bugs

Is it just me or is the lvl 3 fight list not loading all the way?

So I was planning to bundle the sharing of this change into some sort of "June 2024 patch notes" announcement, but it looks like the cat's out of the bag. I'm still tweaking the details, but I learned that some fight list pages were taking a super long time to load as the game has accumulated more and more bots. Level 3 was the worst offender with 7,343 bots as of 2 days ago when I collected data. There's now some logic to limit the number of bots shown: It sorts the bots at that level by their last active time, then takes all bots from the first 500 in that list as well as any bot in a clan (meaning there's technically no hard limit).

My intention is for this to be mostly invisible to players and to not inadvertently shake up the meta (e.g. giving players a way to "hide" energy on dumpers by logging in a bunch of other bots to push the dumpers off the list). Did you notice this just because level 3 is loading faster (good news) or because you're actually trying to do something you can't and expected to be able to (bad news)? I can potentially tweak the logic further.

(Long-term I don't want to have to hide any bots. I view this as a medium-term hack. Long-term, I expect to have proper filtering, searching, pagination, etc. so that all bots can be available again.)

Ah great makes total sense to speed up the load times as well as make it easier to filter through the bots.

Only issues is I don’t think it filters via last logged in time. I created my lvl 3 bot logged out and straight away couldn’t find it on the list while trying fight it using my lvl 2 bot (to skip all the levels) so a bit painful for me in the regard.

Hmm yeah that sounds unexpected, I'll take a look.

This should be fixed now. I had a bug in my SQL for filtering to the most recently-active bots. Thanks for reporting this!

Great it’s all sorted!

PS: thanks for the +1 +5 +10 when adding points after lvling. Super helpful.