#201639: "Avoid or detect lost notifications"
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• Please copy/paste the error message you see on your screen, if applicable.
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. -
• Please explain what you wanted to do, what you did and what happened
• Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here. Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. • Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. • Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. • Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• Which part of the rules was not followed by the BGA adaptation?
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. -
• Is the rules violation visible on game replay? If yes, at which move number?
• Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• What was the game action you wanted to do?
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. -
• What did you try to do to trigger this game action?
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• What happened when you tried to do this (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• At which step of the game did the problem occur? What was the current game instruction?
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. -
• What happened when you tried to do this game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. • Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here. Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. • Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
In real-time games, it happens quiet frequently that a player is not playing because he did not receive the notification that it is his turn to play. It also happens that the game situation is screwed at his side only because of a lost notification.
It leads to wasted games and to many bug reports on games despite the game developer can not fix them.
Ideally, lost notifications should not exist (might be done using an acknowledgment to reissue a notification to a player if it browser did not acknowledge; normally TCP is doing it automatically at a lower level, I wonder if you are in UDP), but avoiding them would probably increase the server load.
At least, a mitigation for lost your turn notifications should be implemented: if a player is not playing for a given amount of time (either fixed or computed from average time needed to play in the game, or when going negative in time but that’s might be too late to reload and play without being expelled), a special framework specific "YourTurn" notification should be sent to its browser. When the browser receive it, the framework at client side should either:
- if it was knowing that the player should play (it has received the normal your turn notification), do nothing,
- if it was not knowing that the player should play, warn the player that he must reload the page (as the normal notification can have important lost data) and show a button to do it easily. • Which browser are you using?
Mozilla v5
Report history
- lost your turn: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=200100
- lost notification on game situation: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=201636
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- Did F5 solve the problem?
- Did the problem appear several times? Every time? Randomly?
- If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
