Stupid things happening when disconnected
Have anyone else noticed that when you get disconnected (due to my crappy internet btw) all kinds of things are still able to happen to you, so that when or if you log back in right away you're either dead or worse?
Usually I just die, but this last time I had stepped on an elevator when everything froze. When I logged back in I was 10 energy poorer :(
Isn't there a way to detect disconnections earlier, so these things don't happen?
I think you misunderstood me. *I* can tell when I'm disconnecting just fine, but the game obviously can't and therefore I take damage in the time it takes for the game to realize I've been disconnected. And the disconnect is usually because my internet zones out; it shouldn't be that difficult to distinguish bad sync from actually going offline.
The only way I've found to determine desync and imminent disconnection is to see if damage numbers stop showing during combat and if new items fail to update in your hotbar.
If either of these things happen, it means that you're desyncing with the server; at the very least you're going to hang/crash at the elevator, and most likely after some period of time you'll just lag out.
The network coding in this game is just bad; I enjoy the game but a fair amount of time I simply can't even try to play due to desync/disconnection issues.