[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Several bugs discovered when playing large civilisations (PR#1088)

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:53:13PM -0800, s.yeates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I enjoy playing large civilisations, but have found a number of bugs:
> 
> * Some mass operations (such as selling the same improvement in 700+ 
> cities at once via the economy report) cause the client to crash. 
> The message on the server is: "cut connection say1 from localhost 
> (connection incomplete) due to huge send buffer (2)". Some of the 
> requested actions are performed, but not all.

Discussion on this is continued in PR#1089, PR#1090, PR#1091, PR#1092.

> * When the client is restarted after such a crash, moves are MUCH faster
> for the first few moves. Is this a bug?

You can reproduce this with CVS. If you have the city report open but
in the background, moving of units is slow. I think this is not a bug.
It's the price for non-modal windows.

> * When a spy tries to subvert a capital city it names a price (1000000
> gold), but if you save that much money the city will not subvert.

Has been fixed.

> * When many (hundreds) of cities are selected in the cities report, 
> changing their production takes an inordinately long time (the display 
> is updated between each?)

Has gone in 1.13.0 with the freeze/thaw patch.

> I know these bugs probably don't impact on most users games, and are low
> priority.
> 
> stuart

Christian

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