PokerTH

I am a bit new here, but have spent decades in the Backgammon community.

In backgammon it is a game of skill and luck.
The skill is making moves that give the most good moves you can, while at the same time minimizing your opponents good moves.

I have seen it time and time again that players will ...

Well it works sometimes... I wonder if I have too many connections from a single IP...

Programming question, not sure of the best place...

I am running on a test server that does not have user auth enabled.

Does the standard client (On Linux) ignore Lobby messages from Unauthenticated users?

Lobby_msg.png

It is not displayed in the lobby for users in game or not...

Any ideas ...

I am working on a bot (yes open source) and have a question about "PlayerResult"

message PlayerResult {
required uint32 playerId = 1;
required uint32 resultCard1 = 2;
required uint32 resultCard2 = 3;
repeated uint32 bestHandPosition = 4 [packed = true];
required uint32 moneyWon = 5;
required ...

see pull request #445

Here's the first working version I have.
It has a lot of debug stuff and need clean up but works.

It support message types

-- Dispatcher function table
local MESSAGE_TYPE_ANNOUNCE = 1
local MESSAGE_TYPE_INIT = 2
local MESSAGE_TYPE_INIT_ACK = 6
local MESSAGE_TYPE_PLAYERLIST = 12
local MESSAGE_TYPE ...

I figured it out... need to rework things a bit.

Once I get a the 10 most common messages working i'll do a PR for review

Tom

And in the era they all came from wouldn't they be all smoking?

I am working a dissector to parse PokerTH packets and I am seeing some issues with the protoc description and the data

Maybe the protoc spec has changed or the generator I am using is making mistakes...

init_ack (6)
0000 74 ee 2a fb ee cc ae 8b a9 2c a0 16 08 00 45 00
0010 00 52 f3 bd 40 00 33 06 ...

I get this message

00 00 00 16 08 01 12 12 0a 04 08 05 10 01
12 04 08 01 10 0b 18 00 20 02 28 2f

message AnnounceMessage {
message Version {
required uint32 majorVersion = 1;
required uint32 minorVersion = 2;
}
required Version protocolVersion = 1;
required Version latestGameVersion = 2 ...