bugs Simtropolis 9.0.x - Bugs & Issues Report Thread

[AsimPika3172 1,136]

I hope club bugs will fixed soon!  🫡

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

5 minutes ago, AsimPika3172 said:

I hope club bugs will fixed soon!  🫡

I do expect CB'll be back way later tonight and he might be able to look into it.

I poked around in the Admin's Control Panel for the Clubs, but I couldn't find anything which looked wrong. It's basically all the settings for the Clubs rather than how their URLs are handled. It'll likely be a rule or something in the database and CB is an expert at ferreting out hidden troubles there.

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[AsimPika3172 1,136]

Welcome back to online guys!  😛 I hope no more error after this!

[nos.17 5,120]

Hate to add one more thing to the list, but the donation page is currently broken. Or at the very least the link is bad. 

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

6 minutes ago, nos.17 said:

Hate to add one more thing to the list,

Tis fine. Those are the things we need to know.  

This is another where it was handled with a URL redirect rule which got lost in the shuffle. CB has updated it.  

[hugues aroux 3,784]

Although flattering (  ), I'm noticing a lot - a really lot - of Stex-Bot downloads... approximately 60/70% of the total volume ... Not essential during these restoration times, just keep it at the bottom of the to-do list!

Spoiler

Thanks ... Have a good day

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

@hugues aroux 

The bot must like that file so much it keeps coming back for another helping...

Is there a particular upload where this is happening, or a common trend among several you've seen?

I seem to recall @CaptCity noticed this before in the past too (a few months ago), so it might be related.

[Silur 3,304]

Hello @Cyclone Boom!
This is a very strange question.
Does your server have barriers to free access for all countries or is someone blocked?
I can only contact with Simtropolis through a VPN
Thanks for all your work!

[CaptCity 4,753]

2 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

@hugues aroux 

The bot must like that file so much it keeps coming back for another helping...

Is there a particular upload where this is happening, or a common trend among several you've seen?

I seem to recall @CaptCity noticed this before in the past too (a few months ago), so it might be related.

Yes, it was a while back. I don’t remember what was tried to remedy the problem or if it just stopped on it’s own. It looks like it has affected everything since early Saturday morning ( my time, PDT).

Edit: Happened here... May have worked itself out back then.

[hugues aroux 3,784]

2 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

The bot must like that file so much it keeps coming back for another helping...

.. Or perhaps this bot has short-term memory problems!  Is it serious, doctor?

Seriously (  ) ... This applies to all (my and not only..) uploads updated since Saturday!  And it comes back every +-4 hours!

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

2 hours ago, hugues aroux said:

.. Or perhaps this bot has short-term memory problems!  Is it serious, doctor?

That's possible. And the STEX Bot is used with sc4pac and likely having an existential crisis while the underlying files structure is in disarray.

In all seriousness, checking out the context @CaptCity found from previously, I might've found the trouble...

My theory is @STEX Bot was being blocked by the checkpoint security system, since it was doing this on multiple files. We've added the checkpoint back yesterday after we got a big bad bot swarm (nasty little things). Not sure why it's being tripped up by this when it was fine before, but I've added a whitelist rule so it can (hopefully) get in. Now we wait to see whether it works. It might try another download until it succeeds, but then should go and have a laydown.

It better do or it'll fast turn into a Shattermore® Bot.

 

3 hours ago, Silur said:

Does your server have barriers to free access for all countries or is someone blocked?

Hmm. That's odd, but we do have broad security rules it might have accidentally applied to your network.

If you can send me a PM and tell me the IP address(es) you've tried to use which are blocked, I'll check what's happening on Cloudflare, etc.

[hugues aroux 3,784]

38 minutes ago, Cyclone Boom said:

It better do or it'll fast turn into a Shattermore® Bot.

...  ! 
...And thank you for the diagnosis... and I will wait...
(but I'm keeping my lightbulb hammer handy).

[memo 1,445]

1 hour ago, Cyclone Boom said:

My theory is @STEX Bot was being blocked by the checkpoint security system, since it was doing this on multiple files. We've added the checkpoint back yesterday after we got a big bad bot swarm (nasty little things). Not sure why it's being tripped up by this when it was fine before, but I've added a whitelist rule so it can (hopefully) get in. Now we wait to see whether it works. It might try another download until it succeeds, but then should go and have a laydown.

The bot attempts to download each new STEX file and, if it fails, apparently tries again an hour later or so. You can see the failed attempts here. Until a few hours ago, the failures it reported were

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/36889-esa-malmberget-10-18/?do=download&r=213451 not found

Even though this STEX entry has been updated very recently, this subfile still seems to be missing. The API also reports "size": null for it. I think @smf_16 might be in the best position to fix this.

Since about one or two hours, the bot reports a different failure though:

Simtropolis returned 403 for https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/37395-pc-office-park-13-18/?do=download&r=214508

so now the bot actually seems to be blocked.

