond 65535 was ignored.

* Fix `are we loading or unloading' tests for load, unload, lload and

lunload.

* Fix editing of land unit attack and defense values. Implement

editing of ship defense values. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.

* edit now edits che number and target separately.

* Fix edit to properly extend unit files. Contributed by Ron

Koenderink.

* Major internal reorganisation: Sectors need space for items,

deliveries and distribution thresholds. 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. Replace them,

except in unit characteristics, where they are read-only, and will

be replaced later. This also removes misfeatures like plague

outbreaks silently deleting deliveries.

* Remove disabled commands dissolve and mult. Remove configuration

parameters minmult and maxmult.

* trade command indexed an array out of bounds when attempting to

display the plague as commodity. Fix.

* New make goal interix. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.

* The type selector now prefers an exact match to a partial match.

?type=sb now selects sb, not sbc, even when sbc happens to be found

first.

* Value of selector sell was always zero, remove it.

* Clean up selector code.

* satellite now displays all sectors owned by other players, and none

else. It used to display all but sea, mountains, sanctuaries,

wasteland and wilderness.

* map commands now display wilderness and plains owned by other

players as '?'. Radar commands now display all wilderness and

plains as '?'.

* Fix power timestamp for Windows. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.

* Make client abort the current command on ^C under Windows, as

everywhere else. Contributed by Ron Koenderink.

* Command line parser interpreted trailing whitespace as an another

(empty) argument. Ignore it instead.

* Properly declare stuff in headers, include proper system headers.

Remove all nested external declarations. Source code is now fully

prototyped. Enable appropriate gcc warnings.

* Fix several type errors. Some may have been show-stoppers on big

endian machines where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int).

* Remove pre-ISO C compatibility cruft (hey, it's been only fifteen

years).

* Various portability fixes. Some bugs may have been show-stoppers

when sizeof(long) != sizeof(int). With help from Marc Olzheim and

Ron Koenderink.

* Move some code to more logical places. Remove some unused code,

some of which was hard to port.

* The files program could print error messages to a log file in some

circumstances. Make it print to stderr.

* deliver can now change direction without changing the threshold.

* deliver now provides appropriate context when prompting for

thresholds.

* Login command play no longer ignores up to two arguments if there

isn't a third one.

* Fix payoff (was broken in 4.2.13).

* Capability fish didn't work together with capability oil.

* Fix and clarify plague outbreak chance in info Plague.

* Fix RES_POP maximum population in info Research.

* Fix info telegram and info announce on ~ escapes.

* Update info Selector to match code.

* Document all undocumented unit capabilities and stats.

* Document submarines' ability to carry landspies.

* Fix info shoot on security units.

* Various small info file fixes.

* Many fixes in the troff macro package for info files.

* Many fixes for translating info files to HTML.

* Many info file markup fixes.

Changes to Empire 4.2.13 - Fri Feb 13 22:12:36 UTC 2004

* Source code reindented and cleaned up somewhat.

* Various small info file fixes.

* Fixed change requiring 254 BTUs even when not charging any

(BLITZ).

* Fixed tactical non-marine missile crash.

* Fixed spy unit detection chance for eff<100.

* Fixed output of sorder.

* `edit' can now work non-interactively. Contributed by Ron

Koenderink.

* Fixed and extended edit for sectors.

* Fixed use of errno.

* Minor security fix: doconfig now writes example auth entry as

comment.

* Fixed reading of country name and password in client for Windows.

* Replace use of some obsolete non-portable library functions by

portable equivalents.

* designate now warns about redesignated capital only when it

succeeds in redesignating the capital.

* attack could be off by one when reporting required unit mobility.

* Fixed command matching. Unique prefixes were not always

recognized, and junk suffixes were ignored.

* Removed bestdistpath. bestpath yields the same results.

* Renamed lstats to lstat for consistency and to match info page.

* Fixed non-portable fd_set * arguments of select.

* New `map' flag `h' to highlight own sectors. Contributed by Marc

Olzheim.

* Fixed `sabo' reporting damage to player in deity coordinates.

* New option ROLLOVER_AVAIL. Contributed by Drake Diedrich.

* Fix Windows server shutdown on reading "quit" from stdin.

* Land units now fortify automatically when mobility plus growth

exceeds the maximum. With code from Marc Olzheim.

* Wandering che are less predictable.

* Land units no longer regenerate mobility faster while it is

negative.

* Fixed emp_client -k.

* No longer allow pirates to ferret out where a ship was built.

* Fixed map commands to reject bmap flags `t' and `r' instead of

turning into bmap.

* Fixed lmine shell resupply.

* News no longer call all sub-launched missiles nuclear.

* Incoming missiles are now reported with coordinates.

* Removed some code that served no purpose except crashing on

Windows.

* Fixed Mac OSX and AIX build problems.

* Don't resolve player IP addresses for now, because it can crash

with certain versions of GNU libc.

* Fixed recording of lost nukes.

Changes to Empire 4.2.12 - Mon Aug 18 16:54:21 MDT 2003

* Corrected contact information for Wolfpack.

* Sector isn't abandoned until move or explore is complete.

* Fixed multiple cases where return value of getstarg was

used without being checked which crashed the server.

* Used stdarg.h instead of varargs.h.

* Call only_subs and save result before mission frees attacker

list. Call with free list could cause server crash.

* Fixed spy sat map for units on opposite side of world wrap.

* Don't sleep in main thread when called from signal handler.

* Fixed error checking in pthreads.

* Properly detach pthreads.

* Pass unlocked mutex to pthread_mutex_unlock.

* Cope with interrupted sleep in pthread empth_sleep to prevent

double update.

* Added server configurable update window.

* Initialized variables passed to setsockopt in accept.c.

* Fixed bug where sharing bmap with uncontacted country crashes

server.

Changes to Empire 4.2.11 - Sun Sep 1 09:54:59 MDT 2002

* Added compile option for the Mac OSX architecture.

* Fixed bug in cargo where unit array was indexed by shp_maxno

instead of lnd_maxno.

* Fixed bug in reject where aborting the command crashes the

server.

* Can't buy land units into enemy headquarters.

* Added sabotage command and commando unit.

* Spies moving by themselves will not trigger interdiction.

* Fixed error in map distance calculation that caused errant

interdiction.

* Ships going under -127 mobility will be set to -127 mob and

not roll over to positive mobility.

* Corrected plane cost in info Maintenance.

* Changed error message for loans rejected for being too big.

* Land units will take casualty damage proportional to their

ability to carry mil.

* Fixed bug where "route i *" crashes server.

* Cannot upgrade planes in orbit.

* Fixed bug in declare with deity aborting command at last

prompt crashes the server.

* Coastwatch notify works with NO_FORT_FIRE option.

* Thread that kills idle connection will charge player for

minutes the player was logged on.

* Removed separate sendeof at end of execute from emp_client

that logged players off on certain platforms.

* Updated player idle counter during read prompt so players

wouldn't be kicked off during long flashes or writing telegrams.

* LOSE_CONTACT will work as advertised.

* Allied units marching through 0 mobility conquered sectors

are charged at least LND_MINMOBCOST.

Changes to Empire 4.2.10 - Mon Aug 13 14:34:39 MDT 2001

* Assault can reinforce own sector when SLOW_WAR is enabled.

* emp_client no longer converts lines into tags but still verifies executes,

pipes, and file redirect match players input.

* Added pboard command to capture enemy planes in your territory.

* Declaring war when at Sitzkrieg won't return relations to Mobilizing.

* Declaring war won't charge money if you're already Mobilizing.

* Added multiple territory fields.

* "show nuke build" displays the proper avail.

* retreating land units will only retreat to sectors owned by the player

that owns the unit.

* added hard cap of "250 + easy" to limit_level.

* education p.e. calculation divides edu constant by etu per update.

* Added patch for Linux for the PowerPC.

Changes to Empire 4.2.9 - Sun Jan 7 15:49:13 PST 2001

* Fixed data corruption when bogus target gets fired upon.

* Increased size of ancillary stacks to prevent stack overflow.

* Changed all references to empire.cx.

* Ships, planes, and land units lost to lack of maintenance will now be

lost.

* No longer allowed to sack deity's capital.

* Accuracy calculation in land unit support was backwards.

* Corrected formula for likelihood of plague in info Plague.

* Fixed files to correctly size map and bmap files from econfig file.

* No longer allowed to add country 0. It corrupts deity country.

