weird behaviour switching sides for players

[Sarge 1]

Hi all,

am stuck on an issue that took some time already, hope for some help here.

let me explain the situation:

full MP environment, dedicated server.

- I got a trigger defined, that fires whenever a player enters or leaves the trigger. Works like a charm.

- I figure out which player leaves or enters by comparing the triggerlist with a variable that i store on the trigger that holds all players. -> works like a charm as well.

What i try to do now is that IF a player enters the trigger, i (based on certain conditions) try to switch his side.

The way i do that is:

                _trig_grp = createGroup resistance;
               sleep 1;

               {
                   [_x] joinSilent grpNull;
                   sleep 1;
                   diag_log format["XXXXXXX ----- joined nullGrp -----------: %1",_x];    
                   [_x] joinSilent _trig_grp;
                   diag_log format["XXXXXXX ----- joined %2 -----------: %1",_x,_trig_grp];                        
                   sleep 1;
               } foreach _trig_unitlist;

In this special example, _trig_unitlist only holds one unit (checked before), so this is only executed on one player.

if i check the players side after the above with:

                diag_log format["|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: %1",side _player_joined]; 
               sleep 1;
               diag_log format["|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: %1",side _player_joined]; 
               sleep 1;
               diag_log format["|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: %1",side (_trig_unitlist select 0)];
               sleep 1;
               diag_log format["|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: %1",side _trig_grp];

i do get weird results. _player_joined holds the player object that joined the trigger, _trig_unitlist select 0 is the same, and side _trig_grp shows the side of the defined group.

What IS weird is, if i reduce / adjust the sleeps, i get different results. In theory, all 4 diags should show the same value. In reality, it looks like this:

21:26:41 "XXXXXXX ----- joined nullGrp -----------: B 1-1-A:1 (Sarge) REMOTE"
21:26:41 "XXXXXXX ----- joined R 1-1-A -----------: R 1-1-A:1 (Sarge) REMOTE"
21:26:42 "|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: WEST"
21:26:43 "|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: WEST"
21:26:44 "|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: GUER"
21:26:45 "|||||||||||||||||| player joined group, side of player set to: GUER"

These results are NOT consistent, sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt.

Questions:

- is there any delay when creating a group and joining a unit before that unit switches it's side to the one of the group?

- is there a known bug with creategroup / joinsilent ?

I am looking for a simple way to switch sides for a player, only found the soultion via groups.

Any help is highly appreciated, if BI reads this, i would welcome a hint.

cheers

Sarge