ANNOUNCE: GNOME War Pad 0.3.5



Application
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GNOME War Pad 0.3.5

Description
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A 'VGA Planets' client for the GNOME platform. VGA Planets is a
turn-based space strategy game that can be played by 11 players at once.
This game is being played since Fidonet times, and have lots of fans
that still play on those old DOS clients, it's time for a GNU/Linux one :-)


Enhancements
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* Feature: added some code to scan messages using regular expressions.
* Feature: Started works on a plugin writing tutorial, in Spanish...but to be translated to English as soon as it's finished. * Feature: new data type: GwpRace, to represent the various forms of calling any race. This was hard coded. * Feature: added functions to calculate the max number of factories, mineral mines and defenses that can be constructed on a planet. * Feature: added functions to calculate the max tax possible to be collected on a planet.
* Feature: added i18n support for official plugins.

Fixes
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* Bugfix: enemy planets reached by scanners or visualized from orbiting ships send their data through messages. They now can be seen on the starchart. * Bugfix: "Close game" menu entry temporarily disabled...that feature doesn't work very well. * Bugfix: added some compilation checks when compiling without Python support.
* Bugfix: some code clean-ups on messages handling type.
* Bugfix: error reading xyplan.dat file, one extra fake planet was shown in starchart.
* Bugfix: Mining rate calculus corrected.
* Bugfix: colonist tax rate was badly calculated when using Feds.
* Bugfix: native & colonist race chars functions corrected.
* Bugfix: tax collection functions corrected.
* Bugfix: added race and native corrections to mineral extraction rate.

Downloads
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http://gwp.lunix.com.ar/releases/gwp-0.3.5.tar.gz
http://gwp.lunix.com.ar/releases/packages/gwp_0.3.5-1_i386.deb


GNOME Software Map entry
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http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gwp




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