Re: Re: [glob2-devel] Default flag settings cause World desyncs when playing on glob2

[donkyhotay]

That makes no sense, the only thing changed WAS the gui. Before changeable flag 
settings were added the default flag settings were determined by buildings.txt 
(these settings are actually still in the file if you want to look, they just 
aren't used by the game anymore). For awhile I played the game with a 
customized buildings.txt file because I really hate having 1 unit being the 
default for all flags. This was inconvenient so I modified settings.cpp to pull 
the flag settings from preferences.txt instead of buildings.txt and allow users 
to modify in game and save the changes to preferences.txt. The ability to 
customize flag settings was already in the game I just made it easier to do. 
I'm kind of busy for the next few days (out of town) but when I get home I'll 
take a look at the code again and double check but I could have sworn when I 
originally traced the default flag variables from the game GUI back to 
buildings.txt that they weren't tied into anything else. I've never looked at 
glob2's networking code so I don't know how it runs but the only thing I can 
think of that would cause what I did to result in a network desync would be 
when a flag is placed it only sends the data "war flag placed" and doesn't send 
the default flag info assuming for some strange reason that the host will take 
care of it. The host then uses it's default settings for the flag (which aren't 
the same) and of course glitches out the game. One more thing I thought of the 
other day. Alot of people are concerned about how to balance explorers at 
endgame. I was thinking about giving explorers an ammo supply. First we would 
need a new building (call it an aviary for now), that is only buildable when 
you have a maxed out worker. This building would train explorers to level2 
allowing them the ability to attack ground units (just like now). However once 
at level2 each explorer only get a certain number of attacks (say 20 or so) 
before reverting back to level1. At which point they will need to fly back to 
the aviary and level up again. This would put a limit on mass explorer 
bombardment but still allow people to use them to complement their ground 
forces. 

From: =?ISO8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Magnenat?= <address@hidden>
Date: 2006/08/20 Sun PM 03:01:34 CDT
To: Globulation2 development mailing list <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [glob2-devel] Default flag settings cause World desyncs when       
playing on glob2

On Sunday 20 August 2006 20:42, Leo Wandersleb wrote:
> Today we played and ran into desyncs after 20s of playing.
> After first blaming the Windows Version for it I did some testing with 2
> instances of glob2 on my machine:
>
> If the default unit counts differ on the two instances world desyncs as
> soon as a flag is set.

Well, then it's up to the person who added default unit support to fix that.
Take care when adding feature to glob2, local settings are only allowed to 
affect GUI and not core engine !

Steph

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