2.5.00 (2021-12-30)

• Gameplay:
  • Road Building: If player cancels placement or ends turn before placing the first free road or ship, the dev card is returned to their hand
  • When a trade is offered to bots and humans, bots wait longer before responding. Was 3 seconds, is now 8, changeable with server property jsettlers.bot.human.pause (thank you Lee Passey)
  • Recalc Longest Route when building coastal settlement to connect a player's roads to ships (thanks kotc for reporting issue #95)
  • Pirate Islands scenario: Ship placement: Fix client bug where placing a coastal ship next to a road would prevent any further ship building, based on "no branches in route" rule
• I18N:
  • Added French translation (thank you Lee Passey)
• Client:
  • Game window:
    • Added hotkey Ctrl-B/Alt-B/Cmd-B to ask to Special Build in 6-player game
    • Discards: List resources you discarded, not just total amount, in game action textarea
    • Forgotten Tribe scenario: Much less flicker while placing gift ports
  • New Game dialog:
    • If server has increased default VP to win, use that as minimum when picking a scenario
  • If client starts a TCP server, keep it running; previous versions timed out after being idle an hour (thanks kotc for reporting issue #81)
  • Linux/Unix: Use sub-pixel font antialiasing if available (thanks kotc for issue #92)
• Bots/AI:
  • Shorten pause after bot requests a bank trade
• Server:
  • During game reset, don't send chat recap: Chat text is still in clients' game windows
  • If default VP is set on command line or properties, will also be minimum VP for any scenario
  • Other server changes: see Versions.md
• Other changes: see Versions.md