[2019] Losing books

There’s a few seconds between everyone entering the portal and the game ending.
If someone starts connecting to the game in those seconds, then there’s nothing you can do anymore. Your bot will get replaced, the match will end as soon as the player properly connects to the game, and this will happen inbetween the bot disappearing and the new player spawning in.

Which means you lost whatever books that book was holding/that player should be holding.

You cannot tell me that is intended behavior.

I would actually say this is a bug? I’m pretty sure it’s not intended…

I moved it to bugs so the appropriate staff will see it.

It’s kind of a tricky one. The solution to this (unless someone can suggest another I’m not thinking of (I am pretty Jetlagged, so it’s entirely possible I may even be misunderstanding)) is to remove the anti-griefing we’ve set up in order to stop Bridge of Shadow trolls (those who stand outside the bridge in order to hold a match to ransom).

The problem with that is the loading bug, where someone joins on you but let’s the timer run out when picking a class. If they then join another game, they will still be loading into your game forever and you can no longer end the game. The anti grief fixes that by ending the game anyway.

No, I think the problem would still happen, since the 30 second countdown of the anti-grief thing never happens in the chat, so it doesn’t seem to be triggering.

The real solution (although I don’t know how tricky that would be), is to make it so tomes and grims do not stop counting as being in the party’s possession in the few moments between a bot disappearing and the player replacing them.

Even when it happens during normal play you get the flashing icons of the books signaling that you lost a tome or a grim or both, before the player properly spawns and you get the icons that you got them back.

Aha, I think I get it now. I was confusing systems. Thanke, Kaelus