A player's connection drops mid-jump and their body hangs in the air for everyone

When messages from a player stop, the others see a frozen body in whatever pose it had, often the middle of a leap, and sometimes it stays for minutes. Players think they are looking at a cheater. Here is a staged way to show that someone is gone and to let the body leave the scene calmly.

Why this works

Silence has stages: a short gap is lag, a longer one is a problem, and a long one is gone. Showing each honestly lets people see at a glance that someone left, rather than suspect a cheater, and keeping the body a while makes a return look smooth.

When not to use it

Wrong in a turn-based or slow game, where a long silence is normal and a ghost would only confuse. Also wrong when the others must not wait for a lost player: remove the body at once and let an AI take its place.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 19 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

Say this to your AI

Use the Spielerando entry "A player's connection drops mid-jump and their body hangs in the air for everyone" (read_entry a-player-who-lost-connection-should-not-hang-in-the-air) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

Or skip this and connect the MCP: your AI then finds all of this by itself.Connect the MCP