For example, Joe gets 38 points in-game, disconnects due to his ISP being a little bitch, comes back, and finds out his score is now 0, all of his skills are now gone. So my suggestion is to have the server track all the scores and then wipes them after the game is finished. Pro: Removes the hassle of getting those points up again Con: Masochists enjoy the game less? Alternative: There is none. STORMED tried to make a server plugin that will do this but it failed.
i really like this idea, because i hate when this happens, which is on an infrequent but notable basis. But i dont know technical stuff. Any reasons not to put this on an eventual to-do list?
Also mentioned here: http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=4244 I probably named the thread poorly - but did you not read through 11 pages of gumph to find it? Demented - I think the server can tell the difference between someone quitting and someone dropping due to connection error, so any solution should be able to stop people quitting and rejoining - also I don't know why they would, it'd be pointless. Its a particularly good point if you're on a slightly dodgy wireless connection and a map like escort where you really need the points as NF near the end.
commanders need 10points at least for rep upgrade.. the crashing just fubar's that up when you have to do it all over again
J_4mes.: Join squad, get skill, get in CV. While you will be removed from the squad and the skill slot will lock, the skill isn't removed. Its just like having the 10 points, except you don't spawn with the skill without joining a squad and applying the skill again. Another reason to add this: crashing. Some players still have crash issues, and I have learned from first hand experience just how frustrating it is to crash and lose all my ranks. I know other players find this equally frustrating.
I don't think this would be so good idea because every time you are going to leave the server you can pretend that you timed out by taking off your modem's cable. Then a few days later you join the same server and when the map starts you have all 4 skill slots open and your starting points are at 200. People say you hack and ban you. I can't find this good in any way at all. Finally every people who play Empires a bit more frequently have 4 skill slots open and all those new players who just have downloaded the mod and join the server first time get killed just way too easily by twin level 3 MG turrets which engineer just placed them outside your only spawn. I have crashed, timed out and got all kinds of things why I have had to rejoin the server and see how all my points were gone but it isn't that big loss because you always get one skill for free right away and if you aren't a rifleman on crossroads and killing 10 players/20 seconds, you won't even get more than maybe 2 or 3 skill slots unlocked on a normal game.
Well, no one said that this thing would work like that. I assumed that you can save your score by "crashing" in the end of a map and then join the same server again when the next map is on and get your points back which you had on the previous map.
