Constantly disconnecting in PVP

[Dm]

Okay. Thanks a lot, Zanz.

[zanzarino]

http://www.elementsthegame.com/connections.html also updated.

There is no direct links between server and database anymore.

[dragonsdemesne]

Dm1321 and I just got three games done for league play.  A few times we had a failure to connect in the first place (it said it was looking for alternate routes to server, and we just got stuck on waiting) but when we got in, we were okay.  We had a few timeouts, but we didn't get any of the 'you are going to lose in 10 seconds' stuff that was happening 100% of the time before.

[bripod]

ITR and I were able to play w/o desync but I did have the little  !  icon pop up but we were able to play the game out. Thanks Zanz.

[antiaverage]

Thank you Zanzarino, everything seems to be going okay now. Does the fact that there are no direct links between server and database anymore increase any risks for cheating or desync? Or is this instead just reducing load?

[Keeps]

It's a topography change for load balancing most likely anti-average, as long as they are stored in the same data center and his backend connection methods use connection pooling, timeouts aren't too short, and the connection method is asynchronous, there is no risk of additional desync, there should actually be less as CPUs shouldn't fall short on connection threads as often on the front end.  As long as the connections are in the same data center there is no increased risk of cheating.

[antiaverage]

That makes sense to me, thanks Keeps.

[dragonsdemesne]

I've been playing a few pvp games this weekend, and once a connection is established, it's been fairly stable for me.  What I have had difficulty with is connecting in the first place; I've had a lot of times where both players will be stuck on the waiting screen, or the game will say something like 'could not find a connection to the server, looking for alternate routes' and then never actually find one.  Reloading the game seems to help for the next game or two, but then the same thing happens.

[zanzarino]

I've been playing a few pvp games this weekend, and once a connection is established, it's been fairly stable for me.  What I have had difficulty with is connecting in the first place; I've had a lot of times where both players will be stuck on the waiting screen, or the game will say something like 'could not find a connection to the server, looking for alternate routes' and then never actually find one.  Reloading the game seems to help for the next game or two, but then the same thing happens.

I am about to make some changes in 1.326 to also improve the pvp matching.

[dragonsdemesne]

Sounds good to me.  Do you mean that you will make it more likely to connect to an opponent, or do you mean that in pvp1/2 it will try to match people of more similar ratings?

[ginandtonic]

I'm bumping this topic. I have played only one PVP2 game in each of the last three days because each one has given me the notice that I have lost connection and I will lose in 10...9...8, etc. 

I have the most recent version of Flash installed, using Firefox.  My internet connection is stable.  Is anyone else getting dropped by the server?

[Submachine]

The autoloss-bug is back. How did we fix it last time? And how could it come back if we fixed it?