I like this idea, but the problem is what is a proper ammount of time. I know some people it takes a couple minutes to verify CoH or reboot their machine, while others it takes 20+ minutes.
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Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky
I like this idea, but the problem is what is a proper ammount of time. I know some people it takes a couple minutes to verify CoH or reboot their machine, while others it takes 20+ minutes.
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For most of my disconnects, I can get straight back on without reverify or reboot or any such so a 2 minute timeout would be fine. Fixing it that way would solve 90% of my disconnect grief.
However, if you want to get into system design...
I'd say queue any instance that doesn't end cleanly for deletion and delete them as and when you need the storage or instance handle or whatever back to reuse. Then the time before deletion is limited by system needs not a hard number.
I would support this feature only if it comes with ability to reset mission. Sometimes you would want to reset mission that has stucked NPC or missing glowie and don't want to deal with GM. I'm not even talking about farmers...
Once upon a time, years ago, this actually did work this way. I have no idea if it was intended or not.
Like Nord, I would be happy to see this as long as it didn't prevent intentional resets. I don't use them a lot, but I really do like the ability.
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This should probably go in the Suggestions and Ideas forum.
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Dear Devs,
You must have seen the problem where you're soloing and you're 90% through a "kill all baddies in several city blocks" mission, when you get disconnected. When you re-enter the mission it's a new instance, fully populated and you have to start again from scratch.
Frustrating or what?
Is there any reason why the instances could not have a timeout on them rather than instantly being destroyed (presumably) when the last team member logs out/disconnects.
They wouldn't have to hang around for ever. Just long enough for the player to restart his machine, or reverify his CoH image. and then re-enter, picking up from where he left off.
Yours hopefully