My offline progression is broken

[LumberJak]

The last few nights I haven't made any progress while offline. I have done the same thing that I did every night previously (leave the game open and put my pc to sleep), but suddenly it stopped working the last 2 nights.

Anyone experienced this before or have any tips to fix it? I've just restarted the game in the hope that fixes it (and I did get a few seconds of offline progress there), so hopefully this was a one off problem.

[nhmetalhead]

I haven't experienced this, but I have to wonder: Since you're putting your PC sleep anyway, why even bother to keep your game running? I suggest closing the game fully (first choose the Select Character option from your player's menu in the upper right; then close the game). After that, I'd be surprised if you have any offline problems.

[FDru]

I usually don't make a mental note of my exact progress so it's hard to notice this. But I definitely don't get any progress in sleep mode sometimes, as I have noticed recently while leveling astrology and waking up from like 8 hours sleep and the mastery bar not moving at all.

[Segan]

I can't imagine sleep mode working for this game. It might be better to just log out and let offline progress occur. Offline works by calculating how much progress you should have made over those hours. Online requires your computer to be active to perform continuous calculations.

I think there is a setting that allows for 'offline' mode to be activated when the game is minimized/in the background/etc. This might work for you? I'd personally prefer not to rely on that kind of mechanic, though.

[LumberJak]

Originally posted by nhmetalhead:

I haven't experienced this, but I have to wonder: Since you're putting your PC sleep anyway, why even bother to keep your game running? I suggest closing the game fully (first choose the Select Character option from your player's menu in the upper right; then close the game). After that, I'd be surprised if you have any offline problems.

I've done it this way because I didn't think it would make a difference, so leaving it open just saves me those few seconds each morning where I don't have to open the game, but I'll just start closing it if it doesn't work tonight.

Originally posted by FDru:

I usually don't make a mental note of my exact progress so it's hard to notice this. But I definitely don't get any progress in sleep mode sometimes, as I have noticed recently while leveling astrology and waking up from like 8 hours sleep and the mastery bar not moving at all.

I also don't really take note, I only noticed this time because I had just started getting into fishing and knew I should have been above level 10 after a whole night doing it :P

Originally posted by Segan:

I can't imagine sleep mode working for this game. It might be better to just log out and let offline progress occur. Offline works by calculating how much progress you should have made over those hours. Online requires your computer to be active to perform continuous calculations.

I think there is a setting that allows for 'offline' mode to be activated when the game is minimized/in the background/etc. This might work for you? I'd personally prefer not to rely on that kind of mechanic, though.

I would accept that, but sleep has been working for me for almost a month, and I know for a fact it has made progress on most of those days. It should treat it exactly the same as if the game was closed and the pc off.