fix(server): reap games that have no connected clients - #5078
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phase() measured the empty-game warmup grace as `startsAt! + 30s`. When startsAt is undefined that expression is NaN, so `now > NaN` is always false and the noActive/noRecentPings branch could never return Finished. Such games stayed in GameManager's map — still running their turn interval with zero connected clients — until the 3 hour maxGameDuration cutoff, inflating the active_games gauge while connected_clients sat near zero and keeping a drained deployment from ever going quiet. startsAt is unset for any game that never got a countdown: a lobby that auto-starts by reaching maxPlayers (hasReachedMaxPlayerCount) and admin bot games. Measure the grace from startsAt, else the actual start time, else lobby creation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J2SkvYmHmNUkvFEYxi5Cb4
The empty-game reap in phase() waits on lastPingUpdate, a game-wide "someone is still out there" clock that any socket with a message listener could refresh — including one already dropped from activeClients. Both drop paths leave the listener attached and the socket able to send: the stale-ping prune only calls close() when the socket is OPEN, and a graceful close is a handshake, not an instant hangup. A game held that way had an empty roster and a warm clock, so it ran to the 3 hour maxGameDuration cutoff. Only a client still on the roster refreshes the clock now. As a backstop, a started game with nobody connected for 10 minutes ends regardless of what that clock says. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J2SkvYmHmNUkvFEYxi5Cb4
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WalkthroughGameServer now tracks roster-aware pings and reaps empty games after warmup or ten minutes of continuous emptiness. GameManager also skips starting active games with no connected clients. Tests cover empty games, warmup timing, off-roster pings, and abandoned lobbies. ChangesEmpty game lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A client disconnect during the delayed start window can briefly launch a game with no connected players, producing misleading start activity and unnecessary turn processing until cleanup occurs. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to re-check the roster immediately before starting. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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In `@src/server/GameServer.ts`:
- Around line 1785-1808: Update the empty-game phase logic around
hasReachedMaxPlayerCount and startsAt so an unstarted, full lobby with no
connected clients is marked Finished before emptySince is assigned or the warmup
path can return Active. Preserve existing behavior for started games and
non-full lobbies, and add a test exercising the scenario through
GameManager.tick().
In `@tests/server/EmptyGameReaping.test.ts`:
- Around line 3-14: Remove the GameStartInfoSchema and
ServerPrestartMessageSchema overrides from the vi.mock for Schemas in
EmptyGameReaping.test.ts. Keep the real schema module and update the lifecycle
test’s inputs to use valid fixtures so GameServer.prestart() and
GameServer.start() exercise production validation directly.
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While reviewing this through the production lifecycle, I found the added 'finishes a full lobby everyone left before it started' test does not cover what GameManager actually does. For hasReachedMaxPlayerCount=true, startsAt=undefined, no clients, and hasStarted()=false, phase() skips Lobby and returns Active during the 30-second warmup. GameManager.tick() interprets Active as a start signal, calls prestart(), and schedules start() two seconds later—so the abandoned lobby is started before it is reaped. The direct phase() test passes only because it advances 60 seconds without running the manager. Could we finish this unstarted/full/empty case before returning Active and add a regression that registers the game with GameManager, calls tick(), advances the 2-second timer, and asserts prestart/start never occurs? I ran vitest run tests/server/EmptyGameReaping.test.ts (7/7 passed), Prettier on both changed files, and ESLint on both changed files; all passed, so this is a missing lifecycle assertion rather than a failing existing test.
Reaching maxPlayers takes a lobby out of the Lobby phase, so one that filled up and then emptied reports Active. The reap in phase() waits for the ping clock left warm by the players who just left, and GameManager reads Active on an unstarted game as its start signal — so in that window it prestarted and started a game with nobody in it, emitting a playerless match_started and running turns for no one until the reaper caught up ~30s later. Skip the start when no clients are connected; phase() then prunes the lobby. Also drop the schema mocks from the reaping tests: they bypassed the very validation prestart() and start() run, and real fixtures pass them fine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J2SkvYmHmNUkvFEYxi5Cb4
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In `@src/server/GameManager.ts`:
- Around line 158-160: Update the delayed-start callback around game.start() to
re-check game.numClients() immediately before starting; return without calling
game.start() when the count is zero, while preserving the existing delayed start
for games that still have clients.
