Talk:Tutorial: Proxy Connection/@comment-98.248.144.140-20140130044658

So seeing that everyone has gotten some problems with API connection, I went and checked out what's going on and here's my find:

Apparently, the API auto-refresh is done as a countermeasure against the usage of auto-expedition macros. The server will now automatically refresh your API token every given period of time (1.5 hour I think?). With this being said, unconventional ways of connecting, even if you are not using the said macro, will result in disconnection.

However this seems to have been causing problems for average Japanese players as well (or so I heard). If this is the case, they might do something about it (change it, whatever). It also seems that playing via VPN is not 100% guaranteed to avoid this disconnection problem, as if it refreshes the token while you are in mid-battle - BOOM, say hi to the kitty!

As heartless as I sound, I wish the Japanese players are experiencing problems with this too. Looking forward to see some responses and countermeasures from the players' side.

And just a personal speculation: I doubt that this is done to limit the oversea players (even though we are not supposed to be playing), as there are more effective ways to fuck with us than to just do the API token change. Still, we are underrepresented by default, and it is best to be mentally prepared should the worst case scenario ever happen to us (i.e. massive banning of oversea accounts).