adding updateperiod to config file

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Version 1.2.4
* Fixed bug causing negative funds to be deposited into an account
    (bugID 966653) (thank you Jono H - xjono)
* Fixed a bug causing players to be duplicated on /msg gameserv 
    load - kain
* Added Ultimate2.8.x support - kain
* Healing potions can only add up to 100 over your max HP now - kain
* Changed the logic for the wishing well forest event. It now adds back 
    a forest fight if you were broke - kain
* Fixed a bug causing the wrong bonuses to be added when a level was 
    gained, and none to be added on the last level - kain
* Added daily news with automatic additions when you gain a level, 
    unsuccessfully best your master, kill someone, or are killed - kain
Version 1.2.3
* Took experience out of calculating the cost of potions - kain
* Added even more strength to masters (your defense bonus for each level) 
    to try to even out the fight - kain
* Added more strength to monsters past level 7 and changed the masters' 
    stats accordingly - kain
* Changed the fountain forest event to not take a forest fight if your 
    HP is at max - kain
* Added more experience per monster past level 7 - kain
* Added a new forest event (find a potion) each potion has a 1/5 chance 
    of being the one you found, and you have a 2% chance of incurring
    this forest event - kain
* Added notification that a player used a potion during a fight to the 
    player they are fighting - kain
* Added potions to the stats command - kain
* Made the code a bit less dependent on 12 levels - kain
* Added a new parameter to the list command that allows listing only 
    those that are online and playing - kain
* Added a new command "Dragon" which lets you fight the end boss - kain
* Doubled the required experience for fighting masters - kain
* Fixed a cosmetic bug (sorta) that caused your HP not to read 0 when
    you're dead (thanks Ricky-S) - kain
* Fixed a divide by 0 bug that occurred when you attacked, but had no 
    weapon (BugID 946043) (thank you NOTevil) - kain
* Fixed a logic error allowing players to bank during a fight - kain
* Added more gold per monster above level 4 - kain

Version 1.2.2
* Fixed a logical error causing the ListenOnCF flag to only work in P10 
    servers - kain
* Fixed the store command to display syntax on improper sequence of 
    commands (thanks damaged) - kain
* Added monsters for levels 10, 11, and 12 (created by damaged, edited 
    by kain) - kain
* Made the masters stats match the next level's monsters' stats a lot 
    closer - kain
* Fixed a bug that crashed gameserv on /msg gameserv master - kain
* Made welcomemsg an optional config file option. If commented out
    or deleted, gameserv will not send the welcome message 
    (requested by zshack)- kain
* Made the ignoreservers config file option work for Unreal - kain
* Fixed a minor logical problem that was causing players to be mugged
    for 0 gold when they were either dead or had no gold on hand and
    they timed out (thanks Rehm) - kain
* Fixed the bug not allowing different config files to be used - kain
* Added an optional config file directive BOPER which makes
    gameserv become an oper on the network - kain
* Added an optional config file directive USEPRIVMSG which makes
    gameserv use /msg instead of /notice - kain
* Made the ignoreservers config file option work for bahamut - kain
* Fixed an error in do_register that was not adding the client to the
    players list correctly, causing newly registered players to be
    locked out of identifying until the next gameserv restart - kain
* Fixed an error that crashed GameServ if you tried to fight a player
    lower than the configured level - kain
* Reduced the effect of potions since the price is down - kain
* Reduced the price of potions significantly - kain
* Added a few timeout events if you're not in a fight - kain

Version 1.2.1
* Included a crontab script in all new distros now - kain
* Added a new flag that tells wether a person is playing instead of
    relying solely on pointers - kain
* Added a mechanism to ignore on a nick to nick basis, and implemented
    code to auto-ignore nicks on certain servers - kain
* Changed the HASH command to iHASH (case insensitive) and sHASH (case 
    sensitive) - kain
* Gameserv no longer opers - kain
* New config file directive: listenonc_forest... see 
    gameserv.example.conf - kain
* Fixed a bug in identify that was causing players to be shown as not 
    playing (after the change in functions) - kain
* Fixed up the is_playing boolean function to be more strict - kain
* A true timestamp is now sent on SJOIN for hybrid servers. TS of 1
    was messing things up - kain
* Logs are now timestamped as follows: mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS - kain
* Added a timeout mechanism with two new config file options - kain
    - If players are fighting, and the one who's turn it is times out,
	they lose their turn. If they both timeout after that,
	they are logged out.
    - If players are not fighting (player fights), they are simply 
	logged out.
* Fixed a major bug causing a crash when players fought - kain
* The gameserv server now attempts 3 reconnects if disconnected - kain

