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[KAG] Build 1180 – Shop, Boat, Map, Coin Tweaks and Many Fixes

Pretty big build – lots of small changes accumulating over time. We would have liked to have made this as several separate builds but each week the build server had something else wrong with it. However, the more troublesome nodes have been moved to more stable hardware and things have gone along smoothly this week.

• Shop Changes
  Largely a community sourced change, shops now have a nicer button layout, show damage (using the frames that were previously unused), and are generally a little more polished. Notably, quarters now allows sleeping in a bed inside the structure for free, time based healing.
• Tunnel Changes
  Tunnels are now able to be used by both teams – this means that you need to build a vault around any tunnels inside your base to prevent getting invaded through them. This change should make tunnels a more strategically important building for both teams, and help prevent cheesy flag rushes.
• Voting Changes
  Players can now abstain from votes they don’t want to have a say in (to get rid of the box), and admins can now cancel the vote if they have the right seclev set.
• Boat Changes
  Boats have been reworked a little – dinghies and longboats are faster now, warboats do less ramming damage to blocks, and longboats do more (especially with multiple rowers). This should help with the boat’s utility in game, we’ll see if we need to take more measures in this direction after the build has been in circulation for a while.
• Map Changes
  Many CTF maps should be less prone to stalemates or extreme early rushes, and a few maps have been retired completely.
• Coin Tweaks
  There’s fairly dramatically increased coin income from damaging siege weapons and enemy vehicles – this especially applies to archers as an alternative revenue stream from frontline support.
• New Example Mod – M16
  A simple example mod by MM (sprites by me) adding an M16 to the archer in TDM.
• Fixes and Misc Changes
  • No more getting into crates
    As fun as it might be for you, we’re quite tired of complaints about players effectively wasting a team slot by spending the entire game asking their team to carry them into battle. The code is still in there, just commented out for those who want this in modded servers.
  • Fixed minimap sometimes getting “stuck” off.
  • Fixed m_seed defaulting to wrong value – old servers will have to manually change this though (/rcon /m_seed 0, or set it in autoconfig)
  • Static blobs with attachments falling.
    You know how flags sometimes “weirdly” fall through the ground? This should fix that.
  • “Quick Double Slashing” bug fixed.
    If you’ve ever been surprised by a double slash that “probably shouldn’t have happened” but not been quite sure what was causing it, this fix might help there.
  • Spikes give kills
    Builders can now see their kills (or lack thereof) from placed spike traps.
  • See changelog for the rest!

[added] abstaining from votes
[fixed] wierd downward-floating desync for static blobs with attachments
[fixed] knight "quick-double-slash" bug
[added] rayne chicken head (fear the chicken)
[fixed] potential overflow issue with the minimap not showing
[fixed] issue with wood vehicle damages getting passed on for projectiles
[modified] coin income from building workshops (less) and hitting siege (more)
[removed] getting into crates
[fixed] using halls as tunnel as enemy
[modified] removed tunnel travel team limitation
[fixed] broken code in defaultbuilding relying on overlap functions that was breaking for quarters (now uses AABBs)
[added] dinghies cost 100w and 25c (spam mitigation)
[modified] mazey head (5th time now, hopefully last. looks less like a tumour)
[modified] new german official server IP
[fixed] sleeping head frames for people with unique heads
[modified] community fix: spikes give the builder kills (thanks Skinney)
[modified] community fix: ctf shop buttons are laid out horizontally (thanks Skinney)
[fixed] community fix: ctf shops use appropriate damage frames (thanks Skinney)
[modified] community fix: quarters allows free sleeping with a time-cost to heal (thanks Skinney)
[modified] community fix: ctf flags collide with blob blocks where appropriate (thanks Skinney)
[modified] builder cant put wood backwall on stone backwall
[modified] updates to newtortuga - mid more resilient, less redundant base stuff, more room for tunneling under mid
[modified] addressed a few concerns with EjMap (stalling, horizontal movement)
[modified] feedback on JTG Aqueduct and BoulderLake taken into account (less gimmicks, more terrain polish, etc)
[modified] moved flags out of terrain on fellere map
[modified] dinghy and longboat faster
[modified] can't get into carried dinghy
[modified] longboat better at ramming tiles
[modified] mine doesn't take fall dmg
[modified] mine has knockback on hit
[modified] mine has double hp for slightly longer "defuse"
[fixed] sound scrollbars up button not working
[added] new mod example M16 as extra class action for archer
[modified] steps on the sound sliders
[fixed] crash when trying to perform "reload" command on local server
[added] new seclev "vote_cancel"

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Geti/Max