Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We who have a - relatively - unreliable ISP (who says his ISP is 100% reliable - is lying, pod him) from time to time see the "Connection lost" window. We curse, maybe burn some ISP office bulding in our imagination, and hatefully hit the damned "Restart" button. We go through the painful process of reloading the login screen into the memory, logging in, fully reloading the environment we left, again,.. just to see that our beloved ship is no more, or our friends have gone several jumps away (or we're in a fresh pod 40+ jumps away, sh** happens).

My point is, wouldn't it be wonderful if instead of this painfull process, the client just froze, a small window appeared asking the password, we logged in (without reloading the whole client anew) and after very short re-sync just continued playing? In many cases a connection loss lasts only a few seconds, for other cases we could have a second cheaper ISP (cell phone as a modem, etc etc etc).
In other words, in a little bit better world, this situation would look like this: you get disconnected, wait a few seconds or - better - switch to your secondary ISP, re-enter your password in a small window in the frozen client, 1-2 seconds for re-sync, and you happily continue shooting/mining/moving stuff.

EDIT.
Like this: http://i.imgur.com/kh0lV1V.jpg
Or even like this: http://i.imgur.com/ZSY8nof.jpg

You close the launcher?!?

The launcher does this. Of course, the launcher pulls slight amounts of bandwidth constantly, which can anger some more unreliable ISPs, making them more unreliable.

Granted, it doesn't do it automatically.

Yeah, why would I have the launcher window open ... already got enough other things running, don't need that in the list too.

+1 for a better disc window. Or that clicking restart really restarts and not just drops you back to desktop.

he means without loggin in again no character selection simply reconnect with the running character after a few sec
i hate the launcher i use it only to patch most off the people i know do the same

Yes, right.
Just freeze the client without any unload from the memory and without re-loading anything. Except a very short re-sync with the server.

Like this: http://i.imgur.com/kh0lV1V.jpg
Or even like this: http://i.imgur.com/ZSY8nof.jpg
And after pressing the button the client just unfreezes, re-syncs with the server normally, and you continue playing. No restart, no character selection, etc.


Not sure if I understand what you said.
I hope you mean that quick reconnection should be available at the very least within a 1-minute timer (except if the player uses the "safe log-off" feature).

In the best case, the client just should freeze up and remain so as long as there is any log-off timer going (normal default timer, npc aggression log-off timer, pvp log-off timer). In other words, if the ship is still in space - the client should just freeze without unloading anything from memory and without forcing you to character selection screen or whatever window outside the actual in-game environment.

Totally agree with that thing.

We want te be able to reconnect faster.

In case of session shutdown while fighting, each second is crucial.