Simutrans 124.5 Release Notes

Highlights of this version

• Stops can be shared without being public stops in networkgames
• Signals can be allowed to be passed without effect in the reverse direction.

Full changelog

Here's the full list of changes since the last version.

Added

• (nazalassa) permissions for halts, to let other players serve specific halts
• (makie) more settings for inital climates in simuconf.tab
• Optional 'electricity_producer' flag (can be 0 or 1) for factories to override electricity producer status based on object name
• (janry) make sure the client id is valid to avoid server crashes by bad packets or bad actors
• (Nazalassa) button to allow signals to pass convois in reverse

Changed

• link factory tool inaccessible when factories are cross-connected by default
• public player with built furts across rivers even for faster roads as long as there is one with max_speed of at least 25 km/h for road
• traverse new net replace for leitung non-recurvsively to avoid crashes on loading large maps
• (poppo) producing factories can also generate electricity
• parse script data in scenario files for system calls (manipulated savegames only)
• Stops get an orange/red status colour only when happiness is below 90/75%
• (Nazalassa) combobox only searchable if not fitting on screen, "Type to search ..." shown then

Fixed

• Potential uninitialized read when reading nwc_chg_player from network
• (janry) better packet parsing enforcing limits
• (janry) invlaid packets were never freed
• two tables for permissions and the rest in halt_info
• no longer airplane stops at harbours ...
• new simple tool work_world for creation/loading/asaving maps to avoid doing this during a step which may lead to crashes
• pak specific config in user_dir/addons/PAK_NAM/config/simuconf.tab for reset extended settings
• pak specific config in user_dir/PAK_NAM/config/simuconf.tab
• drive again to the end of the platform after choose signal selection
• (janry) mke sure player nr is valid for network packets
• (janry) admin packets only read or write for admin tool/server
• settign of lake height via simuconf.tab broeken, also no way to set default ground water height, lake_height again absolute value
• powerlines did not correctly calculated routing costs
• Wrong generation of lakes during map generation when groundwater level is not 0
• shift the special keycode to private unicode range to allow for latin2 characters
• (janry) Crash when server replies with invalid or corrupted Content-Length header field
• Wrong signal direction overlay arrows for signals on tiles with two ways (crossings, tram tracks)
• (janry+prissi) assertion in debug mode when deleting multitile buildings during city removal
• correct ways for all bridges after loading/construction
• (Poppo) wrong default argument
• (poppo) wayobj toll on other people's way and their removal
• wrong order of loading season counter from bridge pak file causing reads out of bound
• capping factory mail and pax demand at (2^23-1)/9 = 932067 to avoid overflow issues
• reset ingame names to current language when startign a new map and expose the name language via the translator
• Restore citylist language on new game
• NSIS scripts for non-admin