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Hannah Frey
Freeska Freedom Republic
#1 - 2015-02-15 19:31:59 UTC
Reconnect Feature..

This may not Concern General Population because it is rarely a problem but I'll just say it anyway.

How about adding Reconnect Feature.
My problem is that sometimes my Internet will DC for about 7 seconds, and then I get Disconnected from the game.

How about adding a reconnect feature where if the Client got disconnected I can just press reconnect button and the client won't have to be restarted (Requiring to login again) but it will just load up current session like I have just log in from the Client.
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2015-02-16 00:08:21 UTC
Hannah Frey wrote:
Reconnect Feature..

This may not Concern General Population because it is rarely a problem but I'll just say it anyway.

How about adding Reconnect Feature.
My problem is that sometimes my Internet will DC for about 7 seconds, and then I get Disconnected from the game.

How about adding a reconnect feature where if the Client got disconnected I can just press reconnect button and the client won't have to be restarted (Requiring to login again) but it will just load up current session like I have just log in from the Client.

only problem I see is account security, if you can just reconnect without going back through the login process, how can the server be sure YOU are actually the eprson reconnecting?

your basically asking CCP to leave open and verified connections to the server anytime someone doesnt manually initiate logoff, that in theory could be picked up by ANY person looking for an open connection, creating a serious breach in account/user security.
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#3 - 2015-02-16 00:44:53 UTC
If you configure your launcher to not exit once the client has been launched, you can simply hit "Play" to re-launch the client without having to go through the full login process again.

To that end, I will say that effectively, what OP wants is already implemented.
Colette Kassia
Kassia Industrial Supply
#4 - 2015-02-16 01:06:49 UTC
Nariya Kentaya wrote:
only problem I see is account security, if you can just reconnect without going back through the login process, how can the server be sure YOU are actually the eprson reconnecting?

your basically asking CCP to leave open and verified connections to the server anytime someone doesnt manually initiate logoff, that in theory could be picked up by ANY person looking for an open connection, creating a serious breach in account/user security.

I'm fairly certain that there is a crypto exchange during login and that everything else is done through an encrypted tunnel (it's the only way to keep bots and modified clients nontrivial). The server could simply resume the crypto session and not worry about IP addresses.

But a bigger issues is that this would require delving into the deepest and most technical layers of the server and client to do something that relatively few people would benefit from.

+0.5
Hannah Frey
Freeska Freedom Republic
#5 - 2015-02-18 07:46:32 UTC
To prevent Security Issues..

They could just ask for login details again after pressing the reconnect button.
That would be more convenient than having the client to be restarted again.
Kabark
Schilden
#6 - 2015-02-18 16:20:15 UTC
I get what the OP is saying. Instead of "quit game," add an additional option to "logout" or "switch character" to go back to the character selection menu. It's a minor issue that at most adds another 30 seconds to a minute of bringing the game back up from the launcher. This would be nice and if they implemented it with the unified accounts, I could switch between alts much quicker.
Iain Cariaba
#7 - 2015-02-18 16:48:08 UTC
Kabark wrote:
I get what the OP is saying. Instead of "quit game," add an additional option to "logout" or "switch character" to go back to the character selection menu. It's a minor issue that at most adds another 30 seconds to a minute of bringing the game back up from the launcher. This would be nice and if they implemented it with the unified accounts, I could switch between alts much quicker.

If you use Alvatore's suggestion posted above, you can click the "Play" button and the client will go back to the character selection screen while logging out the character you currently have logged in. You imagine that having a button to go back to the character selection screen would somehow be faster, but I say this is untrue. As a person who constantly tries out new MMOs, I have played dozens of them. In every single one it took time, often longer than the 30s to a minute you complain about, to get back to the character select screen. I run ten characters on four accounts and have zero problems quickly switching between them as needed. It's easy, if you think about finding a solution beyond asking CCP to implement a feature they never had working to begin with.

Also, your "unified accounts" idea is still bad, for the same reasons given every other time you brought it up.
Kabark
Schilden
#8 - 2015-02-19 03:02:52 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
Kabark wrote:
I get what the OP is saying. Instead of "quit game," add an additional option to "logout" or "switch character" to go back to the character selection menu. It's a minor issue that at most adds another 30 seconds to a minute of bringing the game back up from the launcher. This would be nice and if they implemented it with the unified accounts, I could switch between alts much quicker.

If you use Alvatore's suggestion posted above, you can click the "Play" button and the client will go back to the character selection screen while logging out the character you currently have logged in. You imagine that having a button to go back to the character selection screen would somehow be faster, but I say this is untrue. As a person who constantly tries out new MMOs, I have played dozens of them. In every single one it took time, often longer than the 30s to a minute you complain about, to get back to the character select screen. I run ten characters on four accounts and have zero problems quickly switching between them as needed. It's easy, if you think about finding a solution beyond asking CCP to implement a feature they never had working to begin with.

Also, your "unified accounts" idea is still bad, for the same reasons given every other time you brought it up.

Ya I agree with you. This really isn't an issue to warrant an update. I personally liked the original game start up over the new launcher but it's easy both ways. But I'm not sure where you are getting that I brought up unified accounts more than once. I didn't make that OP not did I post in it or ever about it except now.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#9 - 2015-02-19 03:30:31 UTC
Ask your ISP to "clamp" your connection, it reduces the speed a bit but improves stability and to turn inter-leaving off if they have it on.

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