Players are complaining about the arbitrary side change at the start of the game.

[CCCP84]

It is very strange, but for the few last days the players have been complaining to me that after the game started, the side they chose was changed.
Various people complained. The problem may have occurred after the last update.

I created the game. My side hasn't changed.
I had a suspicion that for me a random side for the players was displayed, but for them the side was selected.
In addition, I saw that one player had France selected, although the settings did not allow France to be selected.

All this was with the autoteam function and RA2 mode enabled. Perhaps this has some effect? I don't know.

[CCCP84]

Today again player complained about this problem.

[HPF]

The last 3-4 days it has been like that. It doesn't change side, it just goes back to Random. Very annoying.

Edited March 18, 2023 by HPF

[Grant]

Is anyone able to provide some steps to reproduce this consistently? 

[CCCP84]

13 hours ago, Grant said:

Is anyone able to provide some steps to reproduce this consistently? 

I got the impression that information about the choice of a side by the player is not always transmitted to my cncnet client. and for me, as a host, "random" continues to be displayed near the player.
When I press start, the player's side changes according to the value that was displayed to me as the host, as if I had changed it forcibly.

The player asked me, as a host, to choose a certain side for him. When I do this, the side does not change.
that is, the mechanism is such that when the game starts, the sides change to those that were displayed for the host. In turn, the player's choice of side does not always affect how it is displayed to the host.

perhaps the problem appeared with the advent of the parameters ???Alies ???Soviets.

[Ra2Nub]

I don't think this is a recent issue... the problem is that when you pick a side your client immediately updates it, but for the host that does not occur until many seconds later. If the host starts before this update happen the old side will be used. This may be fixable by making the client side only update once it also did for host.

A similar thing happens with ready. You are ready but the host whines at you to ready for a few more seconds.

Edited March 19, 2023 by Ra2Nub

[HPF]

36 minutes ago, Ra2Nub said:

I don't think this is a recent issue... the problem is that when you pick a side your client immediately updates it, but for the host that does not occur until many seconds later. If the host starts before this update happen the old side will be used. 

It's a recent issue. I pick America, after 5-15 second it will go back to Random. I pick America again and it goes back to Random again.  I can do it for a third and fourth and fifth time and it will go back to Random every time.

[Ra2Nub]

1 hour ago, HPF said:

It's a recent issue. I pick America, after 5-15 second it will go back to Random. I pick America again and it goes back to Random again.  I can do it for a third and fourth and fifth time and it will go back to Random every time.

Can't say personally I suffered from this issue yet then, in the way you describe it. When I change to "korea" I just remain as korea. Maybe a connectivity related problem between joiner and host or something.

[Ra2Nub]

Okay I just had an internal/serious error in tsunami which people seem to complain about as well. Can confirm now from my side too that I am experiencing crashes

Edited March 19, 2023 by Ra2Nub

[Sam-I-am]

Here's my experience...
Yesterday, I was hosting, random spots was checked, but one of the players was able to pick a spot.
I thought it may be a sync/lag issue, so I waited a couple seconds and it didn't change, until I unchecked and rechecked the option.

Not a big deal, but it may be related to what other players are reporting.

BTW, although rare, that wasn't the first time something like that has happened, and I don't think it's a very recent issue.
I've experienced things like that a few times before the most recent updates.

Edited March 20, 2023 by Sam-I-am

[CCCP84]

[Ra2Nub]

Crashed another time in Tsunami. Also, an other enemy suddenly left as well, probably crashed too. Both crashes so far happens in navi maps. 

https://i.imgur.com/p1qjkti.png

I never crashed prior to lately.

Edited March 23, 2023 by Ra2Nub

[CCCP84]

This problem is not about crashes. Thats other. Impossible to select side.

[bbglas007]

The client just lags. Whenever you change a setting, it didn't register until seconds later sometimes. I can't see a pattern but I have always known it to lag and be unreliable to input