Builder Timing Bug? INFLATED

So one of my clan member starts the level 5 minion about 4 hours after I did and somehow he finished 2 hours earlier than me...no gems involved...wth...so because I play more than him by logging in and out more, I lose time? What kind of joke it that, punishing more active players?

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Originally Posted by Whynotnow

That's the second report of the inflation being 15 seconds per village reload, both reports very recently. Let's see if we can get some more confirmations on that (I'll test it myself too when I have some time). Perhaps SC decided 5-6 seconds per village load wasn't enough? >.>

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For me it's 2-3 seconds in Florida, if it's location dependent, it'll give support to my server delay theory.

@jovias, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but I created a very similar theory around page 34 for you (I'm using 20 posts per page, makes the forums that much easier to read).

It's officially 13-14 seconds.

http://youtu.be/1b8As_-XuFo

sorry for the quality. If you make it full screen and stand back it should work better. Anyway, it clearly shows that there is a 13-14 second lag.

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Originally Posted by Jovias

So, I've been reading up on this error, and I have an idea as to why this is occurring. Perhaps this will shed a bit more light to supercell employees.

So, from what I understand here, anytime a server related action takes place, the countdown timer will then display an incorrect time remaining toward the completion of a project within the game.

Is it possible that there is a function pausing the timer, or preventing communication with the server on a small scale level?

To clarify, you prioritize a server response before the timer's server response, and thus, with each passing response taking a priority, even in milliseconds, over the timer, it will be held back ever so slightly each time, incorrectly displaying the build time for each building.

Wouldn't the solution to this be a service call, which took time started on the server, then the player logs in, and it will subtract the current time on the server?

So, to put number into this:

Let's say Jim, starts building his town hall at 12:00PM. For the sake of this example, the town hall takes an hour to build.

The server then records that Jim started construction of his town hall at 12:00HR.

Jim then goes off and does a bunch of other server related junk with the game and returns to his town.

Server will then do the following calculation: CurrentTime - StartTime = RemainingTime.

So, Since the server already has the value for StartTime = 12:00HR, it obtains the information for CurrentTime = 12:30HR, then it determines that Jim has 30 Minutes, and displays a countdown from that point.

In terms of doing this over longer periods of time. Such as days, then you could alter the way time is recorded.

So in terms of recording the time. You will have YR:MNTH:DAY:HR:MNT

So StartTime, instead of appearing as 12:00, would instead appear as 2014:01:23:12:00

Thus, when the calculation takes place. it would be: ((2014:01:23:12:30) - (2014:01:23:12:00)) = 0000:00:00:30

Alright, I think I worked this out in my head.

So, three Variables

TimeRequired
TimeStarted
TimeCompleted

TimeRequired is updated to server when the player begins the structures build cycle. Thus 01:00 is added.
TimeStarted is recorded by the server, the exact server time the player began his build cycle. (12:00HR)
TimeCompleted is equal to TimeStarted + TimeRequired which equals (13:00HR)

Now, another two variable: TimeDisplayed & CurrentTime

TimeDisplayed = TimeCompleted - CurrentTime
TimeDisplayed = 13:00 - 12:40
TimeDisplayed = 00:20HR

I think that's what I wanted to get out.

Its a little shifty, but I hope it helps. Maybe this could better regulate time? I don't know. Keep me posted, sometimes I cannot get what's in my head out properly.

*EDIT* I don't want it to seem like I was swearing, i didn't realize a certain word was blocked on here. So, I'm not swearing, I changed the word to shifty.

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There is one problem. With my slight expirience in programming games, I think this would cause more lag overall, because the game would continuosly be getting the info from the servers. If I loose connection, it doesn't log me off right away. The timers still count down, even when it's not connected. If it got the info from the servers, there would be a lot of lag.

This is unjust. SuperCell please fix it. Its been two years since it was first reported or probably longer, but still the bug exists.

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Originally Posted by Fernie

This is unjust. SuperCell please fix it. Its been two years since it was first reported or probably longer, but still the bug exists.

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10 chars. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Fernie

This is unjust. SuperCell please fix it. Its been two years since it was first reported or probably longer, but still the bug exists.

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Mate the game hasn't existed for 2 years

I will test tomorrow to see if the 15 seconds are for more then just re-loading the game.

Isnt it suspicious the shield doesnt get affected? I mran, it costs gems to make it last longer... Ehr

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Originally Posted by Metten98

Isnt it suspicious the shield doesnt get affected? I mran, it costs gems to make it last longer... Ehr

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The ONLY clock which the players would benefit from if it had the time lag, is not affected.

What a weird coincidence...:confused:


If it were the other way round, that players would benefit from this time lag "bug", it would have been fixed immediately.