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22299.22 in reply to 22299.21
Date: 4/5/2008 11:54:17 PM
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we aren't completely sure what is going on.. clearly from the GE perspective it incremented the number of points by 2... but somehow a 3 point signal was outputed. Obviously this is an EXTREMELY RARE bug.. so its source isn't as simple as there is some place in the code where a 2 pointer accidently outputs a 3 point signal at least explicitly. More likely there is some buffer overrun issue which caused some information to be changed in such a way as it appears to be a 3 point shot when in fact it was a 2 pointer.


This is why you go to one of the finest universities in the nation and I dropped out of a community college after 6 weeks.

(No sarcasm here, I'm serious)

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22299.23 in reply to 22299.21
Date: 4/5/2008 11:55:07 PM
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Having just written that post, i have a theory which would explain what happened. I need to check it ... but if i'm correct it was correctly scored as a 2 point shot... but the shot type wasn't updated from the previous shot .. which you will notice in this example was also a corner 3 point shot. If i had more examples to work with I could verify this theory. It also wouldn't be noticed except for the few times the previous shot was a 3.

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22299.24 in reply to 22299.23
Date: 4/6/2008 12:00:30 AM
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Try near the end of this game:

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NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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22299.25 in reply to 22299.20
Date: 4/6/2008 7:00:18 AM
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I was trying to help someone that suffered a very disgusting bug. A very rare bug but not less important than others because if you have it more often, then BB will have a big problem. BB-Charles told he was going to study it, so he (and me) expected to have an answer.
What I don´t understand is your role in this post. I seems that you want him to be more angry and more frustrated than he is, and start a quarrel without sense.

In my opinion, this user deserves a proper explanation and maybe, why not, some kind of apologize.

¡Me aburro! (Homer Simpson)
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22299.26 in reply to 22299.24
Date: 4/6/2008 11:33:01 AM
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can you be more specific .. what shot? or what player?

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22299.27 in reply to 22299.26
Date: 4/6/2008 4:35:52 PM
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can you be more specific .. what shot? or what player?



I think I'm an idiot - I could have sworn there was a discrepancy, looks like not.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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22299.28 in reply to 22299.25
Date: 4/6/2008 4:37:10 PM
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I was trying to help someone that suffered a very disgusting bug. A very rare bug but not less important than others because if you have it more often, then BB will have a big problem. BB-Charles told he was going to study it, so he (and me) expected to have an answer.
What I don´t understand is your role in this post. I seems that you want him to be more angry and more frustrated than he is, and start a quarrel without sense.

In my opinion, this user deserves a proper explanation and maybe, why not, some kind of apologize.


An explanation was given - and the statement was made that the match viewer is useless, and it is not.


NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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22299.29 in reply to 22299.28
Date: 4/6/2008 5:21:29 PM
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Thank you, you are very nice and helpful. Go on like this.

¡Me aburro! (Homer Simpson)
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22299.30 in reply to 22299.29
Date: 4/6/2008 10:33:24 PM
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So my theory turned out to be true. In creating more advanced end of game tactics.. we implemented a more intelligent fouling system in which a team tries to force a bad FT shooter to get fouled.. but at the risk of giving up an easy dunk. In implementing this, we forgot to tell the output what kind of shot it was, and it was simply assuming it was whatever kind of shot it was before, even though internally it counted the shot as a dunk.

So in summary it effectively was a presentation error. As far as the GE was concerned it was a 2 point shot.. it was inteneded to be a 2 point shot, but it was getting falsely output as a 3 point shot when the previous shot happened to be a 3 point shot. So the result of the game was correct, the logic of the game's result was correct, but we confused the matchviewer by giving it inconsistent information.

I have fixed this bug and it won't happen for games going forward.

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22299.31 in reply to 22299.30
Date: 4/7/2008 1:09:48 AM
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Awesome - that's an effective and easily understood explanation.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live