Author Topic: RTB Development (Read 381968 times)

A lot of people are telling me things don't work in the recent update but not one single person has provided me with any other details apart from "it doesn't work" despite asking numerous people. I won't be patching anything until someone gets some evidence.

Red_Guy · May 11, 2010, 03:33:46 PM

I had simmilar wierd connection issues just after updating to RTB 3.4. in a nutshell, my dedicated server would constantly freeze on startup with "got bad connected receive event".

So I disabled RTB (rename zip file) and it started just fine, and ran for 24hrs with no issues. The next day I downloaded RTB 3.4 off the website, put the zip file back, and things have been working fine ever since.

based on that, I suspect the auto-update did some kindof wierd corruption with the RTB zip file or mabye some of the settings.

speedyzman13 · May 11, 2010, 08:17:27 PM

Quote from: speedyzman13 on May 09, 2010, 08:21:49 PM

Is there a way to delete/reset my RTB account?

Max4344 · May 11, 2010, 08:20:21 PM

Quote from: Red_Guy on May 11, 2010, 03:33:46 PM

based on that, I suspect the auto-update did some kind of wierd corruption with the RTB zip file or maybe some of the settings.

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Ephialtes · May 12, 2010, 03:49:36 AM

The bad connected receive event is related to TCP/HTTP sim objects not existing by the time the socket they were attached to has disconnected/connected/whatever. I'm certain it wasn't caused by the updater because if there was any sort of transfer corruption the zip would be inaccessible. It was most likely some other coincidence.

I'm still working on getting someone to give me a useful debug of an instance where their server-joining capabilities have been hindered by RTB. I know of one case where any sort of transfer error will stop all downloading in the transfer queue and halt progress.

I'm going to add a "skip" button in v3.5 that users can click if they get bored or experience any errors during their loading which should make anything that crops up more manageable.

A million souls · May 12, 2010, 04:41:59 AM

On the RTB website how do you get the registry to authenicate your BLID?

-Jetz- · May 12, 2010, 08:11:54 AM

Quote from: Ephialtes on May 12, 2010, 03:49:36 AM

I'm going to add a "skip" button in v3.5 that users can click if they get bored or experience any errors during their loading which should make anything that crops up more manageable.

That sounds like it would imply downloading things the long way would be faster and people would click it the instant the loading screen came up.

Ephialtes · May 12, 2010, 08:24:25 AM

The skip button would only be available after 5 minutes of downloading. At that point I'd call it an excessive loading time and people should have the choice to just go ahead and play if they want. The next time they join a server they'll have to endure another 5 minutes which eventually breaks down the list of add-ons they need in order to be up to date.

-Jetz- · May 12, 2010, 09:56:08 AM

What about showing a complete download list on the loading screen? I don't get on Blockland often, so everytime I join a server, it's typically 10+ minutes of "Surely this is the last one... Nope, maybe this one..." You could have a list of add-ons being downloaded, along with file sizes, and possibly even estimated time based on transfer rate. It would make loading a bit less boring.

Ephialtes · May 12, 2010, 10:10:48 AM

The progress bar for RTB takes into account all of the add-ons you need to download. Once it is at 100% you've got all the add-ons.

I don't think I'd be too keen on ruining the minimalism of the loading screen, though.