Waiting 15+ Minutes For Opponent To Take Turn?

[Phedg1]

I've been in two games now (just started playing) where I am waiting for a player to take his turn. He doesn't time out or get kicked, but I sweart I am waiting 15+ minutes for them to have their turn. It's stupid. If I leave I get loss of ELO or bad karma. How is this even allowed to happen? Why isn't there a kick option?

After literally an age the game says that he has network issues and will be replaced with an AI player. Another 10 minutes after that message, the *$%^ AI still hasn't had it's turn. I ended up leaving the game and my ELO went down.

My ELO isn't great. I've had worse RNG luck in my 6 games online than I have ever had in person. I've played this game a lot and I swear I'm not terrible at it, but my numbers (6's & 8's often) just are not coming up at all. Not to mention that in every game I have been in so far, I have come last throughout almost the entire game, partly because (even though I was coming last) my opponents rolling robbers about 1 in 4 turns and taking exclusively from me. I know it sounds like I'm making this up, but I swear I'm not. I think the game hates me.

[obliviondoll]

The issue with the AI taking over and then doing nothing has been around a long time.

It's SUPPOSED to have been fixed about a month ago:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/544730/announcements/detail/2696939118808606499

Clearly that fix hasn't worked, reporting it to their support team is probably the best bet. Good luck getting it actually fixed, though. Doesn't seem like the devs are doing the best job of solving problems here.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/544730/discussions/0/1319962173912172742/

That's another topic about this same issue. Initial post was before the patch, but it's been bumped by someone who had the same issue after it, just like you.

[Swank]

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

The issue with the AI taking over and then doing nothing has been around a long time.

It's SUPPOSED to have been fixed about a month ago:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/544730/announcements/detail/2696939118808606499

Clearly that fix hasn't worked, reporting it to their support team is probably the best bet. Good luck getting it actually fixed, though. Doesn't seem like the devs are doing the best job of solving problems here.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/544730/discussions/0/1319962173912172742/

That's another topic about this same issue. Initial post was before the patch, but it's been bumped by someone who had the same issue after it, just like you.

is their support team active??

[Stroom]

It seems like their "support team" only works 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, in the German time zone. The servers have to burn to the ground before they even consider fixing anything out of working hours.
It wouldn't be that hard to create a script which constantly checks the server status. Maybe even check new posts in the forums and match some keywords and notify the support to check if something is wrong or not...

Nah, these guys are basic. Once you have paid for the product, you do not matter to them anymore. Nothing to get out of you anymore.

[USM [CM]]

Originally posted by Phedg1:

I've been in two games now (just started playing) where I am waiting for a player to take his turn. He doesn't time out or get kicked, but I sweart I am waiting 15+ minutes for them to have their turn. It's stupid. If I leave I get loss of ELO or bad karma. How is this even allowed to happen? Why isn't there a kick option?

After literally an age the game says that he has network issues and will be replaced with an AI player. Another 10 minutes after that message, the *$%^ AI still hasn't had it's turn. I ended up leaving the game and my ELO went down.

My ELO isn't great. I've had worse RNG luck in my 6 games online than I have ever had in person. I've played this game a lot and I swear I'm not terrible at it, but my numbers (6's & 8's often) just are not coming up at all. Not to mention that in every game I have been in so far, I have come last throughout almost the entire game, partly because (even though I was coming last) my opponents rolling robbers about 1 in 4 turns and taking exclusively from me. I know it sounds like I'm making this up, but I swear I'm not. I think the game hates me.

As you can see from the latest hotpatch today we found ad resolved an issues connected to what you are describing. let us know if the latest hotfix didn´t work for you.

[Don Moretalk]

One more advice in case a player or the AI seems to take forever to move: Try restarting the game (close the game window or press alt+f4 if playing full screen and then start the game again; you can then rejoin your latest game), because sometimes you don't receive a trade offer from the AI or the "end turn" notification from another player and they are actually waiting for you.
At least this often (but not always) solves this issue in my experience.

[seisdoseis]

Having problems with the AI taking over and never ending turn. As of today. I've had this problem since it "left" beta. Still seems beta to me.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/seisdoseis/screenshot/856096681662525785

[Blaettchen]

I have the same problems since last update ... i play 5 times, 5 times a never ending turn ! i love this game but at this time it is a waste of time !

[G3R | IPS]

I can not play anymore. Had bought all the extensions to me and now I should log in at the start of the game. Goes badly without username :(

[USM [CM]]

Originally posted by G3R | IPS:

I can not play anymore. Had bought all the extensions to me and now I should log in at the start of the game. Goes badly without username :(

The server issues have been resolved by now. We will let you know shortly how we will going to make it up to our users which couldn´t play the seafarer weekend to its fullest.

[Pcrbuilder]

It still is a problem been trying to play all day and all 4 games have gotten stuck at someones turn for 20+ minutes each time

[XDude]

Also worth noting that hangs were occuring in a 2 humans + 2 AI custom game (i.e. no one dropped out).

Also saw one event when wedding card was played by human A. Human B believed they had selected 2 cards, but human A didn't get them and was still waiting. When B relogged they were asked to select the cards again and game continued.

Please add a "refresh state from server" button in game!

[One hand only]

This problem is still occurring. Happened to me just now in a CaK game with 2 other human players, no AI.

[Stroom]

It seems like they are only shutting down these things in a case-by-case basis. Not doing any thorough investigation or testing about all the cases when the timer can be abused.

[fearenough]

Originally posted by XDude:

Also worth noting that hangs were occuring in a 2 humans + 2 AI custom game (i.e. no one dropped out).

Also saw one event when wedding card was played by human A. Human B believed they had selected 2 cards, but human A didn't get them and was still waiting. When B relogged they were asked to select the cards again and game continued.

Please add a "refresh state from server" button in game!

thats such a good idea as sometimes when i leave game and try to come back in im told i have been kicked and thou was wining lost elo big time

[Stroom]

It seems such a common problem by now that maybe some players have found out how to make the game freeze in case when they are about to lose. That's why I do not really want to play vs human players.
I have to agree that a forced reset button would be a good idea. Maybe even add a timer notifier or something which would tell the server that something is wrong with the timer. As the game is still clearly in development, the developers could use this as an automated bug report thing - so they can see in which states the game crashes.