[Suggestion] Re-entering instances after DC

[Suggestion] Re-entering instances after DC

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Posted by: felessan.9587

felessan.9587

Is there a way to develop a save-point system so you can re-enter an instance if you disconnect from it? I’m not tech-savy so I don’t really know the limitations on this, like how to tell the difference between involuntary DCing and cheating death by quickly closing the game.

I’ve been running Hidden Arcana on all my alts, but this last time through I’ve been disconnected four times at various stages in the instance. The last time was after all the combats, but before I could talk to Ogden and claim credit for it. Infuriating.

I’m sure this has been brought up before, but… broken search and all…

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Posted by: AlliedKhajiit.2794

AlliedKhajiit.2794

I’d love to see a feature like this. It’s super annoying when I go in to solo Arah to kitten around and my internet kittenes itself and oops, I guess I have to start from scratch again.

On another note that I believe is related to the topic, I feel like event rewards could be implemented differently. I think about 1/3 times my internet for whatever reason, LOVES to DC the moment before tequatl is killed, and well, those 40 minutes I spent in the map helping organize, and then killing tequatl are all for nothing. It really sucks.
Maybe make event rewards be granted to people even if they’re offline? I know that when you attack or do something related to an event it puts you on a list somewhere for participation, and I guess if you log off (or DC) you get taken off that list. Would be really neat if you could stay on the list, so people who DC at the end of teq (or similar situations) don’t get screwed over.

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Strongly seconded on the event credit idea Allied. I was doing one of the Silverwastes defenses and DC’d about half way through, re-logged immediately just in time to see the defense end and not get any credit. I’m not really going to miss 4 bandit crests and a bag of blue gear, but it’s the principle of the thing!

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Posted by: Revilrad.1962

Revilrad.1962

This Problem is actually not only about entering back to Dungeon or Map instances. What can be also frustrating is when a DC during a Story Progress happens. It happened to me actually more than once. You need to do all the Story progression again which can be tedious sometimes.

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felessan.9587

Yes, the story progression is exactly what I’m talking about. Hidden Arcana is the last instance from LS 02×05.

Another thought on this topic: can we get the ability to join party members in story instances already in progress? I was running Hidden Arcana with my husband a few days ago, he was the instance owner, I DC’d, and we had no way to re-group. Fortunately it was early in the instance so he just logged out and we started over, but it was annoying none-the-less.

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Posted by: AlliedKhajiit.2794

AlliedKhajiit.2794

Yes, the story progression is exactly what I’m talking about. Hidden Arcana is the last instance from LS 02×05.

Another thought on this topic: can we get the ability to join party members in story instances already in progress? I was running Hidden Arcana with my husband a few days ago, he was the instance owner, I DC’d, and we had no way to re-group. Fortunately it was early in the instance so he just logged out and we started over, but it was annoying none-the-less.

A way to let players re-enter story instances they DC from (or heck, maybe not even DC from) would be awesome too. Although I think it would probably have to just be re-enter instances they DC from, because I think it might lead to the selling of the LS achievements, and I’m not entirely sure if that would be met with kindness from the majority of the players, as there’s already a lot of people upset about those who solo dungeons and sell paths at the end (I’m not one of these people, but I’ve had people enter my sale for arah before and tell me that I should be ashamed of myself <.<)
And yeah, I think I was pretty fortunate to not have DC’d from Hidden Arcana. I was doing it solo on my mesmer and oh my goodness did it take a long time to do. Sadly my phantasms were of no use there.

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Posted by: Revilrad.1962

Revilrad.1962

Yes, the story progression is exactly what I’m talking about. Hidden Arcana is the last instance from LS 02×05.

Another thought on this topic: can we get the ability to join party members in story instances already in progress? I was running Hidden Arcana with my husband a few days ago, he was the instance owner, I DC’d, and we had no way to re-group. Fortunately it was early in the instance so he just logged out and we started over, but it was annoying none-the-less.

A way to let players re-enter story instances they DC from (or heck, maybe not even DC from) would be awesome too. Although I think it would probably have to just be re-enter instances they DC from, because I think it might lead to the selling of the LS achievements, and I’m not entirely sure if that would be met with kindness from the majority of the players, as there’s already a lot of people upset about those who solo dungeons and sell paths at the end (I’m not one of these people, but I’ve had people enter my sale for arah before and tell me that I should be ashamed of myself <.<)
And yeah, I think I was pretty fortunate to not have DC’d from Hidden Arcana. I was doing it solo on my mesmer and oh my goodness did it take a long time to do. Sadly my phantasms were of no use there.

Same Theory applies to dungeon selling.

A client sided save can be made per checkpoint and communicated again to server in case of a DC after reconnecting. I do not see why this should not be technically doable.

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Posted by: AlliedKhajiit.2794

AlliedKhajiit.2794

A client sided save can be made per checkpoint and communicated again to server in case of a DC after reconnecting. I do not see why this should not be technically doable.

I think the problem (though I’m not entirely sure) is that it probably is doable, but it would be client sided, which means hackers could probably tinker with those things somehow and set their checkpoint to where they never were, then force DC and well, be at that checkpoint.

It’s also entirely possible it could be done server-sided where that wouldn’t be an issue.

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Revilrad.1962

Hmm true enough.
Although making a complicated server side save system is not feasible with all the paramteres. I think a checkpoint system can be implemented on the Server too along the player information. I mean, server notices If you finished a story chapter, so it can, in theory, also save that you reached a certain checkpoint inside that chapter. Same logic, but divided into smaller sections.