A disservice?

[Mavfin]

Question for both you and Loch. Are either or both of you doing something to pause the game before you AFK? Since bringing up a window or menu will actually pause the game if you are the only one in a non public game, I'm just curious if that has an effect one way or the other. I've not really tested I generally haven't AFK'd for more than about 5-10 minutes and that was usually in a multi game.

I didn't know the game could be paused. Inventory, skills, etc. windows didn't pause it so, after reading this yesterday, I tried the game menu and that did, indeed, pause the game.

Anyway, it happened again last night, twice. The first time was before finding out about the pause. I had parked him in an already cleared area. The second time was paused with the game menu up. Also of note, my connection does not die. I fall back to the hero list when the OK is clicked and all the achieves for my friends list are reported in chat. I should probably try to make this happen and time it to see if there is a set time.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if I was the only one seeing this problem. That's kind of the story on my life.

Any possibility it's related to power management on your LAN port? i.e. after a certain amount of time idle it puts that in a different state? (I know, simple, but you have to ask it.)

Sounds like the session server stops getting keepalive packets or whatever Blizzard uses.