Getting ingame messages from other games

[Omen]

I was playing an FFA game, the other day, against AIs and an unspecified human enemy (lol). The unspecified human enemy had resigned and I was finishing off the AIs. After pressing end turn, I waited for the AIs to play. The server was busy and I decided to open another game.

When playing in this other game, the AIs starting responding in the FFA one. I lost a city, and I got the AI taunt as a message in the game I was currently in! Weird

[SnotlinG]

Hello Omen,

Did you have two browser windows open, or or only one?

[KGB]

I've seen the same problem but in games with no AI's (just human players).

It appears to happen when I open game X and finish my turn. Then I am taken back to the account page. I click on game Y and start playing turns there. Then one of my teammates in game X sends a message and I get it in game Y (note that if I go back and open game X it's there also).

KGB

[SnotlinG]

Ok, will see if I can re-create this...

[Omen]

Hello Omen,

Did you have two browser windows open, or or only one?

One window Sir!

[Moonknight]

I experienced this a couple of weeks ago as well...

[SnotlinG]

But as I understand it, this is the game-chat you receive? I.e. not the private messages that can be sent from outside the game?

[KGB]

Correct. You get it in the game chat window.

Not sure whether you use push (server to client) or pull (client polls server) to get in game chat messages. My guess is you use push. The server sees KGB is logged in and so pushes an in game chat message to the client. The client sees I am in the middle of a turn and displays the chat message/blinks the chat message icon. There is probably no check to see which game I am in and make sure the chat message matches the game.

KGB

[SnotlinG]

KGB I suspect your guess is almost 100% correct
I´ll have a look

[SnotlinG]

Issue found and fixed from 0.92 and onwards.

Good news is that the bug never sends messages to the wrong player, only to the same player but to the wrong game so to say