Worldforge::Cyphesis

Cyphesis is an open source and free server for the most current  and popular WorldForge games, designed to be used as an AI subsystem in a network of distributed servers.

The Cyphesis project requires the following packages:

· WorldForge::Atlas-C++
· WorldForge::skstream
· WorldForge::wfmath
· WorldForge::Mercator
· WorldForge::varconf
· PostgreSQL
· Python
· readline
· HOWL
· GCrypt

Cyphesis is also known as Worldforge::Cyphesis, and includes a terrain engine based on the Mercator library, an AI engine using goal trees implemented in Python, as well as a persistence system based on PostgreSQL.

What is new in this release:

• This release fixes a possible crash related to wielded entities and destruction, and adds a new "spawner" property.

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• New authoring, inspection, and persistence of minds.
• Improvements to goals, making forester and lumberjack more lively.
• Full persistence of the world, along with minds, at shutdown.
• Internal rewrites of many core functions.

What is new in version 0.6.0:

• New game systems implement earthworks and prototypes of baking, rope making, and other crafting.
• New game systems starting work on metal smelting.
• New game systems implementing pioneering.
• A new prototype game system has been added for magic spells.
• Almost all of the core code has been touched in some way over the last 18 months in changes that have increased robustness, flexibility, performance, and reliability.

What is new in version 0.5.24:

• Client code can now be used to write more flexible scripts.
• The server now builds for Windows, and includes an experimental installer.
• Some great new castle buildings are now available to world builders.
• A number of new species of fish have been added.
• There are a huge number of bugfixes.

What is new in version 0.5.23:

• Configurable spawn points can be created in the world now.
• The contents of the world can be dumped to file and restored.
• Lots of bugs have been fixed.

What is new in version 0.5.21:

• Fishing tasks and AI have been implemented.
• Tasks can now be controlled more finely by the player.
• The Python API is now much simpler.
• Terrain is now handled much more cleanly.
• Test coverage is much more complete.
• Many bugs have been fixed.

What is new in version 0.5.20:

• The options parsing code has been improved.
• Test coverage has been massively improved.
• Lots of bugs have been fixed.

What is new in version 0.5.19:

• Unused characters are now removed from the world after a short time.
• Re-populating the world after a restart checks for persistent world features
• A database tool has been added to simplify admin tasks.
• A python command line tool has been added to send python commands to the server.
• The entire codebase has been cleaned up.

What is new in version 0.5.18:

• World data is now fully persistent across crashes and restarts.
• Many bugs have been fixed and performance improvements made.

Requirements:

• Perl