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

Hmm, interesting. For the bot to be logged as downloading, it must record a successful initial request. So it seems like for a 404 or 403 error, that's returned in response for the files themselves. It sure is weird, unless that suggests it's on the GitHub end?

I'll have more of a look, but I'm currently at odds as to why it's doing this. On Cloudflare it shows they aren't being mitigated at all.

[jestarr 3,410]

Not sure where the problem is with this, but since coming back on line I've had a problem logging in with linux. The distro doesn't matter nor the browser as I have three of each and it's the same for all. This is what I get:

Simtropolis Security System

Invalid Access

Please return and click the Login button directly.

Time ID: 1780423179

The only thing that changes is the Time ID. Windows doesn't have the problem so it has to do with linux [at least on my systems].

[Wiimeiser 444]

I'm not sure if this is still up or what, it was updated 5 minutes ago, but it still says the file is missing?

[CaptCity 4,753]

2 hours ago, Wiimeiser said:

I'm not sure if this is still up or what, it was updated 5 minutes ago, but it still says the file is missing?

My fault.  Thanks for the heads-up...

I've been restoring PEG's files and forgot to hit the 'Delete Banner' button on that one which activates the download. It's the last step in the process, and I've caught myself forgetting it once in while. It should be cleared now.

[CaptCity 4,753]

I think it has been a few days, but I noticed that the 'Clubs' listings section on the homepage is no longer displaying. Just checking to see if it was 'turned off' while waiting for restoration, or if it an actual 'issue'.

Thanks

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

38 minutes ago, CaptCity said:

I noticed that the 'Clubs' listings section on the homepage is no longer displaying.

That sounds vaguely familiar as a previous bug which CB fixed. (And now it's unfixed again.)  

[CaptCity 4,753]

14 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

That sounds vaguely familiar as a previous bug which CB fixed. (And now it's unfixed again.)

If I remember correctly, I believe it was something he coded to separate the Club uploads from the non-Club files since they Club files were overwhelming the STEX listing (it's probably up the thread a ways...). It was done a little bit before the site went down, so I was wondeing if somehow the restoration had eliminated it. However, I thought I had seen it a couple days ago, so I'm not sure where it stands.

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

@CaptCity 

Good catch, I've added it back onto the homepage.

Turns out I disabled it intentionally the other day as only 3 files were being listed from a few months ago. You weren't seeing things when noticing it there!

Now we've had more of the club files restored thanks to your efforts, the feed is displaying files fully again.

 

On 02/06/2026 at 7:23 PM, jestarr said:

Not sure where the problem is with this, but since coming back on line I've had a problem logging in with linux. The distro doesn't matter nor the browser as I have three of each and it's the same for all.

There was an issue with IP addresses changing between IPv4 and IPv6 format while signing in, which upset the login security system. Apparently on Linux it favours IPv6 and that may have been causing the issue more often than on Windows.

We've implemented a potential fix for this now, so let us know if it works.

[jestarr 3,410]

15 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

There was an issue with IP addresses changing between IPv4 and IPv6 format while signing in, which upset the login security system. Apparently on Linux it favours IPv6 and that may have been causing the issue more often than on Windows.

We've implemented a potential fix for this now, so let us know if it works.

Unfortunately it didn't seem to work. I'm going to disable ipv6 and see if that makes a difference.

[jestarr 3,410]

1 hour ago, jestarr said:

Unfortunately it didn't seem to work. I'm going to disable ipv6 and see if that makes a difference.

Fixed it. Set ipv4 preferred over ipv6.

[kschmidt 6,164]

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Hope you can help with this issue !

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Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[Wiimeiser 444]

Hamura Station has the wrong zip file, it's mistakenly got the file for Hamura Library. If no one has the correct file (and I don't) then it's lost forever, as it's not on the Wayback Machine and Hide-Inoki has been taken over by a commercially-owned Korean site and the old server is completely wiped.

  Edited Tuesday at 02:41 AM by Wiimeiser  
extra link

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

5 minutes ago, Wiimeiser said:

Hamura Station has the wrong zip file, it's mistakenly got the file for Hamura Library.

Thanks. I've added back a message banner for it for now.

[CaptCity 4,753]

20 minutes ago, Wiimeiser said:

Hamura Station has the wrong zip file, it's mistakenly got the file for Hamura Library. If no one has the correct file (and I don't) then it's lost forever, as it's not on the Wayback Machine and Hide-Inoki has been taken over by a commercially-owned Korean site and the old server is completely wiped.

Thanks for the headsup. Just a case of getting a little blurry-eyed after doing several in a row. Should be corrected, now.

We have most of the files that were lost from the club. Unfortunately, that didn't include all the images. It's just a question of translating things so that we can make some kind of effort to figure out how to match things up...

 

14 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

Thanks. I've added back a message banner for it for now.

Deleted your banner after I noticed it... 

[Wiimeiser 444]

Thanks for that. It seems to be working now.

[Allein 329]

Also has the wrong file attached as download.