"Resume" button for interrupted synths

[Bladeglory]

I'm begging you. It's nice that we don't always lose our materials, but this has to be the most frustrating part of the game I've encountered. (especially after my internet turning into swiss cheese)

If you D/C during a boss, you, and possibly your entire team, dies. Just some gear damage. If you D/C during a levequest, you might die, but the leve will still be there. At worst, you lose the allowance and can immediately retry. But when crafting... you could potentially lose a lot of gil. I haven't been this frustrated with FFXIV since 1.0, when D/Cing would fail your leve.

Maybe it's a memory issue. Maybe they don't want thousands of people suspending synths and running around. In that case, give me an ultimatum upon being interrupted or logging back in.

"You were in the middle of Synthesizing [item]. Please Abandon or Continue the synthesis."

Abandoning would give you the same results we have now. Continuing would give you the same Durability, Progress, CP, and buffs that you had beforehand. Can anybody see any issues with that?

[Velveteer]

agreeing with this, it's nice to have options to completely abandon what you were doing because you changed your mind, or if you just wanna "pause" it because you wanted to help out someone and you'll get back to it or for any reason.

[neizero]

I don't mind so much if i'm crafting for myself, but i'm afraid to craft for friends and getting dc and losing their mats...

[Lissyl]

I've been Error 90k'ed out while doing crafting 3 consecutive days, and lost HQ mats. Sure, sure, its only low level stuff...for now. Let's nip it in the bud before someone loses something truly expensive.

"Whoops! There went those 9 coke!"

/signed

[ventlus]

yea i got dc'ed and lost the mats for craft i did couple time and if i lost that when i was doing a 2 star recipe i would rage like no tomorrow. resume button plox

[Animation]

I've been Error 90k'ed out while doing crafting 3 consecutive days, and lost HQ mats. Sure, sure, its only low level stuff...for now. Let's nip it in the bud before someone loses something truly expensive.

"Whoops! There went those 9 coke!"

/signed

You have to remember that it all adds up.

[Camate]

The development team understands it can be discouraging when materials are lost when disconnecting during crafting and they would like to do something about this.

If we were to implement an "resume crafting" feature after a disconnection occurs, there are a few things that must be taken into consideration. It is difficult to confirm whether or not the disconnection is due to a connection/technical issue or if it was done intentionally. There is also the possibility that this system could be exploited so we must be very careful during the planning phase.

While considering the above, the development team would like to look into this further, but they are not currently planning a resume after disconnect type of feature.

[Amnesia]

If you had to resume within a few minutes of when you logged in and you were put back at exactly the same progress/durability/CP as when you were disconnected (using the same materials), I don't see the potential for exploitation.

[Elegance]

If you had to resume within a few minutes of when you logged in and you were put back at exactly the same progress/durability/CP as when you were disconnected (using the same materials), I don't see the potential for exploitation.

This, if they paused the state when you logged off, you can't exploit it.
Since if your synth was messed up, it would still be messed up.If it reset the synth it would be an issue, but that's not what we're asking for!

[Enyyx]

There are a few other variables such as gear damage, food effects, gear equipped in general.

If we were simply returned to our crafting stance and auto resume the synth upon logging back in then it should be fine, but if we're allowed to go grab more food, repair our gear, or go get better gear before resuming that would be bad.