Far Horizons Steem - Start of Turn 8 - For Game 1538194773
Far Horizons Steem
Start of Turn 8
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@sneakyninja @muksihs @pupmisfit @mastergerund
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Oct 16, 2018 11:15:00 AM EST5EDT
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I received a message where the zzz was included in the message, followed by what looked like big blocks of intended instructions.
Then it did not register any of my jump instructions (and half of my production instructions), which leads me to believe I made the same syntax error as the person that attempted to communicate with me.
It appears that the zzz has to be at the start of a new line in order for it to be interpreted as a new command. Since this was mishandled by at least two players on initial communication, I would suggest the game engine be updated to treat any 'zzz' in message text as an end to that message.
@muksih @pupmisfit @sneakyninja
ok, I'll take a look at it as soon as I can. (getting ready to hit sack for work tomorrow).
I'll add code to the front-end to detect the zzz issue and do something about it.
It is rather old school in its approach to handling in game messaging. And unforgiving apparently.
Would you replicate the bad layout here that caused the issue?
I looked it over and the game client tries to warn, but that warning was much more clear in retrospect.
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I try and do mods in the front-end or the bot back-end interface to the engine as the engine itself is in very old 'C' code that I find very finicky and easy to break when I touch it.
Looking at the turn 8 results, since it treated the rest of my instruction block as a 'discarded' message and sent the rest of his instruction block as a message... neither of us got any production at all. (not even the production that converts into economic units). It's essentially a whole skipped turn, not just a misspent turn.
Can we please revert the game state back to turn 7 and resubmit our instructions with the correct syntax?
It also opens the possibility of more error-hardening... Since the engine has you build instructions into each block separately, it should handle each block separately when it processes them (this could be done by scrubbing inputs, and then you don't have to touch the finicky C code).
I just updated the client code, go back to turn seven open the client link, shift-reload, and then hit resubmit on the orders and see if it catches the errors.
You'll have to click across all the options to get it to re-enable the orders form.
I'll have to do some "magic" arguing with the bot to get it to ignore this turn 8.
Either way... Making the message handling in the client better has been next on my "most likely to do that next" agenda.
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