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Bugs item #2985571, was opened at 2010-04-11 22:59
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Category: GUI
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Ever reveal idea

Initial Comment:
For legions where ever reveal would show opponent's titan, mark it with a small star or something, so that you don't have to right click tons of legions to find it.   If it would show titan with ?, mark it with "?."


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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-11-19 20:52

Message:
Well, yeah, one could do that, however other things (like: solve the
problem that the recruit chit hides the legion height) would be more
needed.

It's not needed to click "tons of legions":

1) On the Game Status window, click any of the player's names. This
displays another small window which shows LOTs of information about that
player - among other things, all his legions (within the limits of what is
known, of course).

They are ordered by value, Titan legion always first.

2) Also, instead of clicking, just have Auto Inspector window open, and
simply move the mouse over legions - that legions content is shown in Auto
Inspector. Handy both for own and opponents legions.

3) There is a feature "legion flyouts". Holding shift or ctrl key shows
some small popups over each legion (the one for all, the other only for own
legions). But this seems to not reliably work for all users, sometimes it
does, sometimes not.... :-/

-Clemens



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Bugs item #3083576, was opened at 2010-10-08 11:10
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Category: Rules
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Tower Teleport Does Not Work

Initial Comment:
Two games in a row now, with preferences set to allow Tower Teleport for sure, Tower Teleport was not allowed for Titans at least when in a tower and 6's were rolled, after turn 1 at least.  Actually, this is very odd.  I just ran a 6 player hotseat game for a test, and Tower Teleport worked for the first couple of turns, and I don't know when or if it would stop working in that case, but it most definitely repeatedly has been a problem late in our games of late, and in fact, it kind of ruins the game rather because this is a very important capability people rely on of course.

I wish I could provide a log, but alas, I cannot find anything.

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-10-08 17:52

Message:
Were those games "problem late in our games of late" also hotseat/local? Or
hosted by somebody else, or run on the Public Game server?

I agree, there is clearly something wrong; normally Help => About should
tell where the log files are written, but even to me (Java 1.6 , java web
start, Colossus names as log directory something like C:/Program
Files/Firefox/%h which is probably not a valid name, might not be writable,
and is not a good place anyway.

This needs investigation.

Could you run it from commandline with the run.bat or run script, with a
logging.properties file?

Besides, it seems client side does not write anything to log related to
"do I search for normal moves only or also teleport moves?".

Would need to add logging for this logic, and/or check which loglevels
need to be set.



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Bugs item #3083576, was opened at 2010-10-08 08:10
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Category: Rules
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Tower Teleport Does Not Work

Initial Comment:
Two games in a row now, with preferences set to allow Tower Teleport for sure, Tower Teleport was not allowed for Titans at least when in a tower and 6's were rolled, after turn 1 at least.  Actually, this is very odd.  I just ran a 6 player hotseat game for a test, and Tower Teleport worked for the first couple of turns, and I don't know when or if it would stop working in that case, but it most definitely repeatedly has been a problem late in our games of late, and in fact, it kind of ruins the game rather because this is a very important capability people rely on of course.

I wish I could provide a log, but alas, I cannot find anything.

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Bugs item #2988969, was opened at 2010-04-18 12:17
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Category: General
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Webstart does not work

Initial Comment:
When starting 0.10.3 (revision 4798) through webstart, I get the setup dialog where I choose Player 1 as human and Player 2 as SimpleAI. Then press New Game. I then get a MasterBoard window and a modal dialog for choosing a color. That one works and I pick "any" color. Then the legion selection pops up. The game freezes. (Noted through redraw events not being handled on both windows.)

Since I can't do anything, it's kind of critical.

I use Java 1.5.0 on Ubuntu 8.04, although I don't think that has much to do with it. I can't give any more clues yet, I'll have to download the sources for that.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-10-08 07:34

Message:
We also have had problems for some time now getting web start to start up
colossus properly.  both on windows and on mac.  it used to work, and i
thought it might have been my mac os upgrade, but a friend with windows
started having the same problem.  it seems to be some sort of permissions
issue.

