...Hey. I'm probably mostly alone on this one, but I am among the people who have problems with frequent random disconnects from all servers. Essentially I get dropped in mid game during a long round or after a short round usually in the second. The result is me losing all the money, all the skills, all the progress... What I was pondering was kind of a safe reconnect feature like you find it in, for example, guild wars. After you get disconnected, the game offers you to reconnect you directly back into the game. You respawn where you were disconnected. It's a very useful feature since this game's group activities are instanced and as soon as you drop out you have to sit it out or the whole group has to restart to get you back with them... Of course you could also just reconnect here ( -> reconnect.. I still wanna know how to bind it to a button) but you WILL lose all money, skill, kills, stats, anything you made through the round. So a feature that gives you a little window of opportunity to reconnect and continue where you left off might be relieving to the players suffering this bug, as well as people who, in general, get disconnected from games occasionally.
I don't know how this would be possible, especially on full servers where people are waiting in line to get in.
I don't see the problem here. Give the player that got disconnected a brief window of opportunity to reconnect with said feature, like 15-30 seconds before removing him from the game entirely. If he doesn't reconnect in that time open the slot. If the player just quits free it instantly.
Having some **** quality internet myself, I would love this. My router occasionally (actually, at least 10x a day) loses internet connection entirely for ~20 seconds. Connection lost, booted out of server - no biggie, *reconnect*. LOLNO THE SERVER IS FULL, GTFO
Yeah, my wireless card randomly drops my connection under heavy usage and it takes up to a minute for it to come back online.
