A Blockland Glitch I'd only like to share.

[Meta_KnightX]

Okay, so this problem has only happened once but is so weird, that I have to share it.

So I was on my PC, some guy had just friended me and stuff. And later on, he tells me this:

[CHATTER]: Hey, I think there's something wrong with your server. Everytime I log in there, It doesn't seem to spawn anyone.
Meta_KnightX: There's like no one on though
[CHATTER]: I'm on it.

At first I thought he meant that no one was joining and he was the only one. When he said "I'm on it" I thought he meant he was onto inviting his friends to play on my server.

I just continued on.

Later, Va11Jr reported it to me:

Va11Jr: hey, meta. something going on your server, the starting problem, the time clock has stopped because it wont spawn us
Va11Jr: of the starting light

Him being more specific, I figured out that something was wrong.
Interested, I went on, and as it was said, I didn't spawn
I tried making it into the next track, but still didn't spawn.

So I left the minigame. Still didn't spawn.
I try going back to the minigame, and this appears (red text):

It appears that time BROKE.

I restarted my server and it fixed.

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[QuadStorm]

this appears to be happening because of getSimTime() overflowing, which is the time in MS, exceeds 2^31-1 after ~25 days and things get forgeted up

[Conan]

$Sim::Time stores the time in seconds, and as a float, so it may last longer before overflowing.

[Swollow]

$Sim::Time stores the time in seconds, and as a float, so it may last longer before overflowing.

dont do this, floats might be able to in theory store more data but are far more inaccurate

[Kyuande]

You can use mCeil(%num) or mFloor(%num) to display all the numbers (unless it's way too large)

But yeah, the server can only last up to around 25 days before it starts goofing up.

[Meta_KnightX]

But yeah, the server can only last up to around 25 days before it starts goofing up.

Interesting I never knew this.
So this is the case for all servers no matter what then?

[Shift Kitty]

Yup. That's why a lot of games have weekly/bi-weekly maintenance as well.

[Meta_KnightX]

Oh, that's quite weird.

[Ipquarx]

Was your server up for ~a month? Because that tends to happen after around that long.

[Conan]

dont do this, floats might be able to in theory store more data but are far more inaccurate

not really a problem if you only need second-level accuracy (eg slayer seconds to restart)

also what happened to torque storing everything as a string

[portify]

not really a problem if you only need second-level accuracy (eg slayer seconds to restart)

also what happened to torque storing everything as a string

TorqueScript does not store everything as a string, it's just very eager to convert things to strings every time you pass a function argument, return a value from a function or copy variables without math

[Lego lad]

But yeah, the server can only last up to around 25 days before it starts goofing up.

The 24 day bug's little brother

[Meta_KnightX]

Was your server up for ~a month? Because that tends to happen after around that long.

Yes, and appearently that is the first time my server has lasted that long.

[Ravencroft·]

Yeah you really should reset at least once a week. I had to reset my Falling Tiles server every time I hosted it because the mini game always started to get forgety after running for a while.

[weaver123]

Blockland is like an old car, you have to maintain it or it'll sputter out on you.