You are however in the login server, taking up space and using bandwidth. Besides why on earth do you want to sit there longer than the few minutes it takes you to select a new character and enter the game?
Now removing the timeout while using the character creator would be quite nice, having timed out there quite often. 
Timing out inactive users is a normal procedure for any client server based connection.
If you removed the timeout function, then every time a client crashes the server will keep the connection open indefinately. Eventually this could lead to conection problems for active players. Which is a bad bad thing.
Considering nothing about the characters is stored client side, and the costume creator won't be made available offline any time soon, I don't see how this could be handled.
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WoW, RF online, GW, lineage, rohan online, just a name a few who don't disconnect in the game menu, there is nothing "normal" about timing out a player.
Well, I can tell you now that RFO and L2 both disconnect you in the game menu, they just don't bother to tell the UI to update.
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Unless WoW has changed so does WoW, sit at the character select screen long enough and when you actually try and pick a character it kicks you back out to the login screen. It may be that it has a longer time out period the CoH but it certainly used to do it to me.
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Unless WoW has changed so does WoW, sit at the character select screen long enough and when you actually try and pick a character it kicks you back out to the login screen. It may be that it has a longer time out period the CoH but it certainly used to do it to me.
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/e pathead
That's what you wanted, right? Or was it a medal?
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currently, even when you're in the COX menu, you get kicked of the server when you're AFK for more then 15 minutes.
but i think that the function should only be active when you're actually in the game.
it's very annoying to design a hero/villain, and after you did some lunch, you can start all over again, demoting your effort, quality and devotion.
all and all, it would be nice if there is no kicking at all in the menu, better yet, you're not on the server untill you enter the game.
the pass should only to confirm your legal entrance, not an entire "i log in the server and am there ones i enter my pass" entrance.