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[Glyph]

Well, then there is definitely a discrepancy then if the code doesn't match the database.

There is, but it's a moot point because the bits that are still in use apparently DO match. The discrepancy in the IDs doesn't affect anything, and the table is used, just not in the battle script.

And if you're looking at the database, could you also check that the highest mission_id in mission_characters isn't higher than the latest ID in the missions table?

It's not logging missions currently.

Yeah, I get that - what I mean is that in the past we've had an issue where old mission_character records interfered with new missions. I don't believe that's the root issue here, but if there are any records in mission_characters with a mission_id much higher than about 368850, it would be *a* cause - and if there aren't, it can be eliminated from consideration.

[Seibertron]

Sorry guys ... I couldn't figure out what I did earlier that broke the missions. I've been hammering away at this for 14 hours. I'll tackle it again tomorrow night hopefully. Bear with me!

I enabled some new logging functionality tonight so that i can take a look at what's going on. please feel free to add characters into missions and arena battles so that i can take a look at the logs tomorrow to see if any patterns come to light.

If I can't figure this out, I might just rewrite the whole mission and arena log process which has been needed to be done since day 1 of HMW. That's on the agenda anyways but it might happen sooner than later if I can't figure this out.

[ThunderThruster]

Missions might be a bit of an intermitant problem:

[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/includes/game_shared.php on line 2519: error_log(/var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/logs/errors/heavymetalwar.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/missions.php on line 83: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3992)

[Glyph]

^ Re above: Getting a bunch of the same [phpBB Debug] permission warnings on War Room, CR & High Scores, missions.php seems to be ok if there's an available mission but emits the debug warnings if it has to generate a new mission. Forms on War Room, Join Missions etc (probably all) emit "headers already sent" errors on submit (probably because of the debug warnings).

[ashe5k]

I got this every time I put a bot in a mission or activated a Transformer

[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/includes/game_shared.php on line 2519: error_log(/var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/logs/errors/heavymetalwar.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /var/www/vhosts/seibertron.com/httpdocs/heavymetalwar/missions.php on line 83: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3992)

But if I went directly to the page right after that, mission or war room, it loaded fine.

[Psychout]

managed to get a bot into a mission.

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... _id=368891

No log generated.

[ThunderThruster]

Had the same issue as Psychout. Any characters that I could get into a mission, generated "No record available". Just thrown a couple of bots into the Arena to see if it's working.

[Silver Wind]

Had the same issue as Psychout. Any characters that I could get into a mission, generated "No record available". Just thrown a couple of bots into the Arena to see if it's working.

Arena fights completed.

Serene v. Raider

Alacrity v. Windcon

Ascendant v. Nyxara

Erudition v. S.S. Georgie

Everything functioned correctly as far as I can tell. I also had the CR set to manual and yeah the button is there again, but like Glyph stated it has no border and a passcode is required.

[steve2275]

Sorry guys ... I couldn't figure out what I did earlier that broke the missions. I've been hammering away at this for 14 hours. I'll tackle it again tomorrow night hopefully. Bear with me!

I enabled some new logging functionality tonight so that i can take a look at what's going on. please feel free to add characters into missions and arena battles so that i can take a look at the logs tomorrow to see if any patterns come to light.

If I can't figure this out, I might just rewrite the whole mission and arena log process which has been needed to be done since day 1 of HMW. That's on the agenda anyways but it might happen sooner than later if I can't figure this out.

very much appreciated
https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... ena_id=668 i wonder who i am fighting thanks occult
i must confess i have missed fighting in the arena

[Seibertron]

I'm doing some debugging right now. I'm on 3.5 hours of sleep from last night's marathon of trying to fix these HMW problems so I don't know how far I'll get tonight but I wanted to give you guys an update.

Basically, I'm working on creating a script that will "requeue" and "reprocess" failed missions (and we'll take a look at arenas later if it's not resolved with this process). The script will grab a few missions which has characters not currently doing something else at the moment, requeue the mission using current timestamps, and then forcing their processing so that I can properly debug this damn code. I'm surprised this hadn't been done before but here we go.

Once I get all of this working again, I'll modify this script to process all battles that failed that are in the database still. So please keep putting your characters in missions and arenas. Regardless if it failed or not, I'll figure out how to reprocess them all later.

If it doesn't work in the end, then oh well. I'll figure out something to do to thank all of you if it doesn't work (and maybe a little something extra if it does as I've got another big thing in the works with the rest of SEIBERTRON that will help encourage HMW gameplay).

Just wanted to keep you guys posted so that you aren't discouraged.

[Glyph]

Basically, I'm working on creating a script that will "requeue" and "reprocess" failed missions [...] The script will grab a few missions which has characters not currently doing something else at the moment, requeue the mission using current timestamps, and then forcing their processing so that I can properly debug this damn code. [...] Once I get all of this working again, I'll modify this script to process all battles that failed that are in the database still.

Nearly all missions have 20 minutes between closing signups and updating characters with the cached results, with nearly all battles/logs getting processed within the first minute. That should give a decent amount of time to try the battle again if it's got the process flag but hasn't been properly completed in, say, five minutes after its start time (or, for that matter, to run a mission multiple times for debug purposes and just keep the last run's result). Outside of that time, no guarantee that bots would be available or that they'd have the same level & stats as when they entered, and you could get some very strange effects if characters suddenly & randomly became busy while players are e.g. doing upgrades - I'd honestly rather shrug off the failed mission than have my bots unexpectedly dropping into a battle/CR at some future point.

Would it be easier to amend the end-of-mission update to not release the characters from the mission if it's not correctly processed, and clear the process flag? That should automatically re-queue the mission as I understand it, since the battle script was just looking for missions in the queue that were 1) past their start time and 2) not marked as processing (also applies to the suggestion above - just substitute "has participants but no winner" and "marked as processing at least 5 min ago" in the queue check). Feel free to ignore if that's no longer the case.

If I can't figure this out, I might just rewrite the whole mission and arena log process which has been needed to be done since day 1 of HMW. That's on the agenda anyways but it might happen sooner than later if I can't figure this out.

Given how much time a full rewrite would take and that one of the earlier Silver Age announcements was that the whole site's code is now under version control, can the recent changes not just be rolled back while you're investigating what went wrong?