second deync

[vigilo confido]

Nothing out of the ordinary here. Nothing special was going on. Just building fleet and desync.

update: Desync appears on every loaded save now the second the game loads.

Attaching this save

[TechSY730]

Yet again, no desync log was generated on my end.

[TechSY730]

Of note, both times we desynced (we just got ANOTHER one), threat fleet was doing stuff.

[keith.lamothe]

Odd.  Will take a look in the next day or so, thanks for the reports

[keith.lamothe]

Nothing out of the ordinary here. Nothing special was going on. Just building fleet and desync.

update: Desync appears on every loaded save now the second the game loads.

Attaching this save

Ok, I just tested both saves attached to your post, with two copies of the game connected in multiplayer, and neither saves generates desyncs immediately upon load (or after being run for a while).  I tried having both copies of the game use the same logging settings, and also tried having each use different ones (one having advanced-logging on and reinforcement-logging off, and the other the other way around).  I tried running at normal speeds and at +!!! (which doesn't really help in MP anyway, may as well change that to imitate +9) speed and +2 network.

Sorry, I just can't get these to happen, so I'd definitely be shooting in the dark to try to fix them.

To clarify, can you try:
1) Load one of the saves attached to the first post in this thread.
2) Right after loading, before the other player connects, what does the game timer in the upper left corner of the screen say?
3) After the other player connects, do you get a desync?
4) If you get a desync, what does the game timer in the upper left corner of the screen say then?

Thanks

[keith.lamothe]

Ohhh, I just saw the warp gate guardians on Tech's homeworld.  Yea, that was causing unhandled-errors in singleplayer, which generally look like a desync in multiplayer.  One tip was that the desync log  was only created on one machine (presumably the host) since only the host runs the reinforcement code.

Anyway, this should be fixed for 7.021, which I hope to have out noonish Tuesday

[vigilo confido]

Would two warp gate guardians spawning on the same system that already had a gate cause a desync?

[keith.lamothe]

Would two warp gate guardians spawning on the same system that already had a gate cause a desync?

It's not really a question of how many there are there, it's a question of when the AI actually tries to reinforce that planet.  There's a lot of factors that go into whether or not that planet is high enough priority to get a reinforcement.

My guess is that it just hadn't tried to reinforce that player homeworld until after the further guardians were there.

[TechSY730]

Did you take a look at our first desync? Seems to be unrelated to this one.

[keith.lamothe]

Did you take a look at our first desync? Seems to be unrelated to this one.

This one? http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=14716

Yep, and was able to reproduce that one.  Then had to make dinner, but will be investigating further shortly

[keith.lamothe]

Seen any more desyncs in 7.022?

[vigilo confido]

We have not had an opportunity where we were both available at the same time. Hopefully we will get together this weekend.