matchmaking now queues. the first player in waits, the second one to
arrive pairs with them, and both get the same battle: one shared session
keyed by both accounts, one snapshot, the client working out which side
it is from the account ids it already carries. if nobody turns up within
ten seconds the ticker polls the queue out and builds the bot battle
instead. cancelling or disconnecting leaves the queue.
also fixes the movement component tail: the extracted layout counts
"n + 18" vints including the path length itself, so seventeen follow the
path, not eighteen. the verifier read one too many and every snapshot
carrying a moving unit came apart after it - which is what the guard
caught and refused to send, rather than the client aborting on it.
the client never receives individual commands in a battle - SectorManager
has receiveSectorState, receiveCompressedSectorState and a heartbeat, and
nothing else. so everything the opponent does has to reach the player
inside server state, which means the server needs to be able to speak
first. it could not: the rpc only ever answered.
the gateway now runs a ticker for the length of a battle, calling a new
battle_tick on the service five times a second and writing whatever it
returns straight to the socket. the simulation stays in the service and
the socket stays in the gateway.
the first rider is emotes. the player's SendBattleEventMessage reaches
the service instead of being logged and dropped, and the bot answers with
a taunt of its own; it also sends one unprompted every twelve to thirty
seconds, drawn from the rows of taunts.csv that TauntMenu marks as
usable. the reply carries the opponent account so it renders on their
side of the arena.
537 only tells the client's ui to start searching, the handshake after it was
missing: server sends 24106 StopHomeLogic, client answers 14105, server sends
21903. that last step now builds the same snapshot the npc mission does, using
npcs row 0 as the opponent.
battle type stays 1 so it runs on the client's offline path. a real pvp battle
is type 0 and needs the udp sector channel, which does not exist here.
14107 CancelMatchmake now answers 24125 instead of being ignored.
npc missions used to get a ServerErrorMessage back. now StartMission builds a
LogicGameMode snapshot off the arena tilemap and answers 21903.
towers come from assets/locations/*.csv the way initDefaultSector does it: tile
coordinates times 500, leader index decided by which half of the map the tower
sits in. the two king towers must be there, the client dereferences them without
a null check. they live in buildings.csv, not characters.csv.
LogicCharacter puts the base object fields fourth, not first. the buff component
writes a fixed array sized by the character_buffs row count even with no buffs.
training_arena parses to 2 kings, 4 princess towers, 36x64 subtiles. snapshot is
602 bytes over 6 objects. the real client has not seen it yet.
