MARTI is migrating in triplea v2.7+
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MARTI will have a new home @ https://dice.triplea-game.org/
Action items for players: Re-register with the new dice server. It's still early, do so when 2.7 is launched. Until then, the dice server is open for early beta. You can switch to the new dice server in settings and change the URL of the dice server ('test' tab)
This is the specific update that will switch over TripleA future versions to the new MARTI dice server: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/pull/14318
Credit to @roiex & @ssoloff for the efforts building up the new dice server. I dusted it off and plugged it into the new deployment infrastructure. They did most of the work and put the code together in a very sane & nice manner.
When we migrate off of the old MARTI server, we'll be saving $19/month (20% of the total TripleA monthly costs). The old MARTI server is special...
It's the OG server that ran the lobby from maybe 1.7 days, like 15+ years it's been running. We have moved the lobby off of that server since, and ever since it's been humming along costing more and more. In the last few years, that cost has now reached $24/month! The replacement server costs $5/month. -
@LaFayette nice how long will the existing server continue to run? also curious what happens to folks after that if they are not aware of the change can we send any kind of message to the user?
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@ubernaut Time-wise, hopefully not long. It's an expensive server that is super old.
I agree though on highlighting the switched account. I'd appreciate any help in designing what a good UX should look like compared to where we are today.
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@LaFayette any ability to throw a message to old clients? fyi should be around for the 17th and the 24th if we are doing open hours those dates
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@LaFayette
I just want you to point to
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/14364
where testing the new dice server fails with an error message (see there please).Also I would like to know whether this is "only" a technical change or has the "randomize logic" changed, too?
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Old Marti used PHPs variation of Mersenne Twister. Decent random numbers but the starting seed can be derived with a sufficiently series of values (doesn't really need that many).
The new dice server uses Node's built-in crypto.randomBytes; also provides good randomness, but is cryptographically secure (values cannot be guessed based on a few examples)
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@LaFayette
Interesting, thank you!What logic does TripleA's internal dice roller use?
Don't always trust TripleA when it comes to rules questions. Know the rules before you start … and better check what TripleA has done.
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Old Marti used PHPs variation of Mersenne Twister. Decent random numbers but the starting seed can be derived with a sufficiently series of values (doesn't really need that many).
The new dice server uses Node's built-in crypto.randomBytes; also provides good randomness, but is cryptographically secure (values cannot be guessed based on a few examples)
I always assumed that being a paid service of some sort it was giving true random numbers, like throwing casino dice or something like that. Guess that would have costed even more.
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@Cernel truly random numbers are actually something computers cant do there’s actually a whole entire market for random number generators
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@Panther The main game was using 'mersenne twister', that is changing to SplitMix64 with the latest revision forward.
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