Help sought on old MP bugs

[AndrewT]

Just dropping in from the Bug Reports forum, guys; I wonder if you can help me with some of your experience. I'm cleaning up some old bug reports, and I don't have a way of testing the MP ones myself. Can you good folks go over some and tell me if they are still known to be a problem under 1.08+ latest beta, definitely not a problem anymore, never were a real problem, or status unknown? Thanks!
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74 : Type: MultiPlayer | Status: NEW | Severity: NORMAL
When around 10 or more people are in the Valkirie.net channel the scroll bar appears. But it appears several centimeters to the right and it kinda blocks the Game info screen. Thread 26336.
Reported In: 1.02 | Correction planned In : | Corrected In :
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278 : Type: Multiplayer | Status: NEW | Severity: MAJOR
whenever you ask to join an alliance of a human controlled country you are automatically rejected. The weird part is that the person never actually gets the diplomat, it just disappears. It works fine if they then turn around and invite you to join, you get the diplomat and can accept or decline. Thread 30941.
Reported In: 1.04 | Correction planned In : | Corrected In :
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281 : Type: Multiplayer | Status: CONFIRMED | Severity: MAJOR
a couple of us had a problem whereby when annexing a country, and gaining their troops, we were unable to do anything with them.
I had annexed Tunisia and therefore got control or their army of 30,000 men, but when I clicked on them I couldn't move them split them, merge them with my own men, or even disband them. Also their moral, which was "weak", didn't ever increase back to normal.
At one point Tunisia rebelled, this "ghost" army lost the battle and were kicked over the border to Algiers. After I had sent a new army into Tunisia to kill the rebels, the "ghost" army came back on their own. Very strange behaviour. Thread 35438.
Reported In: 1.04 | Correction planned In :- | Corrected In :-
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282 : Type: Multiplayer | Status: CONFIRMED | Severity: NORMAL
In a MP game a player can be forced to take automatic loans, even if he has as much as 50d in his treasury, when there are no events and when he has a positive monthly income. Thread 35458.
Reported In: 1.04 | Correction planned In :- | Corrected In :-
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308 : Type: MultiPlayer | Status: NEW | Severity: NORMAL
Diplo-annexed country - cannot move its armies (MP game). Thread 39821.
Reported In: 1.05 | Correction planned In : | Corrected In :

 

[PJL]

281 and 282 are definitely still around.

 

[unmerged(38752)]

74 is definitely gone, but as PJL said 281 and 282 are still around.

 

[Tonioz]

278, 281 and 282 are existed.

1. don`t think 74 existed, but the progress of downloading (green bar) is usually one position lower than it should be, and usually messed up by scrolling.

2. Other thing, when someone selected, and later new player joins. Usually he doesn`t see selected players, who selected before he joined the game. That usually leads that when host press "start", this player just stay at same screen and no start procedure iniatiated. Btw, HoI1 had it fixed, but it stores playernames in the savefile, so player, whose name is matched is automatically force selected.

3. Most annoying problem, that when player leaving game window (mostly by ctd or connection problem), he is often still showed in player list. When the new player joins (or old rejoins), that cause double showing of one of player`s names. It solves by rehost.

4. Downloading is almost always freezing if someone is leaving.

 

[Tonioz]

74 and 278 are definitely gone, but as PJL said 281 and 282 are still around.

278 gone ? I didn`t notice that - you are still auto-rejected if trying to join human alliance.

 

[unmerged(38752)]

278 gone ? I didn`t notice that - you are still auto-rejected if trying to join human alliance.

I edited my post because I realised I read it wrong and truly cannot confirm that it's gone

 

[unmerged(36826)]

yeah 278 is definetly still around

 

[unmerged(2349)]

yeah 278 is definetly still around

Definitely

 

[unmerged(10894)]

What Tonio said. Only bug I haven't encountered is #74.

 

[Slargos]

I haven't encountered the first so I cannot say, but the rest are very much around.

 

[AndrewT]

Thanks guys. I've just added another one in, 308; here's some extra detail from the original thread:

In our MP LAN campaign I recently diplo annexed Luxembourg and Milano, both were one prov countries and both had an army in its territory.

After the annexation their armies changed side according to the rules. However, they werent movable and didnt fight if an enemy entered that province. I tried to disband them but nothing happend. They still were on the map and even in my army list.

Then after reloading the game a week later both armies have disappeared.

 

[Tonioz]

that is bug 281, just later effects described

 

[unmerged(10894)]

It's in any MP game. Ghost armies. Interesting to note that it's always the larger army. I'm not sure if it happens when the diplo-annexee has only one unsplit army though.

That is 308... Tonio got in before me.

 

[Tonioz]

it can happen in this variant as well

 

[unmerged(10915)]

All bugs except 74 really.

 

[Chaingun]

I would say 281 = 308 and I've encountered everyone in latest beta except for 74.

 

[unmerged(6147)]

I recall my latest DA, last Sunday when I DAed the Papal states. They had one army, and it worked fine. It did not become a ghost army. But I remember getting a ghost army when I made a DA in DbD3 a few months back. But that is the only occcurence I remember and I must have DAed surely 20 times these same months.

Very rare bug I say. Apparently there must exist some rare (set of) condition(s) for this to happen.

 

[unmerged(27108)]

I recall my latest DA, last Sunday when I DAed the Papal states. They had one army, and it worked fine. It did not become a ghost army. But I remember getting a ghost army when I made a DA in DbD3 a few months back. But that is the only occcurence I remember and I must have DAed surely 20 times these same months.

Very rare bug I say. Apparently there must exist some rare (set of) condition(s) for this to happen.

It happens to me very often. I played 3 MP game, DA maybe 10 country and had this bug maybe 5 or 6 time.

 

[Slargos]

I recall my latest DA, last Sunday when I DAed the Papal states. They had one army, and it worked fine. It did not become a ghost army. But I remember getting a ghost army when I made a DA in DbD3 a few months back. But that is the only occcurence I remember and I must have DAed surely 20 times these same months.

Very rare bug I say. Apparently there must exist some rare (set of) condition(s) for this to happen.

Not my experience at all.

Seems to me atleast 50% of DAs result in ghost armies. Sometimes they remain on rehost and others not.

 

[unmerged(10915)]

I think its got something to do about the actions you make with that army, such as moving it or disbanding etc..
I usually wait half a year or something before giving the annexed army orders.