Adv server problems with goofy general travel

[Sedren]

Running a Dark Brotherhood today and it went largely as expected, but when waving down the Dervishes on the last tower things started getting a little goofy. Armies re-attacking 3 or 4x in a row long after their troops were dead, some waves seemingly disappearing or not having the expected results on the tower, whether it was related to the odd phantom armies or just a change I didn't spot I'm not sure. Took just over 1300 calvary to wave down what use to to take 1000-1050.

[BB_Endesmor]

Multiple adventures, including on lootspots, showing generals that get intercepted, or not, randomly when they should be nowhere close to an interception. When sending attacks, leaving and returning, the generals are traveling AND attacking, and have very odd paths after a successful battle. It is getting quite frustrating to actually run adventures with the lag and odd behaviors being seen.


I just had a general 'start' an attack 3 times, after he was already showing as fighting a battle, in Nords.

Hello Slapdonius,

Thank you for reporting this bug.
We have received similar reports from other instances and we are working on a fix.

Please be patient, I will do my best to keep you updated.

Cordially,
BB_Endesmor

[Mmsown]

BB_Endesmor, Just a follow up on this thread since it has been several days. I want to be sure you know there is still an issue.

Today in two different battles, two different adventures, the same thing happened.
Basically, I open the general's window, set the troops for the battle, and send him to attack (on the second instance, I actually watched him leave on his horse, on the way to battle), then a few moments later I go back to check on him and find that he is back at his camp, the troops are no longer set, and the battle he was sent on never happened.

The first time it happened today, I had sent two other generals behind him, to attack bandit camps further away. The first general "reset" and did not do his battle, leaving the second two generals to be intercepted, thus losing a great deal of cannoneers.

I know you are already aware and working on these types of issues, can you give us an update?

[menalaus]

I would like to add on to the list. Numerous players in our guild are reporting similar problems. It is almost impossible to do adventures right now.
BB, could we have an update please? It has been almost 2 weeks.

[Wimpy]

+1

[Bosola]

Okay, this is ridiculous. One mma with the confirmed troop mix, somehow fought 3 times and lost where it should have been only 32r loss.


The troop mix didn't take for some idiotic reason. The adventure servers have a problem. Is this going to be responded to and acted upon or not?

lost 122 e 133 k because of this, 2 times on rb

[Forrell]

Attacking with 2 or more generals makes the glitch worse. It seemed like the hover icon for the troop count was hanging up. The general walked back and forth 3 times, each time the server connection would drop, the general changed direction.
I think playability could be improved by disabling the troop hover icon.

nice photo Bosola

[Ciara_Belle]

+1 - ran db yesterday -- final attack w/ vet was repeated 4 times ...

[Jean2]

I submitted the exact same problem to Support, and this was their response:

Thank you for contacting Support regarding an intercepted General and wrong attack order.

Even though on your screen it shows the general making It to the targeted camp on the server your general had already been intercepted. This is caused by lag, because support is not able to control the latency at which a players game is able to send and receive information from the host servers, blocking is not supported.

Many player made guides will use this tactic but player are using a blocking move at their own risk. Support does not recommend using this tactic as it can be misleading and often times uncontrollable. I strongly recommend attacking the camps in the order presented to you versus attempting any form of block.
Sincerely,

[Gwalben]

Although blocking may be unsupported, the overall adventure problems are not caused by an unsupported technique but rather PVP bugginess. I've been doing pretty good on the whole, though, despite the lag/generals doing weird things.