Re: [Pio-temporary] Dealing with annoying disconnects

[Rob R. <rr...@gm...>]

What about when a player loses connection?  How long is the timeout?=20
Clean disconnects are fine, dropped internet connections are not.

On 1/31/06, Roland Clobus <rc...@us...> wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 04:13, Rob Renaud wrote:
> > What is the best way to handle a player getting disconnected?  The
> > ghost of the player stays around for quite awhile (seems like 15
> > minutes or so) even after the player reconnects and gets the new
> nick
> > with an underscore appended.  Is there some way for the admin to
> > forcibly kill the ghost?
> >
> > I am willing to hack the admin console to add such a feature, if
> it's
> > desired.  Or it might be a good idea to let people change to already
> > taken names, if explicitly allowed in the game settings?
>
> When a player gets disconnected, his name stays visible in the client,
> with some extra squares in the icon. When any player reconnects, he
> will take over the game. If this does not happen, you've stumbled
> across a bug.
>
> If a player disconnects in his turn, the game will wait until a
> reconnect is made. If a player disconnects when it is someone else's
> turn, the player will skip turns until a reconnect.
>
> I cannot reproduce the situation you describe. When a player
> disconnects, the reconnecting player will not get an underscore
> appended to its name on my computer.
>
> Which version of the client and server are you using?
>
> Regards,
> Roland Clobus
>