When a zone crashes, pets should be restored to the last checkpoint rather than being deleted

If you have a pet when the zone crashes, there's good chance that your pet will be deleted. This even happens to pets that are suspended. From what I understand, this happens because pets are part of the zone info which is lost when the zone crashes. However, the pet info is obviously saved somewhere because you don't lose your pet when you camp. In the case of a zone crash, they should give you the pet you had at the last save point. Even if this doesn't cover all cases (e.g. you make a pet and then the zone immediately crashes), it would greatly help in 99% of the cases where someone has had a pet for a long time. Rather than losing the pet completely, they would get their pet back from some point in the past.

you can also log out instead of sitting for days afk in the guild lobby

God save the lag pile. Logout.

That's not the only time a zone can crash on you. It's worse when you are in the middle of a fight and the zone crashes. When you come back not only are you not in a safe spot but if you're a pet class, your pet is gone, too.

In a hypothetical world, this would probably be a good thing. I'm guessing it's not a "simple code fix" since they haven't done it yet. Low hanging fruit seem to be what's been worked on the most these days. But maybe I'm wrong and it has never occurred to any of the devs...

So as far as spending real development time on this, I'd rather just keep losing the pets and hope they work on something more significant. I also don't think they necessarily like players buffing pets to the max...but let it go because they are so expendable.

Just one player's opinion.

Have to give it a like because a zone crash will kill pets.

Yeah this is a good thing. Pets shouldn't even survive zoning imo.

You should lose all buffs and all mana every time you zone.

Add endurance and ok that sounds fair.

Used to be a thing you would see text every 20 seconds? " Yourname Saved " .. your game progress would then be saved incase of a crash.
I remember loosing a Screaming Mace due to the server crash soon as I did my turn in to the npc.

Boo hiss.

That would really suck while doing a mission in an instance. You would need to buff after zoning in rather than before taking the task which would require the mission to take longer.

You should lose levels if you stay logged in (inactive) for longer than 4 hours!

But what about the automated toons?

It isn't just a zone crash that will kill pets but reloading the zone as well will do that for anyone who has been in a zone on beta when devs reload it.

Like sitting on a toilet?

Oh my poor level 1 Frogloks in the Marr-ket selling things. (I don't always use offline trade mode.)

POK is getting ridiculous. I go out the door of the GL and sit there for 3 or 4 mins waiting to be able to move, How can this situation be made better?
1. Move Teek clear across the zone into the lease used area of pok.
2. Move the zone in spot away from the lag pile, if option one is a no go.
3. Same with the Brick of Knowledge. Tosses you right into that time warp.
4. Afk timers in Pok.

It didnt used to be this way.