gameserv/Changes

   1 Version 1.2.4
   2 * Added a notice to the forest channel that the player data was
   3     saved - kain
   4 * Fixed some things with the upper limts of money and experience - kain
   5 * Changed the command LIST so it only lists people who are playing.
   6     To get a full list, use LIST ALL - kain
   7 * Added two new config file options which allow you to specify how
   8     long to wait before deleting level 1 and other levels' accounts
   9     separately - kain
  10 * Added a new command CHECK which will display the amount of time until
  11     the next refresh - kain
  12 * Added a new config option to specify a refresh period in seconds.
  13     Now you can specify how often you want the players to be given
  14     new forest fights, etc... - kain
  15 * Fixed bug causing negative funds to be deposited into an account
  16     (bugID 966653) (thank you Jono H - xjono)
  17 * Fixed a bug causing players to be duplicated on /msg gameserv
  18     load - kain
  19 * Added Ultimate2.8.x support - kain
  20 * Healing potions can only add up to 100 over your max HP now - kain
  21 * Changed the logic for the wishing well forest event. It now adds back
  22     a forest fight if you were broke - kain
  23 * Fixed a bug causing the wrong bonuses to be added when a level was
  24     gained, and none to be added on the last level - kain
  25 * Added daily news with automatic additions when you gain a level,
  26     unsuccessfully best your master, kill someone, or are killed - kain
  27
  28 Version 1.2.3
  29 * Took experience out of calculating the cost of potions - kain
  30 * Added even more strength to masters (your defense bonus for each level)
  31     to try to even out the fight - kain
  32 * Added more strength to monsters past level 7 and changed the masters'
  33     stats accordingly - kain
  34 * Changed the fountain forest event to not take a forest fight if your
  35     HP is at max - kain
  36 * Added more experience per monster past level 7 - kain
  37 * Added a new forest event (find a potion) each potion has a 1/5 chance
  38     of being the one you found, and you have a 2% chance of incurring
  39     this forest event - kain
  40 * Added notification that a player used a potion during a fight to the
  41     player they are fighting - kain
  42 * Added potions to the stats command - kain
  43 * Made the code a bit less dependent on 12 levels - kain
  44 * Added a new parameter to the list command that allows listing only
  45     those that are online and playing - kain
  46 * Added a new command "Dragon" which lets you fight the end boss - kain
  47 * Doubled the required experience for fighting masters - kain
  48 * Fixed a cosmetic bug (sorta) that caused your HP not to read 0 when
  49     you're dead (thanks Ricky-S) - kain
  50 * Fixed a divide by 0 bug that occurred when you attacked, but had no
  51     weapon (BugID 946043) (thank you NOTevil) - kain
  52 * Fixed a logic error allowing players to bank during a fight - kain
  53 * Added more gold per monster above level 4 - kain
  54
  55 Version 1.2.2
  56 * Fixed a logical error causing the ListenOnCF flag to only work in P10
  57     servers - kain
  58 * Fixed the store command to display syntax on improper sequence of
  59     commands (thanks damaged) - kain
  60 * Added monsters for levels 10, 11, and 12 (created by damaged, edited
  61     by kain) - kain
  62 * Made the masters stats match the next level's monsters' stats a lot
  63     closer - kain
  64 * Fixed a bug that crashed gameserv on /msg gameserv master - kain
  65 * Made welcomemsg an optional config file option. If commented out
  66     or deleted, gameserv will not send the welcome message
  67     (requested by zshack)- kain
  68 * Made the ignoreservers config file option work for Unreal - kain
  69 * Fixed a minor logical problem that was causing players to be mugged
  70     for 0 gold when they were either dead or had no gold on hand and
  71     they timed out (thanks Rehm) - kain
  72 * Fixed the bug not allowing different config files to be used - kain
  73 * Added an optional config file directive BOPER which makes
  74     gameserv become an oper on the network - kain
  75 * Added an optional config file directive USEPRIVMSG which makes
  76     gameserv use /msg instead of /notice - kain
  77 * Made the ignoreservers config file option work for bahamut - kain
  78 * Fixed an error in do_register that was not adding the client to the
  79     players list correctly, causing newly registered players to be
  80     locked out of identifying until the next gameserv restart - kain
  81 * Fixed an error that crashed GameServ if you tried to fight a player
  82     lower than the configured level - kain
  83 * Reduced the effect of potions since the price is down - kain
  84 * Reduced the price of potions significantly - kain
  85 * Added a few timeout events if you're not in a fight - kain
  86
  87 Version 1.2.1
  88 * Included a crontab script in all new distros now - kain
  89 * Added a new flag that tells wether a person is playing instead of
  90     relying solely on pointers - kain
  91 * Added a mechanism to ignore on a nick to nick basis, and implemented
  92     code to auto-ignore nicks on certain servers - kain
  93 * Changed the HASH command to iHASH (case insensitive) and sHASH (case
  94     sensitive) - kain
  95 * Gameserv no longer opers - kain
  96 * New config file directive: listenonc_forest... see
  97     gameserv.example.conf - kain
  98 * Fixed a bug in identify that was causing players to be shown as not
  99     playing (after the change in functions) - kain
 100 * Fixed up the is_playing boolean function to be more strict - kain
 101 * A true timestamp is now sent on SJOIN for hybrid servers. TS of 1
 102     was messing things up - kain
 103 * Logs are now timestamped as follows: mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS - kain
 104 * Added a timeout mechanism with two new config file options - kain
 105     - If players are fighting, and the one who's turn it is times out,
 106         they lose their turn. If they both timeout after that,
 107         they are logged out.
