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game timer on crack

Postby somosdios » Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:58 pm

So basically what happened in two of my games yesterday is that the timer sped up super fast, only it didn't actually look like it was moving faster, it would just skip to the next guy about 10% of the way down. Yes, that gives you about a second to do your business, which is way too short. And then it would do the same with the distribution phase, which was on manual.

Also, when I tried to surrender to leave this madness, there was some kind of problem and it didn't reward me for being in 2nd place, no shards, no exp, no nothing.

I guess that's two problems in one game. Not sure if this is two bugs or part of the same one.
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Joshua » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:51 pm

*Reads title* I see what you did there.. xD

This is a pretty well-known problem that Lopdo has (I don't think, correct me if I'm wrong) not tried to fix yet. It can be really irritating sometimes and I think it only happens in certain conditions.
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Lopdo » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:54 pm

I did try to fix it. I have general idea of what the problem might be, I just wasn't able to pinpoint exactly where it is.
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Joshua » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:48 pm

Lopdo wrote:I have general idea of what the problem might be, I just wasn't able to pinpoint exactly where it is.

Which is why I think it only happens under certain conditions. Damn annoying, though.
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Postby Lopdo » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:50 pm

It is probably multithreading problem, some messages arrive at the same time and they get mixed up. I tried to fix this everywhere, but maybe I missed thing or two :/
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Joshua » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:54 pm

Lopdo wrote:It is probably multithreading problem, some messages arrive at the same time and they get mixed up. I tried to fix this everywhere, but maybe I missed thing or two :/

How many times do I have to tut at you?

*Tuts*
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Lopdo » Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:03 pm

tuts won't help here, I did what I could :) Problem is that I found out that the server is heavily multithreaded somewhere around version 1.4, which is pretty sad. I am surprised that it work at all. Some of you might remember that the game was much more unstable in the past, that was the reason
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Joshua » Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:06 pm

Lopdo wrote:tuts won't help here, I did what I could :) Problem is that I found out that the server is heavily multithreaded somewhere around version 1.4, which is pretty sad. I am surprised that it work at all. Some of you might remember that the game was much more unstable in the past, that was the reason

Ah, the good old days.

Why don't you backup the update files, so that if you mess up badly you can go back and start again. Yes it would take ages because you'd have to find where it went wrong and copy a bunch of code etc. but it would be worth it, I mean, now if you want to go back and fix it you need to program yourself a time machine.
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Postby Lopdo » Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:11 pm

there is nowhere to go, code was never in better condition than it is now. This is not something that did work before and stopped working now
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Re: game timer on crack

Postby Joshua » Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:20 pm

Lopdo wrote:there is nowhere to go, code was never in better condition than it is now. This is not something that did work before and stopped working now

I meant you could have gone back to V 1.4 and stop it from multi-threading.
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