All they would have to do is pull the 10 sec to log out thing.
You get a 10 second timer before you go to the logout screen, make that say, 30 seconds, and that should be long enough that you can't abuse it to remove people to stop them from dying. Then just make them auto exit to menu instead of the 10 seconds where you sit there attackable and killable.
First, I don't want this to come off the wrong way. I lost a hardcore character because of this, but I certainly don't expect to get it back, and I'm hardly crying about the death... but I've looked on the interwebs and have been unable to find information about this and I'm more annoyed than anything.
I was playing in a public game last night (hardcore, act 3 inferno) and when I join, there were 3 other people. One of them was obviously afk in town (paragon 0, crap gear, would have died almost instantly outside of town). I asked if he's been afk long, and the people in the game said yes, and agreed we should vote kick him. Since I just joined, my option wasn't available yet, so I waited the 5 minutes or so and then it lit up for clicking. After clicking it and him not being booted in a minute or two, I asked the other guys to do the same.
We were out in a cave in the fields at this point (a minute after trying to vote kick him) and I get a message on my screen that says "You're going to be removed from the game, find safety!" with a 10 second count down. At first I was like lol, they vote kicked me? They must have been friends with the guy or something. So I tried to run away, and of course was rubber banded back to the spot I was running from. Tried to blow a potion and a defensive CD as the timer was running out, but they didn't work (lag?).
I was at about 50% at this point when ... wait for it... instead of booting me from the game, it brings up the log out countdown screen where I have to sit for 10 seconds w/o being able to do anything before I get logged out. And of course, I die during it. After relogging because of some error, my character was dead, and my recently played showed all 3 people from the other game sitting at menus, they all got removed as well.
I guess my real question is... what would cause this? Does blizzard make a habit of just closing games? My favorite fantastical theory is that the guy in town that didn't belong there was hacking of some kind and blizzard auto-detected it and closed the game, but that sounds pretty far fetched. It just seems strange to me. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? HC or SC.
My main piece of advise is to learn quickly when you need to run away. If you're not topped, and don't have anyway to heal yourself immediately .. start looking for a way out.
To go along with that, when you're running from an elite (and you will have to do this as you gear up) don't EVER run toward uncovered portions of the map. Ever! It's a good way to over pull and wind up having to reroll.
And remember, Over-leveled, over-geared, over-prepared.
Name: Projob Class: Monk Level: 60 Status: Alive Progression: Act3 Hell -- About to do Siegebreaker. Just dinged 60 a couple days ago! Can't want to start the gear grind!
Update!
Name: Projob Class: Monk Level: 60 Status: Alive Progression: Act 1 Inferno -- Downed the skeleton king in a public game. I'm not really sure I'm ready to play any further, so I'll probably farm up some act 1 for a while.
I'd have to agree with the above. I think 500 resists is a good place to start for inferno so that you should have no major issues. Life and armor looks good though.
Name: Projob Class: Monk Level: 60 Status: Alive Progression: Act3 Hell -- About to do Siegebreaker. Just dinged 60 a couple days ago! Can't want to start the gear grind!
I started playing hardcore a few weeks ago (2?) for some of the same reasons you listed and my monk is allllmost 60. After I killed Diablo, I figured the only logical step was to start hardcore. I love the fact that gold seems to be considerably harder to come by in hardcore, and as such it's much more meaningful.
They are no longer on my recently played list, and they were the last people I played with. I've now sworn off public games.....
All they would have to do is pull the 10 sec to log out thing.
You get a 10 second timer before you go to the logout screen, make that say, 30 seconds, and that should be long enough that you can't abuse it to remove people to stop them from dying. Then just make them auto exit to menu instead of the 10 seconds where you sit there attackable and killable.
Lost a pre-paragon monk shortly after launch too, but that was just to a normal DC which of course is to be expected. This one just feels wrong heh
First, I don't want this to come off the wrong way. I lost a hardcore character because of this, but I certainly don't expect to get it back, and I'm hardly crying about the death... but I've looked on the interwebs and have been unable to find information about this and I'm more annoyed than anything.
I was playing in a public game last night (hardcore, act 3 inferno) and when I join, there were 3 other people. One of them was obviously afk in town (paragon 0, crap gear, would have died almost instantly outside of town). I asked if he's been afk long, and the people in the game said yes, and agreed we should vote kick him. Since I just joined, my option wasn't available yet, so I waited the 5 minutes or so and then it lit up for clicking. After clicking it and him not being booted in a minute or two, I asked the other guys to do the same.
We were out in a cave in the fields at this point (a minute after trying to vote kick him) and I get a message on my screen that says "You're going to be removed from the game, find safety!" with a 10 second count down. At first I was like lol, they vote kicked me? They must have been friends with the guy or something. So I tried to run away, and of course was rubber banded back to the spot I was running from. Tried to blow a potion and a defensive CD as the timer was running out, but they didn't work (lag?).
I was at about 50% at this point when ... wait for it... instead of booting me from the game, it brings up the log out countdown screen where I have to sit for 10 seconds w/o being able to do anything before I get logged out. And of course, I die during it. After relogging because of some error, my character was dead, and my recently played showed all 3 people from the other game sitting at menus, they all got removed as well.
I guess my real question is... what would cause this? Does blizzard make a habit of just closing games? My favorite fantastical theory is that the guy in town that didn't belong there was hacking of some kind and blizzard auto-detected it and closed the game, but that sounds pretty far fetched. It just seems strange to me. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? HC or SC.
Thanks!
WTS CD Dex Oculus as follows....
150dex
58vit
69AR
226 Armor
33CD
18MF
Currently posted on the AH for 25M bid, 100M buyout, but I can pull it down if I have a decent offer on it.
Also willing to trade for a Str CC or IAS version.
Projob #1921 for offers, or just leave them here
To go along with that, when you're running from an elite (and you will have to do this as you gear up) don't EVER run toward uncovered portions of the map. Ever! It's a good way to over pull and wind up having to reroll.
And remember, Over-leveled, over-geared, over-prepared.
The Traveler's Pledge
260 Dext
103 Vit
14% life
352 Life per second
39% MF
1428 thorns dmg
I put it up for only 20M on the AH, the current bid was 5.25M last time I looked. Great survivability for HC.
Update!
Name: Projob
Class: Monk
Level: 60
Status: Alive
Progression: Act 1 Inferno -- Downed the skeleton king in a public game. I'm not really sure I'm ready to play any further, so I'll probably farm up some act 1 for a while.
Class: Monk
Level: 60
Status: Alive
Progression: Act3 Hell -- About to do Siegebreaker.
Just dinged 60 a couple days ago! Can't want to start the gear grind!
I started playing hardcore a few weeks ago (2?) for some of the same reasons you listed and my monk is allllmost 60. After I killed Diablo, I figured the only logical step was to start hardcore. I love the fact that gold seems to be considerably harder to come by in hardcore, and as such it's much more meaningful.
Good luck with your reroll!
Projob#1921, or leave me a message here.
thanks!