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Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-05-17 07:30

Message:

Does the problem still exist? If yes, please contact me by email.

-Clemens


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-04-18 14:46

Message:
downloaded sources and didn't have a problem when not using webstart. Both
behaviours are repeatable, but I don't know how to debug webstart.

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Bugs item #3058282, was opened at 2010-09-02 13:36
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Category: GUI
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Assigned to: Dave (rebhuhn)
Summary: findNormalMoves called too early

Initial Comment:

When test playing with 2 humans, the following was displayed:

D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6>cd "D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6\"

D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6>java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Xmx256M -jar Colossus.jar
setupMove
SEVERE: Movement.findNormalMoves() roll < 0
WARNING:
++++++
SCT SocketClientThread Client bla, parseLine(): got Exception java.lang.NullPointerException
null
line=setupMove
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at net.sf.colossus.game.Movement.listNormalMoves(Movement.java:341)
        at net.sf.colossus.game.Movement.listNormalMoves(Movement.java:318)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.listNormalMoves(Client.java:2842)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.legionsNotMoved(Client.java:2871)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.MasterBoard.updateLegionsLeftToMoveText(MasterBoard.java:2817)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.MasterBoard.setupMoveMenu(MasterBoard.java:1591)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.ClientGUI.actOnSetupMove(ClientGUI.java:2299)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.setupMove(Client.java:1961)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.callMethod(SocketClientThread.java:945)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.parseLine(SocketClientThread.java:633)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.readAndParseUntilDone(SocketClientThread.java:427)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.run(SocketClientThread.java:373)
setupMove
tellMovementRoll 4
tellMovementRoll 4

So, movementRoll (in client side game object) is not initialized), resulting in Movement.java:341 in returning a null object for "tuples"

 Set<String> tuples = findNormalMoves(hex, legion, movementRoll,
            findBlock(hex), Constants.NOWHERE, fromHex, ignoreFriends);


This happens, because gui.actOnSetupMove setupMove calls findNormalMoves to calculate some can-move-etc status too early; in above output you can see (from added printlns in setupMove and tellMovementRoll methods) that first setupMove is called on both clients, later tellMovementRoll (thus, if there are AIs, the exception might not appear, but the yielded statuses are most likely wrong, based on previous' players roll).

This is with revision 4920 (plus two printlns added in Client.java).


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>Comment By: Dave (rebhuhn)
Date: 2010-09-09 15:50

Message:
Null pointer exception occurred because was attempting to update the status
bar with the number of blocked moves before the die roll was determined. 
Added flag so status bar update knows if the die roll is available and does
not update details if it is not

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Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-02 13:40

Message:

Assigning it to Dave.



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Bugs item #2884952, was opened at 2009-10-23 22:50
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Category: GUI
Group: None
Status: Open
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: GetPlayers: disabled player names

Initial Comment:

If one has played a variant with e.g. 12 players and changes to one with 6, the names and types in the now disabled (greyed out) player combo boxes still have some influence.

Whether they should be set to None or kept for potential future use, may be a matter of taste; but what is not ok is following:

1) the validation for duplicate player names refuses to play, if e.g. disabled player7 is "Tom" and one of the enabled players is Tom as well.

2) When one then sets e.g. player 4, 5 and 6 to None, and starts the game, game will anyway start with 6 players - using 7, 8 and 9 as the other 3 players.

This is in r4597, but most likely also still/ already in release 0.9.3.


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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-09 20:14

Message:
Both problems resolved in r4924.

Inactive names and types are "kept for potential future use".

Keeping open until visible in a release, as uusal...


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Feature Requests item #3059850, was opened at 2010-09-05 18:05
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Augustin Ku (augustinku)
>Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: balanced towers in 5 player games

Initial Comment:
The most balanced start in a 5 player game is to have no players in tower 100.
Right now a player in tower 600 can roll a 4 and take a creature next to tower 100.
So not only do you move last, you can't move out of the tower in all 3 directions.

