Quote Originally Posted by ganfalfxviv View Post
I don't have a connection integrity widget. But I can watch the resource manager while the game's running to see if that's the problem. But, if it were, why would it make people disappear? If they're already there, that means they've already loaded. I could understand it being the connection if they were never there to begin with, but that's not the case.
You have to have the widget unless you've dragged it off-screen somehow. It's right above the minimap. Those invisible rezone lines could be the cause of things disappearing. You cross one, in town or out west of Bent Branch, and everyone vanishes and starts to reload. If you've ever tried buying directly from the market wards you get the same behavior because it has to temporarily rezone you to where the item is being sold. Both of these are side-effects of some poor design and implementation choices in the server and networking code. The server and networking code are replaced in 2.0.