Server list problems - Monday 3 November 2008 (02:18)

We found yet another set of critical bugs that affect all recent versions of Multi Theft Auto (using the new game-monitor.com protocol instead of the now defunct All-Seeing Eye), caused by a developer's poor practice of coding in our server browser.

One bug involves a severely incorrect parsing method of the server list. In the worst case, this means that for a lot of our players, no servers (or only a few) show up at all. This depends on the actual server count registered by the master server list.

The second bug involves invalid bit arithmetic on the IP-address, effectively causing a completely random number of servers not to show up on the list. In practice this means that probably a lot of servers don't show up correctly for our players.

This issue has been fixed and will be incorporated in the next public release. We are very unhappy with this problem as it prevents a lot of first-time users from playing. We apologize for any inconvenience and strongly recommend people to use Game-Monitor.com for a reliable list of servers for now.

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