Timed-out nation won't die

[Kandarin]

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=Atheneus

I'm not sure what to make of this, but it looks like a bug.

[Unibot]

"Location: the_east_pacific"

^^^ probably has to do with this.

[Pythagosaurus]

No, that's fine. The problem is that he's not actually listed in the east pacific, so he never gets updated. I'll fix it for next update.

[[violet]]

Ah, the reverse population bug!

[Pythagosaurus]

Yes, some of those still happen, since they take a lot more work to detect. I actually have a nation sitting around intentionally in a region that doesn't exist. 8)

[[violet]]

I used to run periodic scripts to check for that (and correct it), but figured it wasn't happening any more.

[Pythagosaurus]

Nah, it will likely continue to happen. I'm guessing it's caused by a race condition:

1. A nation is created in or moves to a region.
2. Before the region is saved, some other code (daily update probably) loads the region.
3. After the region is saved, the other code saves the region.

The effort it would take to stop this from happening is probably not worth it.

[[violet]]

The effort it would take to stop this from happening is probably not worth it.

That's my theory about everything!

[Usual People In Life]

Oh come on violet and pythag the cute purple dinosaur, be like me and have a positive nature to the game. At least people are helping by finding these bugs for you!