Changes to Empire 4.2.8 - Mon Oct 9 17:35:35 MDT 2000

* Fixed range in radar.t and Sector-types.t. Maximum range at infinite

tech is 16.

* Changed so that player can't drop civilians into occupied sectors.

* Fixed bug that crashes update if etus/update is less than 8.

* Fixed sometimes not reporting overflights

* Fixing flak for units/ships to be in all sectors as they should be

* Updated order of firing flak in Flak.t.

* Fixed 80% efficient planes on ships must be maintained.

* Fixed initial MOB_ACCESS check thread sleep time was set by an uninitialized

variable.

* Removed "TEMPORARILY DISABLED" message from mission command for escort

missions. Escort missions have been re-enabled since 4.0.15.

* Using sonar from the navigate command will print the sonar map.

* Eliminated annoying error messages when using navigate with conditionals.

* Fixed Technology.t to correctly add 1 before taking the logarithm.

* Fixed bug that allowed players to steal opponents maps.

* Put time limit for bidding on market and trade in econfig file.

* Moved hours file information into econfig file.

* Added comments on setting update policy in econfig file.

* Added logging of cases where write extends data file by more than one id.

* Option MARKET is turned off by default.

Changes to Empire 4.2.7 - Fri Mar 10 18:41:04 PST 2000

* Added new NF_SACKED flag to indicate when a country has had it's

capital sacked. This flag is only cleared when the country actively

redesignates it's capital using the "capital" command, and changed

capital.t to reflect this (no more re-sacking after an update if the

country doesn't reset and repeating until they are out of cash.)

* Added land unit to edit command for planes.

* Added nuketype to edit command for planes.

* Changed so that if the leader of a group of units is a train, the

railways are used for bestpath instead of roadways.

* Changed mission command to also print reaction radius of reserve

missions when set for land units.

* Changed Flak.t to reflect guns having to be loaded onto a land unit

for flak to fire.

* Changed so that visitor countries cannot change their name or password.

* Changed so that you cannot upgrade deity planes, ships or units.

* Changed so that you know where missions are flown from.

* Changed so that the airport owner you fly a mission from is informed.

* Changed so that preperations for takeoff are reported to the owner of

the sector, ship or unit a plane is taking off from if it is not owned

by the owner of the plane.

* Changed so that when a sector reverts during a guerrilla revolt, the

mobility is not reset. When MOB_ACCESS is not enabled, this used to mean

you would always get at least an updates worth of mobility. With

MOB_ACCESS, sectors that reverted during the update were useless, since you

got no mobility for a long time. This fixes that problem, and makes che

more useful as well.

* Changed so that air defense missions don't always send up every plane in the

area, but instead always send up at most two times the number of incoming

planes (for each interdicting country.) This helps to stop 1 plane from

stripping the mobility from 25 air defense planes all at once, but doesn't

limit it to n+1 as there is for regular interception.

* Clarified deity reversion of sectors in Sector-ownership.t

* Clarified production efficiency and added pointer to "show sector cap"

in Product.t

* Clarified nuketype selector for planes in Selector.t

* Clarified that fortifying units does not affect mission status in info

pages for mission and fortify.

* Clarified fuel syntax upon error in fuel command in empmod.c.

* Cleaned up comments causing minor complaints in some builds.

* Fixed bug in loans where you could collect on proposed loans.

* Fixed production command to be more accurate (though it *still* has some

rounding errors, it's better.)

* Fixed potential memory leak in air defense missions.

* Fixed bug where you couldn't pinbomb some commodities if other commodities

didn't already exist in the sector.

* Fixed bug where you couldn't build 0 crew planes without military in the

sector. (This is different from needing at least 1 military to build all

planes that need a crew which introduced another related bug earlier.)

* Fixed bug where scrapping land unit 0 could cause erroneous transfer

messages to be displayed for deity owned planes.

* Fixed bug where land units on ships in a sector taken over were blown

up or captured.

* Fixed bug where planes on ships in a sector taken over were blown up

or captured.

* Fixed bug in sdump printing origx and origy in deity coordinates.

* Fixed bug in satellites showing wrong sectors (sometimes) when using the

optional arguments.

* Fixed bug in launch showing wrong satellite target (showed asat instead

of the target satellite.)

* Fixed bug where you could gain information not normally available using

the "fire" command to determine sector type information.

* Fixed bug in market/trade creating extra money when loans are taken out.

* Fixed problem with land units not being reported sunk after being sunk

on a ship that was nuked or wastelanded in a sector.

* Fixed problem with Spies.t using "llook" instead of "llookout".

* Fixed problem in lwp/arch.c including jmp_buf.h instead of setjmp.h

on some Linux boxes.

* Fixed problem with plague infection being way too high in cities when

the BIG_CITY option is enabled.

* Fixed bug in edit command getting confused with arguments.

* Fixed bug in ask_move_in_off asking you to move in a negative number of

troops (hey, it could happen. :) )

* Fixed bug in add command not keeping flags or relations initially correct.

* Fixed bug in torpedo command sometimes telling victim about torpedo

sightings even when way out of range.

* Fixed bug in spy command not reporting planes in adjacent sectors, as well

as not formatting them properly when reporting them.

* Fixed bug in satellite with noisy transmission causing a potential

crash of the server with non-100% efficient satellites.

* Fixed potential crashing of the server during satellite display when not

calculating distances to ships and units correctly.

* Fixed bug where planes in non-allied sectors, ships and units could be

used on missions.

* Fixed bug where planes on the trading block could be used on missions.

* Fixed bug where planes and units that get traded don't have mobility set

correctly when using MOB_ACCESS option.

* Fixed bug which made security units virtually useless.

* Fixed access times and mobility not being set right when building planes,

ships, units, bridges and bridge towers when MOB_ACCESS is enabled.

* Fixed minor formatting problem with launch of satellites.

* Fixed minor formatting problem with planes with greater than 999 tech.

* Fixed minor formatting problem with ships with greater than 999 tech.

* Fixed problem with "llook" showing up in TOP info file.

* Fixed problem with lwp Makefile choking on NT builds with clean target.

* General cleanup of potentially ambiguous statements.

Changes to Empire 4.2.6 - Fri Jun 4 05:55:20 PDT 1999

* Added "TECH_POP" as an option where technology costs more to make

as your population grows past 50K civilians. It is disabled by

default.

* Changed "produce" command to accurately print what the true p.e. is.

* Changed "update" command to display if mobility updating is enabled for

MOB_ACCESS option.

* Fixed bug where toggling off the coastwatch flag also turned off

forts firing on hostile ships coming into range.

* Fixed bug where assaulting your own land would violate any treaties

you have where assaults are a violation.

* Fixed bug where all planes (even those without need for a crew, such

as missiles) needed at least 1 military to build.

* Fixed bug where when a ship sinks during the update due to lack of maint,

land units and planes on it were left stranded.

* Fixed bug where when a land unit dies during the update due to lack of

maint, land units and planes on it were left stranded on it.

* Fixed bug where nukes could be lost due to MOB_ACCESS updating mobility

while arming.

* Fixed bug in "show sector capabilities" not showing products correctly.

* Fixed bug in "show tower build" printing "bridges" instead of "bridge

towers".

* Fixed bug in sectors that don't revolt not showing up as lost items.

* Fixed bug where maps with an X of exactly 200 is not drawing third line.

* Fixed bug where MOB_ACCESS was not updating the mobility just before

the update.

* Fixed bug in the way treaties are examined and sometimes produce

wrong results.

* Fixed edit to allow creating negative mobility for sectors.

* Fixed setsector to allow creating negative mobility for sectors.

* Fixed bug where when writing out the value of a sector that had

negative mobility and was damaged in combat, mobility was being

set back to 0.

* Fixed Taxes.t info page to reflect that captured civvies only pay

1/4 taxes.

* Fixed Technology.t info page to reflect TECH_POP option.

* Fixed navigate.t info page to reflect that only ships in the fleet

in the same sector that are fired upon have damage divided up.

* Made techlists toggle on by default (so things are shown in order of

technological advances.)

Changes to Empire 4.2.5 - Mon Mar 1 06:42:24 PST 1999

* Added optimization to increasing mobility to check if an object is

already at max mob, just return since it can't be increased.

* Added "-ltermcap" for client libs for hp build (it was already in

hpux build.)

* Added clearing of telegram flags after the update so that the next

telegram is flagged as new and not part of the update.

