Issue on Disconnects

[FiReBrAnD]

Alright, well recently I have been disconnecting quiet a bit here lately and I have a suggestion. I don't know if anyone has ever played any games over in Yahoo such as Dominos or Checkers, but over there if you disconnect you have set time to come back to the game after disconnecting. I think it is like 5 minutes or something like that and if the person doesn't come back the person that is still in the game has an option to force the opponent that has disconnected to forfiet and they will still recieve the points as if they have just defeated the opponent or simply just take the game as a draw and niether play loses or recieves anything for the match. To make this imply on Tactics it would have basically the concept the opponent has a set time to come back to the game and if they do not return in the time frame the Player that is left in the game has the option of recieving the win which they will gain stats and the opponent that d/c'd will lose theres or they can accept it as a draw, but they could recieve a few stats or lose a few(Which I doubt few will take the option unless it was obvious they were going to lose). Well thats all I have I figured I would get that off my chest because I know it happens to a lot of people especially here lately GL has been lagging pretty bad. If anyone has any thoughts and suggestions please state them. Thanks.
-Firebrand

[Cuathon]

yeah, i hate the streaming connection for this game. i get DCed sometime son my 1700s and it sucks.

[young cha]

...i like it fb, i agree few will take it and wait.

[dakhamee]

I like it Firebrand, Nice idea, very well thought out, Very useful.

[Jeffery]

One word:

NO CODER


This takes coding ability. TAO has no coder. Seed once attempted a fix to this issue. which cut down on it some, but was what started "ghosting" of accounts.

[FiReBrAnD]

Yeah, I figured that Jeffery, but thought I throw it out there.
BTW thats two words.

[Unforgottner]

I hate that lag on GL. Its been awful.

[Magician]

Disconnects happen. Deal with it. :(

[Ol' Time]

FB has agreat idea here. But I suppose Jeffery's right. And Mag, they do happen but this is a way to make them less "severe" so we don't have to deal with it so much. No one wants to deal with it.

[Silver Coast]

I hate that lag on GL. Its been awful.

Not just GL :( All 3 servers...Was just in a battle, when I used my mud quake...it took 6 seconds for it to perform it >.< frozen for 6 sec...then it finally came =\

[Jeffery]

...then it finally came =\

Wow. The pill must have finally kicked in.

[_Darkness_]

I just got disconnected 3 times in about 10 minutes. What does it matter if we complain though, they do not listen. There has got to be some way to fix it...

[Ol' Time]

I JUST got disconnected in a game against someone with much higher stats than me (Cause I haven't played much since the wipe) I was winning, and BAM! It would be great if I could rejoin the game...

[_Darkness_]

I was winning all three games.

[Zander]

It'd have to be much shorter than 5 minutes, or people would probably start using it to cheat. Disconnecting themselves and making people wait.

[uniquinous]

5 minutes = 250% of turn length, and will be abused. i'd say rest of turn, that's it, if anything

I just got disconnected 3 times in about 10 minutes. What does it matter if we complain though, they do not listen. There has got to be some way to fix it...It's not that we don't listen :dry: it's that even listening, as jeffery said, there is no one who can do anything about it.

Don't blame the staff here - we're all in the same boat as you.

At the end of the day, a solid internet connection is all you really need.

[_Darkness_]

I have a very solid connection. I just got disconnected two more times, losing me nearly 50 stats.

[_Darkness_]

I just got disconnected again, this time against Pat17. I was winning too, like always...

[steve12]

Happened to me twice in a row and dropped me 26 ranks.... :( Oh well. I will just have to climb back up again. I was winning with ease too..

[Jeffery]

Next time it happens, run a traceroute to the server you're on

[FiReBrAnD]

And people wonder why I don't even bother playing on Firebrand.

[_Darkness_]

How Jeff? Sorry, I am not very good with computers.

[XtravagenT]

Next time it happens, run a traceroute to the server you're on

Now if I only knew what that was... :dry:

[steve12]

How Jeff? Sorry, I am not very good with computers.

Tru dat. I don't know how to either. :confused:

[Jeffery]

Open up a Command Prompt in your Accessories. (or hit "start" "run" then type "cmd" and hit enter.
type "tracert tacticsarena1.uvault.com > C:\trace.txt"

Open the file trace.txt which will be in your c: folder. Copy and paste the results here. (note, blank out first IP if you don;t want to share yours)

Also, if you switch the "1" to 2,3, or 6 you can trace the different servers.

[_Darkness_]

What if you have a Mac? :p

[uniquinous]

What if you have a Mac? :p
stab yourself.

alternately, let's look at the great mudslinging comercials for the answers...

Let's see, according to apple, a mac...

...can do anything you'd ever need through iLife, cuz no other software is ever needed past making cool pictures

...works perfectly right out of the box, so you'll never need to connect anything to it like, say, printers, a decent mouse, etc.

...is user friendly! As long as you don't need to do anything technical like jeffery mentioned

:p

[Jeffery]

From your hard-drive, open the Applications folder, and click to open the Utilities folder.
Double-click Terminal.
Enter traceroute followed by tacticsarena1.uvault.com

Modifed instructions based on http://www.verio.com/support/documents/view_article.cfm?doc_id=3693

[_Darkness_]

Okay, I just did that. Now what do I do?