Disconnected Players Can't Reconnect

[Ledlock]

Due to the length of the game, the chance for people (like me and my friends) with poor or unstable internet to disconnect during the game is pretty high. I'm not sure if this is usual, but when my friend disconnected from my game earlier he couldn't reconnect, and the game couldn't continue without him, effectively ending the game. Is there a plan to implement reconnecting to active games?

Btw, I put this in "General Discussions" because it didn't seem to fit in the other categories. This also isn't a report about a connection problem; any problems we have happen with other games as well. This is specifically about how the game handles player disconnection.

[Jeo]

Hi! I think it's alright to post these in general discussion. Most people seem to ignore the subforums anyway.

You're right, we don't have a reconnection mechanic yet, but we're working on it. I think the whole networking situation will be vastly improved after the next couple of updates.

[Ledlock]

Originally posted by Jeo:

Hi! I think it's alright to post these in general discussion. Most people seem to ignore the subforums anyway.

You're right, we don't have a reconnection mechanic yet, but we're working on it. I think the whole networking situation will be vastly improved after the next couple of updates.

Thanks a lot for responding. After looking around I can see you guys have been working on the networking quite a bit already, so I'm glad to hear you guys are also working on this; I really like the game and look forward to being able to play it with my friends more regularly.

[Jeo]

Originally posted by Ledlock:

Originally posted by Jeo:

Hi! I think it's alright to post these in general discussion. Most people seem to ignore the subforums anyway.

You're right, we don't have a reconnection mechanic yet, but we're working on it. I think the whole networking situation will be vastly improved after the next couple of updates.

Thanks a lot for responding. After looking around I can see you guys have been working on the networking quite a bit already, so I'm glad to hear you guys are also working on this; I really like the game and look forward to being able to play it with my friends more regularly.

Thanks! We're getting there!

[Smoelken]

Originally posted by Jeo:

Hi! I think it's alright to post these in general discussion. Most people seem to ignore the subforums anyway.

You're right, we don't have a reconnection mechanic yet, but we're working on it. I think the whole networking situation will be vastly improved after the next couple of updates.

Hello there,

I just bought this game yesterday and I really really like it. I started playing against AI and that works like a charm.

UNFORTUNATELY the mp does not work properly yet. So you've had 5 months to fix the multiplayer dc issues and still I see no reconnect function. I just had my two first multiplayer games. Both ended with a player dc because of unstable net. A few hours wasted... You have got to fix this issue ASAP. The multiplayer is not fun to play when you don't know if the game can be finished or not.

You have got to make a reconnect feature! The game is not playable as it is!

I hope to hear from you

[Jeo]

As I said before, we're working on it. Reconnect is a high priority feature and it is actually ready, but disabled due to it causing networking problems in some cases. We need to get it fixed before enabling it again.

A general networking stability patch is coming very soon, but reconnect still needs more work. I'm pretty upset about that myself, but it will have to wait. Can't give an exact estimate, but it seems like a bit more than a week.

[Smoelken]

Oh well in that case that is very good indeed. We can survive a week I think :) I am looking very much forward to have the reconnect feature.

[Rz]

Can we have it naow?

[Rz]

it's been over a year more than your 1 week estimate

[Ledlock]

Originally posted by Hatman:

it's been over a year more than your 1 week estimate

Yep I basically stopped playing this game. It can be fun occasionally as a hotseat game, but I think I'll play games with proper networking instead of wasting my time on games that will inevitably be ruined by minor connectivity issues.