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Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 23 November 2023, 22:18
by talkative
When I start playing a game, I like to check out game replays to see how people play, but most replays for Caverna give an error like "Unexpected error: Unfortunately the replay for this game has been lost (empty archive file) (reference: MU 23/11 22:17:14)".
Is it expected that replays aren't available for a lot of Caverna games or is there some kind of transient issue?
Some example replays that error out as described above:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=431779642
https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=432039130
https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=434132703
https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=438398771
https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=438398771
Some replays do load (2 and 3 player games), but all of the 4-player arena matches I looked at failed to load with the same error.
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 24 November 2023, 07:48
by Tisaac
It's a transient issue, not linked to caverna
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 28 November 2023, 07:14
by talkative
Thanks for the info. When the issue is fixed, will these old replays work, or will I need to look for newer replays?
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 01 December 2023, 08:05
by Tisaac
talkative wrote: ↑28 November 2023, 07:14
Thanks for the info. When the issue is fixed, will these old replays work, or will I need to look for newer replays?
No, lost replays are lost forever
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 11 January 2024, 20:45
by MacDuc
Hi
It seems that you can't replay
4p - and only 4p - games that were played in
Arena mode. All the other ones: no problem.
Example of a replay, 3p game Arena mode:
https://boardgamearena.com/archive/repl ... s=85707551; .
Example of a replay, 4p, not in Arena mode:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=345171514 .
Is there a reason for this?
Thx.
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 12 January 2024, 01:36
by Marco Brolo
Not entirely true - none of my 4p and up tournament replays work either.
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 15 January 2024, 01:23
by MacDuc
Marco Brolo wrote: ↑12 January 2024, 01:36
Not entirely true - none of my 4p and up tournament replays work either.
Where's the difference? Arena mode = tournament, so, 4p games can't be replayed, reason unknown so far. But maybe I misunderstand you !? A "detail": you write "4p and up", and, that I didn't know => I thought tournament games are 3p or 4p...
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 15 January 2024, 12:06
by Meeplelowda
MacDuc wrote: ↑15 January 2024, 01:23
Where's the difference? Arena mode = tournament, so, 4p games can't be replayed, reason unknown so far. But maybe I misunderstand you !? A "detail": you write "4p and up", and, that I didn't know => I thought tournament games are 3p or 4p...
Arena and tournaments are two different things. Arena is administer automatically with fixed settings for a season (unless they play Calvinball and change mid-season as happens sometimes). Tournaments are configured by players and each tournament could have completely different settings, so conceivably someone
could set up a tournament with 5 players per game.
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 15 January 2024, 19:39
by MacDuc
OK - didn't know that. Thank you.
But, about the original question: no answer?
Re: Caverna game replays don't work?
Posted: 16 January 2024, 17:01
by Archduke
Thanks for pointing out this issue. I've spent some time today looking into it, and I've pushed a fix for future replays.
Some existing replays may get regenerated, but many will remain broken, and I can't get them back, I'm sorry about this!