iain
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Posted - 2017.01.24 16:02:04 -
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Cearain wrote: I think the pvp timer makes some sense so new players can sort of expect something like that.
The 1 minute timer (as opposed to the ship warping and disconnecting as soon as it registers the dc) and the npc 5 minute timer make very little sense and so they should be explained to new players. Its odd rules like these that make old and new players frustrated.
So you might as well let people know these odd rules are part of the game so if for whatever reason they dc they know their stuff is just going to sit there in the game.
These rules have existed in a lot of games for a very long time (well over 15 years at this point). All multiplayer games have an issue where the remote user can just drop the connection, reset the machine, unplug their internet and so on, to simulate a crash and allow themselves to "escape" from a fight.
Many a game doesn't much care about such things, but any game that has an actual penalty for losing stuff, as is the case here in both PVP and PVE, has always had to have a counter to the user simply disconnecting when they're in danger of dying.
It's not uncommon really, even in games where you don't have so significant a death penalty this behaviour is still usually necessary, because if you /dont/ put it in, (and i've known games where you can glitch disconnect and the like), the entire player base will very very quickly cotton on to how to cheat death entirely, and will use it. Until eventually they're forced to patch it out. Seen this in other games long ago before it was 'standard'.
Also, as far as PVE logouts go, rats dont really come scan you down, so you'll emergency warp off into empty space and be "safe" (from rats. probably.). I believe the ship attempts the emergency warp as soon as teh disconnect is known (i.e. immediately if you quit the application, after a necessary delay if you simply lose internet), and then sits at the warpout point for the logout timer. If you disconnect when you're PVE scrammed in a belt/mission and unable to emergency warp out, then you're dead, by design. Cos thats when fake disconnects shouldn't be allowed to save you. |