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Unread post Feedback Loop: v2.17
Not sure where else to post my little story, so fresh topic.

I jumped into the practice game on RP's server, did a little
cashing and ended up parked on StarDock for the night.

I was dropped to the twgs game menu without any warning
about inactivity or whatever. I wasn't logged all the way off,
so my relogger never got me back on dock. Extern came and
I was towed. Very grim for us StarDock squatting game trolls.

I checked with RP and he said his Interactive SubPrompts are
turned on. Is there another setting that suppresses the
InActivity Warning?

My worries are two:
1) No warnings means I need to run a separated keepalive,
not a hard fix.
2) I sat at the TWGS game menu all night, shouldn't I have
'timed out' and been logged off?

Not worthy of being mentioned as a worry is the fact that I
was dropped past the game entry prompt to the main game
menu.

Just checking if this is expected behavior, as I've squatted on
the StarDock prompt for months at a time in the past...

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I had the same thing happen in v1.03 if stuck at the Game Menu.

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Version 2.x should timeout at this prompt, unless you are sending keepalives.

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This is a mombot error. Im assuming you are using mombot, and RP prolly upgraded while you were in game. Then you disconnected and it doesn't get past game menu correct?

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Crosby wrote:
Not sure where else to post my little story, so fresh topic.

I jumped into the practice game on RP's server, did a little
cashing and ended up parked on StarDock for the night.

I was dropped to the twgs game menu without any warning
about inactivity or whatever. I wasn't logged all the way off,
so my relogger never got me back on dock. Extern came and
I was towed. Very grim for us StarDock squatting game trolls.

I checked with RP and he said his Interactive SubPrompts are
turned on. Is there another setting that suppresses the
InActivity Warning?

My worries are two:
1) No warnings means I need to run a separated keepalive,
not a hard fix.
2) I sat at the TWGS game menu all night, shouldn't I have
'timed out' and been logged off?

Not worthy of being mentioned as a worry is the fact that I
was dropped past the game entry prompt to the main game
menu.

Just checking if this is expected behavior, as I've squatted on
the StarDock prompt for months at a time in the past...


I think their right about the error being from the client and not the server. However like you I only experience it on certain servers, generally when they take the server/game offline for maintenance. The client doesn't handle the disconnection correctly and doesn't reconnect. This happens on both server maintenance and game maintenance, differences is where you'll end up landing, server prompt vs disconnected.

Best you can do is write something to check for data when afk and if not present reconnect. It's not a Mombot "error" it's a error with being able to handle the event since it previously was not as large of a issue because games/servers did not require as many reboot's/rebang's. And if they did the server was brought down with warning so Mombot was able to handle the shutdown.

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I'll check with RP to see if there's an error in the logs. Had you timed out due to inactivity, not only would you have gotten the messages, you would have dropped all the way out of the game, not just to the startup menu. So something else booted you out. The only way that could happen would be a game crash, which should have been logged.

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I posted this to J.P. ' Questions for Bug Reports'

1) What OS you have ? (Win 7 problematic)
2) What version of TWX Proxy you use ? (2.05 problematic)
3) What helper you use ?
4) Where you using Swath ? Light bulb on ?
5) Were you using a Bot ? Which one(s) ?
6) What scripts (background and other) were you running ?
7) Describe in detail as best as possible what was noticed or happening.

I have found that the disconnect without notice is a TWX 2.05 thing.
Also many scripts over the years have a comms on/off and that may get in
the way of maybe game messages as well.

I hope this helps in the up coming bug discussions.

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I agree with Vid that there may be some strange things happening as a result of the client. But the one thing about this that strikes me is that Crosby dropped from the Stardock menu directly to the startup menu, and that shouldn't be possible. So I'll explore that clue and see if I can find a bug.

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I know this has nothing to do with the current topic but it may shed some light. I been working with Stein to find an issue on the map. If you have an extensive fig listing in the several thousands it appears data is not making to through TWX correctly. So the visual map is not updating showing your entire grid. If you remove TWX and hook in to the game directly and run a figs listing it works perfecting everytime.

There maybe a few bugs in TWX that need to be looked at in the way it is passing data, I know this only happens on the final 2.05 released. Previous version I never had issue with.

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Seems like we discussed something like this awhile ago, and the conclusion was that the client wasn't properly handling a full receive buffer. If it doesn't detect that condition and wait to receive new data until the buffer has been partially emptied, you end up losing chunks of data. And that would happen with very long, fast displays like fig output, but would usually not show up under normal conditions.

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John Pritchett wrote:
Seems like we discussed something like this awhile ago, and the conclusion was that the client wasn't properly handling a full receive buffer. If it doesn't detect that condition and wait to receive new data until the buffer has been partially emptied, you end up losing chunks of data. And that would happen with very long, fast displays like fig output, but would usually not show up under normal conditions.

Yea I need to forward this to EP and see if he time to look into it. TWX still has the data since all scripts work fine, just not passing it out correctly.

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Ok, I have not been able to dupllicate any condition in which the game will restart after a crash. So something more subtle must be going on there. I need to look at the error logs for RPs game before I can go any further with this.

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Shouldn't I have gotten a few messages?
Inactivity warning?

If naught else, how about kicking me off.. and then I'd
get a Connection Lost message and Mom woulda logged
me back in...

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Under all normal and expected circumstances, you'd have gotten messages or gotten booted all the way out. That's what makes this so odd. I'm still waiting for access to the logs.

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RP said he will get them to you when he gets home.

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