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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: April 3, 2016

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RESET BUG THAT STOPS PLANET DATA BEING SAVED PROVES ELUSIVE

by Hazed

In the last few weeks an intermittent bug has sprung up which can affect the way the game saves out its data when it closes down for the daily reset.

We’ve had occasional reports from planet owners that some of their data is not being saved.

What’s happening is that something is causing the game to crash occasionally while it goes through its close down procedure, so it fails to complete the close down process.

Alan has put some code in to monitor what is happening, and is narrowing it down to try and find the exact point at which the game is falling over – but in typical Murphy’s Law fashion, in the last week or so the crash hasn’t happened! (That makes it slightly more frequent than the last bug of this nature, which only happened 11 times in five years. On its 11th appearance, Alan was waiting with a large hammer and crushed it to death.)

He will continue to monitor and as soon as he gets enough info he will be able to zero in on the right part of the code to fix the crash bug.

Meanwhile, if you lose money because something is not saved please email feedback@ibgames.com and ask for compensation. Include a capture of your balances before the reset (or when you log off for the night) and one after the reset. Don’t forget to put “Fed2” somewhere in the subject line to avoid the spam filters.

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