I was having a nice time at Dreams and Nightmares when my internet decided to crap out on me. When I was finally reconnected, I discovered that it still used my emergency revive while I was still disconnecting. Nova pointed out to me that one of the old patch notes (http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Release_Notes_2013-08-06 Thanks, Nova) says that an emergency revive won't be used while you're having connection problems. Apparently, having connection again for half a second makes the revive activate.
With Nova's help, I'd like to suggest that we be able to click a button that uses our emergency revive, rather than the revive using itself automatically. While you're down, it shouldn't grant any loot from killed monsters/treasure boxes to prevent AFK/alt farming. The revive should also not do the energy burst that stuns monsters upon use.
This would seriously help those of us who have connection issues often. I hate seeing that I have to spark rev when I still had my emergency rev when I first started DCing.
EDIT: As Nova said, there could also be an option to choose if the emergency rev activates automatically or if you can press a button.
A hah here's the release notes.
I also have this problem sometimes. The option to simply use the ER when you want to would be far more ideal (staying on your back getting 0 additional loot and minimal mooching abils in the meantime like it is now). Hey! What would be very fantastic: an option in the menus to toggle "choose when to use ER" or not - so like the "activate ER" button is either there when you die, or your ER kicks in like it does currently and there's no button. Most people would want the ER to kick in right away most of the time, unless they 1) have connection issues or 2) want to analyze the battlefield to write up a nice guide, and I'm sure there are many other reasons.
Of course, they should just polish up this DC coding period, but the problem has inspired a different solution.