The playonline loop

[Rambus]

Sometimes when you disconnect you get some box saying it can't connect. You hit exit then it says something like "You have to connect to the internet" ...
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I forget the exact situation but it makes a loop and the only way out is to hit x, then you get the message if you do that you might corrupt something. But it is like.... I have to..

Then there is another that is like:
You lost internet connection... Blahblah you have to hit ok. Then it asks me to reconnect , sometimes I just want to hit no and shut off my commuter (sometimes I AFK at night and I look at the computer to see I disconnected> Because I do not feel like loging back on just to bazzar sit I just want to turn off computer. This is why I want to just exit FF/PoL a lot after a D/C)

Anyways, So after you hit ok, you have the question do you want to reconnect and you move the cursor to no. Then you get another one asking a different question (I never read this one because one dialog should be enough to say 'no'. So then sometimes I end up pinging back and forth between hitting yes and no because of the redundant menus.

Can we limit redundant menus, questions, and dialogs in playlone? I should only need to be asked once if i really want to log back in or exit, not 2 or 3 times (not sure what the real number is since I'm sure I picked the wrong thing to make an extra one pop up.. or two.. or three... not sure what my record is pinging between them is.)

[Mirage]

Yeah, this is kinda annoying. You can't realistically use playonline without being logged in, so in the case of a logout from disconnections, POL should just instantly display the password-input field, and if we press cancel there, we should just be returned to the very first POL screen where you select an account.

Additionally, there should be a feature to automatically go directly to FF11 upon a successful login. No in-between screens anywhere, just straight to the game, with *at most* a pause at the "watch out for unauthorized access" warning before the game starts. This is something you should be able to toggle on or off in the settings, of course.

Outside Japan, there really is no other thing you could possibly play via POL than FF11 (No, you tetramaster players don't count!), so I really think the amount of fluff, pretty-but-slow screen transitions and all that other bling bling should be skippable by those who simply want to:

Enter password.
Select character.
Play FF11.

I mean I know that SE likes things to be pretty, but if you're having a Bad Internet Day with frequent disconnects, having to go through all that stuff several times an hour is just really really infuriating. It gives me an urge to punch the POL window and the only thing that's stopping me is that my monitor cost me 400 dollars.