What happens if you get disconnected while in SRV?

[Baleur]

Because this is a very important question for people who have horrible luck with the ED server connection.
You simply have to make it so that once you reconnect, you're back in the SRV at the last recorded location on the planet.
If you return to the ship when you reconnect, it'll essentially ruin the entire game. Because i personally cant stay connected longer than 15-30 min at best, so planetary exploration would be impossible if you dont return to the SRV when logging back in.

Thanks

 

[tempusfugit84]

Do you know the cause of your constant disconnections? i had issues due to my routers DHCP As soon as i issued a reserved address to my system it has been fine. You may also want to consider your power settings as alot of adapters are set to switch off to save power this is especially pertinent to WIFI users. Personally i would never go anything but Wired for gaming though.

 

[Kyle Brennan]

Your immersion will be totally destroyed forever!!!! Immersion must not be broken!!!!!!

 

[Im_Lost]

Try setting up port forwarding for the game on your router and tell the game to use a specific port.

P2P can be fussy, especially for stuff like gaming where you need a stable connection :/

 

[jacozilla]

Your immersion will be totally destroyed forever!!!! Immersion must not be broken!!!!!!

To be fair to OP, it seems you are the one jumping the gun here.

while I personally believe OPs issue is likely some connection issue on his end if the frequency of disconnect is as much as he says - you are jumpimg the gun labeling him an immersion whiner.

reading his post literally - all he has complained about right now is that if you are disconnected while on planet, but reapear in ship - then from his issue it will basically be groundhog day over and over.

correct or incorrect his connection issue diagnosis may be - he's saying he doesnt want to be stuck in endless loop where he never gets to truly explore planet because he keeps getting sent back up to ship - to re-land - start in SRV - disconnect and back to ship. Repeat loop over and over.

TL-DR - OP never mentioned immersion, and a straight non-predisposed to be biased vs immersion cryers would read his complaint as he feels game would be "ruined" for him if his disconnectuon simply has him spend most his loop time re-landing again. Reappear in SRV from his pov would at least let him creep further on planet till next disconnect.

i disagree with his perhaps too strong word choice of "ruin", and his diagnosis of constant disconnect to be FD fault, but he's not an immersion cryer.

 

[Polusk]

I don't think we know yet what will happen after disconnect.
I hope that you will stay on your SRV, but at this stage I have no news regarding this.

Concerning your disconnection issues, 15/30 minutes is really short! Did you try all solutions available on your side for trying to resolve the problem?

 

[Vandaahl]

Well, the game can only put you back on the spot where you were if your position is constantly broadcasted back to a server, and basically thats what happends. So yeah, if the generated worlds are persistant, so if bases remain where they are after you re-log on, then why not your game character?

 

[Oheck]

Seems a reasonable request to be able to log back in inside your SRV. I could see where that could kinda kill planetary exploration if you happen to have a joggy connection and every time that happens you are off planet and have to land again.

 

[Baleur]

Well its not quite the servers fault, it's China's fault for outright blocking nearly all ip's from BBC or Amazon, which directly impacts connection stability to Elite Dangerous since Frontier decided to go with them as the server providers. The reason for my disappointment is really that i'm able to play pretty much any other online game or mmo, either due to them having publisher-owned specific dedicated servers, or being peer to peer only.
Since the Elite Dangerous servers seem to be the only online game i've ever played that are directly locked (correct me if im wrong) to those very UK server providers that are blocked here in China, the end result is that this is the only online game i can simply not have a reliable connection to. If they used their own servers, or any other provider, it would work for everyone. It's stupid to suggest they should have considered other countries ability to connect to their chosen server providers, since again really its China's fault in this case. But the fact still stands, its the only game i cant play online, and its entirely due to their choice of server host.

Anyway, i guess i'm just lucky i'm occasionally able to play at all what so ever.
In space it's fine, sometimes i can get a lucky 1-2 hours of gameplay in, and if any disconnects happen you usually get plopped back fairly accurately in space wherever you were, all bounties saved and all that, so thats no issue.
I just hope it will work the same on the surface of planets, that they didnt "forget" to make the necessary changes to where the player "spawns" upon reconnecting.
Its always best to work on features assuming the game will work as intended, but its also important to implement safeguards in case it doesnt

PS: vpn's enable me to visit youtube, bbc.co.uk, amazon.com etc without issues. Can watch 1080p videos on youtube without problems. 600kb/s, fast enough.
But even so, this games servers are extremely difficult to connect to, most times i cant even send a chat message to other players (which is odd, considering its a few bytes while the hundreds of megabytes of a youtube video is fine). And 80% of the time i play in Open Play, i'll run into a "Couldnt connect to matchmaking server" as soon as it will try to match up with another nearby player. (which is also funny considering other games can have hundreds of players in an mmo on american servers or whatever, running fine).

Either way, a lot of babbling.
Short story, i just want to be able to reconnect to the SRV, and pick up where i last was.

