I have noticed that after a challenge is created the nextPlayer is randomly chosen. I have been looking for a way to explicitly set who the nextPlayer is when creating a challenge but havent found a way so far. As a work-a-round I am trying to conditionally consume the nextPlayers turn in ChallengeStartedMessage if the nextPlayer ends up being the challenger.

var nextPlayer = Spark.getData().challenge.nextPlayer;

var challengerId = challenge.getChallengerId();

if (challengerId == nextPlayer) {

    SparkChallenge.consumeTurn(nextPlayer);

}

However this still doesnt product consistent results as sometimes its still the challenger's turn after the challenge is created.

There are 2 players in the challenge.

What I did discover is that SparkChallenge.consumeTurn(nextPlayer); 

does not work. When debugging in the test harness, when trying to step over this line of code the debugger freezes and eventually just exits the ChallengeStartedMessage code.

if I change this line to:

var result = challenge.consumeTurn(nextPlayer);

then it works as expected. This was confusing for me because this other forum post provides an answer to use this code, SparkChallenge.consumeTurn(nextPlayer);

https://support.gamesparks.net/support/discussions/topics/1000042171

Another question I have is if the debugger stops working because of a code error, is there any way to see what the actual error is that caused the debugger to stop working?