[Trigger] Game cache - "Waiting for host"?

[Sar'Kter]

I've creatad a game cache, which is supposed to save my hero and a quest. However, when the game finishes loading the second level, a message "Waiting for host" pops up and I get disconnected. Strange, the campaign is opened through single player.

Below are my triggers(unfortunately, some of it is in Polish. Not much, but still.)
What's wrong with them?

QuestStatus is Integer.
QuestCompleted is Boolean.
QuestCancelled is Boolean.
Player is my hero.

 

[Adiktuz]

hmmm... that's weird, I dont see any problems with the trigger... is that run on map init? if yes, try running it using a timer event like Elapsed Game Time is 0.00 seconds... or maybe its a problem of your warcraft...

 

[Sar'Kter]

I tried running another map with cache and it worked. Will try to copy and paste triggers to another map. I've already tried to run it after some time, but all I get is waiting for host at the beginning of the game.

EDIT: It seems there is something really wrong with the map itself - whenever I move from another map to it - it works, but when I move from it to another map, then it lags.

 

[Adiktuz]

then it means that the map became corrupted... its sad but you can't do anything when it happens...

 

[InfinateAnswers]

I dont know much about game cache, but you create a cache, then you cleared it? and your storing data into a cache that doesnt exist?

 

[Dr Super Good]

If you are running the maps in multiplayer...
Game caches do not work in multiplayer.
There is no way to get them to work in multiplayer.
There is no way to store data between games safely and reliably without reverting to save/load codes like RPGs use.

You can use the exploit (mentioned in site news) to save data people are reporting. However this may eventually be patched (in which case it will no longer be doable).

If you are running the maps in singleplayer, then you must have encountered some wierd bug.
I have no idea how you can get a waiting for host error in singleplayer. Unless the game always runs in multiplayer mode (with server and client config) but uses interal sockets for orders.

 

[Sar'Kter]

I've pasted triggers responsible for creating the cache to another map and copied those which load the cache to my map- it worked and I could load the stored hero. I also found out that if I put "Game - victory" trigger with score table and/or dialog menu enabled the map works fine but nothing from cache works.

Both of those maps are in one campaign file, which I start through Single Player -> custom campaign option.

Google didn't help much, I just found about 5 topics about this error(all from 2006 year I believe). Probably the map is corrupted(), however everything else than game cache works as it should. Is there any way to save the terrain?

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Don't you have any backups before this bug? When I do a campaign I do backups all the time just that this might happen.

 

[Sar'Kter]

Unfortunately this time I didn't make a copy. Well, I'll see what I can do about it, maybe I'll change some parts so that I can still use this map.

EDIT: Or I actually might have a copy somewhere in test folder.
EDIT 2: I have a copy Will try to make a game cache there and see what happens.

EDIT 3: Crap, it's still not working.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I found 2 problems, however these are probably unrelated to the waiting for host issue.
Problem 1 - FoodForCamp is overwriting Introduction's data in the game cache.
Problem 2 - Do nothing wastes time, triggers work fine without using it.

When does the save and load take place? I am not sure you can load gamecaches on map initialization for example.

 

[Sar'Kter]

Saving takes place after entering a region and pressing "yes" on a dialog box.
Standard Create Cache -> Clear Cache -> store data -> save cache method.

I tried many ways of loading the cache. On map init, delayed one as well as one triggered by typing "-load". Still freezes right at the beginning of the map. No matter which option is chosen. And it only happens when I move from map A to any map, if it's from map B to map A, everything works(even on initialization). This makes me think that something is wrong with the map A.

I also made the game show what it does by putting "Game - show text" between selected triggers. Everything showed up, followed by the "Waiting for host" error. My cached hero was not restored. This error pops up at the same moment, every time.