ID:1286711
 
BYOND Version:499
Operating System:Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Web Browser:Chrome 27.0.1453.110
Applies to:Dream Seeker
Status: Open

Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Descriptive Problem Summary:
My connection is randomly dropped... on my own server...

Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
1. Connect to my server.
2. Wait.
3. ???
4. Try to do anything to find out that your connection had been killed earlier but BYOND didn't find out about it until just now.

Expected Results:
Connections are never dropped, and if they are BYOND detects this and automatically reconnects. (BYOND tries to maintain a connection with the server by sending heartbeats/pings to maintain compatibility with broken networks?)

Actual Results:
Connection is randomly dropped if the client hasn't been touched for a bit.

Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often?
Every time.
In other games?
I didn't test this.
In other user accounts?
I didn't test this.
On other computers?
I didn't test this.

When does the problem NOT occur?
The problem does not occur if the game is being played. It only seems to occur when the client is left to idle for too long.

Did the problem NOT occur in any earlier versions? If so, what was the last version that worked? (Visit http://www.byond.com/download/build to download old versions for testing.)
Unknown- did not have any earlier versions.

Workarounds:
Set up a sophisticated bootstrap script to automatically execute commands in the client process to keep the connection alive. Or just reconnect when the connection dies.