* Fixed Update-sequence.t to reflect MOB_ACCESS.

* Fixed bug where fortification amount was not being limited to

maximum mobility for land units (land_mob_max).

* Fixed bug where land unit fortification strength was being calculated

by using 127 instead of land_mob_max.

* Fixed bug where scrapping land units was creating military.

* Fixed description of sect_mob_neg_factor in econfig file.

* Increased speed of PT boats.

Changes to Empire 4.2.4 - Tue Feb 2 05:47:44 PST 1999

* Added check to make military values match up correctly for land

units.

* Fixed bug in doconfig not putting ipglob.c in the right place.

* Fixed bug where attacking deity sectors will violate a treaty.

* Fixed newspaper.t information file.

* Fixed potential bug in fixing up timestamp information when restarting a

game with MOB_ACCESS turned on.

* Fixed bug in explore command not setting mobility to correct

value when MOB_ACCESS was enabled.

* Fixed bug in enlist setting mobility incorrectly sometimes.

* Added doc/backup file for deities which recommends how backups and

restores of the data directory should be done.

Changes to Empire 4.2.3 - Wed Jan 13 06:02:35 PST 1999

* Added linux-pthreads target and build for using pthreads under Linux.

* Added NO_FORT_FIRE option which disables the ability of forts to

fire when enabled.

* Added more error checking and recovery for corrupt data files.

* Changed alphapos target to alpha-pthreads for better clarity.

* Changed fairland to allow 0 sector distance to other islands and

continents (James Risner)

* Changed "frg" and "dam" land unit stats to "rng" and "fir" so they

match the way ships are described (since this is how they really work.)

* Changed Unit-types.t to now describe "rng" as firing range of a unit,

and "fir" as the number of guns that a land unit fires.

* Cleaned up misc. build warnings.

* Changed artillery damage to be 5 + d6 per gun firing from just d6

per gun firing and updated Damage.t to reflect this change.

* Changed artillery firing ranges to be like ships ranges - divided

by two, and modified them to make more sense.

* Changed artillery units to be "slightly" :) more powerful.

* Changed "cavalry" unit to tech 30 and lowered mil content to 20.

* Changed "artillery" unit to tech 35.

* Changed so that guns are no longer required to build units, and

that guns must be loaded onto artillery units for them to fire.

Client developers note: the show command has not changed yet to

remove the 'guns' column (since guns are no longer required) but

will in a future revision (possibly 4.2.4) so "be prepared" for

"show land build" to change. :)

* Fixed landunitgun to handle all the damage calculations like it should.

* Fixed bug sinking planes when the ship they are on sinks.

* Fixed bug destroying planes when the land unit they are on is destroyed.

* Fixed bug where land units could fire support without enough military.

* Fixed bug in abandoning sectors by marching out a land unit where it

would not let you sometimes (uninitialized variable problem.)

* Fixed gets problem in files.c (James Risner)

* Fixed bug in determinig operations range of a ship.

* Fixed bug in building planes where you could manufacture military.

* Fixed warnings in threading package(s).

* Fixed fire.t to reflect new firing changes.

* Fixed lstat.t to reflect new firing changes.

* Fixed sstat.t to reflect the way things really work.

* Fixed Ship-types.t to reflect the way things really work.

* Fixed the way shutdowns work to hopefully better protect data files.

* Fixed bug in attacking when sector mobility is less than 0 and it would

prompt for attacking with a negative amount of military.

* Fixed typo in fire.t stating wrong parameters for firing from a sector.

* Fixed bug in client when it prompts for country name it was putting

an extraneous end of line on the end that needed to be stripped off.

* Fixed problems running on Linux running on an Alpha machine. Thanks

to Rocky Mountain Internet and Jeremy A. Cunningham for giving us time

on a machine to work out the bugs. (Note that the only build that

works on Linux/Alpha is the linux-pthreads)

Changes to Empire 4.2.2 - Sun Dec 27 12:46:34 PST 1998

* Added some code optimizations into the update code when building paths.

* Added some new cacheing for building paths to help speed up updates.

* Added so that you can use "name" and "password" with the change command

as well as "country" and "representative".

* Added flag to power command so that if you are a deity and enter

a negative number of countries you want to see, you see the power chart

for that many countries without power numbers on the next line. Only

useful for deities that want to see the chart un-broken up by that line.

* Added new functionality to fortify command. You can now use a negative

fortification value to cause the unit to be fortified and leave at

least that much mobility on the unit. I.E. "fort * -67" will fortify

all units and make sure the mobility of each unit doesn't go below

67. If the mobility is already below that level (or equal) the unit

is left unchanged.

* Added that the realm command prints "Realm #n is x:x,y:y" after

you set a new realm.

* Added TREATIES option and enabled it by default.

* Added "no depth-charging subs" and "no new land units" treaty

clauses.

* Added Trannie Carter's basic client fix to use fgets instead of gets.

* Changed market and command to only print the lowest priced lot of

each given commodity by default. If you specify "all" it shows

all lots on the market, and if you specify a specific item, it shows

all lots of that item type.

* Changed start command to only write out sector if it changed.

* Changed stop command to only write out sector if it changed.

* Changed how plane names were changed on server startup if the

PLANENAMES option was enabled.

* Changed move command to use standard askyn function for abandoning

sector prompt.

* Changed plane overlight sightings to take stealth into account,

and if the planes managed to evade all flak and interceptors, they

are not marked as "spotted" over enemy sectors.

* Changed all units with the supply flag to have their marching speeds

based on efficiency since that is their purpose. What this means is

that supply units and trains are more effective at 100% than at 10%

(just as fighting units are more effective at 100% than at 10%, but

their effectiveness is determined by how well they fight, not how well

they "run away, run away!" :) )

* Changed so that flash toggle is on by default for POGO at setup

time.

* Changed so that when a sector is taken, all land units owned by the

current owner are treated as planes are during takeovers (i.e. there

is a pretty good chance they are blown up, and if not, they change owner

to the attacker and are beat up pretty good.)

* Fixed treaties to work again.

* Fixed bug in taking over land units not using correct pointer (can

cause a crash or data corruption.)

* Fixed collect command to wipe deliver and distribution information

correctly.

* Fixed potential bug in bmap not working when destination bmap has

blank spaces in it.

* Fixed bug in shark command not getting right nation structure.

* Fixed bug in server where empty commands (for example, all spaces

or tabs) were being reported as bogus commands. They are now just

ignored.

* Fixed bug in scrap not dropping land units off of scrapped units carrying

them.

* Fixed bug in news where boarding of land units was reported backwards.

* Fixed bug in calculating new people when growing them during an update.

* Fixed missing -ltermcap in HP/UX build.

* Fixed setsector to limit mobility to 127 not 255 (255 was being caught

later and being reset to 0 anyway)

* Fixed Sector-types.t to show a '\' instead of a '/' for wasteland,

since that is what it really is.

* Fixed retreat.t documentation to reflect the "retreat upon failed

boarding" flag.

* Fixed bug where satellites were not orbiting the world during the

update.

* Fixed bug in torpedos being too smart. They knew how to jump over

land! :) Now the "line_of_sight" routine is used to determine if a

torpedo has a straight path to the destination. If it doesn't, the

torpedo no longer jumps over land, but instead slams into it. This was

an interesting bug because you could torp ships on the other side of

a very skinny island as long as they were in range, even if there was

no sea route possible.

* Fixed bug when pinbombing and you run out of an object to pinbomb (land

units for example) but you still have to pick something to bomb. For

ships it worked ok (just aborted that it couldn't find any more ships)

and this was fixed for land units and planes.

* Fixed server crashing bug when flying a plane and not carrying

any cargo.

* Fixed bug in move losing commodities when it runs out of room in the

destination sector. Goods are now attempted to be returned to the

start sector, and apporpriate steps taken if the start sector is no

longer available.

* Fixed march to prompt you before you abandon a sector you own by

marching out the last land unit.

* Fixed check functions to only check the relevant portions of the structure

and not the timestamp info that doesn't affect how the object functions.

* Fixed bug in spy command that always told you if a spy unit was in a

non-owned sector.

* Fixed bug in displaying of land unit missions not showing correct land

unit range.

* Fixed bug in wire command where new announcements that you read at

the last second don't get wiped out properly.

* Fixed bug where announcement file could be corrupted by very long lines.

* Fixed bug where bmap was not set when player was told what kind of

sector they were attacking (this was an old abusable bug that was

removed long ago to fix the abuse, and it's been fixed in a non-abusable

way finally.)

