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 reaps empty games through warmup-aware ping checks and a ten-minute fallback timeout. It ignores pings from off-roster clients when refreshing the game clock. New tests cover missing ChangesEmpty game reaping
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The current change can still start a full lobby after all clients leave before warmup, allowing a clientless game to evade the intended cleanup behavior; the lifecycle test also bypasses production validation. This leaves a bounded server-resource and correctness risk, so the PR is not merge-ready until the empty-lobby path and test fixtures are corrected. 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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| // Grace period before an empty game is reaped, measured from whenever it | ||
| // committed to starting. startsAt is not always set: a lobby that | ||
| // auto-starts by filling to maxPlayers, and admin bot games, never get one | ||
| // — and `undefined + 30_000` is NaN, so every comparison against it is | ||
| // false. Those games could never be reaped and lived on (still ticking | ||
| // turns, with nobody connected) until the maxGameDuration cutoff above. | ||
| const warmupFrom = this.startsAt ?? this._startTime ?? this.createdAt; | ||
| const warmupOver = now > warmupFrom + 30 * 1000; | ||
| const noRecentPings = now > this.lastPingUpdate + 20 * 1000; | ||
| if (warmupOver && noRecentPings) { | ||
| return GamePhase.Finished; | ||
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| // Backstop: an empty game whose ping clock never goes quiet. Only a client | ||
| // on the roster refreshes lastPingUpdate now, but a game that manages to | ||
| // keep that clock warm with nobody connected must still not outlive the | ||
| // players by hours — sustained emptiness is enough on its own. | ||
| if (this.hasStarted() && now > this.emptySince + this.emptyGameTimeout) { | ||
| this.log.warn("game had no connected clients past timeout, ending", { | ||
| gameID: this.id, | ||
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| return GamePhase.Finished; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Finish an empty full lobby before the warmup path.
When hasReachedMaxPlayerCount is true and startsAt is undefined, Lines 1770-1776 skip Lobby. Line 1785 then starts the warmup period and returns Active.
GameManager.tick() treats that result as a start signal. It calls prestart() and then start(), so a full lobby that everybody left can start with no roster before this code reaps it.
Handle the unstarted, full, empty-lobby case before assigning emptySince. Add a test that runs this case through GameManager.tick().
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In `@src/server/GameServer.ts` around lines 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().
| vi.mock("../../src/core/Schemas", async () => { | ||
| const actual = (await vi.importActual("../../src/core/Schemas")) as any; | ||
| return { | ||
| ...actual, | ||
| GameStartInfoSchema: { | ||
| safeParse: (data: any) => ({ success: true, data: data }), | ||
| }, | ||
| ServerPrestartMessageSchema: { | ||
| safeParse: (data: any) => ({ success: true, data: data }), | ||
| }, | ||
| }; | ||
| }); |
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Remove the schema mocks from this lifecycle test.
These mocks bypass the production validation path in GameServer.prestart() and GameServer.start(). Use valid test fixtures and the real schemas so the test exercises the server lifecycle directly.
As per coding guidelines, tests/**/*.{ts,tsx} must “exercise the core simulation directly — not mocks.”
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In `@tests/server/EmptyGameReaping.test.ts` around lines 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.
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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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