2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6

LaFayette

Re: map availability

The design of 2.6 was to do away with triplea_maps.yaml completely. Bringing that back in was an expedient way to resolve various problems and get 2.6 launched. So, we see a conflict here with that design change where the problem would have been solved. Though, this is an issue with the 2.5 bots as well, the download maps script is the same for the two different bot versions.

I think the best solutions are going to either be to delete the map repository or add the map to triplea_maps.yaml. Updating the download-all-maps script to account for the one-off exceptions is going to be time consuming and will become out of date.

re: warn message: `Unable to list auto-save game files`

When you click 'select game' - that is loading up the auto-saves from the bot and they will appear at the end of the selection list. Those are the auto-saves on the bot server, not your computer. Before if a bot crashed and each save player could not save - those games were sometimes entirely lost.

Overall, the warning is benign - it does not know the difference of reading 'zero' files vs not being able to read the autosave folder contents at all. As soon as any game is started after the bot is installed; the warning message will go away thereafter.

Cernel

@lafayette said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:

When you click 'select game' - that is loading up the auto-saves from the bot and they will appear at the end of the selection list. Those are the auto-saves on the bot server, not your computer.

What's the point of that in the moment those saves are listed clicking on "Open Saved Game", are they? I think that is just confusing and also inconsistent with what is done in the main program interface.

I suggest having only maps' games behind the "Select Game" button (as it is when you open TripleA).

Cernel

@lafayette said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:

Re: map availability

The design of 2.6 was to do away with triplea_maps.yaml completely. Bringing that back in was an expedient way to resolve various problems and get 2.6 launched. So, we see a conflict here with that design change where the problem would have been solved. Though, this is an issue with the 2.5 bots as well, the download maps script is the same for the two different bot versions.

How about showing only the games which are both in the bot's list and the the user's list. Meaning that, if I have only "270BC Wars" in my "Select Game" list, I will also have only that option when clicking on "Select Game" in a bot.

If that is not feasible, how about giving the exact same list which you get when you click "Select Game" on local also when you click the same button in a bot, and returning a message about the game being not available in the bot if selecting a game which you have on local but the bot does not have (which will never happen for normal users since the bots fully cover at least everything which is on download list)?

LaFayette

@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:

What's the point of that in the moment those saves are listed clicking on "Open Saved Game", are they?

They are not the same game file. Note the difference, the "Open Saved Game" are your saved games on your computer; while the "select game" listing are those on the bot itself.

Cernel

@lafayette 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:

What's the point of that in the moment those saves are listed clicking on "Open Saved Game", are they?

They are not the same game file. Note the difference, the "Open Saved Game" are your saved games on your computer; while the "select game" listing are those on the bot itself.

You mean that the various "Change To default", "Change To odd_round" and so on that you have upon clicking on "Open Saved Game" on a bot are loading game-saves which you have rather than game-saves taken and retained by the bot?

I assumed that "Change To Gamesave (Load Game)" was the only one going for the game-saves on your computer.

Anyway, I was not able to test because I joined "Bot301_Paris" and played the first turn of Classic and then quit, and the host just disappeared and is missing since then.

LaFayette

@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:

Anyway, I was not able to test because I joined "Bot301_Paris" and played the first turn of Classic and then quit, and the host just disappeared and is missing since then.

That is a useful test in of itself. There was an error reconnecting to lobby. Looks like it was probably a 2.5 issue as well. I've got a stack trace and will look to make that more robust so the bot does not give up if it fails on the first try.

LaFayette

@cernel said in 2.6 Release Getting Close - Need Volunteers to Help Beta Test 2.6:

You mean that the various "Change To default", "Change To odd_round" and so on that you have upon clicking on "Open Saved Game" on a bot are loading game-saves which you have rather than game-saves taken and retained by the bot?

It is confusing. Those do load autosaves from bots. I'm hoping to have that UX a bit more cleaned up than it is now.

Cernel

@lafayette Anyway, games and saves should not be on the same list. Having the saves all after the games looks to me like an insufficient way to set them apart.

beelee

so I can't get a bot to make it say "waiting for players" after a game is selected.

I have to pick all the players and make it launch

cameron

TripleA_2.6+14808
battle calculator duplicate bug:
240724 v2.6.14808 battle calculator duplicate bug.jpg
not sure when it started. i scanned the changes listed inbetween 14808 and 14759 (the prev build i used w/o the bug) and couldn't see anything about the battle calculator...