Battle City

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BattleCity 1.0 Announced

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So these days now that the BattleCity workload is over ReMoTe spends his days and the donation money golfing right?

Wrong!

I have actually been working harder and longer on BattleCity than ever before, spending WAYYYYY more time than I should be coding for the game.

This is a post announcing the near-future release of BattleCity 1.0, and what to expect. Also, the workboard has been updated to reflect all the major changes in upcoming 1.0.

As you may have experienced, there are several major problems with the 0.8.x series, ranging from excessive lag to sound driver god mode.

The socket code has been completely rewritten, partly because the threading caused problems, and also because it didn’t parse data correctly all the time, resulting in the imfamous TCP crash.

The server code has also now been made platform independent, which means it will run on Linux or any other operating system instead of just Windows, which will allow us to eventually move the server to be hosted on the more stable, secure, and better performing Linux or BSD based operating system.

SECTORS! Yes, sectors. Instead of having building and item data sent to the entire server, it is now only sent to the area and when you move into that area you will receive the data then. Also, data will be packed together a lot more tightly, to cut down on bandwidth usage.

The old account system relied on Windows .ini files, which was both slow and platform dependent. It now uses a quick little database implementation called SQLite, which is platform independent and about 1000x better than ini files ever could be. This will eventually add for detailed player statistics to be added.

New installer – In order to make the game more newbie friendly 1.0 will no longer require users to manually unpack files and will install the game for you.

Alright i’m tired of typing now so if you want to see ALL of the changes you can head over to the workboard!

-Love ReMoTe 😉

BattleCity 0.8.0

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It's time for another version increment! The major changes in 0.8.0 are:

Walkie Talkies work now. You must have one to be able to talk to your team from anywhere on the map

MiniMap (Click Map button or press 'm')

Shortcut keys:

'o' – Drops the Orb if you have it

'b' – Activates and drops a bomb

'h' – Uses a Health Pack (Med Kit, m was already taken =P)

'm' – Display Map
'p' – Displays your points

']' – Will refresh the screen if it turns all white (happens when a screen saver comes on)

NOTE: You MUST download testrelease.exe again, or it will just crash because it is missing files.

Full change log inside.

(DONE) – When you right click on buildings it tells you mayor, amount of buildings, etc.

(DONE) – Banning System
(DONE) – Sometimes there will be 2 mayors – Fix

(DONE) – When City is orbed people are getting overwhelmed with delete data. – Fix

(DONE) – Fix build button

(DONE) – Inventory needs to scroll up when you drop items, and select items you pick up – Fix

(DONE) – I'm not hiring checkbox needs to work

(DONE) – Options using a .ini file instead of a normal file

(DONE) – Attempting to quit when in a DFG gives you a god mode effect

(DONE) – New account passwords don't work – Fix

(DONE) – Orbing is requiring one more building than it should be – Fix

(DONE) – Make orbing message come after deaths so you can see it

(DONE) – Factories should start the timer and THEN produce the item

(DONE) – You can shoot and drop items in DFG – Fix

(DONE) – Key Shortcuts – 'o' to drop orb, 'b' to drop bomb, 'h' to use med kit

(DONE) – Walkie Talkies

(DONE) – Reload Surfaces key – "]"

(DONE) – Map