Officer notes not updating

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.assign gp to raid members
2.assign ep to raid menbers
3.Check the officer notes 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should be  "Officer note = Log = Distribution" Yes?

The distribution is fine... 1 person.. (the GM) does all gp/ep awards...No 
recurring awards are used..

The Log is great.. perfect record of the raid distribution

Offcier note... Sometimes it changes... sometimes it doesnt.. This seems 
to be random with ep and gp, mass ep or individual.

The log is our saving grace, as previously stated.. the log is a true 
representation of the awards. 

The export information to epgpweb seems to come from 2 places... 
1  The log seems to be a straightfoward text that is diplayed on the site
2. The numbers are brought from officer notes... (which are randomly not 
updating)

This gives us a clear and unfortunatly perfectly imperfect view of the 
information

The 2 side by side do not match, We are having to check and update our 
numbers manually each night after raid.

You guys do a great job here, it is a wonderful mod that many people 
(including myself) know and love. I fear to think this is an issue that 
cannot be resolved. I am hopeing to find a solution to this issue before 
my guild finds out.

If there is anymore information or assistance you may require please let 
me know.

Is the get/set officer note timing out before applying..
Or perhaps the write information is corrupting (or lagging) before being 
applied?

I have not read your lua and am not sure where the mod actually pulls its 
numbers "from" to apply them to officer notes these are just thoughts.. 

Can you please let me know if you have/can identify this problem and 
wether or not it will be fixed/addressed in the next update?

Thankyou

Original issue reported on code.google.com by travisjo...@hotmail.com on 8 Oct 2009 at 4:08

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3 months no reply? :)

Is this still an issue?

Are you sure there is only 1 person awarding EP/GP at the same time?
If there is a person mass awarding time EP then this person has to award also 
all the
other EP and GP. If there is someone else changing points it might conflict.

Original comment by tomas.klapka on 18 Jan 2010 at 1:30

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Damn this really fell through the cracks. Thanks for updating tomas!

Original comment by evlogimenos on 21 Jan 2010 at 9:16

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We have a guild with 200+ mostly lvl 80 members and had the same problem few 
times. 
We catched it when we've seen that members with the very same attendance see 
that 
they have different EP. 

You could add some kind of transactions, especially when mass award and decay 
are 
done to be sure that everything has changed as intended.

I would suppose the following algorythm:
1. Make the all changes somewhere in memory and get the snapshot. (Optionnaly 
even 
give it to the player to copy paste it)
2. Apply changes to officer notes.
3. Compare changes with the notes to be sure changes are done.
4. If something wrong repeat until everything is ok.

The only problem I see here is that player can be disconnected while he does 
those 
changes and this is why I propose to give him a snapshot in copy-paste buffer.
Also the "restore from snapshot" could be very helpful.

Original comment by albi...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2010 at 7:36

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Can you verify you have only 1 person making changes to EPGP at any point in 
time?

Original comment by evlogimenos on 29 Jan 2010 at 7:42

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Should both officer award the same guild member or changes to different members 
can 
trigger lost award issue? For example we have 2-3 10ppl raids which got awards 
in the 
same timeframe. Is it incorrect practice?

Original comment by konstant...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2010 at 5:43

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It shouldn't cause an issue if 2 officers apply changes to different sets of 
people.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 22 Feb 2010 at 9:49

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Ok. Thanks. But I sometimes (very rarely) have got unassigned EP for some raid 
members. EPGPWeb is good tool to detect this issue, but I have no idea why it 
happened. I just periodically check EPGPWeb for difference between raid members.

Original comment by konstant...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 6:36

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We are consistently getting this issue at the moment. Every raid someone 
doesn't have their note updated.

-EPGP-
@BASE_GP:300
@DECAY_P:5
@MIN_EP:1000
@EXTRAS_P:100
-EPGP-

Tonight for example, even though the guild announcement announced everyone 
getting the EP, the same person (listed every time) missed 3 awards of 50 EP. 
(Recurring every 15 mins)

Original comment by Zarik...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2010 at 12:02

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Do you have more than one person running EPGP, like one doing the loot and one 
giving out the standby EP?

Original comment by dingochavezz@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 11:28

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There has been 0 ppl on waitlist, and the same person (me) doing the recurring 
award as well as handing out loot.

Original comment by Zarik...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 3:55

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Oooooh oooh.. icing on the cake. I'm the one doing the awards, yet I didn't get 
one of them tonight? Thought it might have had had something to do with people 
zoning at the time but... 

Original comment by Zarik...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 11:02

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A new backend is being designed. I will punt on this until it is released.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 30 Sep 2010 at 10:11

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Thanks for the time ev. It's just becoming very frustrating dealing with it 
with only a small group of people, since I don't think we've had a single raid 
over the 2 week period where it hasn't been an issue. 

Got a timeframe on the new backend?

Original comment by Zarik...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 10:27

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I would say in about 2 months just in time for Cataclysm.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 1 Oct 2010 at 7:20

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Thanks :) Hopefully it resolves some of these issues :)

Original comment by Zarik...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2010 at 7:45

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This is odd.. I myself have never experienced this and our guild has 486 
characters in it right now.

~50 of these have a valid "EP,GP" in the onote.
~350 have a name to link their alt to a main.
The leftovers have some old random note thus are ignored by the mod.

I will say this, I just upgraded my entire computer to some of the best 
hardware (with exception to the video card which already was good) AND the 2-3 
second lag burst I would get during timed awards while in combat have all but 
vanished.  I was shocked that this cleared up so much.  Once in a great while I 
will get a small lag but for the most part it's all gone.

So my question is, do you get a LOT of lag when timed awards are given out? 
Your game freeze up for ~3 seconds.  This might be a cause of award lost.  I 
never experienced lose of awards from my lag but dealing with computers all my 
life, I wouldn't rule this out.

Original comment by black.ca...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2010 at 4:12

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Nope, have never lagged from it so far that I have noticed.

But yeah, we only noticed it as we have such a small pool of people getting 
awarded it at this stage (only 6 or 7 people at a time).

There have been some people in the raid ineligible (have Casual as officer note 
so they should be ignored)

Original comment by Zarik...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2010 at 8:03

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This is obsoleted by the new epgp-6 master/slave architecture.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 2 Dec 2010 at 1:39

• Changed state: Obsolete