Topic: Bugs
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 15:18
Posts: 1440  One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2016-12-15, 22:02
What a wonderful, delightful bug!! It sounded too weird, but it is an instance of a classical computer science problem: Cache invalidation is hard. I propose a fix in this branch which should hit trunk soon. Edited: 2016-12-15, 22:03
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simplypeachy
Joined: 2009-04-23, 12:42
Posts: 155  At home in WL-forums Location: Hampshire, UK |
Posted at: 2016-12-18, 12:47
A rimshot for the joker...only a Widelands player could laugh at that one WARNING: New-style view packet not found. There may be strange effects regarding unseen areas.
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WorldSavior
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Joined: 2016-10-15, 04:10
Posts: 2138 OS: Linux Version: Recent tournament version One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2017-02-06, 02:24
Okay, some more bugs. I'm not registered at launchpad, so I post them here. 2 : Often you don't get an attack message. I'm almost sure that this bug didn't exist in build 18. 3 : Something goes wrong with the random generator which rules battles between soldiers. In the tournament there were games which have been heavily influenced by luck, for example the match of SirVer and me vs. king_of_nowhere and notabilis ( http://www.widelands.org/~sirver/wl/161121_tournament_2016_replays/Round06/ ) or the match between notabilis and waylon531 ( http://www.widelands.org/~sirver/wl/161121_tournament_2016_replays/Round05/ ) (Notabilis, what the hell are you doing? 4 : In the match between Tando and waylon531, Tando's headquarter was destroyed because a guardhouse close to it was conquered. I think that it's a bug, because a headquarter should have higher priority, like a fortress. (A guardhouse next to a fortress cannot be conquered, it will be always destroyed automaticly). To watch this situation, just watch a little bit of the time after the replay (after 230 minutes) http://www.widelands.org/~sirver/wl/161121_tournament_2016_replays/Round04/ 5 : Crystal mines work like crazy. They ignore all economy settings. Not all the time, but it might be caused in situations when you build something. I think I've read something about a similar bug with granite mines which have been fixed (maybe). I've discovered many further bugs, but it's not easy to remember all of them at a certain time Edited: 2017-02-06, 02:28
Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked
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kaputtnik
Joined: 2013-02-18, 20:48
Posts: 2582 OS: Archlinux Version: current master One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2017-02-06, 07:16
WorldSavior, on which version are you playing at the moment?
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WorldSavior
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Joined: 2016-10-15, 04:10
Posts: 2138 OS: Linux Version: Recent tournament version One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2017-02-06, 12:53
Build 19. Are the bugs fixed at the newest inofficial version? More bugs: 6 : A defeated player is not really defeated if he's building a new warehouse just in that moment. If it will be finished, the player can continue with almost everything and is an observer at the same time. 7 : The Barbarian Trainings camp does a lot of breaks if you don't use war helmets. It seems that the productivity cannot go beyond 75% or something like that. Other trainingsites might be concerned, too. Ah, yes: The Labyrinth is similar if you don't use shields, or if you use just one shield. It might be also possible that they just show a wrong productivity in that case, I don't know. But i believe that they just work slower because of unnecessary breaks. Edited: 2017-02-06, 12:54
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kaputtnik
Joined: 2013-02-18, 20:48
Posts: 2582 OS: Archlinux Version: current master One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2017-02-06, 19:46
Likely not all, but e.g. the missing attack sound is maybe fixed with the sound improvement change. I am not sure though. So the bugs you're report must all be tested with the current development version, too see if they are still there. That means additional, time consuming, work for the developers, which could be easily done by players, if they use the current development version
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king_of_nowhere
Joined: 2014-09-15, 18:35
Posts: 1668 One Elder of Players |
Posted at: 2017-02-06, 21:07
productivity statistics are wrong. they store in memory the latest 20 work cycles, whether they were succesful or failed, and calculate the prooductivity from that. but they fail to keep into account that a failed cycle is shorter than a worked one. So for example if an idle cycle lasts 10 seconds and a working cycle lasts 20 seconds, with 10 worked and 10 skipped cycles the system will give 50% productivity, even though the building actually worked 200 seconds out of the last 300 seconds, so its real productivity is 66%. egardless of exact numbers, there is a systematic underestimation of the real productivity value. I pointed that out, but it was never fixed. Edited: 2017-02-06, 21:07
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Tibor
Joined: 2009-03-23, 23:24
Posts: 1377 One Elder of Players Location: Slovakia |
Posted at: 2017-02-06, 22:30
I think the production cycle can have three outcomes each with own duration
Current counter is simple - 20 bools and skipping is not even recorded there ( because of bools). So if output was not needed in last 10 minutes and thus nothing was produced, the old statistics is still shown over the building... This was discussed, but there is no consensus about what exactly should statistics show - more specifically: if skipped cycles has to be included there...
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GunChleoc
Joined: 2013-10-07, 15:56
Posts: 3317 One Elder of Players Location: RenderedRect |
Posted at: 2017-02-07, 11:02
There are multiple messages related to attacks. which one of those do you mean exactly?
Considering the 1.000 or so claims on the Battle for Wesnoth forum that the RNG is wrong that have been shown to be false, we can't trust human gut feeling here. I think we are just a library for the RNG, so it shouldn't be far wrong.
Might be a bug indeed.
If verified, definitely needs fixing.
The game considers him defeated, so in multiplayer, he should be an observer with no control over everything, and in single player be able to continue the game if he wishes. Not sure how we should handle this edge case.
The Atlantean Steel Shield is used for the first program, the Barbarian War Helmet in the last one. Maybe this is just a skew in the statistics? Busy indexing nil values
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WorldSavior
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Joined: 2016-10-15, 04:10
Posts: 2138 OS: Linux Version: Recent tournament version One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2017-02-08, 21:50
Okay. Maybe some other players can test if the bugs are already fixed ;-) (I'm not in the mood to do it)
That's a bug with high importance in my opinion. It's not really new to me... Nice that you've reported it... But as I've said, I believe that the Barbarian trainings camp does breaks indeed (Bug 7). Just a feeling. (The Empire Trainings camp can show 100% even if you don't use golden armors, as far as I know. So there is a difference)
What's a bool? But I guess that it's right what you are thinking about it. And I think that it would make more sense that skipped cycles would be included. Otherwise you could be very confused about your economy. That's what I experienced ;-) And there would be a possibility to implement to show both kinds of productivity, or to chose one by preference...
The message "you are under attack" if that certain building is under attack.
By the way, the message "you are under attack" is always send if a soldier walks close to a miltary building, for example because of the random walk of lost soldiers
That is an indication, but not a prove
I've already played matches were I had tons of crystal and diamonds in the warehouse (around 100 crystals, around 50 diamonds), more than stones (just 20 or something like that). I think that this is new in this build.
I don't know what happens in multiplayer mode. I didn't know that there is a difference... It might be possible to consider a player as defeated only if he has no more chances to complete a new warehouse or port...
Maybe it is. But I guess that that might be not the case... As I said, the empire trainings camp looks fine there even though their trainings-system is almost the same... Edited: 2017-02-08, 21:56
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