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-09 20:05

Message:

Resolved in r4923:

If only 5 (or 4) of 6 towers are used, we would want to make sure that at
least either first or last (100 or 600) stay unused, because player in
tower 100 would even be further in disadvantage since player in 600 might
block one of his 3 possible pathways (hexes 41 or 42).

For 12, I think it's like the following:
If there is free towers, but more than half of towers are used ( => there
is a case where two neighbored towers will be used).

Generalized, as it happens, it seems this rule applies also to 6  ( 4 > 3,
and 3 = 6/2 ).

For Abyssal9, the tower placement and their numbers are so odd, I don't
even attempt to find a logic there...

So, for 6 or 12 towers, and less than <nr of towers> players, but more
than half of towers used, randomly (50/50) keep either first or last tower
unoccupied.

As usual, keeping it open until it's visible to users in a release/public
build.


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-09-05 19:18

Message:
This would also apply in a 4 player balanced tower game with players in
both towers 6 and 1.
Maybe there should be a don't use both both towers 6 and 1 when less than
6 players button. (I am not sure how that would translate to other
variants, maybe don't use highest and lowest unless all slots are full?)

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Feature Requests item #3059850, was opened at 2010-09-05 15:05
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Augustin Ku (augustinku)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: balanced towers in 5 player games

Initial Comment:
The most balanced start in a 5 player game is to have no players in tower 100.
Right now a player in tower 600 can roll a 4 and take a creature next to tower 100.
So not only do you move last, you can't move out of the tower in all 3 directions.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2010-09-05 16:18

Message:
This would also apply in a 4 player balanced tower game with players in
both towers 6 and 1.
Maybe there should be a don't use both both towers 6 and 1 when less than
6 players button. (I am not sure how that would translate to other
variants, maybe don't use highest and lowest unless all slots are full?)

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Feature Requests item #3059850, was opened at 2010-09-05 08:05
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Augustin Ku (augustinku)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: balanced towers in 5 player games

Initial Comment:
The most balanced start in a 5 player game is to have no players in tower 100.
Right now a player in tower 600 can roll a 4 and take a creature next to tower 100.
So not only do you move last, you can't move out of the tower in all 3 directions.

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Bugs item #3029264, was opened at 2010-07-14 05:49
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Category: AI
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Duplicate
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Todd (daitod)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: AI lets clock run out to own demise

Initial Comment:
I was victorious against the AI when it attacked me with it's Titan legion. After some fighting, the AI resorted to surrounding its Titan and not moving. I retreated and allowed the turn clock to run out, winning the battle and the game.


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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-02 22:10

Message:

yep, this is a known (one of the many) weaknesses of the AIs. Already
reported earlier in:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1176818&group_id=1939&atid=101939

However this is not so easy to fix "isolated" (without changing the AI in
general) so this is not likely to be fixed in near future :-(

Closing this one here, since it is a duplicate of 1176818.


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Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-07-14 13:58

Message:

yes, this is a known problem:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1176818&group_id=1939&atid=101939

The AI has plenty of weaknesses, and there is nobody interested enough in
it to improve it; I for my part, concentrate rather on the public game
server so that humans can find other human opponents.

-Clemens


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Bugs item #3014520, was opened at 2010-06-10 23:08
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Category: GUI
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 2
Private: No
Submitted By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: No eventLegion found... to remove creature ...

Initial Comment:
During stresstest now repeatedly were shown those:

10.06.2010 22:57:55: Starting game #8 as variant Default
java -ea -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Dnet.sf.colossus.forceViewBoard=true -Dnet.sf.colossus.stressTestRounds
=1 -Xmx256M -jar Colossus.jar -i6  -q -g -S -d 1 --variant Default
WARNING: No eventLegion found for legion Br05-Brown to remove creature Angel
WARNING: No eventLegion found for legion Bu04-Blue to remove creature Angel
WARNING: No eventLegion found for legion Bu06-Blue to remove creature Angel

Probably this situation has been there all the time; only that during debugging some other problem (after changing RevealEvent to use legions instead of just markerIds), I added warnings as "else" cases if neither attacker nor defender fulfilled the condition and those else cases now apply.

