Multiplayer AI doesn't restart after connection loss

[matthewevans]

Bug Report

Source: Discord / Engine analysis
Discord thread: AI Controller doesn't restart properly when losing connection

Cards

N/A — multiplayer infrastructure bug

Actual Behavior

After a connection loss in a 4-player AI game, reconnect/restart only recovers the first AI controller. AI players 3 and 4 remain stuck with no actions dispatched, making the game unplayable.

Expected Behavior

All AI controllers should restart cleanly after reconnection. The AI restart path in the multiplayer server must reinitialize all AI slots, not just the first.

Parser Status

N/A — server/multiplayer bug.

Notes

P0 — affects all multiplayer games. The phase-server / server-core reconnect handler needs to loop over all AI slots when restarting AI controllers.

[matthewevans]

This was resolved.