Wolfpack 4.3.12 Server Release
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This release fixes abusable bugs.
Deities are urged to use this release for new games. Upgrading
mid-game is not supported and expected to result in total disaster.
The new utility program empsched lets you export and import game state
as plain text. This is useful for archiving games, or transferring
them to a different server. It still has some limitations; check its
manual page for details.
There are no client binaries for this release, as it didn't change
since 4.3.11, except for documentation.
Attention, coders: we switched from CVS to git for revision control.
You can browse the git repository used to prepare this release at
http://git.pond.sub.org/?p=empserver;a=summary
Attention, client writers: xdump now supports incremental dumps for
more tables, and the syntax of xdump ver changed, and a spelling error
in table plane-flags was fixed. Please peruse the change log.
Change log:
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: 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 ver *".
* 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.
- 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.
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Markus Armbruster
add the deity as visitor, then change its status with edit, like this:
add 40 WOPR joshua v i
edit c 40 s 5
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Markus Armbruster
It'll be fixed in 4.3.15. Don't use the broken versions for a HIDDEN
game.
Sorry for the inconvenience.