Can't suicide creeps reliably in world since the update

Dissi

https://screeps.com/a/#!/history/W5N12?t=13052308

http://i.imgur.com/kDikavK.png - no creep there.

 if (theCreep.memory.role == undefined)
 {
     var message = 'Creep with no role found: \n' + theCreep.name + '\nTick: ' +Game.time + '\nMemory: ' + JSON.stringify(theCreep.memory);
     if(!Game.rooms['sim'])
     {
         Game.notify(message, 0);
         log(message, "error");
     }
     theCreep.suicide()
     return;
 }

Every tick the creep still think he's alive. While it's impossible for it to be alive. This happened multiple times since the downtime of 23-8-2016.

artch

I can barely understand what are you reporting. Please elaborate what you expect and what you get.

Dissi

If a creep has no role (due to a bug) I suicide the creep using .suicide().

This normally never happens, only when the memory gets corrupted for some reason.

Since this morning

theCreep.suicide()

no longer works.

each tick the same creep gets a .suicide() call, but it doesn't die and still lives next tick.

The creep is gone from the game, but it seems the Game.creeps still holds an object to a no longer living creep.

Dissi

Example:

Creep with no role found: 
C_38918
Tick: 13052502
Memory: {}
 pos: [room W3N11 pos 40,29]

Creep with no role found: 
C_38918
Tick: 13052503
Memory: {}
 pos: [room W3N11 pos 40,29]

The creep should have suicided on tick 13052502, but is still alive on 13052503

artch

I'm unable to reproduce this. Could you provide a clear isolated test case which proves the issue?

Dissi

I can't.

My creeps suicide themselves from time to time and delete their own memory.

I don't know if you can see the emails that are send to me from my code, but it looks like this lately:

http://i.imgur.com/PTQqC4g.png

You can see it's always creep

C_38918

in this case.

As you can see from the code above it should always suicide it after one message.

Dissi

It seems to be related when you suicide a creep and you code "dies" the same tick due to a CPU limit.

Dissi

Seems to be related to when your bucket is empty and the script gets cancelled mid-run, and a creep has been suicided on that cpu-bucket-empty tick.