D/C Clicks

I always keep StarCraft open on my computer. What can I say? I play a lot of StarCraft. When you consider my previous posts about how cumbersome it is to actually start the program, it’s obvious to see why. I have to imagine that other SC gamers do the same thing. It’s so much easier to Windows Key out of and ALT-TAB into StarCraft, than to fully open and close the program.

The downside to this is that if you’re AFK for long enough, you’ll get D/C’d. It’s part of life in the digital world, every server does it.

This post isn’t about getting D/C’d. It’s about what happens *after* you get D/C’d. It’s about what actions the user must perform to recover from a D/C.

As of this writing, once D/C’d, the game generously gives the player a popup window, letting him know he’s been D/C’d. After clicking that window away, you’ve got to click the Menu button, and click Logout. That brings you back to the login screen, where you have to click Connect, before finally being able to enter your password.

It’s a lengthy and tiresome process. I wish I had a macro to reconnect for me. It’s one of those processes that screams to be streamlined. Hey Devs! How about when you D/C someone, you automatically bring him back to the login/Connect screen. Save us a few clicks, yes?

What good is it, staying in the game, a handful of clicks deep, in Offline mode? You can’t do anything! There’s no reason to be in StarCraft if you’re D/C’d and there’s no reason to force your players to make superfluous clicks.

Devs, please, save your millions of customers dozens of clicks a day by having a D/C drop us to the login screen.