2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6
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@alexei-svitkine
Tried it and it does reduce the frustration!If people want to download it and try it
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/2.6.14441 -
@Alexei-Svitkine It seems you are working a lot on pushing this release, which is great.
Do you have an idea in months from now of when 2.6 shall be released?
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@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@Alexei-Svitkine It seems you are working a lot on pushing this release, which is great.
Do you have an idea in months from now of when 2.6 shall be released?
Well, my hope would be in the next couple of months, but it also depends on other team members. I think there's some map download and lobby server related stuff that I think @LaFayette would need to resolve, since I'm not really familiar with any of the server-side infra.
And I think @redrum wanted to look at fixing play-by-forum functionality.
On my side, I've just been focusing on fixing client / gameplay bugs - particularly, ones that are regressions from 2.5. I have a few more I plan to look at and of course, if new stuff is discovered, I can look at those too.
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@myrd Thanks for letting us have some hope. This 2.6 was quite the development purgatory.
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Yessss! that is a great improvement!!!
thanks for your contribution, I really appreciate!as maxBuiltPerPlayer is a nice ballancing tool,
and by taking away the "having to order all over again in the
purchasing phase" it can be used without frustrations! -
About fixing PbF.
Is @redrum or @Myrd (Are @Myrd and @Alexei-Svitkine the same user?) going to fix PbEM too?
Unless I'm missing something, I believe that PbEM is broken since a long time, specifically the "Post Turn Summary" button is broken: I understand that users are reduced to get themselves a game-save at that point and upload and send it via E-Mail manually.
Or is this the same culprit as the PbF issue, so both are going to be fixed if any one of them is?
This is what you (or at least I) get when trying to use the "Post Turn Summary" button:
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/11445Here it is a video of back then when this button used to work:
https://youtu.be/c9cfHsoWQoI?t=870The problem is that now it does not: if you click that button, you get the error reported where I linked.
(A disclaimer: I've never played PbEM, just tested it.)
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@cernel
PBF is meanwhile an about two years old issue, communicated and discussed various times. Recently I have been in contact with @redrum on A&A .org. He said he is ready to look into the PBF issues once the forum software (NodeBB) will be updated. This affects posting turn summaries in PBEM, too. -
@panther said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel
PBF is meanwhile an about two years old issue, communicated and discussed various times. Recently I have been in contact with @redrum on A&A .org. He said he is ready to look into the PBF issues once the forum software (NodeBB) will be updated. This affects posting turn summaries in PBEM, too.If it is the same problem (with the "Post Turn Summary" not working) for PbEM and PbF, then it has nothing to do with any forum software (because PbEM does not use any forums), so I'm not sure if waiting for the next forum software update has any value at all.
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@cernel
NodeBB updates sometimes lead to incompatibility between TripleA and forum login- as well as posting to forum procedures. This is what @redrum will take care about.However it cannot be excluded that the issue you experience in PBEM might affect PBF (additionally) too.
It is of course only PBF that is affected by the forum software. So I'm sorry for the confusion I added.
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@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@panther said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel
PBF is meanwhile an about two years old issue, communicated and discussed various times. Recently I have been in contact with @redrum on A&A .org. He said he is ready to look into the PBF issues once the forum software (NodeBB) will be updated. This affects posting turn summaries in PBEM, too.If it is the same problem (with the "Post Turn Summary" not working) for PbEM and PbF, then it has nothing to do with any forum software (because PbEM does not use any forums), so I'm not sure if waiting for the next forum software update has any value at all.
What's the "Post Turn Summary" issue? I thought the email problems was about sending emails themselves not working (e.g. due to auth problems with different email providers).
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@myrd said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@panther said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel
PBF is meanwhile an about two years old issue, communicated and discussed various times. Recently I have been in contact with @redrum on A&A .org. He said he is ready to look into the PBF issues once the forum software (NodeBB) will be updated. This affects posting turn summaries in PBEM, too.If it is the same problem (with the "Post Turn Summary" not working) for PbEM and PbF, then it has nothing to do with any forum software (because PbEM does not use any forums), so I'm not sure if waiting for the next forum software update has any value at all.
What's the "Post Turn Summary" issue? I thought the email problems was about sending emails themselves not working (e.g. due to auth problems with different email providers).
@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
This is what you (or at least I) get when trying to use the "Post Turn Summary" button:
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/11445Here it is a video of back then when this button used to work:
https://youtu.be/c9cfHsoWQoI?t=870The problem is that now it does not: if you click that button, you get the error reported where I linked.
