Character still logged in error.

[Khalithar]

Are there any plans to finally get rid of this? It's really annoying when you get disconnected by the server and can't log back in immediately, especially when it happens mid boss fight. It's happened to me more than a few times and I find it really irritating every time.

[LineageRazor]

Yeah, I wonder about this myself. It's obvious why a player's character should remain in-game for a while after they disconnect, to prevent abuses of this sort:

Raider 1: Okay, guys, boss is about to do his ABSOLUTE ANNIHILATION attack! The boss is at 20 annihilation stacks because none of us can dodge for crap, and our gear is all horrible. There's no way any of is is going to survive, so it's time to bring out the industrial strength cheese! Raider 2, pop Halowed Ground. Everyone else, get ready to yank your ethernet cords! 3... 2... 1... PULL!
*Everyone disconnects; their characters instantly disappear. Players log back in five seconds later. Raider 2 is standing in a cooling pile of molten rock, filing his fingernails.*
Raider 1: All right, the attack is over! The fight is a breeze from here. Good job, all!

However, I see no reason why a player who disconnects can't rejoin as soon as they have the opportunity to do so, so long as their character remains in game to soak up any punishment. Why is it necessary to wait for the zombie character to finish its disconnection period? Player should be able to get right back into the game. So long as the character remains in-game, all opportunity for abuse has been covered.

[Khalithar]

Yeah, I wonder about this myself. It's obvious why a player's character should remain in-game for a while after they disconnect, to prevent abuses of this sort:

That's the thing, if you've seen someone red dotting or whatever, their character does stay in for a bit and still gets hit by certain AoE's and/or dies from the damage they take and being unable to move out of it. So it would be really difficult to abuse it anyway, that being said, we should still be able to log back in right away.

[Nghthawk]

Are there any plans to finally get rid of this? It's really annoying when you get disconnected by the server and can't log back in immediately, especially when it happens mid boss fight. It's happened to me more than a few times and I find it really irritating every time.

Just imagine how you would fell when someone hacks your account, changes the password and then logs on booting you off even if you are in the middle of something or not. It's a extra layer of security and when being connected to the web its a great thing to have.

[Khalithar]

Just imagine how you would fell when someone hacks your account, changes the password and then logs on booting you off even if you are in the middle of something or not. It's a extra layer of security and when being connected to the web its a great thing to have.

Except if someone tries to login from another location you get a notification and this issue wouldn't prevent them from logging in to your account after a few moments has passed anyway since I could just do the same and kick them off in that case. You call it "extra security" but it's really not adding any "extra security" at all.

Removing this error wouldn't increase or decrease account security.

[Jijifli]

Just imagine how you would fell when someone hacks your account, changes the password and then logs on booting you off even if you are in the middle of something or not. It's a extra layer of security and when being connected to the web its a great thing to have.

For that to work, it generally would require them to have your email too. And if they have that, you were doomed anyways.

[dementiondrive]

the server is still trying to interact with the client. something like a auto reconnect while you are online. after a set amount of reconnects fail the server then says. oh they actually are offline. time to remove the character from server side. it also stops from character data loss. with FF14 sending and receiving character data every 15 seconds so it does not corrupt is one of the many implementations to save it. yes. the 3012 error is annoying especially in mid fight.