"Unknown" Lost Game in Games List

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By Lordi17 on October 18, 2009 3:54:39 PM from

Dear Stardock Team,

i just need to create a new Post for this, because it is not just annoying for me. It ruins the game for me, i lose my fun in it.

Every second lose is an "unknown" lose, especially the last few days.

I have posted my anger here already: https://forums.demigodthegame.com/366396/page/1/#2411725

But for the sluggish once i post some of these games here again:

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1035376/player/80444/

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1034455/player/80444/

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1032998/player/80444/

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1033022/player/80444/

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1033014/player/80444/

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1030769/player/80444/

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1029407/player/80444/

Please fix this as fast as possible. dont let one account appear at two lobbys or just turn off unknown team, i mean what is this ^^ why does that even exist.

I also want to remind you guys that Demigod depends on its active online players. If they get mad and stop playing this game, also noone else will buy it. Who wants an online-game nobody is playing online ?! If you would fix problems faster and make some more advertising you would sell much more copys. Make ppl play it online, and the more player will play it, the more will buy it. Snowball effect^^.

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I think I know how this happens. This is a lobby bug. You make your connections to your peers in the lobby. You must connect to everyone! Problem is if you leave the lobby your connections could potentially still be connected. Look at a tcpdump and you'll see your packets still flowing to the people in that lobby even if your in another game. Can you imagine what this will do to your bandwidth in the middle of another game? This could definitly cause midgame crashes with peers disconnecting and locking up entire games. But with regard to the unkown issue, when you leave the lobby and have a tcp connection , your peers still think your in the game. You'll be in a state of Unknown. When the game finishes you get a loss. The recording of the loss from an unknown team is a bug on stardocks side, and the tcp connection issue seems to be a GPG problem (I actually don't know who ones which code.)

IF you think you suffer from this and you leave a lobby, your only recorse to prevent a loss from accidentally happening is CLOSE DEMIGOD and reopen. That will gaurantee all your tcp connections will close nicely and that all peers ack'ed your close. If you don't do this you run the risk of having connections open. I got a loss from a game in pantheon where I quit after 30 seconds and I still got a loss from the game. I believe its due to the above.

I would really recommend that one of these two companies hire a network engineer or a really good sys admin to help them with this. I live in San Francisco and I'll be glad to help on a contract basis.

Or add unranked games to the list of available games. Make it an option in the game so that people can play and have fun without worry of ranks. Obviously the ranking system is broken and this game seems very statistics driven.

yes this error sometimes causes funny circumstances.

one time i disconnected from a lobby (lobby a) and then i connected to another lobby (lobby . i could read the chats of both lobbies. i was dark side and my team was from lobby b. but on the light side the team of lobby a was shown and it seemed as if nobody could read what i was writing.

Wow....

+1 :

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038274/player/26408/

Strangely enough, I played with two of the guys in this game during the game just before. Hope it helps to fix it.

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