Any one else having a lot of disconnects while Dragon Riding? Was fine with no issue in this expansion at first but now recently seems to be happening quiet a lot.
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happens to me random on area 52 realm. When im dragon flying under bridges or doing a swoop back around
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happens probably once a day at least . seems random tho
Actually yeah, quite a bit lately. I notice that it happens in particular when I’m launching off of or near objects like boulders and the like that can catch you.
It made me wonder if it thinks I’m out of bounds or something, or that part of my mount clipped into something and the game crashed trying to correct it.
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I wouldn’t say a lot, but I’ve definitely had more than a few that seem to occur when skyriding.
Near a wall: disconnect
Flew up too fast: disconnect
Near water: disconnect
Thinking about flying: disconnect
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Not recently, but yes…a list of times its happened in the past.
Happened a lot week one of War Within. Usually when suddenly stopping (hitting a wall, using arial hault) or when attempting to take off from water.
Seems to have calmed down since then
Yes seems happen near things like that too. It also happens if you try to relaunch off the ground too quickly.
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That would make sense, especially in crowded realms like Area 52. Changing zones sounds like the perfect place for “race conditions” to show up.
Race conditions happen when you are running multi threaded software that are trying to communicate (i.e. hand off a dragon and rider) and the one picking up the data gets there before the other has a chance to post the data.
It’s suppose to be prevented with semaphores but it’s easy to get the timing wrong. The heaver that code is used, the more likely errors become.
The first time they tried to launch the Space Shuttle Columbia this problem popped up. It was a count down, they got near zero and there was a hold because two of the computers couldn’t communicate.
When NASA said they were scrubbing for the day due to a “software problem”, NBC announcer Frank McGee asked "What is Software ?!?! ".
Every single time I put on the brakes and hit something I DC. Also, if they could remove the noise the mounts make from me using that ability that would be great. Some mounts cry out in pain. It’s a video game. Please stop.
I wonder who implemented that…
I don’t get too many random disconnects. But, when I did get them, they usually happened while dragon riding.
This may be a bit of a crackpot theory, but a part of me wonders if it has anything to do with botting and hacking detection. I know some games have it so that way if a character starts moving outside of certain parameters (like if they move faster than the game should allow - this is was a pretty big thing in GW2 with people using hacks to warp around maps to collection nodes), the game will automatically flag your character or force a logout.
Maybe some old spaghetti code is causing the problem?
I’m trying to pay attention to what is going on when it happens to me, and it’s always flying, always taking off using jump and I think I have my right mouse button clicked.
I’ve only been disconnected when I manage to get stuck in places.
But that’s from me full sending it into the ground and walls. Definitely not the games fault 
Sadly feels the opposite on my side had it happen several times in a row. Please I just want to fly.
Every time I clip something, I fear getting disconnected.
Normally I don’t get disconnected much from Dragon Riding, but today I have been disconnected multiple times while Dragon Riding.
Not a lot. Usually when I hit something trying to lift off like a tree/branch.
i’ll occasionally dc when hitting a wall dragon riding. happened a ton in early dragonflight, then it mellowed out. happened a few times so far this expac.