VariableVince 896a8ebe92 AFK team mate: better ship handling + tests + bugfix (#2203)
## Description:

Have AFK player's Warships not attack team members ships, like Transport
Ships boating in. If team mate conquers the AFK player, transfer over
Warships and Transport Ships to conqueror. The transfered Transport
ships attack in the name of the new owner when landing, and when they
are retreated they move back to a new owner shore tile if they have any.

Added tests. Expectation is this PR will be merged in v26 as the real
solution for the temporary workaround of deleting warships.

**Currently:**
- An AFK player can be attacked without troop loss by their team
members. For this purpose, isFriendly now returns false if the other
player isDisconnected
- But that meant Warships would get False from isFriendly too, and
attack the ships and boats of their team members.
- [Temporary workaround was to delete
warships](https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/commit/eea8db7a06aed50c005db35ad55ece026f7a3643)
as soon as the player was deemed AFK. But this is a disadvantage to the
team. For example the AFK player could have 6 warships in the waters,
either defending team land or helping the team cross over to the enemy
team.
- Transport Ships that were on the way to attack, were still deleted
after the AFK player was conquered. But this is also a disadvantage, if
say a transport ship has just managed to breach through to the enemy
lands despite warships all around. That could have made the win for the
team.

(Left to think about: do we want to transfer part of the defender troops
to the isOnSameTeam attacker? Defender looses less troops in the attack
from their team mate. You'd expect troops to lay down their arms mostly,
if the attacker is on the same team and doesn't loose troops themselves.
Those troops that they loose less than normal, are then added to the
attacker once they've been deemed conqueror. The enemy team can still
attack and do normal damage, and can still also be the conqueror so the
team members have to be fast.)

**Changes in this PR:**
- GameImpl > conquerPlayer: Transfer ownership of the warships to the
conquerer of their lands. If the conqueror is not a team member (other
team can still attack, in their case with troop loss), they won't get
the warships and the ships will be deleted like normal. If the conqueror
is a team member, have them capture the warships.
(Captures need to happen in conquerPlayer since this is right before the
last tiles are conquered and PlayerExecution finds out the player is
dead and deletes its units. Captures will be recorded in the stats just
like normal. Things like this add an extra incentive to be the fastest
to conquer the AFK player, next to getting their gold which is also
recorded in stats. The normal Event Box messages are also displayed.)

- GameImpl > conquerPlayer: Also transfer Transport Ships. As a note:
the limit of 3 transport ships concurrently out on water for one player,
can be exceeded in this specific case (the boatMaxNumber is only checked
for canBuild via TransportShipUtils, and in the init of a
TransportShipExecution, not for an existing TransportShipExecution with
a changing owner). This keeps the situation even for the team in terms
of ships that are already out to attack, which is fair.
captureUnit/setOwner won't do the full job here though, so changes in
TransportShipExecution are needed.
- TransportShipExecution: Added originalOwner. So we can check within
the execution itself if the Original owner disconnected, and if so if
the new owner is on the same team. Only in that case change private
this.attacker. This.attacker can still not be changed from the outside
in this way. Find new src of new owner to retreat boat to if needed, and
if new owner has no shore set it to null so the boat will be deleted
upon retreat. To find new src tile of new owner, use
bestTransportShipSpawn instead of canBuild because canBuild checks for
max boats = 3 etcera but the boat is already on its way so those checks
don't apply (we could get false back from canBuild because there's 3
ships out, while we only need to find the source tile so use
bestTransportShipSpawn).
- TransportShipUtils: to use bestTransportShipSpawn to find new owner
source tile to retreat to, we need to make sure it can handle a new
owner without shore tiles. When the new owner has no shore tiles
(candidates.length === 0), return false. This way it won't go on to call
MiniAStar which would have SerialAStar error on an empty this.sources
array.


- WarshipExecution: Changed isFriendly. This makes sure we have the
wanted behavior: allied/team ships should not attack each other once one
of their owners goes AFK.

- AttackExecution: added one more test specifically to check if attack
on AFK teammate is still witthout troop loss "Player can attack
disconnected team mate without troop loss". Also a bugfix that I left in
after removing a related change from this PR: Add a check for
removeTroops === false in the retreat() function, so at the end of the
attack we don't add troops back to owner troops if they were never
removed in the init. This check in retreat() is actually a bug fix
because removeTroops is in the constructor and can be set to True, but
in retreat() troops would then have been given back after not being
removed at init.

- DefaultConfig: small addition to comment.

- Disconnected.test.ts: added tests. Added useRealAttackLogic because at
least "Player can attack disconnected team mate without troop loss"
needs to use the real attackLogic.
- TestConfig: new class useRealAttackLogic extends TestConfig class, so
a test setup can use the real attackLogic from DefaultConfig instead of
the mock function in TestConfig.
- Setup.ts: for the test setup, add parameter to accept
useRealAttackLogic extension class. Defaults to TestConfig.

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OpenFront.io is an online real-time strategy game focused on territorial control and alliance building. Players compete to expand their territory, build structures, and form strategic alliances in various maps based on real-world geography.

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