Combat Logging: Difference between revisions
Updated notes on the legitimacy of combat logging to reflect the actual community stance. Was unable to add a reference as I am new to Fandom but have linked a supporting citation instead. |
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{{Quote|To clarify: the official stance on exiting the game via the menu, at any point, is that it is legitimate. I suspect at some point we may increase the "in danger" countdown, but for now you just have to wait fifteen seconds. However, we can't speak for how other Commanders view such actions. For the record, when we talk about "combat logging" at Frontier, we mean the act of ungracefully exiting the game (either by ALT-F4 type procedures or by cutting the network traffic).|Sandro Sammarco, May 17, 2016<ref name=":0">[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/is-save-ing-still-a-legitimate-tactic-to-avoid-destruction.251428/page-9#post-3904116 Frontier Forums: Is "Save"ing still a legitimate tactic to avoid destruction ?, post #166]</ref>}} | {{Quote|To clarify: the official stance on exiting the game via the menu, at any point, is that it is legitimate. I suspect at some point we may increase the "in danger" countdown, but for now you just have to wait fifteen seconds. However, we can't speak for how other Commanders view such actions. For the record, when we talk about "combat logging" at Frontier, we mean the act of ungracefully exiting the game (either by ALT-F4 type procedures or by cutting the network traffic).|Sandro Sammarco, May 17, 2016<ref name=":0">[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/is-save-ing-still-a-legitimate-tactic-to-avoid-destruction.251428/page-9#post-3904116 Frontier Forums: Is "Save"ing still a legitimate tactic to avoid destruction ?, post #166]</ref>}} | ||
Frontier Developments' official stance on combat logging by terminating the game application or the network connection is that it is an "undesirable exploit" that is "not part of the game", and therefore an offense that may be punished with a ban.<ref name="CLU" /> | Frontier Developments' official stance on combat logging by terminating the game application or the network connection is that it is an "undesirable exploit" that is "not part of the game", and therefore an offense that may be punished with a ban.<ref name="CLU" /> | ||
Exiting the game via the menu and waiting for the 15-second cooldown to elapse is always legitimate, and will not incur any penalty | Exiting the game normally via the menu and waiting for the 15-second cooldown to elapse is always legitimate in the eyes of Frontier Developments, and will not incur any penalty.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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[[Category:Guides]] | [[Category:Guides]] | ||