 108     - If players are not fighting (player fights), they are simply
 109         logged out.
 110 * Fixed a major bug causing a crash when players fought - kain
 111 * The gameserv server now attempts 3 reconnects if disconnected - kain
 112
 113 Version 1.2.0
 114 * Took +devel out of the version reply in gameserv.cpp - kain
 115 * Implemented a hashing algorithm for extremely fast searches through
 116     the players and clients linked lists - kain & wcampbel
 117 * Fixed some of the fight code - kain
 118 * Added a logout command so you don't have to quit the IRC Network to
 119     stop playing - kain
 120 * Fixed a bug that was causing players not to be voiced on the forest
 121     channel on P10 servers - kain
 122 * Added a missing code segment to decrement the player fights per
 123     day when you fight another player (reported by MaCbLiNd) - kain
 124 * Fixed a bug that allowed the same player name to be registered any
 125     number of times - kain
 126 * Fixed a problem in when players quit on a P10 server, the /msg
 127     gameserv list shows the irc nick as not NULL because it was only
 128     setting the regular nick and not the realnick - kain
 129 * Fixed a logic error in the identify command that caused players to be
 130     falsely shown as identified - kain
 131 * When a player logs off during a player fight, the fight now ends.
 132     Before it was held in limbo - kain
 133 * Fixed a bug in the fight command requiring you to use an irc nickname
 134     to fight (BugID 927789) - kain
 135
 136 Version 1.1.9
 137 * Added 2 new config file directives (maxafightdistance and maxbfightdistance)
 138     These allow you to set limits on the distance (in levels) two players
 139     are allowed to fight with. See gameserv.example.conf for more info. - kain
 140 * Fixed a bug in the identify command that falsly showed a player as
 141     already being identified. - kain
 142 * Created Monsters for level 9 - kain
 143 * Added the beginnings of an end monster - kain
 144 * Slightly adjust the weapon and armor bonuses to prevent a divide by zero
 145     exception (reported by wassup). - wcampbel
 146 * Prevent players from issuing a FIGHT against a dead player (reported
 147     by wassup). - wcampbel
 148 * Fixed a core in RUN if a client wasn't playing. - wcampbel
 149 * Added an option to specify the PID file in the config file. - kain
 150
 151 Version 1.1.8
 152 * Missing directives now are identified for config files upon startup - kain
 153 * Added a --help option to the gameserv binary - kain
 154 * Added an optional command line parameter to load a config file - kain
 155 * Added a nifty startup intro with the version number. - Kain
 156 * Fixed BANK BALANCE (BugID 895157) - wcampbel
 157 * Completely removed the midnight() function code, and replaced it with
 158     some struct tm functionality with the localtime() function. - kain
 159 * Major changes to the Makefile, cleaned up a number of rules and added
 160     dependencies (via make depend). - wcampbel
 161 * Corrected the VERSION reply, it broke ircII. - wcampbel
 162 * Fixed some P10/other protocol issues - wcampbel
 163 * Removed the old hard coded monsters entries. - wcampbel
 164 * Made gameserv load as a true daemon. gameserv.pid now contains the pid
 165     for the gameserv process. No more run script. - kain
 166 * Fixed a bug that caused the identify function to segfault. - kain
 167 * Fixed some P10 Functionality - kain
 168 * Merged in the Hybrid patch - wcampbel
 169
 170 Version 1.1.7
 171 * Added P10 Functionality (ircu-2.10.11.x)
 172 * Created Monsters for level 8
 173 * Increased the size of the monster struct to account for longer names,
 174     weapons, and death phrases.
 175 * Created Monsters for level 7
 176 * Fixed a bug causing the bank balance command not to work correctly.
 177     (Thank you wcampbel)
 178 * Added HP potions to increase maximum HP.
 179 * Made strength and defense potions add either 1 or 2 points rather than
 180     0, 1, or 2.
 181 * Made the monsters a bit harder. I found that as the game progressed,
 182     it got easier and easier instead of harder.
 183 * Fixed the forest events from happening too often. Also, the fountain
 184     forest event specifically was adding too many forest fights, making
 185     the day never end.
 186
 187 Version 1.1.6
 188 * Added a Reset command to GameServ that functions the same was as the
 189     refresh command, except it completely resets a player to the beginning
 190     of the game.
 191 * Fixed a bug that would cause monsters to have extremely high HP after
 192     loading the monster database.
 193 * Tweaked the forest events percentages. They happened too frequently.
 194 * New player database format:
 195     - Alive/Dead is no longer saved as a word in the database. It is
 196         saved as a flag.
