[Request] Please prevent Deep Dungeon failure upon disconnecting (solo)

[Aeliott]

Title. There are enough unfair things to contend with besides this. A solo run can essentially fall apart for no reason at any time, at no fault of the player.

Upon disconnecting a player is removed "physically" from the instance which I imagine they might be fearful could lead to cheating by making monsters disengage? However there's a good period where our characters remain in the game before actually disappearing, as we know from other instances, even when alone. DC'ing after the final boss of a dungeon, you can log back in to still be the only person there.

To be honest, in the brief period before reconnecting there's a good chance on later floors that we're probably gonna be dead because of the inability to act anyway, but at least there would be some chance of recovering if we can get back in - and it would make players who love the solo challenge like myself feel significantly less helplessly-frustrated, and like we still have a degree of control when the unfortunate 9002 or router hiccup happens.

[Vnolan]

Not only connection issues:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-deep-dungeons

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...mob_that_dies/

[Aeliott]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-deep-dungeons

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...mob_that_dies/

I am aware of this, and don't think I've fallen victim to it myself yet, but I'm asking if it's possible to not be kicked out of the instance when disconnects happen; it's been an issue since Palace of the Dead.

[ManuelBravo]

I doubt it then anyone can just DC to prevent loss -.- kind of like a loop hole.

[Rongway]

I doubt it then anyone can just DC to prevent loss -.- kind of like a loop hole.

It sounds like the OP is just asking not to be kicked immediately from the instance upon getting disconnected, so that if he can reconnect before timing out of the instance, he can continue. This isn't as abusable as it sounds.

[Aeliott]

I doubt it then anyone can just DC to prevent loss -.- kind of like a loop hole.

Hmm, perhaps. But whenever people dc they remain in the game for at least a dozen seconds or more before their character is physically removed. If you had hate on just 1 enemy on any floor when solo you're absolutely going to die in that period before you'd be able to cheat death and log back in.

[Sove92]

Hmm, perhaps. But whenever people dc they remain in the game for at least a dozen seconds or more before their character is physically removed. If you had hate on just 1 enemy on any floor when solo you're absolutely going to die in that period before you'd be able to cheat death and log back in.

This is not the case when the disconnection is initiated by the server. If for example, you are sending malformed packets to the server (which you can do on purpose), it will disconnect you and you can get back in right away.

Under a typical disconnection, it is your OS that first determines that your connection to the server is dead and proceeds to close it, which the client will notice, throwing the 90k error in response. After that, it will take a while longer for the server to determine your connection to the server is dead (because servers have longer keepalives), at which point it will log you out, at which point you can get back in.

[hynaku]

Just wish they fix lag spikes in there also be nice not to disconnects all time in there.

[Mesarthim]

My mood was soured today in my solo HoH run today due to one poorly timed attack.

I was on floor 12 so I was still moving through the trash but one of the serpents used Scale Ripple, the small aoe knockback centered around them. I had started my RDM melee combo and by the time I finished the final hit then Scale Ripple hit me and knocked me back while simuntaneously killing the serpent. This combination booted me from the game and counted as a loss despite not having died. Imagine how someone would feel if this happened higher up? I bet plenty have experienced it.

I didn't even use a gap closer. I just physically attacked the enemy at the same time as they knocked me back while that last hit killed them.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I disconnected so much the other day in group play. One time I DCed only to log back in and immediately DC again.