* Fixed bug where change command would warn you about monetary and

BTU costs, but not prompt you to break out if you didn't want to really

change your country name.

* Fixed bug in sub-launched nukes that are intercepted being reported in

the news incorrectly.

* Fixed bug in load where you could abandon a sector and not know it by

loading your last civilians or military onto a ship.

* Fixed potential memory leak in autonav code.

* Fixed potential bug where you could possibly determine if a sector is

owned or not using one way plane missions.

* Fixed Damage.t info page to properly show damages for planes and

land unit shelling.

* Fixed deliver.t to include syntax for command.

* Fixed country.t to include syntax for command.

* Fixed bug where ships on orders were not adding radar information to

the bmap during an update.

* Fixed bug where ships on sail were not adding radar information to

the bmap during an update.

* Fixed bestownedpath code to use the bmap properly. Note this is a very

important bug fix. When navigating a ship, players are no longer given

free information that they would not normally know. For example, if you

try sailing your ship off into uncharted areas of your bmap, the bestpath

code will only use as much information as you have on-hand (i.e. your

bmap) to plan out your path for you. If you have no information on an

area, it just keeps forging on, until bumping into something. Of course,

after the initial exploration through an area, the bmap will be set and

used for all future sailings through that area. Harbors and bridges

are still checked for construction worthiness if you know where they

are (i.e. they are on your bmap.) (Overall, what happened before

was that the bestpath code would route your ship around islands that

you didn't even know were there, and you could use various commands

to see how that ship was going to sail during the update and thus you

gained information that you wouldn't normally know.)

* Merged bestpath and bestownedpath and wrote new wrappers, "BestShipPath"

and "BestAirPath" to use it properly. It is also good to note that

bestownedpath is used to determine paths for ships and for planes,

and that best_path (which uses the A* algorithm) is used for all land

based paths, and that the two are never interchanged.

* Removed "jet recon" plane (it slipped in during the PLANENAMES conversion,

and RECON was never used before.)

* Removed extraneous "resnoise" and "resbenefit" functions and combined

the two for setresource and setsector commands.

Changes to Empire 4.2.1 - Tue Nov 3 12:56:20 PST 1998

* Fixed problem with global/plane.c not defining last structure element

properly, and thus causing crashes when accessing certain plane

routines. This happened during the move to make the PLANENAMES option

run-time configurable.

Changes to Empire 4.2.0 - Thu Oct 29 06:27:15 PST 1998

* Bumped rev to 4.2.0 since this is a major release (the server is now

run-time configurable for just about everything and is released under

the GNU GPL.)

* Put in official licensing information.

* Re-arranged and commented the econfig (Empire Configuration) file. The

auto-generated "data/econfig" file is now pumped out chock full of

comments (which may or may not be useful.) Since the server is

pretty much fully run-time configurable (MAXNOC is not, but it gets

a default of 99 anyway) deities will probably be spending more time

in the config file.

* Added server support for building under NT, including mods from

Doug Hay and Steve McClure to get the server building and running

under NT. (This was built using MSVC++ 5.0 on NT 4.0 and command

line "nmake nt")

* Added Doug Hay's ntthread.c implementation for NT threading.

* Added max pop column to "show sector stats" output.

* Added lboard command for boarding land units from sectors. Only raw

mil can board land units, and only mil and land units aboard the unit

being boarded fight back.

* Added GODNEWS option. When enabled, the deity giving people stuff

is shown in the news.

* Added bridge tower sector ('@')

* Added BRIDGETOWERS option. When enabled you can build bridge towers

from a bridge span. You can then build bridge spans from the tower.

If the tower is destroyed ( <20% eff) bridges connected fall unless

supported on the other side. You can only build bridge towers in open

water not adjacent to land and other towers. Expensive.

* Added plains sector ('~') - Max pop is 1/40th regular sectors, and

it is deity creatable only (can't redesignate unless you wasteland it

with a nuke :) )

* Changed "info all" to no longer use printdir, instead it just uses the "all"

info page which contains this information.

* Changed so you can now load up to 2 spy units onto non-land unit carrying

submarines if the LANDSPIES option is enabled. Useful for sneaking up

to shore and spying on your neighbors.

* Changed so spies unloaded from ships are not given as gifts, they are just

unloaded quietly.

* Changed build command to handle building towers ("build t")

* Changed show command to show tower stats ("show t b")

* Changed reject so you can now reject things from any country except

deity countries (this now includes sanctuary countries and visitor

countries you don't want to deal with)

* Changed ndump to dump nuclear stockpile ID as well.

* Changed flash so that if someone allied to you is either not logged on or

not accepting flashes, you are notified. This is info you could gain

otherwise since you can see other countries that are allied to you via

players.

* Fixed bug in news command when HIDDEN mods are enabled.

* Fixed distribute command to only write out to the database if we

actually changed the sector (i.e. if we really moved the dist

center, we write. Otherwise, it makes no point.)

* Fixed threshold command to only write out to the database if

we actually changed the sector (i.e. if we really changed the

threshold, we write. Otherwise, it makes no point.)

* Fixed - population growth and truncation in "Update-sequence.t" info

file is now clearer

* Fixed the way fortify takes mobility away from a land unit if

engineers are present.

* Fixed bug in buying commodities at the last minute not resetting the

time correctly in all situations.

* Fixed bug in building nukes where it would always ask if you tried

building more than one at a time.

* Fixed bug where if you put (either by building or by transporting)

more than 127 of one type of nuke in a sector, they all got lost. A

negative wrapover sort of thing.

* Fixed ndump to print # of stockpiles dumped.

* Fixed ndump.t to reflect changes

* Fixed bug in build command that didn't account for EOL characters.

* Fixed bug where you could use planes to drop conquered populace

* Fixed bug in distribute command in how it checked for current distribution

sector.

* Fixed pr_flash and pr_inform to no longer send messages if the player

is still in the process of logging in (i.e. not in the PLAYING state)

* Fixed report command output for deities.

* Fixed bug in nuclear damage either taking out submarines when it

shouldn't, or not taking them out when it should.

* Fixed bug in loading units that are carrying units onto other units

(note that it doesn't happen since only HEAVY units can carry other

units and that check works, but that might change some day, and we

don't want units carrying units to be carried by other units, etc. :) )

* Fixed info pages to reflect new sector types.

* Fixed info pages to reflect new spy unit capabilities.

* Fixed show commands to only show trade ships if the TRADESHIPS option

is enabled.

* Fixed build command to only allow building of trade ships if the

TRADESHIPS options is enabled.

* Fixed up some definitions located in many places used for checking

sectors for navigation rights.

* Fixed power.t to correctly describe NEW_POWER formula.

* Made HIDDEN option run time configurable.

* Made LOSE_CONTACT option run time configurable.

* Made ORBIT option run time configurable.

* Made SAIL option run time configurable.

* Made MOB_ACCESS option run time configurable.

* Made FALLOUT option run time configurable.

* Made SLOW_WAR option run time configurable.

* Made SNEAK_ATTACK option run time configurable.

* Made WORLD_X and WORLD_Y run time configurable.

* Made MARKET option run time configurable.

* Made LOANS option run time configurable.

* Made BIG_CITY option run time configurable.

* Made TRADESHIPS option run time configurable.

* Made SHIPNAMES option run time configurable.

* Made DEMANDUPDATE option run time configurable.

* Made UPDATESCHED option run time configurable.

* Made LANDSPIES option run time configurable.

* Made NONUKES option run time configurable.

* Made PLANENAMES option run time configurable.

* Removed SMALL_SERVER stuff (unused baggage)

* Removed trading post sector ('v')

Changes to Empire 4.0.18 - Thu Sep 24 06:54:27 PDT 1998

* Fixed bug in aircombat where planes in flight could intercept air

defense planes and take no damage (i.e. they got to fight twice,

once for free.)

* Fixed bug in freeing memory after performing missions that could crash

the server (it mainly happened after an interdiction mission using

planes and escorts, where some escorts came from airports that didn't have

bombers going up. Freeing the leftover escorts was crashing the server.)

* Fixed bug where you could load non-existant units if you were allied

with country #0.

* Fixed bug where you could pin-bomb a plane with itself.

* Fixed bug where satellites over a bridge may get killed if the bridge

is sunk.

* Fixed bug where land units on a ship in the same sector as a bridge

that is splashed may get sunk.

