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Hi,
Sometimes players time out/crash and it can be annoying for everyone; not just for the player who timed out.


The Problem:
"You can't connect to the server. Too many players."
= You can not rejoin. The server thinks you're still on the server and you need to be kicked. ( Nobody will kick you, because they dont know you crashed. If you're playing with random players you can not ask them for a kick. Reconnecting is impossible. )


Fix:
Check if a player has crashed/timed out and make sure the serverslot is free.

Why?
--> You can reconnect
OR
--> Another player can connect
OR
--> a substitute on MM can connect making MM better.



Other suggestions:
-"Playername has left the server."----> "Playername has timed out." in the chat/killfeed ingame
= Better communication with the other players. They dont blame NADEO/ShootMania but they blame the player who crashed instead.
In matchmaking the remaining players will understand why a sub isn't connecting ( because we are waiting for the crashed player to come back. )


- Give timed out / crashed players a chance to reconnect ( with timer & penalty for MM )
I know a match can be short so maybe the player would only comeback 4rounds later, but I think this is the fairest solution. Especially for players who are allied up together. ( they can continue to play together )



This is an important fix. It improves the userfriendliness and boosts the game quality. It's for all gamemodes and all servers for this entire game. Matchmaking and regular servers. Even TM I guess. Please consider it NADEO
Cheerz

nobody?

This is a good suggestion and I think matchmaking reallyneeds this as I have encountered the problem myselfa few times already.

offTopic: what's up with nadeo nowadays? they arent even active that much anymore on the forums as they were... not that it would change anything anyways...
with the eswc confirmation not coming in either the game seems to be on the point of lowest population since the beginning of the alpha (!)

usually, when they are less active in the forum, it has the following reasons:
- they are all aways on holidays (this might actually be the case in west Europe for many countries)
- they are heavily developping new features
- they are heavily testing and playing those new features
- they're out on a team event
- they are upset and don't talk to us for some time, or they simply want to see how the community behaves alone

TMarc wrote:- they are heavily testing and playing those new features

Wouldn't surprised me

Well, I am pretty happy that Nadeo does answer from time to time. Sometimes very often, sometimes less often. Usually, especially if it's a big company, they don't response to every single topic/post so I guess we have to appreciate if they are active in the forums

To come back to the topic:
I totally agree with novationx. Even though I never had any similar issue, these suggestions will be definitely helpful.

Not replying topics doesn't mean that we don't read them

I think they are active as always. I dont understand Joader. Ive seen plenty of posts of Hylis, Magnetik & others these last days.

Keep up the good work NADEO and

PS : On topic pls ^^