gameserv/Changes

   1 Version 1.2.4
   2 * Monsters are completely generated except for the names, weapons, and
   3     death cries. A range is set for each level's strength, gold, exp, and
   4     hp, and a new monster is generated at random during every forest
   5     search. This makes for a more unique gaming experience at the expense
   6     of some cpu time on random number generations - kain & wolfgar
   7 * The structure for holding monsters is now different. Monsters are all
   8     stored in the monsters subdirectory in levelx.dat files where x is
   9     the level 1 through 12. This will allow for an arbitrary amount of
  10     monsters per level - kain & wolfgar
  11 * Every time a new news item is added, GameServ announces it in the forest
  12     channel - kain
  13 * Added a notice to the forest channel that the player data was
  14     saved - kain
  15 * Fixed some things with the upper limts of money and experience - kain
  16 * Changed the command LIST so it only lists people who are playing.
  17     To get a full list, use LIST ALL - kain
  18 * Added two new config file options which allow you to specify how
  19     long to wait before deleting level 1 and other levels' accounts
  20     separately - kain
  21 * Added a new command CHECK which will display the amount of time until
  22     the next refresh - kain
  23 * Added a new config option to specify a refresh period in seconds.
  24     Now you can specify how often you want the players to be given
  25     new forest fights, etc... - kain
  26 * Fixed bug causing negative funds to be deposited into an account
  27     (bugID 966653) (thank you Jono H - xjono)
  28 * Fixed a bug causing players to be duplicated on /msg gameserv
  29     load - kain
  30 * Added Ultimate2.8.x support - kain
  31 * Healing potions can only add up to 100 over your max HP now - kain
  32 * Changed the logic for the wishing well forest event. It now adds back
  33     a forest fight if you were broke - kain
  34 * Fixed a bug causing the wrong bonuses to be added when a level was
  35     gained, and none to be added on the last level - kain
  36 * Added daily news with automatic additions when you gain a level,
  37     unsuccessfully best your master, kill someone, or are killed - kain
  38
  39 Version 1.2.3
  40 * Took experience out of calculating the cost of potions - kain
  41 * Added even more strength to masters (your defense bonus for each level)
  42     to try to even out the fight - kain
  43 * Added more strength to monsters past level 7 and changed the masters'
  44     stats accordingly - kain
  45 * Changed the fountain forest event to not take a forest fight if your
  46     HP is at max - kain
  47 * Added more experience per monster past level 7 - kain
  48 * Added a new forest event (find a potion) each potion has a 1/5 chance
  49     of being the one you found, and you have a 2% chance of incurring
  50     this forest event - kain
  51 * Added notification that a player used a potion during a fight to the
  52     player they are fighting - kain
  53 * Added potions to the stats command - kain
  54 * Made the code a bit less dependent on 12 levels - kain
  55 * Added a new parameter to the list command that allows listing only
  56     those that are online and playing - kain
  57 * Added a new command "Dragon" which lets you fight the end boss - kain
  58 * Doubled the required experience for fighting masters - kain
  59 * Fixed a cosmetic bug (sorta) that caused your HP not to read 0 when
  60     you're dead (thanks Ricky-S) - kain
  61 * Fixed a divide by 0 bug that occurred when you attacked, but had no
  62     weapon (BugID 946043) (thank you NOTevil) - kain
  63 * Fixed a logic error allowing players to bank during a fight - kain
  64 * Added more gold per monster above level 4 - kain
  65
  66 Version 1.2.2
  67 * Fixed a logical error causing the ListenOnCF flag to only work in P10
  68     servers - kain
  69 * Fixed the store command to display syntax on improper sequence of
  70     commands (thanks damaged) - kain
  71 * Added monsters for levels 10, 11, and 12 (created by damaged, edited
