Introduced new kind of world map zones: Respawn Areas.

Respawn Areas are highlighted with blue color on the world map.

They are isolated from the rest of the world with a wall. The wall has a timer similar to Novice Areas. Any player can place the first spawn in this area, but nobody can come here from the outside world while the timer is up.

The only restriction in Respawn Area is nukes usage - a nuke cannot be launched from or to a room in a Respawn Area.

Players with GCL 4 or higher are no longer able to start playing in Novice Areas. They have to either respawn in a regular room or in a room within a Respawn Area that will keep them safe for a while and allow to claim as many rooms as their GCL allows.

Other changes

When a Novice or Respawn Area is being planned in an inner sector, all free rooms in this sector will be signed by the game with the following message:





Added new constants SYSTEM_USERNAME , SIGN_NOVICE_AREA , SIGN_RESPAWN_AREA . You can use them to programmatically check the signs in the rooms that are important to you and reserve them if such a message detected.

These features are supported in private servers v2.5.0.