Deep Dungeons and DDoS Attacks

[GioTrance]

Let's cut to the chase, Long story short.
Getting disconnected in a deep dungeon on floors 91-100 is extremely frustrating.

Playing on Materia should not be a requirement to play the game when you are from a NA DC. If server stability is out of question, what other protections can we as players have for solo deep dungeons?

Some ideas I had were:
Keeping the instance open for 10 minutes: This allows players who are get disconnected on lower floor a chance to come back and continue the run, unless they die.
Would have no effect on higher floors as the timer would keep going/they'd die to a boss mechanic.

Allowing continues with 1 KO:
This allows players who disconnect the ability to reconnect at a later time and give it another go. Potentially exploitable but in reality allowing this wouldn't let anyone who isn't ready to clear a chance to clear.

If Possible, Allowing the server to detect massive drops and reset the save file.
I heard the server will do this if the server itself fails. If the same could be done when detecting massive player disconnections it would solve the problem almost entirely.

The argument is that it would make solo titles too easy to obtain, but I just don't see that being the case.
Losing hours upon hours of progress through no fault of your own is not an enjoyable gameplay mechanic, and with as often as it is happening to the NA DC in particular. We need some sort of counter balance.

[quistal]

literally this, SE please do something. DDOS attacks have been a problem for so long and it's so painful to lose hours or days of hard work to a server issue.

[Shistar]

If Possible, Allowing the server to detect massive drops and reset the save file.
I heard the server will do this if the server itself fails. If the same could be done when detecting massive player disconnections it would solve the problem almost entirely.

This one feels like the most fair, and least likely to have players abusing it. +1

[Toutatis]

Just got DC'd at lvl 97 solo due to that... I am not happy

[johnequickiii]

Agreed. Been trying to completely runs since yesterday. Have somehow been able to get one run both days, and now just repeatedly being kicked from every run I attempt. Getting really old.

I would really just like to be able to play the game I pay to play, without other people being able to deny my ability to, just because it's somehow fun for them to do.

[DeepDungeon_Enjoyear]

I just got disconnected on floor 98, on the way to 99, during a Pilgrims’ Passage party run and everyone in the group got kicked out at the same time. The run is gone, just one step away from another clear. This isn’t the first time it’s happened. I’ve lost countless Deep Dungeon runs mostly solo. The most frustrating ones all solo PT floor 76, PotD 158, and EO 83. Every single time, hours of careful progress vanished instantly because of disconnections or server issues. I’ve spoken to GMs before, but they can’t reset death counts to make the run valid again and understandably, they also can’t just hand out the rewards. Still, it’s incredibly demoralizing to lose hours of dedication with no way to recover the run. At this point, I really feel like Deep Dungeons need some kind of protection against unexpected disconnects or crashes.

Please, give us something to preserve progress when it’s clearly not our fault.

[Infindox]

I think a run should have a "grace reset" for this exact reason.
If you get d/ced the run would reset back to the beginning of the set. It would only do this once though per sets of floors attempts; this would be a way just to make sure it's not getting abused.

With the way the system is now I have never bothered to do many solo attempts even though I know I'm capable of doing it.

[ThurinTurambar]

keeping instance alive for 5 minutes after losing signal from player is neither hard thing to do, nor leading to exploits.
There is simply no will, no money incentive.

[Canadane]

People have asked for this since Heavensward and it just isn't something they seem interested in.

[Oizen]

Its pretty stupid that the game asks you to do something for a solo achievement that its own servers cannot reliably provide.