[Xconq-general] New File Release: xconq-7.5.0-0pre.0.20050225

[Eric M. <mcd...@ph...>]

Release can be downloaded from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124062&package_id=135573&release_id=308133

Numerous bugfixes are in this file release. A partially finished, but 
quite functional version of the new backdrop economy model from Matthew 
Skala is also available.

Here is a partial list of the bugs fixed:
(1) A bug that caused 'see-always' units not to be seen when the world 
is seen has been squashed. (Thanks to ksbrace00 for this report.)
(2) A bug that caused the sunlit region, in games that use it, to move 
about wildly without good reason has been fixed. (Thanks to Lincoln 
Peters for this report.)
(3) A bug that caused failed ACP-independent building to keep trying 
forever has been fixed. (Thanks to Matthew Skala for this report.)
(4) A bug that allowed units to absorb parts from incompatible units has 
been fixed. (Thanks to Lincoln Peters for this report.)
(5) A bug that caused wrecked types due to dying not to be applied to 
units which were explosion victims has been fixed. (Thanks to Elijah 
Meeks for this report.)
(6) An AI bug where units which were considered colonizers would not 
attempt to do other things has been squashed. (Thanks to Elijah Meeks 
for this report.)
(7) A crashing bug has been nailed. (Thanks to Elijah Meeks for the 
reports.)

A number of other bugs were fixed as well.

As mentioned, Matthew Skala's new economy/supply distribution code is 
now available for game designers to try with their games. Also, Matthew 
changed a number of the games in the library so that they have a variant 
that uses the new code.

Progress continues on the AI improvements. However, the improvements are 
not yet hooked into the AI, and so they will not yet be visible.

Thanks to Simon Cox for contributing a new "invisible" image.

Note to Windows users: The program with "SETUP" in all uppercase letters 
and ending in ".exe" is an installer program which will install Xconq on 
your computer.

Note to people installing from RPM packages: The 'common' package is a 
prerequisite to the other packages; it contains parts of Xconq in common 
to the interfaces, such as documentation and the games library. You must 
have this package in order to install one of the interface packages. The 
interface packages are: 'tcltk', 'sdl', and 'curses'. You will need to 
install at least one of them to actually play Xconq.