Games not reporting

[atrd3m0n]

I went to check the game results page,  and i noticed there are no more games beeing reported, theres been the same 2 games i have been seeing the last few days, and no new games are beeing reported anymore.

Well not as far as i could see, maybe some problem?

Plz fix it

[RA1024]

Yea I've noticed more and more games are not getting reported.  This is the IP and port my server tells the game to report the results to.

62.216.18.38 4900

I guess Gob or someone who handles the reporting needs to confirm if this is correct or not.

[Gobalopper]

I think that is either Olaf's or Ord's server as it goes to some computer in the Netherlands. If you want to send game reports to this server they have to be in the form of an HTTP POST request. What format are you sending it in now?

[RA1024]

I'm actually not sending it.  My server just tells the game where the ladder server is and the game reports it there.  It looks like I'll need to create something to receive these game results and then post them back to you if we're sending them elsewhere right now.

Will likely be a week before I can get all this working but I'll start on it in the next few days.

[Gobalopper]

Ya Olaf had to write one for his WOL server package too. The one problem with his is that it wasn't good at handling multiple requests at the same time so not all game reports were being sent, just something you should watch out for while developing it. If you need any help with it just let me know.

[RA1024]

If you have any info on the protocol it uses, that would be a help.  Otherwise, I'll just have to play a few games and watch what is being sent back and forth at the end.

[erjin999]

Rooraa, check out your emperor directory: Look for Emperorgameres.txt. Looks like it contains the data from the end of the game. Thats what it looks like to me. Contains the list of player names from your last game.

Hope that helps...  ;)

Give me a shout if you need any zombie type help too !  8)

[Gobalopper]

I sent you an email with some sample game reports. Each is just an array dump of the POST request. I don't know the exact format that the game would send it in though but those are all the variables/values it sends.

[atrd3m0n]

so have u guys figured out yet what the problem is? Games are still not beeing reported..

[Gobalopper]

RA is still working on it. Not sure when it will be ready as I don't know how complicated it will be.

[Voodoo Daddy]

I know this is a little off topic, but i have some questions for ra1024. Last nite I hosted a 3 player game. As soon as I hit "/start" whistler's computer locked up. Now this is not unusual, it happens sometimes to all of us. When he locked up my game froze. When this happenes, what I usually do is, 1- hit the Windows key, to get the game to minimise. 2- hit cntrl-alt-del, and end task on game.exe, and then relaunch the game. When I did that last nite, I was able to continue playing, and hosting games, but the game server web page continued to show a phantom game. So here is my questions.

1- When something abnormal happens, would you like us to post it here, for trouble shooting purposes, or IM you from this site?

2- Is what I did the best way to "unlock" a frozen game or does someone know a better way?

3- Did my cntl-alt-del cause the phantom game?

Anyway RA, what I'm getting at is Im not complaining, cause i think your server is great. Do you think we should have a sticky thread for feedback? So you can know how new features you add or fix are working?

Also, does the game have a "Default" number of players now? In the first game I hosted last nite some people could not join, so yuko told me to type "/size 6" in the console. I had thought that was used for limiting the game size to under 8, in case you wanted to play a pre-arranged game without worrying about a bunch of people coming into your host.

Also, to anyone in the community that has been in my games the past few days, when you paged me from the lobby or the website, and I didn't respond from in-game, It was because I couldn't remember the commands to type into the console  ::) I wasen't mad at anyone or trying to be ignorant, and I am always busy just trying to stay alive LOL. Anyway I printed the server webpage, so now I can figure out how to respond.

[RA1024]

Hey Voodoo,

Glad you like the server.  Don't hesitate to report any problems you see and I'll try to fix them.  The best way is to either e-mail me at ra1024@atlbiz.com or just send me a message through the dune2k website.

As far as your questions go, killing emp with ctrl-alt-del is what I use and won't affect the server. 

The phantom games on the website are caused when someone freezes before the game completely loads.  This is because the website doesn't actually get the information from the game server, it gets it from a local database.  When a player joins a game lobby, the server tells the database they're in the game and it shows on the website.  If they freeze, they never send a "leave lobby" command to the server and so the code to update the database doesn't run and the website still shows them in a game.

When the server eventually kills their connection, the do get cleared in the database and the website doesn't show the game.  If the person who froze logs back in with the same nick, it should clear them anyway so phantom games usually mean a person froze and logged back in with another nick or never came back.

The server automatically frees nicks so you can login with the same nick after a freeze and you should never get a "nick in use" message.

[RA1024]

Oh and to get back on topic, I've been busy this past week but I should have some time today to work on the game results stuff so hopefully I'll have that resolved this week.

[erjin999]

Going off topic again: What about pinging host computers to make shure they are still there, say every 2 mins ? Can that be done ? And if they dont respond twice in a row, kick 'em.

Back on topic, I wonder if that file in the emperor directory is any use to you ? The one I mentioned above...