* Fixed bug where planes on a ship in the same sector as a bridge

that is splashed may get sunk.

* Fixed doconfig with correct empire site text.

* Fixed major problem with abms not firing, and sometimes crashing

server.

* Fixed bug in land units counting up loaded units wrong.

* Fixed doconfig makefile to have doconfig.c as a dependency.

* Fixed bug in resetting commodities (the comm_uid was not being

properly set.)

* Fixed bug in repaying loans not working correctly (the l_uid was not

being properly set.)

* Fixed bug in buying items from the trading block not allowing you

to due to a perceived change in item status.

* Fixed bug in mfir.c where a bogus input to a target could crash

the server.

* Fixed bug that after you read telegrams new telegrams may not send

an inform message (the old telegram flags were not cleared.)

* Fixed bug where fort support distance calculations are calculated

twice instead of just once. This bug caused a lower percentage

of support fire than designed.

* Fixed bomb.t to reflect land unit changes.

* Put in some integrity checking for planes returing from bombing runs.

* Added ability to edit land unit that a land unit is loaded on in

edit command.

* Consolidated bridgefall code into "knockdown" function (this code

existed in at least 3 places, and was different in all of them.)

* Subs returning fire are no longer reported in the news.

* Visitor countries can now use the 'motd' command.

* When trying to use a visitor country, if it is in use, you are not told

by whom, just that it is in use.

* Optimized (slightly) support fire from forts not getting supply and

shells if not needed (out of range)

* Updated Education.t

* Modified (increased) chances of hitting mines slightly.

* Removed unused variables from shp_check_mines.

Changes to Empire 4.0.17 - Fri Jul 31 06:12:21 PDT 1998

* Added ability in edit to change coastal flag for sectors.

* Added ability in edit to edit plague values for ships.

* Added ability for "spy" to report all units/planes not owned by you

that exist in the sector you are spying from.

* Modified naval planes and anti-sub planes.

* Changed so that missiles and bombs that miss their targets cause

collateral damage in the target sector (they have to land somewhere!)

* Changed llook so that non-spy units are required to have at least 1

military personnel on board to see anything.

* Fixed "llookout.t" to reflect change for military requirement.

* Updated Plague.t

* Updated upgrade.t

* Added "lmine" flag for deities to see what sectors have mines in them

(works for sea and land mines, used "lmine" to distinguish it from "min"

which determines mineral (iron) content of a sector.)

* No longer able to pin bomb land units on a ship.

* Land units are required to have at least one military loaded to perform

a mission.

* Firing land units are required to have at least on military loaded to

be able to fire (or return fire.)

* Spies are not always seen when being pinbombed. You have to look very

carefully for them (as you usually would.)

* Fixed typo in "Spies.t"

* Added new info about spy ability to spy.t.

* Updated tax information in Innards.t and Update-sequence.t

* Fixed typo in fire.t information about units firing on ships.

* Loading military onto land units now resets fortification. (You gotta

re-fortify the new guys.)

* Fixed bug where planes that were mine capable could not drop mines if

they were not cargo capable.

* Fixed bug in potentially crashing in update code for nations tech/research.

* Fixed bug in execute putting you into execute mode incorrectly.

* Fixed bug in board not allowing land units to board from 0 mobility

sectors.

* Fixed bug where interdicted land units that were missed displayed

a "SPLASH! Bombs miss your ships" message.

* Fixed bug in minesweeping sectors where, even with mobility or

having the sweep ability, ships would get hit by mines for doing

nothing.

* Fixed bug in count_land_planes always writing out land units unnecessarily.

* Fixed bug in count_planes always writing out ships unnecessarily.

* Fixed bug in lnd_count_units always writing out land units unnecessarily.

* Fixed bug in count_units always writing out ships unnecessarily.

* Fixed bug in llook that reported units on ships.

* Fixed bug in llook that reported satellites launched over the unit.

* Fixed bug in llook that always reported spies (it should be a 10-100%

chance)

* Fixed bug in anti possibly not saving lost items correctly.

* Fixed bug in planes getting extended range when on missions and the

op center is not where the plane is located.

* Fixed bug in land unit defensive strength not being based on the eff of

the unit when calculating odds of a battle.

* Fixed bug in board not reporting consistant information.

* Fixed bug in the way land unit casualties were being taken.

* Fixed bug where land units on ships could return fire.

* Fixed bug where land units on other land units could return fire.

* Fixed bug where land units on other land units could fire.

* Fixed bug in attacks/assaults/boardings spreading plague incorrectly.

* Fixed bug in updating plague for ships.

* Fixed bug in updating plague for land units.

* Fixed bug in updating plague for attacking/defending land units.

* Fixed bug where you couldn't pin-bomb land units that were < 20% eff.

* Fixed bug which revealed the owner of torping subs when on a mission.

Changes to Empire 4.0.16 - Fri Jun 12 08:52:06 EDT 1998

* Added patches sent in by Steve McClure, Sverker Wiberg and Curtis

Larsen. They are described with other changes below.

* Fixed bugs in the following commands that allowed two cooperating

countries to create infinite numbers of any commodity and/or cash

at any time (race conditions in the server): build, board, deliver,

designate, distribute, explore, fuel, improve, load, ltend, mobquota,

move, name, order, reset, sail, sell, set, tend, territory, test,

threshold, torpedo, transport, unload

* Fixed bug in board command giving out too much information about a

non-owned sector when it shouldn't be.

* Fixed bug in board command when firing on a sector in defense before

checking mobility.

* Fixed bug in rangeedit allowing plane(s) to possibly be stored wrong.

* Fixed bug in launch allowing plane to possibly be stored wrong after

launch.

* Fixed bug in lrangeedit allowing land unit(s) to possibly be stored wrong.

* Fixed bug in morale allowing land unit(s) to possibly be stored wrong.

* Fixed bug in arm/disarm allowing a plane to possibly be stored wrong.

* Fixed bug in loan sometimes not writing database correctly.

* Fixed bug in collect.

* Fixed bug in dropping mines from land units.

* Fixed crashing bug in sector_strength routine when oceans take

collateral damage.

* Fixed bug in transport possibly decrementing too much mobility when

moving a nuke.

* Fixed some little warning type messages building with gcc -Wall.

* Fixed problem compiling lwp threads with glibc6 under Linux.

* Changed flash so that players can always flash deities.

* Changed players command to always show deities and visitor countries

that are logged on, and only show allied countries for normal player

countries.

* Fixed bug in anti command not stopping sectors when they revolt.

* Fixed bug in set_coastal function not counting bridge spans as

water based sectors (after all, the land is still a coastal sector,

even if next to a bridge span.)

* "flash" and "players" is re-enabled for visitor accounts.

* Fixed bug in bleeding of technology and research to other players.

* Fixed bug in explore not spreading plague correctly.

* Fixed bug in move not spreading plague correctly.

* Fixed bug in deliver not spreading plague correctly.

* Fixed bug in distribute not spreading plague.

* Included "postresults" script in the scripts directory which can be

used to auto-post daily power chart/announcements to rec.games.empire.

* Updated Plague.t

* Updated Innards.t

* Removed OVCONFIG from build.conf, and patched doconfig to match.

* doconfig is only run if needed

* emp_client and emp_server are only linked if needed

* Added list of disabled options to the version command.

* Fixed bug in survey allowing you to see hidden variables.

* Re-enabled escort missions due to above bug fix most likely the problem.

* Changed one instance of "restrict" to "restricted" in bestpath.c. For

some reason, this was causing a problem on one of the Linux builds (??).

* Added "show sector capabilities" functionality (this didn't exist

before.)

* Fixed bug in neweff not reporting stopped sectors. It now (correctly)

reports them as not changing eff.

Changes to Empire 4.0.15 - Wed May 20 12:35:53 EDT 1998

* Fixed the spelling of Markus' name in CHANGES4.0 files.

* Added Markus' patches/fixes. Some are detailed below.

* Added 'mipsultrix.gxx' build target.

* Fixed doconfig to write ipglob.c in the correct target area.

* Fixed a bunch of type casting that needed to be done correctly.

* Only print out last connect by for non-visitor accounts.

* 'players' command is only useable by non-visitor accounts.

* Fixed ask_off in attsub.c to not print out allied sector mil counts

when attacking from neighboring sectors.

* Fixed targetting of che when taking over sectors.

* 'anti' command only fights che that are targetted at you.

* Fixed update not updating timestamps of objects (ships, planes, land

units, sectors.)