Version 1.2.0
* Took +devel out of the version reply in gameserv.cpp - kain
* Implemented a hashing algorithm for extremely fast searches through 
    the players and clients linked lists - kain & wcampbel
* Fixed some of the fight code - kain
* Added a logout command so you don't have to quit the IRC Network to 
    stop playing - kain
* Fixed a bug that was causing players not to be voiced on the forest 
    channel on P10 servers - kain
* Added a missing code segment to decrement the player fights per 
    day when you fight another player (reported by MaCbLiNd) - kain
* Fixed a bug that allowed the same player name to be registered any 
    number of times - kain
* Fixed a problem in when players quit on a P10 server, the /msg 
    gameserv list shows the irc nick as not NULL because it was only 
    setting the regular nick and not the realnick - kain
* Fixed a logic error in the identify command that caused players to be 
    falsely shown as identified - kain
* When a player logs off during a player fight, the fight now ends. 
    Before it was held in limbo - kain
* Fixed a bug in the fight command requiring you to use an irc nickname
    to fight (BugID 927789) - kain

Version 1.1.9
* Added 2 new config file directives (maxafightdistance and maxbfightdistance)
    These allow you to set limits on the distance (in levels) two players
    are allowed to fight with. See gameserv.example.conf for more info. - kain
* Fixed a bug in the identify command that falsly showed a player as 
    already being identified. - kain
* Created Monsters for level 9 - kain
* Added the beginnings of an end monster - kain
* Slightly adjust the weapon and armor bonuses to prevent a divide by zero
    exception (reported by wassup). - wcampbel
* Prevent players from issuing a FIGHT against a dead player (reported
    by wassup). - wcampbel
* Fixed a core in RUN if a client wasn't playing. - wcampbel
* Added an option to specify the PID file in the config file. - kain

Version 1.1.8
* Missing directives now are identified for config files upon startup - kain
* Added a --help option to the gameserv binary - kain
* Added an optional command line parameter to load a config file - kain
* Added a nifty startup intro with the version number. - Kain
* Fixed BANK BALANCE (BugID 895157) - wcampbel
* Completely removed the midnight() function code, and replaced it with 
    some struct tm functionality with the localtime() function. - kain
* Major changes to the Makefile, cleaned up a number of rules and added
    dependencies (via make depend). - wcampbel
* Corrected the VERSION reply, it broke ircII. - wcampbel
* Fixed some P10/other protocol issues - wcampbel
* Removed the old hard coded monsters entries. - wcampbel
* Made gameserv load as a true daemon. gameserv.pid now contains the pid 
    for the gameserv process. No more run script. - kain
* Fixed a bug that caused the identify function to segfault. - kain
* Fixed some P10 Functionality - kain
* Merged in the Hybrid patch - wcampbel

Version 1.1.7
* Added P10 Functionality (ircu-2.10.11.x)
* Created Monsters for level 8
* Increased the size of the monster struct to account for longer names,
    weapons, and death phrases.
* Created Monsters for level 7
* Fixed a bug causing the bank balance command not to work correctly.
    (Thank you wcampbel)
* Added HP potions to increase maximum HP.
* Made strength and defense potions add either 1 or 2 points rather than
    0, 1, or 2.
* Made the monsters a bit harder. I found that as the game progressed,
    it got easier and easier instead of harder.
* Fixed the forest events from happening too often. Also, the fountain
    forest event specifically was adding too many forest fights, making
    the day never end.

