Open Game: Wrong Slot Display

[Chazar]

The open game "little_kings", lobbyid=15227, is a 2vs2 game, slots shown as 4/2:2.

However, only 3 people have joined. The non-ladder team game is waiting for one more player, but since it is displayed as 4/2:2, nobody joins (I guess).

[Experix]

If I click on join game button in order to look at this game in lobby, I get the pop-up with text "sorrygameisfull".

[Chazar]

The bug occurred again this time with game "Hadesh Rising": it is shown as 4/4:4 but only 3 players have joined yet.

Can you please fix it? Thanks!

The slot display was already incorrect before I joined myself (I did not set that game up), and hence I already asked my team mates about what they did during setup, to help and find the possible cause of the bug.

[piranha]

I promise to fix the bug once you teach me your magic trick to create several joins on the same game.

When I looked now I saw Tim having joined 3 times and daedalos 2 times on your game (which I removed).

Same thing in game CROM vs PB. 2-3 people had joined the game 2-3 times each.

I try with 4 browsers and join, kick change map, add computer, kick computer, go into game without joining but I can't replicate the bug.

[Tim]

Hi!
I dont know the Trick! I create the game and then make the Settings and then join in. Thats it. I use google Chrome.

[SnotlinG]

We have added additional logging to try to capture this issue as it is getting quite annoying
Please let us know if/when you see another gamelobby in this broken state...

Thanks!

[daedalos]

Hallo!

I think I broke the "Hadesh Rising" game. Before I joined, it was correctly shown as 1/4:4 and afterwards it was shown in my upcoming games as 3/4:4.
I'm using FIrefox 18.0.1 and when I joined, Warbarons was only running in 1 tab. After I joined the game, I returned once to the game-screen to have a second look, because I had a feeling something funny was going on. I think I returned via the "upcoming games" link, but maybe it was via the join button in the games list. I definitely only returned once (which would match my 2 joins).

Hope this helps
Cheers
daedalos

[SnotlinG]

Our current theory is that the issues have been caused by networking issues, lag, duplicate messages to the server etc, which we have hopefully adressed now

[Chazar]

It occurred again:
Game "Welcome" shown as 6/3:3, but only 2 players and 3 AIs were joined.

I had created the game, set a password, joined myself and then joined 3 AIs. Then I notified the second player, who wanted to select his color, was only then prompted to enter his password, and then mistyped and password. He then went through the whole process again and joined, but now it shows 6/3:3.

[Chazar]

We could resolve the issue for that particular game ourselves, but since the bug remains here is what we did:

I left the game and rejoined. No Effect.
The second player, the one were the bug had occurred, left the game and rejoined. Then the display went to 5/3:3 as it ought to be.

To clarify all what the second player had done:

• Clicked Join
• Entered the password, but with an uppercase first letter instead of the required lower case
• Nevertheless he was allowed into the lobby
• He selected a slot and color
• Then he received an error message about the mismatching password and was expelled from the lobby
• He clicked join again
• Entered the password correctly now
• When the lobby screen had loaded, he was already joined with the color that he had previously selected.
• Display then showed "6/3:3", but only 2 humans and 3 AI were joined at this time.
• He left the game and joined again, this time entering the right password. He then arrived normally in the lobby and selected color and slot, the display then showed "5/3:3" as it should.

Hope that helps to squash that nasty bug!