Recon Errors with MO

[Graion Dilach]

We're tried out Monster Truck with Zenothist and we had many recons. Apparently. it revolves with the map because Alamo worked.

http://yras.cncguild.net/Ares/issue1xxx.zip

[Graion Dilach (graiondilach)]

And another one from standard Battle. http://yras.cncguild.net/Ares/issue1xxx2.7z

[YR M0ddEr (yr-m0dder)]

We(not me yet) still suffers from REs and still dont have any improved online logging.
Tracking down a RE manually is just not working. I can spend weeks searching for a RE and I am not going to find anything. We need better tools for this!!!

[Graion Dilach (graiondilach)]

Good idea. There is -MPDEBUG.

[YR M0ddEr (yr-m0dder)]

I think D said -MPDEBUG is almost as bad as the standard sync* logs.
We need something a lot better than this.

[DCoder DCoder (dcoder1337)]

OK, what do you suggest as a better tool?

[YR M0ddEr (yr-m0dder)]

new loggings? Dump for REs? I am sure you have some ideas as well.

[DCoder DCoder (dcoder1337)]

The game simply computes a checksum of everything present on the map and tells other players "I have a checksum of 0xDEADBEEF for frame 12345". If the other player has a different checksum in that frame, it will panic and shoot itself with a desync. What specifically do you expect us to log here? We can't really tell why the checksum doesn't match given only 4 bytes.

We can change the Recon Error dialog so that you can create a memory dump when it happens, but we will still need more than one player's dump to diagnose anything, and unlike sync.txt, normal people can't read these dumps.

[YR M0ddEr (yr-m0dder)]

"but we will still need more than one player's dump to diagnose anything"
I dont think that will be a problem.

Go for it, if dumps dont help solving RE, it can be displayed again.

[Graion Dilach (graiondilach)]

Actually we could hunt down AFAIK all recon posted up here. The reason was that TIB2 gained an new image and I forgot to put it's mix in. TIB2 could be spawned from harvesters and there is the third-ore from map issue.

[Graion Dilach (graiondilach)]

D, the patch you sent me on Sunday works.