Instances reset too often.#827

Several times now, I have portalled to my fort, done a bunch of crafting and then when I portal back the instance has been reset and I am returned to the beginning of the instance.

As long as a personal portal is open to an instance it shouldn’t reset. This is particularly annoying when you’ve beaten a boss, inventory is full so you portal out and then when you come back you lose the loot.

Is there an official reset timer? It does seem to be very random. Like sometimes an immediate leave and return, or sometimes it seems to require zoning out of a base map to make the dungeons reset.

Is there any chance that some sort of countdown timer could be displayed when we portal to our fort to show how long we have until the map resets? Or are the resets an actual (i.e. random) bug?

I was playing tonight (multiplayer, but by myself) and spent a few minutes in my fort to find my portal location reset to the entrance to the completely reset level. That TOTALLY eliminates the usefulness of the portal feature, since the primary use to to obtain more health and/or clear inventory space before moving on into the next dungen level.

A countdown timer would at least allow us to TRY to get back before the reset when we see it running low.

BTW: I wanted to include the version, but I cannot find it in the program like I could before the official release. But Steam (on Win64) says it is up-to-date as of Jan 3, 2021.

Why does the isntance need to reset at all? I find it frustrating that the maps reset between sessions; it’s absolutely infuriating that they reset while I’m still in-game. It’s obnoxious to have to re-explore and re-clear areas that I’ve already completed. This wasn’t an issue with TL2.