(A disclaimer: I've never played PbEM, just tested it.)
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@myrd said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@panther said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel
PBF is meanwhile an about two years old issue, communicated and discussed various times. Recently I have been in contact with @redrum on A&A .org. He said he is ready to look into the PBF issues once the forum software (NodeBB) will be updated. This affects posting turn summaries in PBEM, too.If it is the same problem (with the "Post Turn Summary" not working) for PbEM and PbF, then it has nothing to do with any forum software (because PbEM does not use any forums), so I'm not sure if waiting for the next forum software update has any value at all.
What's the "Post Turn Summary" issue? I thought the email problems was about sending emails themselves not working (e.g. due to auth problems with different email providers).
I'm not sure what you mean, but yes: the problem is only that no e-mail is sent to anyone. Isn't this all that the "Post Turn Summary" button is supposed to do when you are PbEM (not PbF)?
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@myrd said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
What's the "Post Turn Summary" issue? I thought the email problems was about sending emails themselves not working (e.g. due to auth problems with different email providers).
Indeed these are still existing problems related to email - but independent from the "Post Turn Summary" issue:
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3061/
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3157/ -
@LaFayette
The "map-server" appears to be broke again.
https://github.com/triplea-mapsI have just uploaded Shogun Advanced and was wondering when it would appear in the TripleA 2.6 Downloadable list?
Checking on one of @RogerCooper many map uploads
Franco_Prussian_War, over 2 weeks ago, it is still not in the TripleA 2.6 downloadable list.I downloaded it manually and tested the map.yml was correct, as expected it is, so ... The "map-server" appears to be broke again.
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2.6 download list button
Also I note that 2.6 download list button has 3 states;- Map
- Map ^
- Map v
Map, sorts numbers, uppercase A-Z, then lowercase a-z maps is only available once on first seeing/loading the panel, in my view this is not needed and will be confusing to downloaders when the other two options do what is intended.
@Alexei-Svitkine @Myrd please could you take a look at this?
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For reference, Map ^ & Map v sort is different to Map being;- Map numbers, uppercase A-Z, then lowercase a-z
- Map ^ numbers 1-9, case insensitive a-z
- Map v case insensitive z-a, numbers 9-1
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@myrd said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:
@Alexei-Svitkine It seems you are working a lot on pushing this release, which is great.
Do you have an idea in months from now of when 2.6 shall be released?
Well, my hope would be in the next couple of months, but it also depends on other team members. I think there's some map download and lobby server related stuff that I think @LaFayette would need to resolve, since I'm not really familiar with any of the server-side infra.
And I think @redrum wanted to look at fixing play-by-forum functionality.
On my side, I've just been focusing on fixing client / gameplay bugs - particularly, ones that are regressions from 2.5. I have a few more I plan to look at and of course, if new stuff is discovered, I can look at those too.
Any updates?
Assuming nobody is working on it right now, are any developers planning to get back to it or are we waiting for someone else to join the project and take it over?
Sorry for querying, but I guess that is a reasonable curiosity after over six months by now.
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@cernel i want to get a regular (monthly?) devchat going, i need to make time for a post
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@cernel for reference, the TODO list: https://github.com/orgs/triplea-game/projects/2
The "Split maps & lobby servers" is a pretty big item on that list. Last time I had some energy to dedicate to TripleA there was some good progress made on it, but a lot more to do. It's been really hard to find both time & energy for further sessions.
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Updates - Current Status
- no known issues in 2.6
- 2.6 game clients will now connect to the existing 2.5 lobby by default
- no known compatibility issues between 2.5 & 2.6
Get your latest 2.6 here: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases
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new known problem: map download screen no longer has categories. (Not a release blocker)
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I joined the lobby with 2.6 and joined a game of World At War in progress and immediately noticed that now the battle-window and the territory tab have the units zoomed likewise to the ones on the map (whereas it used to be no zoom (meaning 100%) for units displayed in windows or tabs regardless of the units zoom setting). Is this intended? I'm not seeing how this is preferable in most cases at least for anyone on a full HD or greater.
Moreover, the units are appallingly small in the bottom bar. I think that the units in there should be as small as needed to fit in there, but no more than that. Are these units being firstly zoomed by the units zoom setting and then zoomed some more somehow?
I definitely think that the units zoom setting of a map should apply or matter for nothing else than the units displayed on the map (meaning the game-board). It is usually just a setting that the map-makers decide once the map is drawn, mostly depending on how big (in pixels) the zones appear to be.
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