Location save on quitting game/DC.

Yeah, not only waypoint isn't on every map but sometimes you have to quit or you disconnect before you find waypoint. And with a system that saves where you left off you wouldn't be able to farm bossess like with addedd waypoints so it's all good ;)

bump

Bump... it's still needed :/

The irony is that this suggestion, if implemented, would make disconnects worse and more frequent. Your instances are erased when you leave the game because it's efficient to do so. If they are saved, the server is put under heavier load. If there's a global disconnect that affects every player, and the game tries to save every character's progress, it's likely that the game will be stuck in a loop of perpetual disconnects.

I'm not sure it would be that hard for server. I'm no programmer or anything, but for me it seems that server needs to save very easy information - location of player on quit/disc. There's tons of info that server holds like all items, levels passives etc, so how big can information that I'm in certain location be? I don't think it would stress servers too much...

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

The irony is that this suggestion, if implemented, would make disconnects worse and more frequent. Your instances are erased when you leave the game because it's efficient to do so. If they are saved, the server is put under heavier load. If there's a global disconnect that affects every player, and the game tries to save every character's progress, it's likely that the game will be stuck in a loop of perpetual disconnects.

I'm not sure that's tru-

*looks at above post*

Yeah, ^that^. It only needs to save that fact that you're in that area. It doesn't save any bit of the specific instance you quit/DC'd from, and it doesn't need to generate a new one until you log back in (which it would have to anyway). The needed information could literally be contained in less than a kilobyte (though in practice it will probably be a few kBs, still probably less than the storage needed for your character name).

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

The irony is that this suggestion, if implemented, would make disconnects worse and more frequent. Your instances are erased when you leave the game because it's efficient to do so. If they are saved, the server is put under heavier load. If there's a global disconnect that affects every player, and the game tries to save every character's progress, it's likely that the game will be stuck in a loop of perpetual disconnects.

At this point, the request is not that all of the information from the zone be saved on exit, just that the game remember which zone we were last in, and allow us to start that zone over when we log back in.

Yeah, all it takes is save each location starting point when i enter it and that's all. Game already remember location progress if i reconnect fast enough so how much stress it would be for it to save where i entered location?