Reconnect to Lost Sessions. We need this asap.

@corvum-mortis

What happens to the ship and items aboard the ship while the client is disconnected?

It should still be vulnerable to attacks, the most important thing is maintaining the connection to the session, because you may be in the middle of a quest or in an alliance you are having a good time with. I'd only grant the ability for the ship to just anchor itself automatically as a thing to prevent the ship to move out of the world by standing still.

What happens if client is only connection to the server?

If I understood this question correctly, you mean to ask what happens if the person is the only one in the server and loses connection? Well this is very rare to happen since server merges occour whenever you are in a low population server, but in the rare chanse it doesn't, then it still reconnects to the server regardless, I see no issue.

@steveboddy

15 minutes is way too long

Why is it too long? What is the downside?

@galactic-geek 15 minutes is enough for a game crash reconnect, a beard error, a quick power outage reconnect and/or a internet hiccup reconnect, around 60-80% of the time. 3 minutes only serves for beard errors and crashes everything else is a low chanse of actually being enough time. Most other games I listed keep the window for reconnection indefinitely (or penalize you for taking too long but still allow you to come back) and I haven't heard in any of those any evidence of exploits or server tax complaints.

Now on how it's exploitable in SoT? Probably impossible unless people elaborate on how, saying it is doesn't make it so.

@galactic-geek

While a decent idea, this can also be abused as well.

Do I have to spell it out that criticism needs to be elaborated every single time? Elaborate you point, abused how? If you think it's gonna be abused define a situation where you'd consider an abuse.

From my perspective, the only abuse is that a person is kicked out if they don't want to be out of the crew, but given that you can't kick someone out of the session in the first place if theyare connected and that the downside of not having this option is that afk players don't get the boot for longer clogging up the matchmaking on open crews, I think that it's a compromise we can tolerate, right?

@mentimjojo

Its takes a spot and server resources

I don't understand why is that a bad downside compared to making solo play more stable and making reconnecting more practical and less relyant on needing a crewmate to serve as an anchor for you in the server. I mean anything takes server resources anyway, why is this feature apperantly the one to break the camel's back?

@lem0n-curry Yeah I do agree with your point, I think that something that would happen is that most of the time people won't manually sever their connection when they leave, possibly leaving the crew waiting on the timer for the spot to expire it's timer. However this depends entirely on player behaviour, if players are constantly confirming that they want to disconnect or the crew is capable of agreeing with dropping the player from the reconnect timer this should be a non-issue. The one thing I'd suggest as an optional solution is to perhaps allow for single vote drop the reconnect timer, with this it increases the risk of trolling a player in an unfortunate situation but still may be worth the risk.