minimizing

[spicy]

please dont minimize hosts.  no reason on earth to make a trap for players and have them to freez and make forced pc restart. u want the web ! simple , just go awy or put empbot.

ra can u please  put  minimizing off.... :-X

[GUNWOUNDS]

i agree with you spicy... it is like a trap... i usually just sit in lobby if i want to surf web or i ask a friend to host instead so i can surf the web.

[spicy]

You have to use ctrl+alt+del and close emperor.exe, dune.exe and game.exe

then  start game again and login again (using modem 56)  then  get traped again and again and again........... or just stop minimizing please sound eazyer dosn  it ?!!

[jeff2429]

If it happens to you once don't try to enter again... Page them and ask if they are there so you can enter...

[erjin999]

How about they dont do it ? I myself do it for only a few seconds, just to check out the whos online page, or see if anyone has replied to my msn msgs to join me on emp...

But to minimise and bugger off ? Sheesh. Its not too hard to close the host and surf. Its unreasonable to expect people to know that a host is away, and yes, login again using CTR+ALT+DEL and dont join that host, make a new one or something, it is do able, but its a pain having to do that.

Having said that, RAs server doesnt lock nicks, so its not the same issue it used to be on XWIS/WOL...

[DelugeD]

killing the game.exe  is the only thing u need to end to free it up..

and stated above,,, just page em,,

[ps501]

killing the game.exe

[erjin999]

Are you playing again PS ? I havent seen you on since a few weeks ago...

[DelugeD]

are ya playing again deluged?

PS  Ive ben playing again..Jump on RA's Server Guy

[RA1024]

I think I can make it so the server sends back a "kick" response if the host is minimized and doesn't send back a response to the join in a timely manner.  Just remind me of this and I'll look into it when I have a chance to do some more work on the server.

[spicy]

yes great.  thx

[erjin999]

I think I can make it so the server sends back a "kick" response if the host is minimized and doesn't send back a response to the join in a timely manner.  Just remind me of this and I'll look into it when I have a chance to do some more work on the server.

ok, here is your reminder. Ra, you said something about kicking someone if the did something. Thanks. :P

You are talking about kicking the host, yeah ? So that others cannot join it and get stuck as well.

[erjin999]

Well then others will join and get stuck and peeved too.

Would be nifty if we could have the host get a "diconnected" when he came back to the game.  8)

[erjin999]

One wont get stuck if he is kicked, its other who join that will get stuck, or kicked. Its better to remove the person causing the problem once, rather then remove everyone once they have been affected.

[erjin999]

Nooo, its not the same. If no one joined the game, you wouldnt have 10's of people having to log back in.

Unless he means kicked out of the host, not the game, which is what I take it to mean.

Either way I think it would be good to close hosts where they dont send a reply to a join in a timely manner. It would save those players having to wait for a timeout.

[erjin999]

Well, it can simply disconnect him, and the game would know, as it would timeout, which has happened to a few of us onXWIS when it had its funny days.

But yeah, lets stop guessing and let the Messiah of Arrakis speak for himself.