This might be a totally "ok" case that no event is supposed to be found but it would be good to investigate/verify this.


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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-02 22:05

Message:
Fixed in r4921. 

It's for removing the angel from donor legion, and for that donor legion
there is indeed no "related event".

Closing this, as probably nobody else cares about this...



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Bugs item #3033654, was opened at 2010-07-23 19:28
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Category: GUI
Group: None
Status: Open
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Battleboard Window

Initial Comment:
Moving / resizing Battleboard - does not save position or window adjustments

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-02 22:02

Message:

Right.

Actually there was code to restore the location but it never saved it...

Corrected in r4922, now remembering both location and size.

Leaving open until next release, as usual.


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Bugs item #3058282, was opened at 2010-09-02 20:36
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Category: GUI
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
>Assigned to: Dave (rebhuhn)
Summary: findNormalMoves called too early

Initial Comment:

When test playing with 2 humans, the following was displayed:

D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6>cd "D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6\"

D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6>java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Xmx256M -jar Colossus.jar
setupMove
SEVERE: Movement.findNormalMoves() roll < 0
WARNING:
++++++
SCT SocketClientThread Client bla, parseLine(): got Exception java.lang.NullPointerException
null
line=setupMove
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at net.sf.colossus.game.Movement.listNormalMoves(Movement.java:341)
        at net.sf.colossus.game.Movement.listNormalMoves(Movement.java:318)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.listNormalMoves(Client.java:2842)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.legionsNotMoved(Client.java:2871)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.MasterBoard.updateLegionsLeftToMoveText(MasterBoard.java:2817)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.MasterBoard.setupMoveMenu(MasterBoard.java:1591)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.ClientGUI.actOnSetupMove(ClientGUI.java:2299)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.setupMove(Client.java:1961)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.callMethod(SocketClientThread.java:945)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.parseLine(SocketClientThread.java:633)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.readAndParseUntilDone(SocketClientThread.java:427)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.run(SocketClientThread.java:373)
setupMove
tellMovementRoll 4
tellMovementRoll 4

So, movementRoll (in client side game object) is not initialized), resulting in Movement.java:341 in returning a null object for "tuples"

 Set<String> tuples = findNormalMoves(hex, legion, movementRoll,
            findBlock(hex), Constants.NOWHERE, fromHex, ignoreFriends);


This happens, because gui.actOnSetupMove setupMove calls findNormalMoves to calculate some can-move-etc status too early; in above output you can see (from added printlns in setupMove and tellMovementRoll methods) that first setupMove is called on both clients, later tellMovementRoll (thus, if there are AIs, the exception might not appear, but the yielded statuses are most likely wrong, based on previous' players roll).

This is with revision 4920 (plus two printlns added in Client.java).


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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-09-02 20:40

Message:

Assigning it to Dave.



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Bugs item #3058282, was opened at 2010-09-02 20:36
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Category: GUI
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: findNormalMoves called too early

Initial Comment:

When test playing with 2 humans, the following was displayed:

D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6>cd "D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6\"

D:\katzer\stuff\trunk6>java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Xmx256M -jar Colossus.jar
setupMove
SEVERE: Movement.findNormalMoves() roll < 0
WARNING:
++++++
SCT SocketClientThread Client bla, parseLine(): got Exception java.lang.NullPointerException
null
line=setupMove
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at net.sf.colossus.game.Movement.listNormalMoves(Movement.java:341)
        at net.sf.colossus.game.Movement.listNormalMoves(Movement.java:318)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.listNormalMoves(Client.java:2842)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.legionsNotMoved(Client.java:2871)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.MasterBoard.updateLegionsLeftToMoveText(MasterBoard.java:2817)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.MasterBoard.setupMoveMenu(MasterBoard.java:1591)
        at net.sf.colossus.gui.ClientGUI.actOnSetupMove(ClientGUI.java:2299)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.Client.setupMove(Client.java:1961)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.callMethod(SocketClientThread.java:945)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.parseLine(SocketClientThread.java:633)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.readAndParseUntilDone(SocketClientThread.java:427)
        at net.sf.colossus.client.SocketClientThread.run(SocketClientThread.java:373)
setupMove
tellMovementRoll 4
tellMovementRoll 4