  72     by kain) - kain
  73 * Made the masters stats match the next level's monsters' stats a lot
  74     closer - kain
  75 * Fixed a bug that crashed gameserv on /msg gameserv master - kain
  76 * Made welcomemsg an optional config file option. If commented out
  77     or deleted, gameserv will not send the welcome message
  78     (requested by zshack)- kain
  79 * Made the ignoreservers config file option work for Unreal - kain
  80 * Fixed a minor logical problem that was causing players to be mugged
  81     for 0 gold when they were either dead or had no gold on hand and
  82     they timed out (thanks Rehm) - kain
  83 * Fixed the bug not allowing different config files to be used - kain
  84 * Added an optional config file directive BOPER which makes
  85     gameserv become an oper on the network - kain
  86 * Added an optional config file directive USEPRIVMSG which makes
  87     gameserv use /msg instead of /notice - kain
  88 * Made the ignoreservers config file option work for bahamut - kain
  89 * Fixed an error in do_register that was not adding the client to the
  90     players list correctly, causing newly registered players to be
  91     locked out of identifying until the next gameserv restart - kain
  92 * Fixed an error that crashed GameServ if you tried to fight a player
  93     lower than the configured level - kain
  94 * Reduced the effect of potions since the price is down - kain
  95 * Reduced the price of potions significantly - kain
  96 * Added a few timeout events if you're not in a fight - kain
  97
  98 Version 1.2.1
  99 * Included a crontab script in all new distros now - kain
 100 * Added a new flag that tells wether a person is playing instead of
 101     relying solely on pointers - kain
 102 * Added a mechanism to ignore on a nick to nick basis, and implemented
 103     code to auto-ignore nicks on certain servers - kain
 104 * Changed the HASH command to iHASH (case insensitive) and sHASH (case
 105     sensitive) - kain
 106 * Gameserv no longer opers - kain
 107 * New config file directive: listenonc_forest... see
 108     gameserv.example.conf - kain
 109 * Fixed a bug in identify that was causing players to be shown as not
 110     playing (after the change in functions) - kain
 111 * Fixed up the is_playing boolean function to be more strict - kain
 112 * A true timestamp is now sent on SJOIN for hybrid servers. TS of 1
 113     was messing things up - kain
 114 * Logs are now timestamped as follows: mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS - kain
 115 * Added a timeout mechanism with two new config file options - kain
 116     - If players are fighting, and the one who's turn it is times out,
 117         they lose their turn. If they both timeout after that,
 118         they are logged out.
 119     - If players are not fighting (player fights), they are simply
 120         logged out.
 121 * Fixed a major bug causing a crash when players fought - kain
 122 * The gameserv server now attempts 3 reconnects if disconnected - kain
 123
 124 Version 1.2.0
 125 * Took +devel out of the version reply in gameserv.cpp - kain
 126 * Implemented a hashing algorithm for extremely fast searches through
 127     the players and clients linked lists - kain & wcampbel
 128 * Fixed some of the fight code - kain
 129 * Added a logout command so you don't have to quit the IRC Network to
 130     stop playing - kain
 131 * Fixed a bug that was causing players not to be voiced on the forest
 132     channel on P10 servers - kain
 133 * Added a missing code segment to decrement the player fights per
 134     day when you fight another player (reported by MaCbLiNd) - kain
 135 * Fixed a bug that allowed the same player name to be registered any
 136     number of times - kain
 137 * Fixed a problem in when players quit on a P10 server, the /msg
 138     gameserv list shows the irc nick as not NULL because it was only
 139     setting the regular nick and not the realnick - kain
 140 * Fixed a logic error in the identify command that caused players to be
 141     falsely shown as identified - kain
 142 * When a player logs off during a player fight, the fight now ends.
