Character Creation Spontaneously Exits, Loses All Choices
This keeps happening, and I finally figured out what causes it. I was too frustrated to return to the character creator last time it happened, so I immediately entered the game as an existing character instead. I was then able to see these messages:
Unless you resume active play you will be kicked in 20 seconds.
Unless you resume active play you will be kicked in 10 seconds.
Unless you resume active play you will be kicked in 0 seconds.
Obviously, the game’s idle timeout is too stupid to realize that character creation is active use and should not be interrupted. Would you folks please be so kind as to fix this?
How long are you taking making your characters? I take along time aswell making mine (i like to adjust nose etc etc) but i never get this issue.
I only bring this up, as it might be a indivdual thing to you, or a thing to the character your making, (elementlist/guardian etc). If you give some more information might help anet fix it.. Does it happen on all types of characters and how long roughly does it take for the issue to occcur?
I don’t know exactly how long it takes before the idle timeout kicks in, but I’m pretty sure ArenaNet knows. It could be 30 minutes or an hour, but it doesn’t really matter because I’m actively using the UI the whole time, so the game clearly should not consider me idle. Even if I was idle, there is never a good reason to destroy a user’s data without his permission, unless perhaps it can no longer be used.
Yes, the idle timer kicks in on all types of characters.
No, it’s not just me. A friend of mine ran into the same problem.
This happened to me when I was making my Sylvari Mesmer recently. Took me about six tries before I got all the tweaks memorized to be able to quickly get him made before being kicked.
Never happened when I made my other characters when the game was new.