Starcraft AI blog

What happened in game 947, Steamhammer-Florian Richoux? It wasn’t the failure to connect that has disturbed other games. It looks like a related but different server failure.

Both bots recorded replays. Both replays are 3 seconds long. Florian Richoux (aka AIUR) recorded a replay where both bots sent workers to mine, end of game. Steamhammer recorded a replay where it sent drones to mine while Florian Richoux was idle as if it had not connected. The official result has Florian Richoux winning, and the game is not considered a crash.

I guess Steamhammer connected and then somehow lost its connection after it issued its mining orders and before Florian Richoux’s mining orders reached it? Or something?

So far Steamhammer has 4 games out of 34 played which were disturbed by apparent server failures. 2 are wins and 2 are losses. That’s about 12%, consistent with the estimated 14% overall rate from earlier on. The failures are adding noise and on average causing scores to shift toward 50%.