 143     Before it was held in limbo - kain
 144 * Fixed a bug in the fight command requiring you to use an irc nickname
 145     to fight (BugID 927789) - kain
 146
 147 Version 1.1.9
 148 * Added 2 new config file directives (maxafightdistance and maxbfightdistance)
 149     These allow you to set limits on the distance (in levels) two players
 150     are allowed to fight with. See gameserv.example.conf for more info. - kain
 151 * Fixed a bug in the identify command that falsly showed a player as
 152     already being identified. - kain
 153 * Created Monsters for level 9 - kain
 154 * Added the beginnings of an end monster - kain
 155 * Slightly adjust the weapon and armor bonuses to prevent a divide by zero
 156     exception (reported by wassup). - wcampbel
 157 * Prevent players from issuing a FIGHT against a dead player (reported
 158     by wassup). - wcampbel
 159 * Fixed a core in RUN if a client wasn't playing. - wcampbel
 160 * Added an option to specify the PID file in the config file. - kain
 161
 162 Version 1.1.8
 163 * Missing directives now are identified for config files upon startup - kain
 164 * Added a --help option to the gameserv binary - kain
 165 * Added an optional command line parameter to load a config file - kain
 166 * Added a nifty startup intro with the version number. - Kain
 167 * Fixed BANK BALANCE (BugID 895157) - wcampbel
 168 * Completely removed the midnight() function code, and replaced it with
 169     some struct tm functionality with the localtime() function. - kain
 170 * Major changes to the Makefile, cleaned up a number of rules and added
 171     dependencies (via make depend). - wcampbel
 172 * Corrected the VERSION reply, it broke ircII. - wcampbel
 173 * Fixed some P10/other protocol issues - wcampbel
 174 * Removed the old hard coded monsters entries. - wcampbel
 175 * Made gameserv load as a true daemon. gameserv.pid now contains the pid
 176     for the gameserv process. No more run script. - kain
 177 * Fixed a bug that caused the identify function to segfault. - kain
 178 * Fixed some P10 Functionality - kain
 179 * Merged in the Hybrid patch - wcampbel
 180
 181 Version 1.1.7
 182 * Added P10 Functionality (ircu-2.10.11.x)
 183 * Created Monsters for level 8
 184 * Increased the size of the monster struct to account for longer names,
 185     weapons, and death phrases.
 186 * Created Monsters for level 7
 187 * Fixed a bug causing the bank balance command not to work correctly.
 188     (Thank you wcampbel)
 189 * Added HP potions to increase maximum HP.
 190 * Made strength and defense potions add either 1 or 2 points rather than
 191     0, 1, or 2.
 192 * Made the monsters a bit harder. I found that as the game progressed,
 193     it got easier and easier instead of harder.
 194 * Fixed the forest events from happening too often. Also, the fountain
 195     forest event specifically was adding too many forest fights, making
 196     the day never end.
 197
 198 Version 1.1.6
 199 * Added a Reset command to GameServ that functions the same was as the
 200     refresh command, except it completely resets a player to the beginning
 201     of the game.
 202 * Fixed a bug that would cause monsters to have extremely high HP after
 203     loading the monster database.
 204 * Tweaked the forest events percentages. They happened too frequently.
 205 * New player database format:
 206     - Alive/Dead is no longer saved as a word in the database. It is
 207         saved as a flag.
 208     - 3 new integer values were added to the end of every player string
 209         representing their inventory (healing, strength, and defense
 210         potions).
 211 * Changed the Player structure to use 2 new flags which eliminated 2
 212     boolean values (alive & yourturn) to save a little memory.
 213 * Fixed a bug that allowed a player already in a fight to be challenged
 214     by another player. The other player was then locked into the fight
 215     with no way out.
 216 * Added a use command that allows a player to use items in their inventory.
 217     Currently the only items are health, strength, and defense potions.
 218     Command may be used in battle, but it costs you your turn.
 219 * Changed the stats command so that it takes the player name as
 220     the stats request. You type /msg GameServ stats nick still, but
 221     nick no longer has to be on IRC. You use the player name instead of
 222     the IRC Nickname.
 223 * Added a new hybrid patch to the contrib dir. (Thank you wcampbel)
 224 * Fixed a problem in the display_help() function that could cause a bus
 225     error. The problem was with changing literal text when passed to the
 226     function as a filename. The function now copies the data as a local
 227     variable and modifies that. (Thank you wcampbel)
 228 * Fixed a bug that allowed a player to be registered twice if the player
 229     was not online. (Thank you wcampbel)
 230 * Added an inventory command which allows players to view how many
 231     potions they are storing.