 197     - 3 new integer values were added to the end of every player string
 198         representing their inventory (healing, strength, and defense
 199         potions).
 200 * Changed the Player structure to use 2 new flags which eliminated 2
 201     boolean values (alive & yourturn) to save a little memory.
 202 * Fixed a bug that allowed a player already in a fight to be challenged
 203     by another player. The other player was then locked into the fight
 204     with no way out.
 205 * Added a use command that allows a player to use items in their inventory.
 206     Currently the only items are health, strength, and defense potions.
 207     Command may be used in battle, but it costs you your turn.
 208 * Changed the stats command so that it takes the player name as
 209     the stats request. You type /msg GameServ stats nick still, but
 210     nick no longer has to be on IRC. You use the player name instead of
 211     the IRC Nickname.
 212 * Added a new hybrid patch to the contrib dir. (Thank you wcampbel)
 213 * Fixed a problem in the display_help() function that could cause a bus
 214     error. The problem was with changing literal text when passed to the
 215     function as a filename. The function now copies the data as a local
 216     variable and modifies that. (Thank you wcampbel)
 217 * Fixed a bug that allowed a player to be registered twice if the player
 218     was not online. (Thank you wcampbel)
 219 * Added an inventory command which allows players to view how many
 220     potions they are storing.
 221 * Added a tavern command which allows players to buy potions and store
 222     them in their inventory for later use.
 223 * Made some cosmetic changes to this file.
 224 * Added an inventory class Pouch which allows players to carry around
 225     things such as potions and such.
 226
 227 Version 1.1.5
 228 * Added a missing help file admin_commands. It was written before, but
 229     somehow was deleted.
 230 * Admins can now identify as any user without having the correct password.
 231 * Fixed a bug that allowed for two nicknames to identify for the same player.
 232 * Added a forestfights directive to the config file so admins can set the
 233     default daily forest fights.
 234 * Added a die directive to the config file that will not let you start
 235     GameServ if it is present.
 236 * Inputted monsters for Level 6. Six more levels left unfinished.
 237 * Changed confloadtime directive to welcomedelay directive in the config file.
 238     This made more sense.
 239 * Added an updateperiod directive to the config file. This represents the
 240     period (in seconds) for updating the player data file. Every time the
 241     gameserv server gets a message it will check to see if "updateperiod"
 242     seconds or more have elapsed since the last update.
 243
 244 Version 1.1.4
 245 * Fixed the welcome msg sending "ICK" instead of the nickname of a new
 246     aclient. (Thank you wcampbel)
 247 * Load now has an optional parameter "monsters" which will force a load of the
 248     monsterdata file. This is useful for changing monsters on-the-fly.
 249 * Added a load_monsters function that loads from a preconfigured monsters.dat
 250     file instead of hard coding the monsters into the array. Users can now
 251     change the monster configuration around without knowing C/C++.
 252 * Added a new directive to the config file: confloadtime
 253     this represents the delay (in seconds) until GameServ sends a welcome
 254     message to incoming clients.
 255 * Added the welcome message to the config file. See gameserv.example.conf
 256     for more info on how to use the variable as a formatted string.
 257
 258 Version 1.1.3
 259 * Removed a lot of extra list searches by changing all of the boolean
 260     functions to take aClient as a parameter instead of a nickname string.
 261 * Added an is_alive boolean function. Players must now wait until the next
 262     day to play again.
 263 * Saving the player->flags integer to the players.dat file. Old databases
 264     will not work.
 265     QUICK FIX: put a 0 to the left of the encrypted passwords for all player
 266     entries so the database can load properly. Look in flags.h for a
 267     description of the way flags work.
 268
 269 Version 1.1.2
 270 * Added a /version reply
 271 * Fixed the Makefile to include configscript.cpp
 272 * Added a join message when people connect to the IRCD. The message is set
 273     on a delay so that on the initial nick burst, the services do not send
 274     everyone the message.
 275 * Changed the admin commands from a simple password interface to a more
 276     sophisticated flags approach. Now you have to identify with the
 277     administrator password once, and your flags indicate that you are an
 278     admin for all commands.
 279 * Full help files available in corrected form for the new administrator type
 280     commands.
 281
 282 Version 1.1.1
 283 * Added some admin features.
 284     - Refresh
 285 * Added help menu functionality for all commands.
 286 * Fixed the register command so it notified the client that registration
 287     was successful.
 288 * Changed the master command so that you didn't have to fight your master
 289     if you had enough experience. There is now a question/fight subcommand
 290     set for the master command.
 291 * Tweaked the masters a bit. Basically, they were too tough. Once a player
 292     had enough experience, they had no chance against their master until
 293     they got the next two weapons up. This made the next level too easy.
 294     Past level 1 still needs tweaking.
 295 * Added functionality for bahamut IRCD
 296
 297 Version 1.1.0
 298 * Added autoconf functionality to the gameserv package. Does not compile
 299     correctly on SunOS without tweaking.
 300 * Fixed the game so that players stats reset at midnight UTC + 8 hours.
 301     time(NULL) - (time(NULL) % 86400) + 3600 * 8
 302 * Added a contrib directory with a user submitted patch for hybrid ircd.