* Fixed bug delivering conquered populace.

* Fixed potential bug scuttling ship with land units on it.

* Moved heavy bombers to tech 90.

* Fixed bug in setsector telling the deity coordinates of sectors being

granted/taken away.

* Fixed bug in setting budget of enlistment sectors to 0.

Changes to Empire 4.0.14 - Wed Apr 8 08:47:54 EDT 1998

* Fixed time_t problem in common/log.c

* Fixed bug in headlines

* Replaced vaxultrix build flags with proper vanilla ones.

* Fixed bug in update/prepare.c (sometimes not getting charged for

mil on units and ships)

* Fixed bug in printing of "No ship(s)" twice in cargo command when no

ships were selected.

* Temporarily disabled escort missions until a fix is found. They are

randomly crashing the server.

* Fixed morale.t to reflect that retreat percentage is based off of

morale_base and not 75.

* Fixed bug in bridgefall where planes and units on ship in a sector

that has a bridge collapse are being sunk.

* Fixed bug in update/produce.c when a sector overflows it's capacity

on production.

* Fixed bug in produce command reporting incorrect costs (sometimes).

* Land units on ships will now try to draw supply from the ship they

are on.

Changes to Empire 4.0.13 - Mon Mar 2 11:04:28 EST 1998

* Fixed bug in distribute when world sizes are other than 64x32

* Fixed bug in getcommand (not really a bug, just made it work like

it used to so that the players command is useful for deities

again)

* Fixed building of POSIX threads on Alpha running Digital Unix.

* Fixed line_of_sight prototype in sona.c

* Fixed fairland not to conuse stupid C++ compilers.

Changes to Empire 4.0.12 - Tue Feb 24 11:27:31 EST 1998

* Fixed client build on linux (whoops)

Changes to Empire 4.0.11 - Tue Feb 10 10:53:10 EST 1998

* AIX build seems to only work with gcc right now (but at least that works)

* Vax Ultrix (vaxultrix) build should work now (hopefully) out of the box.

* Took out autosupply of airports when bombing or dropping shells.

(This was the only commodity this was done for, and it was creating

problems since supply is still somewhat broken somewhere)

* Included Curtis Larsen's, Markus Armbruster's and Sverker Wiberg's

submitted patches, which collectively included cleaning up most

of the server prototypes and bogus declarations. Many thanks.

* Increased incoming command buffer to 1024 from 512 bytes

* Increased the # of parsed arguments from 64 to 100

* Fixed bug where spies were not dying when damaged.

* Fixed bug in HIDDEN mods in declare command not printing country # of

uncontacted country correctly (or at all as a matter of fact)

Changes to Empire 4.0.10 - Mon Aug 18 12:34:58 EDT 1997

* Fixed bug where fleets were being interdicted but the damage was being

spread to ships not in the same sectors.

* Fixed but in market when buying goods without enough cash.

* Planes in orbit over airports are no longer fixed up during updates.

* Planes in orbit are no longer damaged when the sectors they are over

are damaged.

* Planes on ships are no longer damaged when the sectors they are in are

damaged, unless the ship is damaged.

* Fixed problem with no newline after partisan activity telegram in

anti.c

* Fixed problem in chan.c printing out change costs incorrectly.

* Fixed problem in dispatch.c screwing things up on redirection.

* financial should now handle 6 and 7 digit loans.

* Planes on ships that are in sectors that revolt are no longer taken

over.

* Fixed bug in powe.c where the power report was mis-calculating the

efficiency of planes.

* Fixed doconfig.c to use STDC instead of multi-level #ifdefs.

* Fixed bug in parse.c that was screwing up double quotes in conditional

arguments.

* Military in a sector now only produce up to maxpop, just like civvies

and uw's. No more stuffing 6K mil into a mountain to max it out. You

can still hold more mil there over the updates, but the extras just

won't produce anymore.

* Fixed bug in shark that allowed you to shark up loans even if you couldn't

cover the debt.

* Fixed bug in day of week calculation for server up time in common/keyword.c

that is used for gamedays.

* Documented what happens to standing military in collect.t when you collect

a sector.

* Documented mountains only holding and using 1/10th of the normal sector

population in Sector-types.t.

* Fixed documentation on ship's firing ranges in fire.t to be less

ambiguous.

* Updated nukes in nuke.t

* Added apropos command (thanks to Mike Wise)

* Added case-insensitivity to the info command (thanks to Mike Wise). If

there are two files of the same name, and you don't get a complete match,

then whichever file is found first in the directory is used.

* Changed documentation in wantupd.h

Changes to Empire 4.0.9 - Sat Apr 19 23:01:51 EDT 1997

* Fixed dump info pages that were getting formatted funny.

* Fixed improve info page.

* Fixed bug in allied planes/units not moving when the carriers move.

* Fixed bug in satellite output for <100% satellites.

* Fixed bug in load/unload not putting a newline after some unloadings

in allied sectors.

* Fixed bug in harden not printing correct values.

* Fixed bug in creating/moving/etc. nuclear stockpiles.

* Fixed bug where subs were trying to torp commodities moving on land when

on interdiction. (This was funny ;-) )

* Fixed bug in "move" where you could keep a sector even after someone else

took it from you.

* Budget now correctly reports the # of units being built.

* Mil on units & ships are now reported as normal military costs, not

ship or unit maintainence costs in budget.

* Fixed bug in update code where taxes could potentially be initialized

incorrectly (affected budgets too.)

* Fixed bug in nat.h header so that it uses SCT_MAXDEF instead of a fixed

number (that was incorrect.)

* Fixed bug with trains - they needed the xlight flag to carry planes.

* Revamped and improved flak.

* Added "Flak" info page.

* Added "Fallout" info page.

* Fixed repay/offer/consider to all need a capital to be used.

* Fixed bug with air defense missions not running when not AT WAR. They now

fly when HOSTILE.

* plane/ship/unit short names are all now 4 characters, padded if needed.

* pdump/sdump/ldump/ndump now just print the short name for the type.

* sdump now has ship name at very end in quotes.

These were done at the request of some client developers for ease of use.

* Fixed extra space in the dump output.

* Fixed fallout - not quite so nasty anymore.

* Fixed fallout - things on ships/units are damaged now.

* Fixed and balanced planes/ships/units/nukes in conjunction with each other.

* Fixed bug in doconfig.c calculating wrong s_p_etu sometimes.

* Fixed bug where harbors weren't being used to resupply.

* Fixed bug where selling units loaded with planes and units wouldn't take

the loaded planes or units - they are now dropped.

* Fixed bug in arm/disarm where you could arm/disarm planes on the trading

block.

* Deities can now remove things from the trading block/market.

* Fixed bug in "work" not charging engineers enough mob.

* Fixed bug in "work" not adding teardown and buildup avail costs together.

* Subs no longer need mobility to return fire when fired upon.

* Fixed "reset".

* Fixed bug in "trade" allowing 2 players to pay for the same item, but only

the last player gets it.

* Fixed bug where you couldn't launch missiles from allied ships or sectors.

* Fixed bombing so that pin-bombing can cause collateral damage too.

* Fixed sector damage to damage planes there too.

* Fixed flag in lload so that it doesn't always print if not needed.

* Fixed "sell.t" info page.

* Fixed bug in "buy" where not entering the price correctly could cause

a crash.

* Fixed "sell" so that at least 1 mobility is required to sell goods. Keeps

the midnight "raid and sell" abuse down. :)

* Fixed "show plane cap" to move the last column over 1 more where it should

be.

* Fixed timestamps to be updated for units/planes on ships/units that move,

since those units/planes move too.

Changes to Empire 4.0.8 - Wed Feb 26 23:00:51 EST 1997

* Fixed bug in nstr_exec that was wiping out the previous conditional.

This was major because it affected timestamp values which are more

than 65535.

* Fixed bug in sdump.c for typo in reporting the trade ships origin.

Changes to Empire 4.0.7 - Mon Feb 24 22:48:54 EST 1997

* Fixed bug in aircombat.c when calculating the air combat odds. Negative

numbers were screwing things up good...

* Fort sector's coordinates are no longer printed when auto-firing at

ships.

* Subs can now surface and fire deck guns (again) They can also be

hit by return fire when doing so.

* Fixed bug in setting of plane attack and defensive values so that

negative numbers don't keep going further negative.

* Fixed incorrect military control calculation in the sell command.