So, movementRoll (in client side game object) is not initialized), resulting in Movement.java:341 in returning a null object for "tuples"

 Set<String> tuples = findNormalMoves(hex, legion, movementRoll,
            findBlock(hex), Constants.NOWHERE, fromHex, ignoreFriends);


This happens, because gui.actOnSetupMove setupMove calls findNormalMoves to calculate some can-move-etc status too early; in above output you can see (from added printlns in setupMove and tellMovementRoll methods) that first setupMove is called on both clients, later tellMovementRoll (thus, if there are AIs, the exception might not appear, but the yielded statuses are most likely wrong, based on previous' players roll).

This is with revision 4920 (plus two printlns added in Client.java).


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Bugs item #3043394, was opened at 2010-08-12 03:21
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>Status: Deleted
>Resolution: Duplicate
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Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't start a new game

Initial Comment:
I downloaded the zip file and launched Colossus.jar.  I get as far as the Game Setup screen.  Then, when I click New Game, I get this error:

Could not create server side socket.
Configure networking in OS, or check that no previous Colossus instance got stuck and is blocking the socket.
Got IOException: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection

I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-08-12 08:46

Message:
Deleting this, as same item was created three times.

Follow-up will be done one the one remaining one.


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Bugs item #3043473, was opened at 2010-08-12 07:08
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Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
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Summary: Can't start a new game

Initial Comment:
I downloaded the zip file and launched Colossus.jar.  I get as far as the Game Setup screen.  Then, when I click New Game, I get this error:

Could not create server side socket.
Configure networking in OS, or check that no previous Colossus instance got stuck and is blocking the socket.
Got IOException: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection

I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-08-12 08:45

Message:
Deleting this, as there were 3 requests created for same issue.

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Bugs item #3043368, was opened at 2010-08-12 02:04
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>Category: Network
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't start a new game

Initial Comment:
I downloaded the zip file and launched Colossus.jar.  I get as far as the Game Setup screen.  Then, when I click New Game, I get this error:

Could not create server side socket.
Configure networking in OS, or check that no previous Colossus instance got stuck and is blocking the socket.
Got IOException: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection

I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-08-12 08:43

Message:
This happens already the very first time, right? I.e. never before run
Colossus?

Which operating system and version?

The message sounds like as if the network configuration/settings on your
computer are unusual / different from what most computers have by default
nowadays.

In particular, normally there is defined an address "localhost" with IP
address 127.0.0.1. Colossus uses a socket even if playing locally. Thus it
requests a "server socket" from the operating system to listen for "clients
to connect there" and this requesting failed.

Is your computer connected to internet or did you download somewhere else
and copied  it with USB stick or something?

One thing you can try, is starting the Web Client. This will not require a
server socket, but just a "I want to connect to some server process
somewhere else".

Does this work?

-Clemens


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Bugs item #3043473, was opened at 2010-08-12 04:08
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Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't start a new game

Initial Comment:
I downloaded the zip file and launched Colossus.jar.  I get as far as the Game Setup screen.  Then, when I click New Game, I get this error:

Could not create server side socket.
Configure networking in OS, or check that no previous Colossus instance got stuck and is blocking the socket.
Got IOException: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection

I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

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Bugs item #3043394, was opened at 2010-08-12 00:21
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Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
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Summary: Can't start a new game

Initial Comment:
I downloaded the zip file and launched Colossus.jar.  I get as far as the Game Setup screen.  Then, when I click New Game, I get this error:

Could not create server side socket.
Configure networking in OS, or check that no previous Colossus instance got stuck and is blocking the socket.
Got IOException: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection

