Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-28T18:19:52+02:00

There is another fix. Please report again if it happens again (with details, exact words, time, planet id, players involved,....)

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 28 Aug 2013, 18:19

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-28T17:51:51+02:00

I did this on planet 47, i'm not sure when.

Statistics: Posted by Dr_Brackman — 28 Aug 2013, 17:51

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-28T17:49:27+02:00

Need planet uid and time.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 28 Aug 2013, 17:49

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-28T17:47:32+02:00

So to carry out the free-win glitch, you start by defending a planet that's being attacked. In fact, I think it could work the other way around as well, but that doesn't matter.

As soon as the Forged Alliance window opens, you force close it with Task Manager. And that's it - you're done. The attack on that planet is cancelled, a victory is added to your profile and you get credits. I don't know any more than that.

Statistics: Posted by Dr_Brackman — 28 Aug 2013, 17:47

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-27T19:15:43+02:00

Of course, I'm still testing. I can confirm it it's not map reliant though. But I'll give you specifics when it's done. The major drawback of this glitch is that it does take awhile for the pay off.

Statistics: Posted by Anaryl — 27 Aug 2013, 19:15

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-27T18:43:31+02:00

I think I've fixed most of the issues about it.

Can you please retest it extensively and give me proper reports/description/time/planet uid/player involved, the whole thing is it happens again?

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 27 Aug 2013, 18:43

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-27T16:44:18+02:00

Yes I can replicate this successfully - to an extent.

I would like to thank personally all the people who insist on playing gw like its ranked, making it very difficult to test if this works at higher ranks. Everytime I have to scrounge 20 victories with this bug to test if captains can use it) is 20 victories or more from you people.

First of all, it comes from abusing the cancel function.

It's effectiveness will vary based on rank - i.e very effective for privates, not effective for high rankers in some respects.

It will also vary whether the attack is defense, an attack intercept. The planets control %age will also matter, determining whether the attack will cause a territory gain. High ranking players were not able, thus far as I could test, intercept attacks on held planets using this exploit.

more to come

Statistics: Posted by Anaryl — 27 Aug 2013, 16:44

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-27T16:28:33+02:00

Game.log from both side after it happens would help massively.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 27 Aug 2013, 16:28

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-27T16:22:35+02:00

Alrighty then,

So it starts with you, attacking a planet. Any one - it's not one planet that's glitched.

And then a match starts, but it gets stuck on the yellow screen where it says "connecting to player" (or something like that).
It stays on this until either you cancel it or the defender does.

If this happens ~5 times, the defender automatically defends the planet, and your attack is gone.

I will read the thread on trying to get a report and then try to get one on what happens.

Statistics: Posted by Dr_Brackman — 27 Aug 2013, 16:22

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-25T21:06:23+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
If you don't tell me what is happening on the attacker side, how am I supposed to fix it?

I was waiting for an attack poped up with updating faf and gw then game cancelled, then updating again game cancelled, fa is already running then i was in a game.

Statistics: Posted by Reddev32 — 25 Aug 2013, 21:06

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-25T20:58:28+02:00

brainwashed was the attacker for our test

Statistics: Posted by Supremegod — 25 Aug 2013, 20:58

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-25T20:53:52+02:00

If you don't tell me what is happening on the attacker side, how am I supposed to fix it?

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 25 Aug 2013, 20:53

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-25T20:46:37+02:00

I got the reverse stuff. When I tried to defend planet, the match was canceled (pop-up window said so) before even launching FA (not by me). It might have been attacker's choice but I somehow doubt it.
Happened on planet number 25 around 20:30.
Tried it 5 times in the row, untill we won the match. I thought it was fair trade, because, they lost nothing but 200 credits, and if I gave up on defending they would have claimed the planet for free, and THAT would be a really bad BUG abuse. Defending just kept the current state of affairs.

@edit Same guy persistant problem, he attacked again, so i defended again hoping for miracle to occur and defense being possible. Instantly after FA started up it canceled the match saying that attacker left the game (2 pop-up windows). Defence was unsuccesfull (1st try).
Game around 20:51, log 2.

Statistics: Posted by Wroniec — 25 Aug 2013, 20:46

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-25T20:51:27+02:00

log of game cancelled twice,
Fa is currently running.

I dont think there anythink else to add for gw that is
Mine was on the side of attacking

Statistics: Posted by Reddev32 — 25 Aug 2013, 20:37

Re: Annoying defence action being cancelled

2013-08-25T19:10:33+02:00

tested to replicate this, something very weird:
we both said that we didn't cancel, but both of us got the "The game was cancelled" notice

planet 31, about 19:00 german time,
gw name: PowerShell-121

Statistics: Posted by Myxir — 25 Aug 2013, 19:10