[CF-Devel] cfclient bugs and server issues

[Andreas Vogl]

Mark W. wrote: (in reply to Jochen Suckfuell)

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      > Problem: The server doesn't see when my connection dies.
     
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      > I'm sharing an ISDN line with other people and it happens that
     
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      > someone cuts it while I'm playing. Then my player is still standing
     
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      > where I left it and I can't log in again for another 10 minutes until
     
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      > the server decides that I'm somehow absent! Luckily I haven't died
     
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      > that way yet. If I just kill my client, the server saves and removes
     
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      > my player correctly.
     
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      This is purely on OS issue, and nothing that crossfire can do much about
     
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      (there may be some tunables to make the connection die faster).  But
     
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      put, with the way tcp traffic works, it does quite a bit of work to handle
     
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      lost packets and what not.  A cut connection is basically just a lot of
     
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      lost packets, so it takes some amount of retrying before it figures out
     
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      that the connection really is dead.
     
     
Oh I think there is an easy way to get rid of the problem:
When a player logs on to the game we make a check if there already is a
player with identical username and password. If there is one, we simply
kick him out, allowing the "new" player to enter.
The only situation where a player tries to connect the same character a
second time is when his connection was cut. And this happens to everyone
from time to time.


Andreas V.