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Re-check the client count before the delayed start.
The guard checks game.numClients() only when the timer is scheduled. If the last client disconnects during the 2-second delay, this callback still calls game.start() with an empty roster. GameServer.start() does not perform this check, so it can emit match_started and run turns for a playerless game. Check game.numClients() immediately before game.start() and return when it is zero.
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setTimeout(() => {
try {
+ if (game.numClients() === 0) {
+ this.log.info("not starting game, no clients connected", {
+ gameID: id,
+ });
+ return;
+ }
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In `@src/server/GameManager.ts` around lines 158 - 160, Update the delayed-start
callback around game.start() to re-check game.numClients() immediately before
starting; return without calling game.start() when the count is zero, while
preserving the existing delayed start for games that still have clients.
🤖 Claude Code ReviewVerdict: Needs work — the branch is out of date with The fix itself targets real, still-present bugs on src/server/GameServer.ts
tests/server/EmptyGameReaping.test.ts
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A worker was reporting 88 active games against 7 connected clients, hours after the load balancer had been switched away from it. The games were real:
active_gamesisGameManager.games.size, and a game only leaves that map whenphase()returnsFinished. Reaching a winner does not end a game — the only routes out are "everyone left" or the 3 hourmaxGameDurationcap — so anything that breaks the empty-game reap leaves a game running its turn interval, with nobody connected, for three hours.Two separate things broke it.
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startsAtis optional, and the warmup grace assumed it wasn't.undefined + 30_000isNaN, andnow > NaNis always false, so for any game without astartsAttheFinishedbranch was unreachable. That covers every game that never got a scheduled countdown: a lobby that auto-starts by reachingmaxPlayers(hasReachedMaxPlayerCountmakesphase()skip the Lobby branch, andGameManagerthen prestarts and starts it), and admin bot games. Public lobbies given astartsAtby the master drained correctly, which is why the tail-off looked normal before flattening out.The grace is now measured from whenever the game actually committed to starting:
startsAt ?? _startTime ?? createdAt.2. A socket off the roster could keep the game-wide ping clock warm.
lastPingUpdateis the "someone is still out there" clock the reap waits on, and the ping handler refreshed it for any socket that reached it. Both paths that drop a client fromactiveClientsleave its message listener attached and the socket able to send: the stale-ping prune andkickClientonly callclose()whenreadyState === OPEN, and a graceful close is a handshake, not an instant hangup. One such socket pinging keptnoRecentPingsfalse forever, so an empty game again ran to the 3 hour cap.Ping handling moved into
handlePing(), which only refreshes the game-wide clock for a client still on the roster.client.lastPingstill updates either way.Backstop.
phase()now tracksemptySince, and a started game with an empty roster for 10 continuous minutes reportsFinishedregardless of the ping clock — a rule that depends on nothing but the roster. Empty lobbies are deliberately left alone: the master keeps a fixed number queued, so reaping them would churn create/destroy and rotate game IDs people hold links to.phase()is also restructured so a non-empty game returnsActiveimmediately and the reaping logic sits below that. Behaviour is unchanged — bothFinishedbranches already required an empty roster.Not changed, but worth a look separately: a game that has crowned a winner keeps ticking as long as anyone stays on the post-game screen.
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tests/server/EmptyGameReaping.test.tscovers a started client-less game with and without astartsAt, the warmup grace, a full lobby everyone left before it started, an off-roster ping not touching the game-wide clock, the 10 minute backstop against a forced-warm clock, and a game with a real pinging client stayingActivefor 20 minutes. Two of them fail onmain.Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or regression is found:
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