 232 * Added a tavern command which allows players to buy potions and store
 233     them in their inventory for later use.
 234 * Made some cosmetic changes to this file.
 235 * Added an inventory class Pouch which allows players to carry around
 236     things such as potions and such.
 237
 238 Version 1.1.5
 239 * Added a missing help file admin_commands. It was written before, but
 240     somehow was deleted.
 241 * Admins can now identify as any user without having the correct password.
 242 * Fixed a bug that allowed for two nicknames to identify for the same player.
 243 * Added a forestfights directive to the config file so admins can set the
 244     default daily forest fights.
 245 * Added a die directive to the config file that will not let you start
 246     GameServ if it is present.
 247 * Inputted monsters for Level 6. Six more levels left unfinished.
 248 * Changed confloadtime directive to welcomedelay directive in the config file.
 249     This made more sense.
 250 * Added an updateperiod directive to the config file. This represents the
 251     period (in seconds) for updating the player data file. Every time the
 252     gameserv server gets a message it will check to see if "updateperiod"
 253     seconds or more have elapsed since the last update.
 254
 255 Version 1.1.4
 256 * Fixed the welcome msg sending "ICK" instead of the nickname of a new
 257     aclient. (Thank you wcampbel)
 258 * Load now has an optional parameter "monsters" which will force a load of the
 259     monsterdata file. This is useful for changing monsters on-the-fly.
 260 * Added a load_monsters function that loads from a preconfigured monsters.dat
 261     file instead of hard coding the monsters into the array. Users can now
 262     change the monster configuration around without knowing C/C++.
 263 * Added a new directive to the config file: confloadtime
 264     this represents the delay (in seconds) until GameServ sends a welcome
 265     message to incoming clients.
 266 * Added the welcome message to the config file. See gameserv.example.conf
 267     for more info on how to use the variable as a formatted string.
 268
 269 Version 1.1.3
 270 * Removed a lot of extra list searches by changing all of the boolean
 271     functions to take aClient as a parameter instead of a nickname string.
 272 * Added an is_alive boolean function. Players must now wait until the next
 273     day to play again.
 274 * Saving the player->flags integer to the players.dat file. Old databases
 275     will not work.
 276     QUICK FIX: put a 0 to the left of the encrypted passwords for all player
 277     entries so the database can load properly. Look in flags.h for a
 278     description of the way flags work.
 279
 280 Version 1.1.2
 281 * Added a /version reply
 282 * Fixed the Makefile to include configscript.cpp
 283 * Added a join message when people connect to the IRCD. The message is set
 284     on a delay so that on the initial nick burst, the services do not send
 285     everyone the message.
 286 * Changed the admin commands from a simple password interface to a more
 287     sophisticated flags approach. Now you have to identify with the
 288     administrator password once, and your flags indicate that you are an
 289     admin for all commands.
 290 * Full help files available in corrected form for the new administrator type
 291     commands.
 292
 293 Version 1.1.1
 294 * Added some admin features.
 295     - Refresh
 296 * Added help menu functionality for all commands.
 297 * Fixed the register command so it notified the client that registration
 298     was successful.
 299 * Changed the master command so that you didn't have to fight your master
 300     if you had enough experience. There is now a question/fight subcommand
 301     set for the master command.
 302 * Tweaked the masters a bit. Basically, they were too tough. Once a player
 303     had enough experience, they had no chance against their master until
 304     they got the next two weapons up. This made the next level too easy.
 305     Past level 1 still needs tweaking.
 306 * Added functionality for bahamut IRCD
 307
 308 Version 1.1.0
 309 * Added autoconf functionality to the gameserv package. Does not compile
 310     correctly on SunOS without tweaking.
 311 * Fixed the game so that players stats reset at midnight UTC + 8 hours.
 312     time(NULL) - (time(NULL) % 86400) + 3600 * 8
 313 * Added a contrib directory with a user submitted patch for hybrid ircd.