Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
not sure its as easy as you think. I mean if you are experienced with mmo server architecture you would know better than I but...

if your internet drops, you are in the game for a period of time before you can log in. if the server see's no error on its side, how is it supposed to know?
The server knows. You can poll the status of a player periodically and if you get no response then you can assume that the player is offline. That is the reason why players get a disconnect icon after a while when they go offline for some reasons. And this functionality, that gives the players a disconnect icon could also contact the lobby server with the player id and a timestamp when the offline status was noticed for the first time. And then the lobby server could prioritize those players.


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