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Tide to Go · Dec 13, 2006, 09:27 PM // 21:27

I dont get the reconnect update. It says that it will reconnect you to the exact same spot doing the exact same thing. So if I'm in a mission with my group about to kill this guy , and I get my err7, am I going to have to fight that guy by myself? Will he have the same hp and energy and will everyone still be in their spots? Will my drops still be there? I could see how your party could come back to the same place, but we would all be seperate.

Theus · Dec 13, 2006, 09:29 PM // 21:29

No.you'll be basicly going "AFC" (Away From Connection.),while in this, you have 10 minutes to return to your character who will be standing exactly where you dropped with your party.

Tide to Go · Dec 13, 2006, 09:37 PM // 21:37

so everything will stay in place for 10 min....the loot the party the EVERYTHING?

Ninna · Dec 13, 2006, 09:40 PM // 21:40

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0089976&page=5

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Originally Posted by Alex Weekes

a disconnected character is treated as if you went AFK - you're still in the group, your character is still present.

reetkever · Dec 13, 2006, 09:41 PM // 21:41

Hmmm I think that everything just continues... without you. For the party, it's just like you got a disconnect before the update, except you'll return again.

I don't know how this'll work with cutscenes, though.

xuemin · Dec 13, 2006, 09:43 PM // 21:43

think of it as logging onto your char in a normal outpost, except the outpost is now the area where your team was before you DCed, things are still going on even though you may have missed some of it because you weren't there for a few minutes

Loviatar · Dec 13, 2006, 09:56 PM // 21:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tide to Go

so everything will stay in place for 10 min....the loot the party the EVERYTHING?

reading comprehension remedial for the challenged.

1 IT WILL BE AS IF YOU WALKED AWAY .....FIGURE THE RESULTS OF LEAVING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION YOURSELF

2 YOU HAVE A MAXIMUM OF 10 MINUTES TO RECONNECT WHILE THE GAME CONTINUES WITHOUT YOU.

3 WITH AUTO LOGIN YOU CAN HIT YOUR SHORTCUT AND BE RIGHT BACK IN SECONDS.....IT IS NOT A 10 MINUTE TIME OUT WHILE THE GAME STANDS STILL WAITING ON YOU.

zelira · Dec 13, 2006, 10:02 PM // 22:02

I am wondering about this as well. If I get disconnected while my team has Abaddon down to about 5% and we've just finished the last set of Monoliths, where would I be when I reconnect?

Let's say that the team does finish Abaddon, where would I end up?

Throne of Secrets? Standing in mission all by my lonesome with no boss to kill?

Ninna · Dec 13, 2006, 11:37 PM // 23:37

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0089976&page=5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Weekes

Would you still receive credit for (mission) completion if you were AFK? Yes.

sounds like your team will be forced to watch the entire movie tho

LifeInfusion · Dec 14, 2006, 01:19 AM // 01:19

What I'm wondering is if you will die if you stand there while disconected ...

King Kong · Dec 14, 2006, 01:23 AM // 01:23

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Originally Posted by zelira

I am wondering about this as well. If I get disconnected while my team has Abaddon down to about 5% and we've just finished the last set of Monoliths, where would I be when I reconnect?

Let's say that the team does finish Abaddon, where would I end up?

Throne of Secrets? Standing in mission all by my lonesome with no boss to kill?

Your still there, but not

So you would complete the mission

Count to Potato · Dec 14, 2006, 01:26 AM // 01:26

Its just like noticing lag of other people, they don't move, but then they come back, basically guildwars holds your connection for 10 mins, until u come back

Phaern Majes · Dec 14, 2006, 01:31 AM // 01:31

The way I understand it is, your character will just stand still for 10 minutes OR until you reconnect. So anything that could happen to you normally still can. If you disconnect while in the middle of a huge fight you may log back in and be dead. If a mission is completed your character gets warped away along with the rest of your party.

Again this is just how I understand it, I could be wrong, I did not design this, and since lately people seem to think my interpretations are me trying to explain FACT and not PERCEPTION (which could be wrong), I am stressing this point...

So once again how I understand it is it will be just as if you went afk from the keyboard. When you go afk does everyone just freeze until you get back and unpause them? No, they might agree to stop and wait. When you go afk can you still die? Yes. Reconnect status = afk until you log back in OR 10 minutes have past.

Scutilla · Dec 14, 2006, 01:34 AM // 01:34

If your party beats the mission or zones to a new area while you are disconnected, when you come back you will be in town with the mission completed or sitting at the entrance to the new area. If your party watched a cutscene while you were disconnected, your character will be wherever the party gets teleported to after the cutscene ends.

From the party's point of view, you're still there- your character's still sitting there doing nothing (and can be killed), and if he was performing an action (such as using a skill) when you d/ced he will finish that action. Presumably "follower" NPCs (such as heroes and necro minions) will hang out by your character until you reconnect. The party gets a message saying that you're having connection issues, and presumably get another message when you come back.

Carth` · Dec 14, 2006, 02:43 AM // 02:43

Couldn't that be very easily abused by leechers?

You could get a character through the game by playing only the first 5 mins of every mission, then it's disconnect your modem and come back in 10 mins.

Angel Netherborn · Dec 14, 2006, 03:36 AM // 03:36

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Originally Posted by Carth`

Couldn't that be very easily abused by leechers?

You could get a character through the game by playing only the first 5 mins of every mission, then it's disconnect your modem and come back in 10 mins.

Umm... why go through the trouble of having to time a reconnect when they can just play for 5 minutes then go AFK?

Carth` · Dec 14, 2006, 03:44 AM // 03:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angel Netherborn

Umm... why go through the trouble of having to time a reconnect when they can just play for 5 minutes then go AFK?

Because people quit and restart if they have someone afk early in a mission.

nothing special · Dec 14, 2006, 03:48 AM // 03:48

Even if it does get abused by leachers...I'd say the good outweighs the bad.

The only difference between going AFK for 10min and this disconnect would be that the group recieves the alert you went away. This might allow a few leachers to get away with it, but the group can just as easily decide to give them five minutes, and if they don't come back (and that should be plenty of time), then they can just head back to the outpost and retry.

10 minutes is plenty of time to log back on, and serious disconnects would probably be back on within a minute.

Thallandor · Dec 14, 2006, 04:01 AM // 04:01

Theres no need to be worried about leechers, if they are dumb enough to log out/DC instead of just leaving the game on doing nothing (truely AFK), then they are shooting themselves in the foot. Even though it would show that they disconnected while the toon is "afk" in the instance, it will be auto removed from the instance if they dont return within the 10 mins time frame.

So it makes no sense to leech using the reconnect method at all, they would just traditionally afk as usual. Hence this reconnect update in fact does nothing for them, just though i would clarify.

Anyone still confused on how reconnect works can just read both Loviatar post #7 and Scutilla #14 and use some imagination.

Possible expliots that may arise would be from possibly reconnnects would be from fast paced games fought in RA, where battles can take place in less than 10 minutes, hence the explioter would perhaps try to DC and hope that their team may win (which is dumb and unlikely) without them having to contribute any effort. But of course the rest of the team may log off seening that the jerk doesnt return resulting in a easy win for the other team. In any case, should anyone be dump enough to try to do stupid things to try to expliot the reconnect option, they can be reported so that they wont be able to reconnect to their account permanently.

Whiplashr · Dec 14, 2006, 04:34 AM // 04:34

This sounds like it could be a real problem for survivor chars. Instead of losing connect, and having your char time out in a few seconds or whatever, he'll sit there able to die for 10 minutes (assuming you can't connect back in for that 10 minutes). Yikes.