Trosnoth 1.10.0 released

[Joshua Bartlett]

I'm pleased to announce the release of Trosnoth version 1.10.0.

Changes since version 1.9.0:

• Removed random spawning of stars around the game.
• Replaced stars with coins as the game currency, and removed upper limit to number of coins held per player.
• Players keep some coins when they die, and drop the rest to be collected by other players.
• Abolished shared team economy, replaced with individual player stockpiles.
• You now receive coins for zone assists as well as captures and kills. Also, you get more coins for a zone capture/assist if you neutralise zones as well as capturing the zone.
• Players start a standard Trosnoth game with a small amount of coins.
• Using bomber does not drop any coins.
• Coins gravitate towards players who get close enough.
• All living players receive coins at a constant, small rate.
• Players are allowed multiple upgrades at once (but not multiple weapon upgrades).
• Leader board now shows team and player scores based on game mode. For a standard game, this is a score reflecting the number of zone caps, rather than number of coins.
• Replaced game over siren with whistle sound.
• Players who survive a rabbit hunt get awarded an achievement and some bonus coins to use during the lobby phase.
• Ranger bots now hunt rabbits, and do a decent job of playing Trosball
• Better logic for Ranger bots capturing zones: if there are enemies kill them rather than just jumping around randomly.
• Better logic for Ranger bots defending zones: if the enemy has enough players to capture, try to kill one before the capture happens.
• If bots are stuck in one place for too long, they use the bomber upgrade.
• Quieter bot logging.
• Internal refactoring, to make it easier to write new game levels but still use triggers from the standard level (e.g., standard zone capture mechanics etc.)
• Replaced all uses of SHA1 in the code base.
• Server manhole can now take custom SSH keys (required when used with new versions of Twisted).
• "Large" map size is now not quite so large.
• Added work-around for bug where some keyboard input is occasionally missed.
• More robustness in some server-side code
• Bug fix: sometimes shots fired towards a player standing just in front of a wall would hit the wall and not kill the player.
• Bug fix: game used to stop being able to create new stars if the game ran for too long, this is no longer an issue with coins
• Bug fixes to server web interface
• Bug fixes to replays
• Bug fix: very rarely two teams could capture zones in the same team, which could result in one time losing their last zone (and the game) while gaining another zone.