TY

Toby is right. It is probably your own error.

Before the information even enters the database, the moves you enter are logged elsewhere, so we can check them. Every time we have, there has been no difference.

@ TGM

Do you guys check them directly against the HTML logs? That would be pretty definitive.

We do Toby (though they're unformatted text not HTML)

well check my game http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=13903 because I did NOT place order to move to Ruh!!!!!!!! and I did not "error"!

Here are your order logs:
Time: Oct 17 2009 13:15:00 (GMT+0)
Submission #: 1
Array
(
[2725280] => Array
(
[type] => Hold
)

[2725269] => Array
(
[type] => Move
)

[2725268] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
)

[2725253] => Array
(
[type] => Hold
)

[2725252] => Array
(
[type] => Hold
)

[2725251] => Array
(
[type] => Move
)

)


Time: Oct 17 2009 13:15:14 (GMT+0)
Submission #: 2
Array
(
[2725280] => Array
(
[type] => Hold
)

[2725269] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Liverpool
)

[2725268] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
[toTerr] => 0
)

[2725253] => Array
(
[type] => Hold
)

[2725252] => Array
(
[type] => Hold
)

[2725251] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Clyde
)

)


Time: Oct 17 2009 13:15:40 (GMT+0)
Submission #: 3
Array
(
[2725280] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
)

[2725269] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Liverpool
)

[2725268] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
[toTerr] => Belgium
)

[2725253] => Array
(
[type] => Move
)

[2725252] => Array
(
[type] => Move
)

[2725251] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Clyde
)

)


Time: Oct 17 2009 13:15:54 (GMT+0)
Submission #: 4
Array
(
[2725280] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
[toTerr] => Belgium
)

[2725269] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Liverpool
)

[2725268] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
[toTerr] => Belgium
[fromTerr] => Burgundy
)

[2725253] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Burgundy
)

[2725252] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Ruhr
)

[2725251] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Clyde
)

)


Time: Oct 17 2009 13:15:59 (GMT+0)
Submission #: 5
Array
(
[2725280] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
[toTerr] => Belgium
[fromTerr] => Burgundy
)

[2725269] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Liverpool
)

[2725268] => Array
(
[type] => Support move
[toTerr] => Belgium
[fromTerr] => Burgundy
)

[2725253] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Burgundy
)

[2725252] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Ruhr
)

[2725251] => Array
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Clyde
)

)

If you've already decided you didn't make a mistake then what can I
say? All I can tell you is the logs that are taken of the form data
submitted by your browser matches the orders in the database

that is NOT the order placed and if you look at my logs online to the game page that "error" as you put would have been realized. Don't you think that the game order error issue is unusual in as a spike in them is coordinated with the change\update in the game’s programming? With my computer experience going back to Kobald, Altair 8800’s, and IBM 32 and 34’s it has been my experience and don’t you think 'it is possible'?

What spike of them, exactly?

I have never had an error that wasn't my own. I am not trying to be flip, but maybe you saw what you thought was the order you wanted. Sometimes people are too close to their work, and it can take others to spot the errors, obvious or not. The only trouble I ever have is communication where my submission never goes through and I have to retype my message or redo my orders. Never had a partial either.

>We do Toby (though they're unformatted text not HTML)

Sorry, I should have said HTTP, not HTML.

I'm not going to tell you you made a mistake, but since you have programming experience I'll tell you how it looks from this end to help you judge whether I'm being too dismissive:
- The order logs I posted above specifically show the following set of form data being entered: [2725252] => Array
[type] => Hold,
[type] => Hold,
[type] => Move,
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Ruhr
),
(
[type] => Move
[toTerr] => Ruhr
)
- These values are logged before any processing is performed on them, it's pretty much just file_put_contents($logfile,print_r($_REQUEST['orderForm'],true),FILE_APPEND)
- Programmers have been sure they experienced the bug before. (In fact out of just a couple dozen reports over the years this is the third to come from a self-admitted programming veteran)
- File modification times and append-only httpd logs have been used to test the more unlikely theories like account theft and server breakins, with nothing suspicious ever found
- The code is revised pretty regularly and reports of accidents don't correlate with code updates
- Reports of accidents closely correlate quick submission times and lack of finalization
- The bug is always the sort of mistake someone could make, we've never had an "army in ruhr move to barents sea" bug
- The bug is reported on other servers, the same sort of frequency, bug type and outcome, with code versions years apart
- With many millions of orders even a tiny chance of a convincing mistake is enough to make them likely
- Some people experience the bug 2-3 times while others will play much longer and never experience it
- If the player starts taking screenshots to demo the bug it stops happening

People who experience these things are usually convinced it was a bug, but hopefully at least now you understand know why I don't consider it a bug

There is no bug. No-one has ever provided a single screenshot to prove there is a bug.