Game bug, No troops, no reinforcements.
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Akfiz wrote:
http://www.dominating12.com/?cmd=game&sec=play&id=473042

On round 4 I was supposed to pay cards, get reinforcements and play.

This is what the game log says:

But 23 Apr, 14:30:24 Akfiz ran out of time.
23 Apr, 14:30:04 Akfiz received 2 troops on China.
23 Apr, 14:30:04 Akfiz received 2 troops on Japan.
23 Apr, 14:30:03 Akfiz received 8 troops for turning in cards Japan, Iceland, and China.
23 Apr, 14:30:02 Akfiz received 5 troops for 15 territories.
23 Apr, 14:29:55 Akfiz started the turn.


But what really happened is:

It was green's turn, he wouldn't play (at least from my side of the internet, and yes my network was working) then his time got 0. But my turn wouldn't start, his time only stood at 0.

10 Seconds after that, I refresed the page, and then it showed me the 3 cards I had, I pressed on them because I wanted to have troops, and the 2 auto card troops for China and Japan appeared. But when I clicked to add the other troops it said "It's not your turn yet" in a red square. I clicked refresh again, and it wasn't even my turn anymore, WTF!

I haven't even got my troops, nor my card bonus troops, nor my reinforcements troops, so I lost the game. Which I might have won, because I would have had 5+5+8 troops in China vs his 1+2+9 (Khazakstan + Ukraine + N. Europe Capitol). Anyway, I had some other troops too + 20 in my captiol so the game was far from decided.

Look at the time in the game log:

23 Apr, 14:30:27 tapiokapolis started the turn.
23 Apr, 14:30:24 Round 5 starting.
23 Apr, 14:30:24 Akfiz ran out of time.
23 Apr, 14:30:04 Akfiz received 2 troops on China.
23 Apr, 14:30:04 Akfiz received 2 troops on Japan.
23 Apr, 14:30:03 Akfiz received 8 troops for turning in cards Japan, Iceland, and China.
23 Apr, 14:30:02 Akfiz received 5 troops for 15 territories.
23 Apr, 14:29:55 Akfiz started the turn.
23 Apr, 14:27:25 tapiokapolis ended the turn.


I went to report, and I had nothing to report because there was no one's fault. So I clicked on my opponent and "suicide" hoping an admin will come and see, but nothing happened. Then I clicked on ask for help and "end game". Again nobody.

What I ask is that this game won't count as a defeat for me, because it wasn't because of me but because of a game bug.

Please take note of this bug and thank you, I hope this is the right place for bugs.
Vexer wrote:
You ran out of time. You only had one minute left after you refreshed and started your turn and you wasted 20 seconds of it doing nothing.

The timer you see is handled by your browser. The real timer is handled by the server. Even though your timer says is stuck at zero, the servers timer is still counting down.

If this happens to you often I would suggest trying a different browser and not playing 3 minute turn games.

Since the timer doesn't get stuck on any of the programmers machines we will probably never figure out what happened since we can't recreate the problem. Keep your eye on the clock when someone is about to run out of time and refresh quickly if it gets stuck at zero. I'm sorry I can't be of more help.



Vexer wrote:
I think I know why your timer got stuck at zero and I've made an update to fix it.