I have many a time been disconnected from a forge session, only to lose 30 odd minutes of my time. I’m genuinely fed up with this, and I cannot be the only one who experiences this.
I can’t think of any ways 343 could fix this, but I wanted to get this problem out into the forums, as I believe any forgers who do unfortunately experience this will lose some amazing stuff.
I wish I could empathize, but that sounds like a very ridiculous issue. Maybe they could give you an option to save in the middle of your work, like saving your campaign progress in Skyrim.
Definitely save more often. Do you have all of the Xbox One ports opened on your router? The Xbox One has more ports to open than the Xbox 360 had, and even if tests say you have Open NAT that doesn’t mean you have all the Xbox One ports open. Usually I only disconnect when there are server problems, and if I disconnect multiple times in 1 night then I usually stop forging for the night.
I have had this happen on the odd day as well, does it happen to you every day? On the days that I notice the dropouts there is usually a Server or XBL service issue announcement.
This happened to me once but it wasn’t 30m it was like 50m I was working on a base I built but then I disconnected and I just turned everything off because it kinda pissed me off.
Doesn’t happen everyday, but then I don’t actually play Halo everyday…
Its relatively rare, but it just feels like a slap in -Yoink- when it happens
I had similar things happen in the past.
My best advice is too save often. And I don’t mean every 5 minutes.
I use the quick save (back/view button) after I place even just one piece. sometimes I place 3 or 4 then save.
It’s become habit now, I don’t even really think about it if I get disconnected from the server or something.
I would say after placing just a few pieces, if it’s a fresh map, save it using the “save map as…” option and give it a working title.
Then after you place some pieces down, quick save. More pieces, save. Rinse, repeat.