* Trading posts are no longer required to sell goods from. You can sell

from harbors and warehouses now too.

* Spy now prints out the owner of land units you see when spying. Before

this was assumed to be sector owner, which is no longer true.

* Loading land units now prints out what was loaded onto each unit,

just as loading ships do.

* Added fallout, coast, c_del, m_del, c_cut and m_cut to dump output.

* Added "GO_RENEW" option. This option means that gold and oil resources

are renewable.

* Added "lost_items_timeout" config variable, and set the default to

48 hours. This determines how long lost items stay in the lost items

database.

* Fixed land unit names to be more consistent.

* Fixed mission.t info page.

* Fixed bug in that if mission_mob_cost was set to 0, even negative

mob units should be able to be put on missions.

* Removed restriction on things needing to be at least 60% to be put

on a mission. Note that while you can put them on missions at < 60%

now, when trying to do the mission, it still checks the eff. This

is to help in automatic setup (build, put on mission, forget) instead

of having to come back repeatedly.

* Spies caught in Neutral or Friendly countries cause the Neutral or

Friendly country to go Hostile towards the owner of the spy.

* Tweaked ammunition numbers for artillery units.

* No more automatic declarations of War should be made. You will go

hostile, but since going to war doesn't increase your countries

defenses, and is purely political, it is left to the player to go

that final step.

* Fixed bug in trade that wasn't incrementing the time if last second bidding.

* Fixed bug in "lmine" that was crashing the server if the land unit was

out of mobility.

* Fixed buy so that if you specify a product, you can only bid on that

type of product.

* Added "lost.t" info page.

* Added "lost items" database (EF_LOST)

* Fixed bug where you could move in allied forces after an attack if they

bordered the victim area.

* Fixed nstr_comp to deal with values > 16 bits coming in from

client for comparisons.

* Changed last minute market/trade timers to increment 5 minutes. 2 minutes

was too quick.

* Fixed decode in lib/common/nstr_subs.c to deal with NSC_TIME better.

* Commented out the logging of the market checking in server/marketup.c,

lib/commands/buy.c and lib/commands/trad.c It was generating lots of

pretty much useless data that made parsing the server.log file more

more difficult than it needed to be.

* Fixed crashing bug in ldump.

* sdump, ldump, ndump, pdump and dump now print out the current

timestamp on the "DUMP XXX" line.

* Fixed denial of service bug in lib/player/accept.c in

player_find_other function.

* Fixed bug in shark reporting incorrect buyer of the loan.

* Fixed bug in sdump.c (case 0 should have been case 10)

* ldump and sdump now always print the fuel column if asked for,

even if opt_FUEL is turned off. In the case that it is turned

off, the fuel is listed as 0.

* Added "timestamp" field, which is updated every time an item is

changed.

* Fixed up the Clients.t info page.

* sdump now prints trade ship building origin.

* sdump now always prints name even if SHIPNAMES isn't defined. If

it is not defined, then the name is empty.

* Added "timestamp" to info/Concepts/Selector.t

* Added some more relevant info to info/Server/Empire4.t

* Fixed Infrastructure.t info page to reflect the fact that infrastructure

is no longer torn down when a sector is re-designated.

* Fixed sell.t to more accurately reflect the time-delay market.

* Fixed read.t and wire.t to reference accept and reject.

* Fixed reject.t not referencing accept command.

* Fixed collect.t to more accurately reflect what goes on when collecting

sectors.

* Fixed financial.t to reflect defaulted loans.

* Fixed dump.t, sdump.t, ldump.t, ndump.t, pdump.t to reflect new

timestamp info.

* Fixed "census.t" (had incorrect reference to "info syntax" instead

of "info Syntax".

Changes to Empire 4.0.6 - Thu Jan 16 11:33 EST 1997

* Increased damage from depthcharges because on increased damage from

torpedos. Sub frange decreased to be more balanced with destroyer frange.

* Intelligence reports (spy) on units will now report the estimated number

of mil on the unit.

* Fixed equation for ship visibility so it will drop as tech increases.

* Added new commands sdump, ldump, pdump, and ndump to dump data on ships,

land units, planes, and nukes.

* If fields are provided, dump will only supply those fields requested.

* Decreased speed of subs.

* When options NO_LCMS or NO_HCMS are set, those commodities are no longer

required for infrastructure improvements.

* Units that lose an assault or a boarding attempt from a ship will no

longer swim back to the ship they came from.

* Units that take extra casualties will no longer lose all their mil at

once.

* Infrastucture is retained when redesignating a sector.

* Dieing spies will no longer crash the server.

* Units, planes, and ships must have mobility to perform missions.

* Units on ship being scrapped are transferred to harbor.

* Food is no longer autoloaded onto units when they are built.

* Fixed show plane stat to show correct range.

* Infantries now take damage at same rate as casualties.

* Fixed bug with hap_fact. Having more happiness now helps with fighting

che.

* Fixed anti to write back target country so che will continue to fight

when they survive.

* Fixed llookout to show correct estimate on number of mil on unit.

* Added buildable architecture "hp". This type will build the server on

a HP/UX machine using the standard compiler instead of gcc.

Changes to Empire 4.0.5 - Thu Dec 12 10:28:48 EST 1996

* Fixed bug in update/distribute.c where pathcost was not being called with

the MOB_ROAD argument (and thus distribution costs could be GREATLY

affected.) - Thanks Ice!

Changes to Empire 4.0.4 - Mon Dec 9 11:00:00 EST 1996

* Fixed Solaris port using gcc.

* Fixed doconfig.c to create directories with right modes.

* Fixed install macros in makefiles to move binaries to the right

places.

Changes to Empire 4.0.3 - Wed Dec 4 22:46:53 EST 1996

* Added HP/UX port.

* Fixed doconfig.c (put exit(0) at the end of main.)

* Fixed improve.c (moved the prompt[] string outside the fcn.)

Changes to Empire 4.0.2 - Mon Oct 14 12:26:40 EDT 1996

* Put in LND_MINMOBCOST in land.h

* Put in change in lnd_mobcost in lndsub.c

* Put in new nuke costs in nuke.c

* Put in fix so that total work can only be done by the max pop. No more extra

civvies tossed in will do it anymore in human.c.

* Put in fix for src/util/Makefile - beefed it up.

* Put in fix to show where your ship is when it gets shelled in mfir.c.

* Changed infrastructure of roads from .040 to .020 (122 instead of 150 in

common/move.c)

* Fixed Update-sequence.t.

* Put in fix for mobcost bonus for 0% highways.

* Fixed stop.t

* Fixed commodity.t

* Spruced up torpedo damage somewhat. :) :)

* Fixed "assault bmap bug" in attsub.c

* Fixed Produce.t (bars cost)

* Changed mountains to get an automatic "2" for defensive bonus in attsub.c

* Fixed consider.t

* Fixed repay.t

* Fixed offer.t

* Fixed "offer" and "consider" not being legal commands in player/empmod.c

* Fixed Damage.t

* Fixed sstat.t

* Fixed lstat.c, pstat.c and sstat.c

* Fixed cutoff command in cuto.c

* Fixed attack value in attack_val in lndsub.c

* Fixed lload in commands/load.c

* Fixed defense_val in lndsub.c - Made it a minimum of 1, so that units will

always fight until dead or retreating. 0 makes them get stuck.

* Fixed update/deliver.c - no delivery of non-oldowned civvies (or anything

else for that matter.)

* Fixed llook in commands/look.c

* Fixed che bug in subs/nstr.c

* Fixed bug in strv.c by overcompensating by 1 food per sector (minute amounts

of people would starve.)

* Fixed update/human.c - feed_people rounding problems (I hope.)

* Fixed morale problem in update/land.c

* Fixed count_bodies in attsub.c

* Fixed lnd_mobcost.

* Fixed subs/land,plane,ship.c to handle sunken units and planes correctly.

* Fixed interest rate in commands/offe.c

* Fixed bug in buy.c.

* Put in DEFENSE_INFRA soption o you can turn on/off the use of the defensive

infrastructure. When off, the defensive infrastructure is the same

as the sector efficiency, and you can't improve it. This is OFF by

default.

* Fixed Empire4.t

* Added Wolfpack.t

* Land units are now built with a default reaction radius of 0.

* Changed name of lt artilleries to "lat" from "lart" so you can now build

"lar"s again.

* Lowered the speed and firing range of pt boats.

* Lowered the initial att strength of cavs from 1.5 to 1.3 (they were TOO

powerful.)

