No options that I see that will attempt to reconnect. Does FS check to see if it can start in Online mode at each startup if data is enabled under options? My greyed-out connection is for West USA, but I can’t try any others as the control is not active. FS has been in this state for the last few days.
I know I’m not alone in this. My community folder is empty. I’ve tried it several times/day, with no change in the offline status. Do any of you see sporadic changes in online/offline state? Are any of you running online indicating that this isn’t a universal problem?
@GLCodeCutter
By offline status are you referring to that shown when you click on your avatar top right of screen? I was informed by other members on here that it shows online (and you can change server) only when you enable multiplayer mode. It does not necessarily mean you are offline if flying single player.
As far as I can see there seems to be no simple indication you could glance at showing you are online/offline during a flight other than brief flashes of a message when you drop offline for whatever reason or reconnection happens. Someone correct me if I am wrong. In answer to your question though, reconnection seems to happen.
This last evening in the UK the sim was for me loading really slowly and erratically, throwing up various computer error messages and I was getting the red offline message flashing up with Azure failure and sometimes a green reconnect message. ATC went regularly to the computer voices such as the child and the poor imitation of Darth Vader. I gave up for the night, particularly as my controls of Concorde appeared to give up too.
I have gotten the disconnected notice quite a few times, but only once ( and that was in the last week) have I gotten a reconnected message.
Right now MSFS is having some connection difficulties they are investigating.
If you weren’t aware of this, you can check the server status from the three stripes beside your icon.
In there, click “Online Services”.
Thanks @TheSevenflyer for the info. It would be nice and reassuring if there was a small indicator somewhere while in the cockpit, optional of course for the really serious flyers.
