so, with new update, I added reconnecting. Here is, how it is *expected* to work (I'm not sure if it's going to work correctly)
1. it's no longer possible to login twice with same nick. If you log in second time, your first session is closed. If you were in a game, it should reconnect you to that game! (currently working only for Cyber Battles, not for other games)
2. If you lost connection, you are no loger kicked to intro screen, but the game tries to reconnect you automatically (you will see message about it). If it succeeds, you should be able to continue with your game (currently works only for Cyber Battles). Auto reconnecting doesn't work for guests.
if it fails to reconnect, you can try to re-enter name and password, and it will hopefully reconnect you as well.
- I'm not sure if it's going to work correctly
- please report problems
I was just in a game with tiraspol and t3h luggage when i was disconnected. It reconnected me like it was supposed to but 2 min. later i was disconnected again and not reconnected. It did not tell me reconnection failed. I logged in again but it still didnt.
QuoteI logged in again but it still didnt.
you logged in, and it still didn't WHAT? If it didn't connect you at all (you could not get to lobby) - even when you tried to login manually - it means that there was some really big problem somewhere between your computer and game server. Maybe your ISP or my IPS had some problem. Or there was some problem "in the path".
No, I was in the middle of the game when big sign saying reconnecting came up. It said reconnecting succesfull. Then few minutes later the sign came up again and then i was put in log-in screen. It did not say reconnection failed. I logged in again and it put me into the lobby not the game i was playing in.
I could get into lobby perfectly fine.
And i think it's causing more trouble then w/o it. Im being disconnected way more than usual.
QuoteNo, I was in the middle of the game when big sign saying reconnecting came up. It said reconnecting succesfull.
good to hear
QuoteThen few minutes later the sign came up again and then i was put in log-in screen. It did not say reconnection failed.
That's ok. If it fails to reconnect, it doesn't print any other message, but just puts you in log-in screen, so you can try to reconnect manually.
QuoteAnd i think it's causing more trouble then w/o it. Im being disconnected way more than usual
Not possible, it sure cannot be the cause of disconnecting more often. It has to be just coincidence, or your internet connection had recently bigger problems than usuall for some reason
how come i play a game and in the middle of it i get sent back to start page or login page and its not my connection i talk to the best but they say its your site that sometimes could cause that see about getting it fixed matlu
Quote from: matlu on May 18, 2005, 05:30:30 PM
Not possible, it sure cannot be the cause of disconnecting more often.
Are u sure its not that before my connection was going out for 5 seconds but it didnt matter because it was at 10 seconds. But now it tries to reconnect when it goes out for just 1 second but it cant reconnect. ???
If tries to reconnect you, when 10 seconds "without a signal", this was not changed
Okay matlu, not to be a complainer, but i think something is seriously wrong with reconnecting on 2nd or 3rd tries. I was in lobby, waiting for a few ppl, and it reconnected me. So that was fine. A minute or so later i start up a 5 player and anybody can vow for me i said "Ok you guys, i'll try and not get dissconnected this time" and boom... dissconnected without an attempt at reconnecting. This had just happened on a previous 5 player game to me, you can ask KXB, Tiraspol, Ultsabree and Jeesewu (or something like that). I was on the name known as "The_Guest". Please look into it, its gotten to be very fustrating when u finaly have a good game going and without warning its over. I dont think anything of the sort ever happen on the old GD but im not sure. Thanx!
yea that happened 3 times in a row and i wanted to kill him :'(
Kill me?! HAHAHA.... thats a good one ;D
Yeah... and then it happened to me right after that game lol. I beamed down a freaking spider, and I should of won... gah. I think matlu needs to get a new place to host this game lol. Maybe the hosting company just sucks? You never know.
I have never once disconnected, its you :P
u suck exile. But seriously, im usually on AIM the same time as im playing, and my AIM doesnt ever lose connection but yet i lose connection on the game. And when i check my internet info its says its been continuously connected for like "16 hours and 11 minutes". I seriously think it might just be a problem with your server matlu. And im sure u r busy but plz plz plz respond...!
you may be still connected, but there may be some problem BETWEEN you, and game server
Omfg matlu... it just happened, like a minute ago. It didnt even ATTEMPT to reconnect it, it just kicked me off to the login page. This is getting to be ridiculous, i can hardly ever play a game without being kicked off...
And i know this should go into the BUG section, but i just logged back on and it says i still have 130 pts in the high score list on "The_Guest" but i really have 128, thanx to me being kicked off of course....
I quit.... this is getting to be ridiculous. I was dominating a 4 player game with a real pred and a queen at 80% in my cards and then... once again... to go with a million other times... BOOM. Im off. No attempt to recconect me that time, but many many attempts at it before. ARGH!!!! I NEED TO KILL SOMETHING!!!!!! Matlu, i am on my knees begging you, please please please help me. Figure out something or please do something about it, if u can.
not today, sorry :) it's 1 a.m. here and I have to go to work tomorrow :) Reconnection really could be improved a bit.. but.. not today. During weekend.
Well... btw... what is overall quality of your connection? How long it takes till a monster moves, when you click on order? How long it takes to display your chat message after pressing enter?
I say ...Kill the whole "if your idle for a minute, you get kicked to login" thingie. If the person is not there, let them stay in lobby until they ARE back... maybe if they ARE afk for like a minute or so, isnt there a way to put a little "afk" symbol by their name or something. This whole "idle kick to login" script is just being really annoying in games.
My connection is usually great. A little laggy at times, but other than that its instantaneous. A few times however like i said its laggy and even if i click on a monster it'll take a few moments before i can move them, but thats on a rare occasion.
hey so now that its the weekend, are you going to attempt to do something about it? But i feel i should let you know its not happening as often now, only once outta like 30 games today.
so much for that! >:(. I just got logged out of a 5 player. KXB always happens to be in my games when i get logged... which is kinda strange.
Did anyone get disconnected this much before the booting/reconnecting system was set up?
Not even close to as much... infact, once in a blue moon.
I don't know. It kicks you out, when you don't receive any message from the server for 10 seconds. Ok, I will disable disconnecting/booting, and let's observer several day what happens. (I will upload new version today evening, I mean evening in europan time :) )
Then I say do it like it used to be done. People were booted after 3 turns of inactivity(maybe make it 2), thus people were only booted when their internet failed, or lagged massively. Have no reconnection system, if your internet fails, live with it.
Command&Conquer Red Alert 2 also has a reconnection system, which often ruins the game because it just doesn't work the way it should.
If a person is lagging the game should continue play normal for every1 else, and then when they stop lagging the game should just jump ahead(for the lagging person) to where everyone else is(this is how DB worked b4 d/c system).