"Retry" button for fights

Feature Requests and Game feedback
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There are countries with unstable internet connection, and im unlucky enough to live in one of them. Periodically goverment internet control systems cut down some servers. It ruined a couple of GW fights for me, and it always happen out of nowhere.
How to fix it? Just add a button ‘Retry connection’ whenever loading screen / post-fight server connection takes too long (15s for instance). By pressing it player will send/receive the data again. This way I will have a chance to launch VPN and fight properly without losing points from the battle which is already won or hasnt even started yet.

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My game actually does this (playing in Steam version). When loading takes too long, I get a retry button. However, it’s a bit longer than those 15 seconds; I’d say after about a minute.

Changing your IP mid-game might cause troubles though, I would imagine…

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Yeah, the timeout is on the order of about 60 seconds. Everywhere. I don’t know why this is the assumed standard…

In the meantime, you can actually force the error/retry message to appear by toggling “Airplane Mode” (aka. disable wi-fi) on and off.

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I see no reason to make it shorter than a minute. A minute or two is a good line between “upload is running a little slow” to “there might be something wrong, let’s start this again”. A limit of 15 seconds might even get in the way of some regular loading.

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Ip doesn’t matter, game only sends data, the 3inarow minigame goes offline, only need to send and to receive the data. Ive been stuck on those screens for longer than a minute, so thats not always the rule

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Thats just a button, if you know your connection is poor, dont click it

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It’s a bit more complicated than that. Unless Gems of War has received some extensive internal reworks, clicking that button too early may have significant side effects.

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Don’t you guys have phones? (TM Blizzard)

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Oh, I do have a phone. Retro model. Rotary dial, cablebound, mechanical bell. Sturdy and heavy enough to be a potential murder weapon. Instruction manual was four lines of text: Lift handset, dial number, do call, hang up. The rest are blank pages to write down numbers.
Love it.

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for sure it requires more coding/time/tests, like every other good thing. Would be grate to have a game which just sends revenue to accounts w/o any updates, but here we are.