Changes:
- When tuning text options at run time like the password the server
would crash. This has now been fixed.
- Clients now support the firewall patch.
For this the client has two new options: -clientPortStart and -clientPortEnd.
- A new server option -passwordFileName gives the path to a file which
only contains a definition for the server password. The advantage
of this is that you can set the file permissions so that others
cannot read its contents.
- Fix -blockFrictionVisible (didn't work)
- Ben Armstrong fixed a bug where ball ownership for all connected balls
would be reset whenever a player would leave.
Players move along in an artificial world and shoot each other using
various kinds of weapons, bullets, mines and bombs, rockets (smarts,
torpedos and nuclear), lasers; defend using cloaking devices, sensors,
transporters, autopilot etc.
XPilot's highlights include:
* True client/server based game; optimal speed for every player.
* Meta server with up to date information about servers hosting games
around the world.
* 'Real physics'; particles of explosions and sparks from your engines
all affect you if you're hit by them. This makes it possible to kill
someone by blowing them into a wall with engine thrust or shock waves
from explosions.
* Specialized editors for editing ship-shapes and maps.
* Adjustable gravity; adjustable by putting special attractors or
deflectors in the world, or by adjusting the global gravity in various
ways.
Some features are borrowed from classics like the Atari coin-ups
Asteriods and Gravitar, and the home-computer games Thrust (Commdore 64)
and Gravity Force (Commodore Amiga).
The main idea of the game is scoring points and having lots of fun.
Maintainer: Peter Valchev <pvalchev@toxiclinux.org>
