In every game on terra.snellman.net, the income phase (phase I) happens before the cult bonuses phase (phase III) which, according to the original TM rules, is not correct.

For instance, in the game
http://terra.snellman.net/game/dec4/max-row=136
Riverwalkers gain priest (phase I) and unlock new terrain type (green), but this decision depends on where Cultists will actually dig (phase III from previous turn).

After the last player X has picked a color during setup (expansion factions), the first initial building by the first player Y is wrongly attributed to X in the logfile. Game flow is not affected.

Example from game stans135:

alchemists 20 VP 15 C 3 W 0 P 5/7/0 PW 1/1/0/0 setup
dragonlords 20 VP 15 C 3 W 0 P 4/4/0 PW 2/0/0/0 setup
dragonlords 20 VP 15 C 3 W 0 P 4/4/0 PW 2/0/0/0 pick-color brown. build E3
fakirs 20 VP 15 C 3 W 0 P 7/5/0 PW 1/0/0/1 build D5

The "build E3" is actually an action by the first player (in this game: Auren).

Hey Juho,

Are you open to reviewing a pull request implementing a new feature?

I'd really like the ability to step through the logs of past games (including, especially, those of the the top tournament players) and have the board update move by move.

At the moment, I don't see a way in the http://terra.snellman.net/data/events/ json files to tell which map a game is played on. This would be a useful bit of information that (I hope) wouldn't be too hard or space-intensive to add, and it would help me improve the data from my statistics scripts :). (If it's already there somewhere and I haven't found it, please point me to the right place.)

'Show Result' in the Planning tab gets stuck if you try to pass bon1 if bon1 is not currently available. I want to be able to assume it will be available by the time I pass (so, unless it's the current move) and keep going with the simulation.

I was in a two player game "1221" when the admin/creater of the game was dropped out due to his 12h time limit.
After that I had no change to end the game only the using "resign", that gave me a bad mark
(at least in my opinion) because I haven't quit the game or was dropped out. I simply had no other change.

terra-mystica-spiel.de has been down for quite a while (months?). Can we replace the faction info links with links to gaming-strategy.com?

Alchemists: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/faction-strategy-alchemists/
Auren: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/faction-strategy-auren/
Chaos Magicians: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/chaos-magicians/
Cultists: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/cultists/
Darklings: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/darklings/
Dwarves: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/dwarves/
Engineers: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/engineers/
Fakirs: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/fakirs/
Giants: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/giants/
Halflings: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/halflings/
Mermaids: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/mermaids/
Nomads: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/nomads/
Swarmlings: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/swarmlings/
Witches: http://www.gaming-strategy.com/board-games/terra-mystica/faction-strategy/witches/

Expansion links can continue to live where they do. I'd be happy to help you make this change with signoff and a bit of guidance!

/list-games has a payload of about 100 bytes per game. As I am editing the source for the tmtools Chrome extension, I find myself wanting to query whether I have a move to make more often, but not wanting to unduly burden the server. It would be handy if there was an endpoint that returned a single true/false value to answer this question.

Hey,

The following default options are not documented in usage.org:

• strict-leech
• strict-darkling-sh
• strict-chaosmagician-sh
• errata-cultist-power

There's been a couple changes to the site (adding Fjords v1.0 for example) that aren't reflected on the repository.

This may be intentional, but it jumped out at me. On the active games list, if a game is waiting for players to make leech decisions at the end of the round, then the "Waiting for" column has a blank field. Maybe just put something like "pre-scoring leech" in that field, or abbreviated names of both/all factions pending a decision?

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1758810/new-starting-vps-base-game-map

Many values specific to terra.snellman.net are inlined throughout the code. Would a PR breaking these out be entertained?

Scenario:

• I want to get the BON of the other player in a 1on1 situation but I have no other possible actions or do not want to use any other actions
• I use the 'done' command to pass to the other player
• It is now the other players turn who also uses 'done' to pass the turn back

The current scenario is currently unfolding in one of my games (see 0). Maybe I missed a part in the rules but it seems that the 'done' command can be abused to skip your own turn in order to get the BON of a player who'd pass after you (or for other shenanigans). Is this intended? Can I tell the player that this is a bug and he should just pass?

I guess that the recent change at terra.snellman.net which enabled IPv6 incidentally downgraded GMails SPF rating from PASS to NEUTRAL. I don't know much about SPF but I think it is probably caused by a (missing filter)0 or the like. The problem might cause e-mails sent by terra.snellman.net to be marked as spam (as it happened to me but I can only tell for GMail).

While this does not really concern the terra-mystica code I hope it is alright that I'm still reporting it here.

Best regards,
David

When creating a private game, you have to specify at least two users on two lines.

I wanted to start a game with a friend, and didn't understand why it didn't validate when I just entered their username.

I realized that I had to enter myself as well. It would be much more intuitive it it prefilled my name (still allowing me to remove it if I wish to create a game where only others would play.)

Hi jsnell! I think I found a small bug, or let's say, a scenario where I think the website was intended to behave differently. Below is a description; perhaps you agree! I hope it'll be fast to fix if you decide to. Thanks!

Description

Sometimes in the "your active games" tab, the column "waiting for" doesn't list the faction whose move the game is waiting for.

For example, in this game, all factions have passed round 4. One faction needs to make a decision on leeching before we can go to Phase III cult bonuses.

For all players in this game, in "your active games", the column "waiting for" is empty.
(The column "status" behaves as expected: for the active player, it shows "your turn", and for the waiting players, it's empty.)

Suggested solution

The column "waiting for" should always list the faction name who the game is currently waiting for, i.e. the faction that blocks the game, even if it's only by holding out on a leech decision.

