Portal (Instance) Timeout Meter

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Raycheetah wrote:

Portals lasting "between 8-15 minutes" is a pretty wide range, but a player often needs a fair amount of time before returning to the instance (bathroom breaks or in-game dealings like trading, for example), and can risk losing a map or a zone if they take too long.

How about a simple meter in the UI counting down how long before a portal (instance) times out? It should be an easy thing to add, and would be a real quality of life feature for those who would like to know how long they have to do whatever business they portaled out for. =^[.]^=

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SilentSymphony wrote:

This instancing issue is also severely affecting Desecrate and several minion builds, The Portal issues i started to notice first and it has become really upsetting at times when i took less than a minute to go get a support gem or complete a trade and my map is just gone.. In some cases this has happened within less than 10 seconds of leaving the instance with a map that was very recently loaded.

you could go load up 15 or so instances of Blood Aqueduct and they would be there for quite a while but your hideout cant keep one instance loaded reliably? ouch..

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yamface wrote:

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SilentSymphony wrote:

This instancing issue is also severely affecting Desecrate and several minion builds, The Portal issues i started to notice first and it has become really upsetting at times when i took less than a minute to go get a support gem or complete a trade and my map is just gone.. In some cases this has happened within less than 10 seconds of leaving the instance with a map that was very recently loaded.

you could go load up 15 or so instances of Blood Aqueduct and they would be there for quite a while but your hideout cant keep one instance loaded reliably? ouch..

youre generally supposed to keep a spectre bank character for this. even if they added a portal timeout meter youd still be screwed if the hideout/map instances crash

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ciel289 wrote:

timeout isnt a fixed time though

it depends on server traffic and area

i.e. act areas have a much shorter duration than maps.but both have a slightly shorter duration if "too many ppl are playing"

still should be above 10min for any endgame area unless its an "you cant enter again area" like delve

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yamface wrote:

youre generally supposed to keep a spectre bank character for this. even if they added a portal timeout meter youd still be screwed if the hideout/map instances crash

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Raycheetah wrote:

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ciel289 wrote:

timeout isnt a fixed time though

it depends on server traffic and area

i.e. act areas have a much shorter duration than maps.but both have a slightly shorter duration if "too many ppl are playing"

still should be above 10min for any endgame area unless its an "you cant enter again area" like delve

I dunno. If I use "Ctrl" to create a new instance of an area, I can clearly see how long before the other instance(s) time out. Might be different for maps and such, but how difficult would it be to have the time left on the instance I portaled out of displayed where I can see it on the UI? =0[.]o=

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ciel289 wrote:

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Raycheetah wrote:

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ciel289 wrote:

timeout isnt a fixed time though

it depends on server traffic and area

i.e. act areas have a much shorter duration than maps.but both have a slightly shorter duration if "too many ppl are playing"

still should be above 10min for any endgame area unless its an "you cant enter again area" like delve

I dunno. If I use "Ctrl" to create a new instance of an area, I can clearly see how long before the other instance(s) time out. Might be different for maps and such, but how difficult would it be to have the time left on the instance I portaled out of displayed where I can see it on the UI? =0[.]o=

i didnt check and havent used it in ages so i´m not sure,but doesnt it show the time when you opened the area and not when it closes ?
tracking when an area was opened is a bit different than when its closing

plz correct me if it really shows the time till closeing cant check until weekend

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Raycheetah wrote:

I can confirm that, in the Instance Manager screen, there is a "Time left before Instance Closes" meter. ='[.]'=