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How many days can go by before a game started in Friendly Mode is deleted and no longer accessible? I wanted to start a friendly mode game, but it will last 2 or 3 gaming sessions. Can I start a game in Friendly mode. Wait a week, the game is still available and able to be continued, then wait anoth...

Numerous bug fixes: - Blocking bug when only duplicate portals are available, preventing the user from selecting a new portal. The game now has an override and allows a duplicate portal selection in this case. - Zombie player issue bug was fixed - Gems and animus spots are 20% larger. They also have...

I may have figured it out. An important set of global variables for the game are not getting reset triggering an unexpected path.
I haven't figured out how they could not be reset, but I will reset them at another location before this unexpected path to see if that helps.

I am not having much luck tracking down a rare bug in Via Magica. It must be a rather rare situation. Users report Unexpected error: Unknown player statistic Along with 'If your game interface seems unstable, press F5 or click here to reload' Reloading or restarting browser, does not allow them to c...

Are the contents of the first 10 Global variables in the 'global' DB table described anywhere? I am debugging a game and was just kind of curious if those variables could shed some more light on what stage of the game the DB thought it was when the bug was filed. Thank you for your help.

Developer here. The average number of tokens drawn in a game is 38.

Developer of Via Magica here. I'd like to know if anyone sees the following message during crystal placement 'There was a problem recording crystal placement, please try again'. I suspect there are some odd database racetime issues during multiple players doing crystal placement at the same time. Ha...

I am aware of the replay game mechanism to view what occurred during the game and the mechanisms to load a database game state saved from the bug report. What other way is there to 'play through the game from start to finish and encounter the bug'? Are you suggesting manually altering the database t...

Thank you for the reply. I figured the DB was a one shot thing. If you're taking some suggestions maybe some of these could help with debugging with database views. 1) Keep the last 5-10 database snapshots on a rolling basis during game 2) maybe the a gzipped text log of the full games database call...

I found this interesting thread for loading game database states from the bug report. https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=16454 I am able to load the database from the bug report, but the database state is for after the game has finished well after the bug occurred. Is there a ...