[netburnr]

I thought that was by design....I must be missing something.

Are you supposed to "die" after 5 minutes if you can't get back in fast enough, say your computer crashes, or the power goes out for 6 minutes....

[GrimGriz]

In other games (and potentially Jumpgate Evolution) you log back in right where you logged off...no matter how long you stay logged off.

[Bingofuel]

Unless your dead you should allways log in where you logged out.
Teleporting via link death, log out is either an obvious exploit or a major inconvenience (especialy on heavy long hauls).

Link death is an un avoidable fact of online gameing. Power drops, Routers go off line, truck slams into the telephone/cable line, ect...

If you intend to go deep space you need to expect to long haul it back, period.

Back to the 30 sec log out. All games require you to be perfectly still to log out. In the case of link death, your character stops. Some games will put you in NPC mode where your character fights and defends itself for the 30 seconds.

when you need to log out are you actualy going to sit around for 5 minutes to make sure you safely log out? 30 seconds is plenty long.

Also the /q teleport only works if you are CIV. If you are Mil you log in where you logged out or went LD, unless you got killed of corse. Yea /q is great when you go arty hunting and it's time to dock.