VPA Files

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Note a new 'whatsnew' format:
! bug fixed
+ new feature added
- old feature removed

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Version 3.70c:
+ Support for Planets.nu
+ Reads Ionstorm from Utilx.dat
+ New Switch CTRL-U for Planets.nu

Version 3.71:
! Improvement Pillage
! Improvement NU-Distance calculations

Version 3.72:
+ Better writing of hull functions at base building
+ Shows Change of experience at ship screen
+ reads most Experience Parameters from PCONFIG.SRC
! Forecast Merlin Alchemy fixed, generates now TDM from Merlin without Fcode correctly
+ Forecast movement now uses Extented Misssions 24+32 
  (calculates only cargo on board no gather up, so just for simulation only)
! small bug fixed, reading natives from bioscans
! Playing NU: VPA recognizes now foreign bases, too
! Playing NU: keep Utilx.dat
+ VPA reads Utilx.dat: Surrendered ships, visisted planets (bases)

Version 3.73:
! puts correct bases at visited planets

Version 3.74
! Rededesign of minefied simulation
+ Calculatates  fuel usage and prediction while scooping mines (still experimental, thx to WASP)

Version 3.75
! Bugfix: RGAP/Pillage after movemnt -> correct Colonist/Happy calculation (again)
+ CommonMistakes (Shift-F11): Only at NU-Host: Shows too many structures, built by RANDMAX
! CommonMistakes: Small bugfix, showing wrong S-LayMin warnings, playing crystals
! VPAMM.EXE is compiling again, although without Orbiter-Addon (no 'i' at planet)

Version 3.76
+ Minor bugfix, calling Minesim too often
+ Debug output removed
+ Bugfix, forecast now shown more often
+ Bugfix, Show Ship Functions (Expierience) revealed again at SHIFT-Q and new VPA.HLP

Version 3.77
! Show experience leves at Fleet-View (CTRL-F11)
! Show chunneling ships, depending on Exp. (PHOST)
+ Forecast chunneling ships, depending on Exp. (PHOST), still experimental 
+ Show Ship Functions (Experience) at SHIFT-Q while building ships
! Bugfix, memory in MineForecast (Shift-F10) (thx to wasp)
! Treat Mission Training correctly in Forecast and Chunnel
! Show experience at ship's Misssion-Screen
~ Versions V3.74-3.76 were classified as beta (possible runtime errors)

Version 3.78
! Minesim: now detects if you are inside a minefied (again)
! NU: Stores correct Webmines if playing with c2nu.pl
! latest Infos from allied Planets are shown, (esp. from Utilx.dat, not from Dark Sense), thx to Vchc
! If VPA checks that it has been restarted with the same turn, no Utilx.dat/Messages for Dark Sense and PlanetInfo were read.
! NU: VPA calculates NU-mining rates now correctly

Version 3.78b
! Display of denstity on allied planets restored
+ simulate enemy sweep, change beams with 'S' at ship screen
! Supplies repair damage fixed
! now really shows exp. at mission screen, calculation of misssion+18(training) fixed