Map swapping/timing out: was Re: CF: Random maps - comments

[Peter Mardahl <peterm@langmuir.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>]

> Hi,
> 
> I like the random maps generator being added to last Crossfire release
> very much. However there are still some problems with it.
> 
> First, the bugs:
> 
> - once the random map is swaped out, but the main map not, you cannot
> enter the random map again. You get "/random/_xxxxxx is closed".
> Probably the map should be read from temporary dir, and  if it is not
> found there generator should be run again ( /random/ should work as /! )

Is it really that the random maps are swapping out, or are they
TIMING out?  If it's the latter, a fix might be pretty easily done.
Otherwise, it'd become more difficult.

It's likely that random maps shouldn't be allowed to time out in
short periods of time, because someone could be in the bottom levels
of a random map, and not be able to come back out because the maps
are now gone.

Random maps, right now, are one way.  One exit to more random maps,
and one exit BACK.  If the random map the exit BACK goes to times out,
you'd be completely trapped.

Perhaps random maps should only be 'timed out' when there is no one
on the server?

PeterM



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