Seeing that disconnects are again bothering some people, I'd like to suggest something like a "Progress Note" for things like crafting, cactpot, triple triad, and indeed anything that would benefit from a transaction-based protocol by allowing for interruptions.
For example, I buy a mini-cactpot and see my first number that was automatically revealed. I don't like the position of this number as it decreases my chance at a big prize, so I switch off my router. The server waits and sees that I've disconnected in progress of a mini-cactpot, so I automatically get a "progress note - cactpot" in my quest item inventory that records the status of this mini-cactpot. (Same if I accept a DF queue, or for some mysterious reason reset my computer.) When I reconnect, I either ignore that progress note and lose this mini-cactpot (same as now) or I could just right click on the "progress note - cactpot" and continue from where I left.
Or during crafting, I get to 15/40 durability and 80% quality with material that costed 800k gil, as I click on hasty touch and immediately disconnect my network cable, the server recognizes my hasty touch and the subsequent disconnect, and writes this progress into the "progress note - crafting" in my quest item inventory. Upon reconnect, I could only continue from after that hasty touch, i.e. from 5/40 durability and whatever quality it ended up with.
Same for accepting dungeon queues.
Obviously this would create problems with player vs player triple triad games, but for NPC-related and solo activities, this would resolve most (if not all) complaints about disconnects costing players a fortune, or complaints about not being able to do anything when the queue is close to its average queue time.
What do people think of this?
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03-03-2015, 07:54 AMZfz"Progress Note" object
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03-03-2015, 08:05 AMMalzian
I think this is fine, but only if the exact state of thing is saved from right before the disconnect and then it becomes "continue or lose it", otherwise you'll have people abusing it by pulling the quote on their router intentionally.
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03-03-2015, 10:29 AMNicoboI think if it would happen, it even don't need to use an inventory slot. ^^;Quote:
Originally Posted by Zfz
And players should be forced continue, if the server has your latest saved, why it still let players select "continue/quit latest action"?