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Crossfire TRT Server, Maps and Archetypes ChangeLog

2.1
        - optimised event invocation (non-wanted events can now be
          skipped with 4-5 inlined instructions).
        - complete rewrite of town_portal: it now creates a portal
          to the "nearest" town only, travel is only possible
          to the town and back, anybody can use it (also removes
          one of the remaining syncpoints in the server).
        - complete rewrite of the range/attack skill slot system:
          there are now two slots, one for combat, one for ranged
          attacks.
        - introduce the concept of a current weapon (either a ranged
          or a combat weapon/skill/tool) and switch between them as
          needed.
        - rewrite bow code so bows get more useful: apply damage,
          attacktype and other stats to the arrows and treat
          bows as weapons. also rebalance the missile weapons skill
          so its damage increases with level.
        - rewrite the complete player speed logic: weapon_speed now
          works as documented and there are no unnatural speed boosts.
        - implement a utility - cfutil - that simplifies arch and map
          installation, replacing the old collect scripts and
          simplying deployment by scaling and cutting faces as required.
        - simplify the map protocol extensively by taking advantage
          of missing bigfaces, speeding up map generation immensely.
        - implement inherit keyword allowing archetypes to inherit from
          other archetypes.
        - rationalise archetype, region and treasurelist file format
          into a single file format and make them reloadable asynchronously.
        - make the worldmap, facedata (smoothing, faces, magicmap)
          reloadable at runtime.
        - implement 64x64 faceset support.
        - implement fxixsx protocol that saves
          a lot of bandwidth over the old image/face/smooth packets
          and allows images > packetsize, incremental and background
          transfers.
        - implement a bandwidth-saving smoothing protocol that works
          on a face basis as opposed to a mapspace basis.
        - the server can now rate-limit image uploads to not exceed
          a certain (client-configurable) speed while guarenteeing full
          freedom of movement.
        - implement new ex command to request item descriptions.
        - implement new msg command for in-game messages with meta
          information (using xml).
        - enforce utf-8 for all text messages.
        - added micropather (not used yet).
        - many, many bugfixes.

2.0  Tue Mar  6 15:22:53 CET 2007
        - make coroapi accessible to cf+.
        - moved map handling logic completely to perl
        - per player maps are now marked in the map
        - maps are saved completely differently now,
          and much more often.
        - rewrote map header parser and writer
        - maps and players are now (in the average case) loaded
          and saved completely asynchronously, I/O contention will no
          longer freeze the server.
        - players and maps can be loaded anytime, without the player
          being logged in.
        - automatically generate method interfaces for perl from headers
        - unbundled freezethaw
        - mostly rewrote common/map.C
        - completely rewrite server/swap.C
        - introduced "runtime", the CCT clock (corrected crossfire time) :)
        - introduced new keyword for map files: file_format_version (integer, server version: 0)
        - better message for apply failures due to applymode
        - removed most all of the weather code
        - unified logging to stderr and file
        - too many minor changes to document
Revision:	1.14
Committed:	Sat May 26 15:43:58 2007 UTC (16 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.13:	+2 -0 lines
Log Message:	- restore after combined mainboard+harddisk crash - cleanup/fixes for 2.1 release - fix invoke to actually do work - refactor invoke shortcuts, gcc cannot inline varargs functions. - optimised invoke to 4-5 insns in the common case. - optimised (For no good reason) the int-to-ascii conversions of dynbuf_text into division-less and branchless code (of which I am pretty proud). - actually move players to their savebed when they did not use one and the map has been reste in the meantime. does not kill (yet) when too long. - enter_map is now handled completely in perl. - goto is now using generation counting to ensure that only the most-recently-issues goto will succeed. - make some heavy use of __builtin_expect to streamline rare callbacks even more. - optimised thawer.
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.11	Crossfire TRT Server, Maps and Archetypes ChangeLog
2	root	1.6
3			2.1
4	root	1.14	- optimised event invocation (non-wanted events can now be
5			skipped with 4-5 inlined instructions).
6	root	1.12	- complete rewrite of town_portal: it now creates a portal
7			to the "nearest" town only, travel is only possible
8	root	1.13	to the town and back, anybody can use it (also removes
9			one of the remaining syncpoints in the server).
10	root	1.10	- complete rewrite of the range/attack skill slot system:
11			there are now two slots, one for combat, one for ranged
12			attacks.
13			- introduce the concept of a current weapon (either a ranged
14			or a combat weapon/skill/tool) and switch between them as
15			needed.
16			- rewrite bow code so bows get more useful: apply damage,
17			attacktype and other stats to the arrows and treat
18			bows as weapons. also rebalance the missile weapons skill
19			so its damage increases with level.
20			- rewrite the complete player speed logic: weapon_speed now
21			works as documented and there are no unnatural speed boosts.
22	root	1.6	- implement a utility - cfutil - that simplifies arch and map
23			installation, replacing the old collect scripts and
24	root	1.9	simplying deployment by scaling and cutting faces as required.
25			- simplify the map protocol extensively by taking advantage
26			of missing bigfaces, speeding up map generation immensely.
27	root	1.6	- implement inherit keyword allowing archetypes to inherit from
28			other archetypes.
29			- rationalise archetype, region and treasurelist file format
30			into a single file format and make them reloadable asynchronously.
31	root	1.9	- make the worldmap, facedata (smoothing, faces, magicmap)
32			reloadable at runtime.
33	root	1.6	- implement 64x64 faceset support.
34			- implement fxixsx protocol that saves
35			a lot of bandwidth over the old image/face/smooth packets
36	root	1.11	and allows images > packetsize, incremental and background
37			transfers.
38	root	1.6	- implement a bandwidth-saving smoothing protocol that works
39			on a face basis as opposed to a mapspace basis.
40	root	1.7	- the server can now rate-limit image uploads to not exceed
41			a certain (client-configurable) speed while guarenteeing full
42			freedom of movement.
43	root	1.8	- implement new ex command to request item descriptions.
44			- implement new msg command for in-game messages with meta
45			information (using xml).
46	root	1.9	- enforce utf-8 for all text messages.
47	root	1.13	- added micropather (not used yet).
48	root	1.6	- many, many bugfixes.
49	root	1.1
50	root	1.5	2.0 Tue Mar 6 15:22:53 CET 2007
51	root	1.1	- make coroapi accessible to cf+.
52			- moved map handling logic completely to perl
53			- per player maps are now marked in the map
54	root	1.2	- maps are saved completely differently now,
55			and much more often.
56	root	1.1	- rewrote map header parser and writer
57	pippijn	1.4	- maps and players are now (in the average case) loaded
58	root	1.2	and saved completely asynchronously, I/O contention will no
59			longer freeze the server.
60	pippijn	1.4	- players and maps can be loaded anytime, without the player
61	root	1.2	being logged in.
62	root	1.1	- automatically generate method interfaces for perl from headers
63			- unbundled freezethaw
64			- mostly rewrote common/map.C
65			- completely rewrite server/swap.C
66			- introduced "runtime", the CCT clock (corrected crossfire time) :)
67			- introduced new keyword for map files: file_format_version (integer, server version: 0)
68			- better message for apply failures due to applymode
69			- removed most all of the weather code
70			- unified logging to stderr and file
71			- too many minor changes to document