Replay Vault replay missing

[I_AM_EXFOLIATING]

I was spectating a game after being assassinated and my connection dropped out. When my internet connection came back online I watched the live replay from one of the two remaining players, which stopped after about 10 minutes. It didn't end, the simulation just froze (I presume because I had caught up to the players). Now the players are both offline and the replay doesn't appear in the online vault. I have the UID from the replay in the local archive, which obviously ends where my connection dropped out. When I try to download the file from the vault, I get an empty document. I can't contact either of the remaining two players (Mad_Mic and Crazy_Cossack) as they are both offline. I believe there were two other spectators but I'm not sure who.

Is this replay lost forever? What would cause it to be missing from the online vault?

Here is the replay from the local archive:

1330223-I_AM_EXFOLIATING.fafreplay

4v4 8-icelands_v6

(278.28 KiB) Downloaded 69 times

I doubt these will help but I'll get yelled at if I don't include them
replay.log
forever.log

[Ze_PilOt]

If you disconnect and are the only player sending replay data to the server, well, it can't get them anymore and the replay is lost.

[I_AM_EXFOLIATING]

Is there an option to send replays that some players may have disabled?

[Ze_PilOt]

Nope.

[I_AM_EXFOLIATING]

Then under what circumstance would I be the only one sending replay data to the server? I've disconnected from plenty of games before and been able to view the final outcome in the vault.

[Ze_PilOt]

No idea.

[thebeej]

I was spectating a game after being assassinated and my connection dropped out. When my internet connection came back online I watched the live replay from one of the two remaining players, which stopped after about 10 minutes. It didn't end, the simulation just froze (I presume because I had caught up to the players). Now the players are both offline and the replay doesn't appear in the online vault. I have the UID from the replay in the local archive, which obviously ends where my connection dropped out. When I try to download the file from the vault, I get an empty document. I can't contact either of the remaining two players (Mad_Mic and Crazy_Cossack) as they are both offline. I believe there were two other spectators but I'm not sure who.

Is this replay lost forever? What would cause it to be missing from the online vault?

HI Exolifater,

I was in that game too (my T3 Bomber pilots say hello ), and watched through to the end after our mutual destruction.

Here is what happened after you dropped out:

After a long period of OP Sera Nano Com action, Andyrooooo killed D10ny5u5 but then died himself in the aftermath when Crazy Cossacks Othuums charged in.

Then it was only CrazedCossack vs Mad_Mic left from the original 8 players.

Mad_Mic still had a large force of t1/t2 that escaped the com explosions. This force pushed around the back of the craters and into CraryCossacks base, but it was just surplus t1 p-gens in that area, so not much damage was done before more Othuums came up to stop the incursion.

They both eco'ed for a while but then a Yothota from CrazyCossack stomped into the front of MadMics base. Mad Mic teleported or used a transport (didn't see which) to get away, but not far enough. The Yoth chased him down towards his expansion base, taking t2 PD fire the whole way.
Finally the Yoth caught up to Madmic, but instead of going for the Com it stopped to kill engies, and Madmic Overcharged it! and then got away from the energy storm with a few thousand health.

Meanwhile, there was a last minute scare when a group of Mad_Mics othuums almost caught Crazy, he went down to 2500 health. Nailbiting!

After that a 2nd Yoth from Crazy came down the mid and started base stomping, while a second force of Othuums came to the front base and killed Mad_Mic just as he was trying to finish a Yoth of his own.

A great, exiting and close game!

WP all and GG.

[I_AM_EXFOLIATING]

Oh my God, I have to see the finale now beej I saw up until when mic overcharged the first chicken.

The replay is appearing in the online vault today, but when I attempt to launch it I get a crash report "[auto] Crash from I_AM_EXFOLIATING: unpack requires a string argument of length 1"

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**FAF Username:** I_AM_EXFOLIATING

**FAF Version:** 0.8.80

**FAF Directory:** C:\ProgramData\FAForever

**FA Path:** C:\Program Files (x86)\THQ\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance

**Home Directory:** E:\Users\Bryce\Documents

**Stacktrace:**
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "replays\_replayswidget.pyc", line 121, in finishRequest
  File "fa\exe.pyc", line 164, in replay
  File "fa\replayparser.pyc", line 50, in getVersion
  File "fa\replayparser.pyc", line 33, in __readLine
error: unpack requires a string argument of length 1

}}}


I get the same error when I try launch the file after downloading it from the vault manually.

forever.log

[I_AM_EXFOLIATING]

after checking out the replay from the vault in a text editor, it looks like it's basically empty. Just the header and a few bytes of data after that

beej, do you have a copy on your local archive?