Disconnection - problem and soution

[SMELLICT]

Disconnection SUX


I am sick and tired of the fact that disconnecting a game for 2 minutes means that you lose game+all items.. get mad and dont want to play again.
this is so frustrating !!! you lose game and more important all of your good items because of bad connection for 2-3 minutes ?????




The solution

when a player discconects for the first time in a game. STOP the game for 3-4 minutes and give him time to come back. in the second time - STOP for 1 minute. after that no more STOPPING (so if there is such a bad connection for that player , there is no point to waste other players time)

once they player comes back from disconnection ... the game resums in the same moment that it was stopped (same player turn...and time to finish turn).

[TheOne]

that's your problem though, isn't it?

why should we wait because you are too cheap to get decent internet?:(

[SMELLICT]

TheOne dont be 10 years old.
If you dont have something usefull to say...say nothing.

[KOgear]

i agree that the game should pause, but only for the very first time they disconnect and only for 1min,otherwise it could cause frantic comments while the players continuosly wait for them to reconnect

so really im kinda 50/50 on this one :)

[headswillroll]

disconnect happens with quality internet too... It happens rarely but very dissapoints! Especially when you`re going to recieve 1500 - 2000 xp)
Of course disconnection helps to win sometimes))) But it`s unfair

[TheOne]

TheOne dont be 10 years old.
If you dont have something usefull to say...say nothing.

It's a bad suggestion. Why should other players in the room have to suffer because of your problem?

[onetower]

Sometimes its not a problem of your internet just the way betwen you and Gunrox server, maybe only one router on this way is now restarted ?

[NinjaZee]

I think its a good idea... This approach is also used in ALL poker games.
But I think it should be like:
1th disconnect: Wait for 2 minutes.
2nd disconnect: Wait for 1 minue.
3rd and so on: Don't wait anymore.

And by 2nd I mean both if the player disconnects for the second time during one game, but also if he disconnects and is still disconnected when he gets his turn for the second time.
I have only disconnected once and that was when I played on a wireless connection, if you play using a cable-connection you should experience this very rarely.

[SMELLICT]

I think its a good idea... This approach is also used in ALL poker games.
But I think it should be like:
1th disconnect: Wait for 2 minutes.
2nd disconnect: Wait for 1 minue.
3rd and so on: Don't wait anymore.

And by 2nd I mean both if the player disconnects for the second time during one game, but also if he disconnects and is still disconnected when he gets his turn for the second time.
I have only disconnected once and that was when I played on a wireless connection, if you play using a cable-connection you should experience this very rarely.

I play using cable...and it happened to me at least 3-4 times.

disconnection happens to everyone...its a part of life. can happen from many reasons and makes the game unfair at this moment.

since a player turn lasts about 1 minute , than the waiting time for disconnected player is negligible.
other players can wait 2 minutes for games that somtimes take hours to finish. its worth the wait instead of ruin a game and losing all items for 1 or more players (if your team mate disconnects..good chance you will lose).

[Red_Ranger]

How about a system that auto attacks when you disconnect?

the only thing more annoying than disconnecting and losing for it, is when you play team match and your ally disconnects.. When that happens you not only lose the match, you actually keep playing helplessly, just waiting to get killed more or less..
Only thing bad about this idea is players who will abuse it, get into team-matches and then disconnect their internet, hoping they might win and get xp without even playing..

[CoDeRs_KnOw]

nice suggestion.
i havent dc problems, but sometimes i need some time (what a sentence : P )in the game,
(especially in games that last a long time)
so it may be useful
;)

The solution ...

[kyle_jameson]

i dont disconnect much but laging can be more common for me

[luvandluxury]

he right good idea.

[orestes]

in one game i did wait for other player (i skipped turn) after that he was granted free one (i never get free turn after DC). i told him that i was waiting for him, but he great used 2 of his turns in row, and i lost. that was last time i done such a thing

in team games, i think best idea is to give control of DC'ed player units to most experienced player in same team (higher amount of exp).
#1. easy to program (no AI scripts making)
#2. definetly fair (no more losing games couse of DC)

[kyle_jameson]

i waited for player he didnt come back so i searched then he had his units in a line so i kept shotting until he was dead

[orestes]

my wife was sleeping and i wanted to wake her up, so i started to shake her, but she havent been moving, then i was shouting, but still no reaction. after that i started hitting her head nearby wall, till her brain come out and splash all around. end of story

(related to post above :D)

[kyle_jameson]

my wife was sleeping and i wanted to wake her up, so i started to shake her, but she havent been moving, then i was shouting, but still no reaction. after that i started hitting her head nearby wall, till her brain come out and splash all around. end of story

(related to post above :D)

right now is that made up or what? coz thats weird

[Dewdundency]

what do you expect from someone who's name is "orestes"?

[orestes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Orestes also ukrainian name orest

[Dewdundency]

Right... well I assumed that if you were using a real name that you would capitalize the "O". Therefore, i deduced that you were just making a weird word out of letters. Had you capitalized the O, I might have actually looked it up.

[redfeeniks]

I'm totally with "SMELLICT" on the matter, its not that we have cheap Internets, its the gunrox server and all the routers its supposed to go through, There should be a waiting time for a player to come and take his turn, i mean, people mostly play 1:00 minute game and honestly logging in starting the game takes one whole minute -.-' so mind everyone but this sucks when it happens to you! and it doesn't for those who take the UNFAIR advantage of THAT -.-.

there is an other problem I've seen in the game is that when two very distant player in real world play, the game lags alot in it, I mean I'll be moving my units and and the unit would animate movement but would be stuck in the same place -.-' for like sometimes a whole 30 secs! isn't that unfair? this problem is a total issue of the growing population in the game cause i seriously think the game has only one server -.- and MOST of the multi player games I've played have more then 4 servers active, games life "fiesta" and Gaia online