I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

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Bugs item #3043368, was opened at 2010-08-11 23:04
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Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
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Summary: Can't start a new game

Initial Comment:
I downloaded the zip file and launched Colossus.jar.  I get as far as the Game Setup screen.  Then, when I click New Game, I get this error:

Could not create server side socket.
Configure networking in OS, or check that no previous Colossus instance got stuck and is blocking the socket.
Got IOException: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection

I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

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Bugs item #3033654, was opened at 2010-07-23 16:28
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Category: GUI
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Battleboard Window

Initial Comment:
Moving / resizing Battleboard - does not save position or window adjustments

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Bugs item #3009288, was opened at 2010-05-31 00:35
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Category: Rules
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>Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: no points when defending 7 turns

Initial Comment:
I haven't found clear doc in the rules - I own the board game.  I don't know if this is every time, but I defend against one AI opponent and hold out for 7 turns until combat ends and my score does not go up.  I was doing this against the RationalAI, which seems to also have a bug to not advance and protect its Titan with 3 cyclops sometimes, for example.  The scoring issues has happened a lot and frustrated me, but again, I'm not sure if it is in the rules.

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-07-20 14:06

Message:
Closing it now.


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Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-05-31 09:37

Message:
Paragraph 10.5 states:
"If the battle has not ended before the defender's eight Maneuver Phase,
... . This is referred to as a time-loss, and the defender receives no
points for the victory."

That the AIs sometime sit back with their Titan instead of attacking, is a
known problem.

BR, -Clemens

PS: 

I'll leave this open for few weeks so that you can see the answer and then
I will close/delete it.


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Bugs item #3029264, was opened at 2010-07-14 05:49
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Category: AI
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Todd (daitod)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: AI lets clock run out to own demise

Initial Comment:
I was victorious against the AI when it attacked me with it's Titan legion. After some fighting, the AI resorted to surrounding its Titan and not moving. I retreated and allowed the turn clock to run out, winning the battle and the game.


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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-07-14 13:58

Message:

yes, this is a known problem:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1176818&group_id=1939&atid=101939

The AI has plenty of weaknesses, and there is nobody interested enough in
it to improve it; I for my part, concentrate rather on the public game
server so that humans can find other human opponents.

-Clemens


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Bugs item #3029264, was opened at 2010-07-13 22:49
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Category: AI
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Submitted By: Todd (daitod)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: AI lets clock run out to own demise

Initial Comment:
I was victorious against the AI when it attacked me with it's Titan legion. After some fighting, the AI resorted to surrounding its Titan and not moving. I retreated and allowed the turn clock to run out, winning the battle and the game.


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Bugs item #3026206, was opened at 2010-07-07 10:35
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Category: Rules
Group: None
Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Summary: Player should get a chance to withdraw after combat

Initial Comment:
With both of the 0.10.4 betas, if you have an engagement that gets resolved and no possible recruit afterwards, you are not given a chance to withdraw from the game. In the past there were auto settings for players that never wanted to withdraw.
While it is reasonable to skip the mustering confirmation if there were not engagements and no possible musters, because the player could have made that decision in the movement phase with the same set of information, that isn't true when there are engagements. A player may base their decision on whether or not to withdraw based on the result of an engagement, and the fact that they have no possible musters shouldn't prevent them from having that option.
My suggestion would be to put the auto flag back, but only wait if there was an engagement when it is off. (Unlike previously where it always waited.)

-- 
Bruno

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>Comment By: Clemens Katzer (cleka)
Date: 2010-07-07 11:16

Message:
My suggestion would be:

When battle is complete, do not automatically close battle map window
immediately.
Or, have a checkbox down there: "automatically close when battle over".

That would be useful in many respects.

( Right now it is also annoying on web server when final battle is over,
battle map closes and game terminates and close connection. )

So, those who want to possibly withdraw, could uncheck the checkbox, and
in the case
of then do the withdraw, instead of just closing the battle map.

How does that sound?


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