Version 1.1.6
* Added a Reset command to GameServ that functions the same was as the
    refresh command, except it completely resets a player to the beginning
    of the game.
* Fixed a bug that would cause monsters to have extremely high HP after
    loading the monster database.
* Tweaked the forest events percentages. They happened too frequently.
* New player database format:
    - Alive/Dead is no longer saved as a word in the database. It is
	saved as a flag.
    - 3 new integer values were added to the end of every player string
	representing their inventory (healing, strength, and defense
	potions).
* Changed the Player structure to use 2 new flags which eliminated 2
    boolean values (alive & yourturn) to save a little memory.
* Fixed a bug that allowed a player already in a fight to be challenged
    by another player. The other player was then locked into the fight
    with no way out.
* Added a use command that allows a player to use items in their inventory.
    Currently the only items are health, strength, and defense potions.
    Command may be used in battle, but it costs you your turn.
* Changed the stats command so that it takes the player name as
    the stats request. You type /msg GameServ stats nick still, but
    nick no longer has to be on IRC. You use the player name instead of
    the IRC Nickname.
* Added a new hybrid patch to the contrib dir. (Thank you wcampbel)
* Fixed a problem in the display_help() function that could cause a bus
    error. The problem was with changing literal text when passed to the
    function as a filename. The function now copies the data as a local
    variable and modifies that. (Thank you wcampbel)
* Fixed a bug that allowed a player to be registered twice if the player
    was not online. (Thank you wcampbel)
* Added an inventory command which allows players to view how many
    potions they are storing.
* Added a tavern command which allows players to buy potions and store
    them in their inventory for later use.
* Made some cosmetic changes to this file.
* Added an inventory class Pouch which allows players to carry around
    things such as potions and such.

Version 1.1.5
* Added a missing help file admin_commands. It was written before, but 
    somehow was deleted.
* Admins can now identify as any user without having the correct password.
* Fixed a bug that allowed for two nicknames to identify for the same player.
* Added a forestfights directive to the config file so admins can set the 
    default daily forest fights.
* Added a die directive to the config file that will not let you start 
    GameServ if it is present.
* Inputted monsters for Level 6. Six more levels left unfinished.
* Changed confloadtime directive to welcomedelay directive in the config file.
    This made more sense.
* Added an updateperiod directive to the config file. This represents the 
    period (in seconds) for updating the player data file. Every time the 
    gameserv server gets a message it will check to see if "updateperiod" 
    seconds or more have elapsed since the last update.

Version 1.1.4
* Fixed the welcome msg sending "ICK" instead of the nickname of a new 
    aclient. (Thank you wcampbel)
* Load now has an optional parameter "monsters" which will force a load of the
    monsterdata file. This is useful for changing monsters on-the-fly.
* Added a load_monsters function that loads from a preconfigured monsters.dat
    file instead of hard coding the monsters into the array. Users can now 
    change the monster configuration around without knowing C/C++.
* Added a new directive to the config file: confloadtime
    this represents the delay (in seconds) until GameServ sends a welcome 
    message to incoming clients.
* Added the welcome message to the config file. See gameserv.example.conf
    for more info on how to use the variable as a formatted string.

Version 1.1.3
* Removed a lot of extra list searches by changing all of the boolean 
    functions to take aClient as a parameter instead of a nickname string.
* Added an is_alive boolean function. Players must now wait until the next 
    day to play again.
* Saving the player->flags integer to the players.dat file. Old databases 
    will not work. 
    QUICK FIX: put a 0 to the left of the encrypted passwords for all player 
    entries so the database can load properly. Look in flags.h for a 
    description of the way flags work.

Version 1.1.2
* Added a /version reply
* Fixed the Makefile to include configscript.cpp
* Added a join message when people connect to the IRCD. The message is set 
    on a delay so that on the initial nick burst, the services do not send
    everyone the message.
* Changed the admin commands from a simple password interface to a more 
    sophisticated flags approach. Now you have to identify with the 
    administrator password once, and your flags indicate that you are an 
    admin for all commands.
* Full help files available in corrected form for the new administrator type
    commands.

Version 1.1.1
* Added some admin features.
    - Refresh
* Added help menu functionality for all commands.
* Fixed the register command so it notified the client that registration
    was successful.
* Changed the master command so that you didn't have to fight your master
    if you had enough experience. There is now a question/fight subcommand
    set for the master command.
* Tweaked the masters a bit. Basically, they were too tough. Once a player
    had enough experience, they had no chance against their master until
    they got the next two weapons up. This made the next level too easy. 
    Past level 1 still needs tweaking.
* Added functionality for bahamut IRCD 

Version 1.1.0
* Added autoconf functionality to the gameserv package. Does not compile
    correctly on SunOS without tweaking.
* Fixed the game so that players stats reset at midnight UTC + 8 hours.
    time(NULL) - (time(NULL) % 86400) + 3600 * 8
* Added a contrib directory with a user submitted patch for hybrid ircd.