Wolfpack 4.3.19 Server Release

We are happy to announce that Empire 4.3.19 is now available. You can
download it from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver/

This release fixes one major bug and a couple of minor ones. Player
visible changes include option RAILWAYS and ships being able to
assault in port.

Deities are urged to use this release for new games. Upgrading
mid-game is not supported, and expected to result in total disaster.
Fine print: you should be able to upgrade from 4.3.16 or later with
the empdump utility, if you know what you're doing.

There is no separate client release 4.3.19, as the client did not
change since 4.3.17.

This release was made from the Git repository at

http://git.pond.sub.org/?p=empserver;a=summary

Attention, client writers: xdump nat field minused is gone. Please
peruse the change log.

Change log:

Changes to Empire 4.3.19 - Sun Dec 7 22:25:46 UTC 2008
* LWP doesn't work with Darwin due to OS bugs, avoid it for now.
* Don't let ships double-retreat first on 'i' (injured) and then on
'h' (helpless) when shelled.
* Fix a bug that suppressed the "sunk!" message. Broken in 4.3.17.
* Log out player when maximum time per day is exceeded. Before, he
could remain logged in with visitor privileges only, but once
logged out could not log back in.
* If a player was at a prompt when either game hours restriction
started or maximum time per day was exceeded, he was allowed to
enter one more command.
* Deitying a capital failed to charge money and report news. Broken
in 4.3.17.
* Overhaul accounting of play time, fixing minor inaccuracies.
* Fix parsing of 24:00 in econfig key game_hours and
update_demandtimes.
* New option RAILWAYS.
* Che ages just like military reserves (1% per 24 ETUs).
* Permit ships to assault the sector they're in.
* Sectors eating less than one unit of food don't make one unit of
food for free anymore. They still can't starve.
* New concept sector terrain. Deities can use it to make sectors
other than wilderness redesignatable. See sect.config for more
info.
* Represent play time in seconds rather than minutes. This affects
xdump: nat selector minused (counting minutes) is replaced by
timeused (counting seconds).
* Improved nightly build, with additional tests.


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