Struggling with multiactive state

[Angst03]

Hi,

I have a problem with multipleactiveplayerstate in my game. The problem I have is that the current player methods returns the player who played last in the other player browser. If I refresh the page everything is OK. In the state method, all I do is:

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$this->gamestate->setAllPlayersMultiactive();

In the "argMethod" I have tested some "CurrentPlayer" and "ActivePlayer" methods and the JavaScript receive the same values in both browsers tab and so in both "onEnteringState" and "onUpdateActionButtons". If I refresh the page, the "CurrentPlayer" methods returns the expected values. What am I missing. Do I need another state? Any help appreciated.

[imralav]

I think that's by design and BGA's wiki explicitly states to not rely on CurrentPlayer in multiactiveplayerstates. I can grant that there can be some confusion around who is current player and who is active player, but it's just the way it is.

[thoun]

CurrentPlayerId should only be used when answering an action of a multiactiveplayerstate, but never when entering the state.
ActivePlayerId doesn't have any meaning in a multiactiveplayerstate as there are multiple active players.
What are you trying to do?

[Angst03]

Hi, players must do actions based on their "material reality". I have a dialog that requires to display player related elements. As stated earlier, if I'm "live" in the game both players displays the same thing but if I reload the page everything is OK... I've put some debug info in my game.php file and I can see that the "argMethod" is called before the multiplayer state method which does the setAllPlayersMultiactive().

[KuWizard]

"argMethod" is called before the multiplayer state method which does the setAllPlayersMultiactive().

Oh yeah, arg-methods calls are nasty. They are sometimes called after the state have been finished No idea why

[Angst03]

Hi, since the information is not really private I send everything to every player and I filter the info in the JavaScript with this.player_id. I'm OK for this time but still curious if someone knows a better way for the future or someone else.

[thoun]

For private infos, you should use _private described in the doc