 

[Zerosum]

Your position is saved but the planet keeps revolving around the star, leaving you floating in space.

 

[Baleur]

I think that's the old way it used to work. I witnessed it first-hand ingame a few months ago.
But just yesterday i was in perfect position behind a planet to see the sun behind it eclipsed so only the corona showed, around a planet extremely close to the star (quick orbit).
Once i logged back in today, i was in the exact same position, same eclipse, hence i had moved with the planet in its orbit. (it dragged me with it)
So i'd assume it will work the same when landed, you'll be locked to the mesh of the planet.

 

[Trueno33]

good point op. I don´t have connection issues, but suffer ctd´s eventually. So yes, what would happen?

 

[Kayweg]

It's a fair question. We will find out soon enough, no doubt.

 

[Kyle Brennan]

To be fair to OP, it seems you are the one jumping the gun here.

while I personally believe OPs issue is likely some connection issue on his end if the frequency of disconnect is as much as he says - you are jumpimg the gun labeling him an immersion whiner.

reading his post literally - all he has complained about right now is that if you are disconnected while on planet, but reapear in ship - then from his issue it will basically be groundhog day over and over.

correct or incorrect his connection issue diagnosis may be - he's saying he doesnt want to be stuck in endless loop where he never gets to truly explore planet because he keeps getting sent back up to ship - to re-land - start in SRV - disconnect and back to ship. Repeat loop over and over.

TL-DR - OP never mentioned immersion, and a straight non-predisposed to be biased vs immersion cryers would read his complaint as he feels game would be "ruined" for him if his disconnectuon simply has him spend most his loop time re-landing again. Reappear in SRV from his pov would at least let him creep further on planet till next disconnect.

i disagree with his perhaps too strong word choice of "ruin", and his diagnosis of constant disconnect to be FD fault, but he's not an immersion cryer.

Yeah, nice big write up there, but I was having a go at the immersion squad, not the OP. Sorry.

 

[2plex]

I rather wonder what happens if you uninstall the Horizons DLC while you are in your planetside buggy and return to play the main game.
Will your CMDR be teleported back into your ship?
Will your ship be parked in normal space at the planet but outside Horizons' approach barrier?
Or will you have to start a new CMDR from scratch because your current CMDR will become unavailabe?

 

[jacozilla]

Yeah, nice big write up there, but I was having a go at the immersion squad, not the OP. Sorry.

Ok, I'm not a huge fan of immersion justifies all camp either.

but if you didn't misinterpret OP, why take crack here when there hasn't been a single sighting of the immersion squad?

and non-TL-DR length post issues aside, sounds like the sorry is another sarcastic crack. Are you of the generation that simply can't tolerate well constructed and supporting reason posts because of your arbitrary cutoff where "big write up" occurs and your TL-DR attention stops?

 

[Para Handy]

Do you know the cause of your constant disconnections? i had issues due to my routers DHCP As soon as i issued a reserved address to my system it has been fine. You may also want to consider your power settings as alot of adapters are set to switch off to save power this is especially pertinent to WIFI users. Personally i would never go anything but Wired for gaming though.

Try setting up port forwarding for the game on your router and tell the game to use a specific port.

P2P can be fussy, especially for stuff like gaming where you need a stable connection :/

Unfortunately that might not be the case at the moment. I am in the middle of a long exchange with support about server issues introduced last Thursday early morning - even using the port forwarding this is still occurring with monotonous regularity. It is really soul-destroying to keep seeing the station you last docked at sitting 20km away when you finally get the game restarted. (I'm very grumpy about this. )

 

[tdshooter]

i dont see any reason why you wouldnt just be in you'r SRV when reconnecting

 

[Kyle Brennan]

Ok, I'm not a huge fan of immersion justifies all camp either.

but if you didn't misinterpret OP, why take crack here when there hasn't been a single sighting of the immersion squad?

and non-TL-DR length post issues aside, sounds like the sorry is another sarcastic crack. Are you of the generation that simply can't tolerate well constructed and supporting reason posts because of your arbitrary cutoff where "big write up" occurs and your TL-DR attention stops?

The immersion squad turn up where you least expect them. I get immersion and all that, but really, there are limits. I was hitting this thread first to lay claim, and it worked, no squad posts, yet.

 

[Armour]

Ok, I'll bite. You've all tried hard enough.

What is wrong with preferring an immersive game, exactly? I'm not seeing a valid reason for all the contempt.

I wouldn't want to watch a film where a giant "this is all made-up, it's just a movie" sign flashed on the screen periodically, and where all the actors wore name tags with their real names written on them. Unless that was part of the point of the movie.

With any form of media depicting a fictional environment, if it doesn't bother trying to maintain any consistency or suspension of disbelief for the consumer of said media content, unless it's playing with intentional ironic fourth-wall-breaking, there's not really any point in bothering with the setting, is there?