Error in command 'start_planning': Died at ledger.pm line 71.

This error occurs when planning after passing and waiting for other players to pass.

Proposal: For each player, build a profile describing how frequently they move at specific times of day, possibly per day of the week. Use this data to expose to a player an estimate of how long until their next turn in each of their active games.

I've been looking through the monthly JSON summaries, and I think there is a bug. For example, if you look at 4pLeague_S35_D1L1_G1 from 2020-03.json, you'll see that there are two events as turn one for one faction in each round. The darklings, for example, have both upgrade:TP and upgrade:TE marked with turn{1}{1} = 1.

It appears that the faction that moves first in each round has all of their events except the first one tallied with a turn number one less than it should be (i.e. all the events for the darklings in round 1 have a turn number one too small, except for their first turn; all the events for the engineers in round 2 have a turn number one too small, except for their first turn; etc.).

I poked around in the code for a while, but I couldn't figure out what the problem is. I am suspicious of the code around maybe_advance_to_next_player in acting.pm, where start_full_move($next) maybe_advance_turn($faction, $next) are called before finish_row() is called. Because the events are logged with the turn in effect when the command is executed, but then the row is stored to the ledger with the turn after maybe_advance_turn() is called. But it seems like that would make things wrong in the other direction - that the last player in each turn would get the event logged in the proper turn and then the ledger row would be in n+1. But presumably that would get caught very quickly. So maybe that was a problem and there is some fixup somewhere else that exposed this other problem, which nobody cares about!

I looked through the commit log for a while to see if I could find a commit that had something to do with this, and I looked through the closed issues, but I couldn't find anything related. It didn't look very simple to set up a local environment, so I didn't really get any further.

Happy to dig in more if there are instructions for setting up a developer environment that I missed.

I just got an email that said A chat message was sent in Wy002 by player3:. I am player 3, and I sent the message, but that notification should have said Alchemists (sparr) not player3.

Also, in the chat tab for the game, that message shows up as being from player3 (sparr) (plain text), while the next message I sent shows up correctly as from Alchemists (sparr) (with the correct black background color).

Also, after sending the first message, I encountered a glitch in the web UI. I tried to switch to the Planning tab and got Trying to read another player's notes?.

This all happened either just before or just after (sorry for not remembering which) I made a leech decision when it was not my turn to take a main action.

Since the TM AI is available, can we (my friend and me) play with the AI?

Is there a way to determine this? The "faction" object isn't ordered, as you'd expect. I looked in the round 0 events data and there doesn't seem to be any useful information from the "order:x" events.

I'm interested in investigating a possible bug, and wanted to reproduce it locally so that I can (a) confirm that it exists, and (b) try fixing it if so. But I don't see anything in the README about how to run it myself. It looks like deploy.pl might do it, but I'm not sure how to use that script, or what dependencies it has on how my system is already set up.

As far as I can tell, this game has Fire and Ice scoring enabled, https://terra.snellman.net/game/OffSeason20Rematch01 , but only the following options set in 2016-05.json: 'option-email-notify', 'SCORE1', 'option-strict-chaosmagician-sh', 'option-errata-cultist-power', 'SCORE9', 'faction-count', 'option-variable-turn-order', 'option-strict-darkling-sh', 'option-shipping-bonus', 'SCORE6', 'option-mini-expansion-1', 'option-strict-leech', 'SCORE4', 'option-temple-scoring-tile', 'SCORE7', 'SCORE3' .

On my list of active games it tells me "Waiting for" then the faction whose turn is pending. However, I can't memorize the current turn order in every game I'm in; it would be slightly useful to append a number to that column telling me how many more players there are between them and me.

"Waiting for darklings (1)" might indicate that I'm next, while "Waiting for darklings (4)" means I just had my turn, followed by darklings who haven't moved yet, followed by 3 other players.

Could also be (0) and (3) for those same situations.

I would like to be able to chat with a game creator before joining their game. Could the chat function be exposed on an un-started or un-filled game, open to all users?

All the other maps starts from A1 but only this map starts from B1.

https://terra.snellman.net/buildstats/acolytes,all#fdb13a13cd48b7a3c3525f27e4628ff6905aa5b1,acolytes,all

I want to plan across multiple turns without needing to deal with cult income or other game-mandatory decisions that are troublesome for me to predict. I find that I have to plan one turn, then look at my income, then +c +p +pw, then plan the next turn. But if I go back and change something about the first turn then I need to re-check its results and change the income lines. I would love to be able to just stick "+income" or something similar in there to have it bump my resources by whatever my current income level is.

I looked under option-fire-and-ice-final-scoring, but as far as I could tell that always has the same values under it.

What kind of settings do I need in Apache to get this running on my local machine?

We sometimes play the real boardgame with randomly assigned factions. Is this something that can be implemented in the online version?

In a recent game, I did some planning:

Send P to Air.
Send P to Air.
Pass BON4.
Transform I9 to Red.

The round bonus was 4 Air -> Spade, and I needed the +1Ship from BON4 to reach I9. This worked in planning, but when it was executed in the real game, it informed me that I9 was out of reach. After reading the FAQ, I know this is the correct behavior, but it would be good if the planning pane respected the same rules as the "real" one.

Can you add the option to launch the game with an auction on four randomly selected factions or after banning colors?

I'm in a game and have 2 spades coming from a cult reward. The main game lets me transform properly, but the planner gives a "Must spend spades received from cult before next move." error even with the same moves. Like so:

Here's the game to see it in the wild.
http://terra.snellman.net/faction/tryhardmode003/cultists/