#73137: "Error message when using "all players may lay eggs" powers"

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wingspan #303030969

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At some point I was unable to do ANY game action (game blocked and abandonned)

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At some point I was unable to do ANY game action (game blocked and abandonned)

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Detailed description

• At which step of the game did the problem occurs (what was the current game instruction)?
When gaining food, I was asked if I wanted to discard a card to claim another food. I claimed another food and my card in that row says "When activated: All players Lay 1 egg on my bird. You may lay 1 additional additional bird. The button came up and said "All play may lay an egg on a bird with a nest. When clicking on the it gave me an error message on my phone, on my tablet, and on my desktop computer.
reference: GS9 04/10 00:25:39)
• What happened when you try to do a game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
Move#81. Error message: reference: GS9 04/10 00:25:39)
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v105, also used my cellphone, and my Ipad

Report history

4. Oct 2022 0:38 • joverman45 • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

nothing solved the issue!

6. Oct 2022 18:57 • koboldskind • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Exactly the same issue at #300044103.
After making a move in another game and returning to this one, I could then skip the egg-laying effect of Pileated Woodpecker, but I could not perform that action.

19. Oct 2022 23:12 • Bibobach • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

Ich kann keinen Vogel auf ein passendes Feld ziehen.
Reload bringt nix.
Ich kann überhaupt keine Aktion durchführen.

25. Dec 2022 20:42 • BecksOPotato • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:

I think same problem table ID #327225679
F5 does not solve the problem.
Every time I try to play or skip this same move, I am told the game is unable to connect to the server
imgur.com/a/p2Fk8rr
I have tried playing from mobile and laptop.

25. Dec 2022 20:58 • paramesis • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

In all of these cases, the power would have no effect as nobody has space on birds with the appropriate nest types to lay eggs. The code doesn't have a way to properly handle this case, causing an infinite loop. This will be fixed in the next deploy. For now, you can click "skip" - the effect will be the same since no one can actually lay eggs.

Duplicate also noted here:
boardgamearena.com/bug?id=77941

25. Dec 2022 20:59 • paramesis • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

Report short description
"Cannot move on with the game in my current action!"
changed to
"Error message when using "all players may lay eggs" powers"

14. Jan 2023 21:49 • Cotj • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

boardgamearena.com/6/wingspan?table=334626258
In the table above, I am unable to press the All Players ma lay Egg on bird with *** nest. It is happening at this moment.

I am guessing it is because my woodpecker already has 2 eggs and I have nowhere else to put an egg.

But I am getting an error returned of "Unable to contact Server"

28. Feb 2023 22:52 • kirbucha • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

Table 351940258
reference: GS9 28/02 22:41:38
Pileated woodpecker all players may lay eggs…frozen and won’t reload on any device (Mac, iPhone, ipad) or browser (tried chrome and safari)
F5 did not solve
Appeared repeatedly

29. Jul 2023 9:51 • NordicZombie • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

401703789
f5 has not solved the problem
the game is still active. we were able to maake it turn based but cant do any actions.

when pushing the "all players may.." button the game buffers and refreshes and goes back to the same thing.

imgur.com/E51ZG7m

imgur.com/ah5TzpZ

22. Aug 2023 5:43 • pelegrim • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

pelegrim a dépassé son temps de jeu, aussi Silfercor lui fait passer son tour

11. Nov 2023 22:32 • Szymon2112 • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

Pileated Woodpecker action "all players lay egg" causes error:

Sorry, we didn't manage to process your request fast enough. Please retry. If the problem persists, please report a bug. (reference: GS5 11/11 22:27:20)

15. Nov 2023 21:49 • sajneb • Bug has been confirmed by developers:

When activated: All players Lay 1 egg on a bird. The button came up and said "All play may lay an egg on a bird with a nest. When clicking on the it gave me an error message on my desktop computer.

29. Dec 2023 2:25 • paramesis • Bug has been fixed:

Thank you for reporting. This issue has been fixed. As noted in my previous comment, this was caused by attempting to activate "All players may lay an egg" powers from Pileated Woodpecker, Lazuli Bunting, or Western Meadowlark when no players had space to lay eggs on the indicated nest type. The logic to determine which players to make active did not have a way to handle this case, and would loop infinitely. This would cause all players at the table to lose the ability to interact with the game until the server threw a timeout error. There are at least a dozen other reports with the same issue, and I can see that player timeouts resulting from this bug have ruined several games. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to deploy a fix to this bug sooner.

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