Server fails near the end of the game

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It's hard to see, how it can be reproduced, but simply replaying specific 
games, which failed in such a way may give a clue. It looks like one of the 
scenarios is when one of the bots is left without any planets, but has several 
fleets still in flight. Sometimes it fails in the middle of the game, though. 
It may be two distinct bugs, though.

It must be noted, that such failures never happen to the same bots neither on 
local machines, nor on the TCP server: http://www.benzedrine.cx/planetwars/ , 
which is why people tend to blame the official server.

It is expected that the server never fails. And if it does, the contest 
organisers get notified to be able address the problem ASAP.

There is a growing concern about this problem from many players. More info on 
the forums here:

http://ai-contest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=807&start=20

And example of a strange failure: 
http://ai-contest.com/visualizer.php?game_id=4944983

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tomatensaft on 29 Sep 2010 at 9:05

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It now happens very often (happened 5 times in the last 3 hours already, that's 
5 vs 1 legitimate loss I have so far), and probably started somewhere near 
yesterday evening. I haven't noticed this problem before. 

It may be just the server failing to allocate enough resources for games 
(throttle them down a bit, may be?), for example. 

Original comment by tomatensaft on 29 Sep 2010 at 9:11

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12 from last 15 games - is turn 1/1 problem.
in all 12 "loss".

Original comment by ctm...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 10:04

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Going to close this as all the known issues causing problems have been fixed 
and things seem to be running fairly smooth now. If new problems are found 
opening a new specific issue will be useful as well.

Original comment by janzert on 5 Nov 2010 at 6:41

• Changed state: Fixed