* Changed the max mob gain defaults of units/planes to 1.0 and ships to 1.5

(This is * ETU_RATE, so it is equal to ETU_RATE for units/planes and

1.5 * ETU_RATE for ships.)

* Conquered civvies only pay 1/4 taxes.

* Railways don't get torn down when you rebuild sectors anymore (but roads

and defenses do (if enabled.)

Changes to Empire 4.0.1 - Wed Aug 28 11:35:40 EDT 1996

* Added "extern double tradetax" to check_trade in trad.c

* Improved description of data directory in build.conf

* Fixed bug in attacking land units that retreat so they now get

charged mobility for attacking.

* Fixed dump to report road, rail and defense of a sector at the end.

* Fixed doconfig bug in not checking the right directory to see if the

"data" directory existed or not before trying to create it.

* "change" now works for sanctuary countries.

* Fixed the description of "sinfrastructure".

* Added more info to "Infrastructure".

* Units/planes are no longer reduced to 75% when bought from the trading

block.

* Supply units were slowed down to the speed of infantry units.

* Trade-ship payoffs have been lowered to 2.5, 3.5 and 5.0

* Bars interest is up to $250 per 1K again.

* Civ taxes were raised back up to a 10:1 mil/civ tax ratio (was 20:1)

* Fixed various info pages.

* Fixed bug in people not getting truncated when broke (this was thought

to be fixed, but wasn't. Now it is, dammit!)

* Fixed bug with units marching across oceans (scuba gear not included. ;-) )

* Market/trade taxes and trade ship payoff figures were added to version.

* "cede" has been removed as a default command.

* Makefile rule was fixed for depend build.

* Fixed bug in mapdist not taking world edges into account nicely enough.

* Added a "scuttle" order for autoscuttling trade ships. Makes using them

easier. Cleaned up scuttle code while in there.

* Fixed bug with scuttling a ship with units on it not scuttling the units

too.

Changes to Empire 4.0.0 - Wed Aug 21 1996

* Initial Wolfpack release - Long live the Wolfpack!!!!

* Cleaned up the build environment. Now all that is needed is to edit the

build.conf file, answer the questions there and type "make " to

build for a specific architecture. Thus, no more reliance on gnumake

or special shell scripts.

* We are now shipping the pre-built info pages with the server for those who

Don't want to build them. You can also still just type "make" and have

the info pages build, but it doesn't completely work (i.e. rebuild new

Subjects) if you don't have perl5 installed.

* Put in the "help" command that does the same thing as "info".

* Removed C_SYNC. This is done for 2 reasons. 1) None of us like it or

wish to support it. 2) We envision a better scheme for doing similar

things will come along.

* Put in MOB_ACCESS - This allows real-time updating of mobility.

* Put in MARKET - This is the time-based market (yes, still teleports,

but it's not as bad as it was.)

* Lots of the documenation has been updated, but there is more to do.

* Added NO_LCMS, NO_HCMS and NO_OIL options. When any of these options are

enabled, you don't need any of that type of material to build things.

If NO_HCMS is enabled, you don't need HCMS to build bridges, you need

lcms. If both NO_HCMS and NO_LCMS are enabled, then you don't need

any materials to build a bridge.

* There is no mobility cost for assigning missions. But, there is also

no longer any benefit for being on a mission either.

* Damage is the same for all commodities (people too.) This means you

can deity shell/bomb sectors again.

* Units are now dependant on tech. What this means is that their statistics

now increase with tech. In addition, there is only 1 type of each basic

unit now (i.e. just "cavalry" instead of "cavalry 1", "cavalry 2", etc.)

This reflects the idea that as you learn more, you learn how to not only

build better units, but you learn to build units better. :) This also

opens the door for a "lupgrade" command along the same lines as the

"upgrade" command for ships.

* Units now have a minimum mob cost for attacking a sector. Marching

mob costs have not changed.

* Starting units have been removed. This means that at the beginning, people

may live a little longer since their neighbor can't come visiting quite

as quick.

* Shells are no longer required to build units.

* Mil are no longer required to build units.

* Mil are no longer an intrinsic part of a unit. They are now a loadable

commodity. The way a unit's defense/att bonuses work now are

attack = (att * mil * eff)

defense = (def * mil * eff)

In addition, when a unit takes damage, both the eff and the mil go

down. You can quickly toss in new hacks, but you need to wait to repair

the unit at the update. Thus, you can now look at unit's efficiency

as their training.

* You need at least 1 mil on a unit to march it (spies are the exception.)

* Units always react if in range and they have the mobility, no matter

what their efficency.

* Units may now march anywhere - in your own sectors, deity owned sectors

or allied sectors, with 1 exception, spies. Also, your units can get

trapped if your ally declares non-alliance with you while your units

are still in his country.)

* Units always march at their speed, efficiency doesn't matter.

* LANDSPIES was added - This creates land unit based spies. Spies may march

anywhere, with a chance of getting caught (except in allied territory.)

See "info Spies" for more info on them.

* Planes may now be based out of allied airports. Landing planes on

ships/sectors you do not own no longer changes thier owner. You can only

land on owned/allied sectors/ships, and you may only

fly/bomb/para/recon/drop from owned/allied sectors. So, if a country

you are allied with goes hostile at you, your planes are now stuck there.

Note that if you are using an allied airport, their commodities get

sucked up, not yours (obviously.)

* Planes are now tech-based. Their statistics increase as their tech

increases. Deleted extraneous planes.

* There is a new toggle, "techlists", which allows you to see what you

can build/stats/capabilities sorted by tech instead of groupings.

* Ships are now tech-based. Their statistics increase as their tech

increases. Deleted extraneous ships.

* Che can now be lessened by making happiness. If you have more happiness

than your conquered populace, they don't fight as hard or recruit as

much. If you have less than them, they fight harder and recruit more.

It's not much though - it ranges from 2.0 in your favor to only 0.8

against you (whereas it was always 1.0 before.) So, it definitely

favors the attackers to make lots of happy now.

* Bridgeheads can only be built on coasts.

* Players command was fixed so you only see allies, and don't get

approx #'s of players anymore.

* POSIX threads support has been added.

* The attack bmap bug has been fixed.

* BTUs regenerate 3 times faster now.

* GRAB_THINGS is off by default.

* Big nuclear bombs are back, and FALLOUT has been fixed and enabled

as a default (you couldn't make wasteland before with FALLOUT, now

you can.)

* You can now deliver military and civilians.

* Added SHIP_DECAY option - off by default (turns off ships decaying out

at sea if not enough mil.)

* The reverting owner bug has been fixed in territory, thresh, dist

and deliver. There are probably more, and when found, will be fixed.

* The "sectors don't starve when stopped or broke" bug has been fixed.

* The "people never get truncated" bug has been fixed.

* Added infrastructure to sectors. What this means is that a sector

can now have it's mobility improved by building both roads and

railways. It also means that a sectors defense is now based on the

defensive infrastructure you build into the sector (no more intrinsic

better defenses based on the sector, you determine which sectors are

defended heavily, and which aren't.)

* The defensive value of a sector no longer relies on the efficiency of

the sector. Instead, it relies on the defensive efficiency of the sector.

Thus, the "production" and "defensive" aspects of sectors have been

separated.

* "show sect stats" now shows the maximum defensive value for sectors.

* Changed sector structure to take floats for off/def values so we can use

a base of 1 instead of 2.

* Added "improve" and "sinfrastructure" to support the infrastructure

concepts.

* Added L_TRAIN units which can only travel along railways. Very fast on

efficient railways, slow on non-efficient ones.

* Added the ability for units to carry other units.

* Fixed census (shortened up "fallout" and "coast" to "fall" and "coa".)

* Forts only cost $500 to build and 100 hcms now (since they don't get any

better defenses automagically.)

* Modified "show sect build" to show the costs for building up the

infrastructure of a sector.

* Changed "spy" and the satellite recon stuff (which shows sector stuff for

spyplanes too) to show the new infrastructure stuff, rounded of course.

* Added Drake's info->html scripts, with some modifications, so you can

now type "make html" and have your info pages built as html files too.

This adds a new directory, "info.html", to the build tree.

* Modified upgrade so that planes and land units may now be upgraded.

* Added pstat command to list the statistics of your planes.

* Added lstat command to list the statistics of your land units.

* Added sstat command to list the statistics of your ships.

* Added nmap command to show a map of your sectors after their new

designations have taken place.