Rage, If you log in on the SAME character your idle timer will only increase the small amount of time it took your computer to log you back in. (Changelog, idle timer increases when your character is logged off but STILL in game) So we're talking seconds. Also there is an extremely slim chance that if you got disconnected because of your own net that it reset your IP when you reconnected which would also give you full timer. If you switch to a doc and back well then you have full timer. *I spent the last 10 minutes logging off and on the same character in world map, in combats and in base, my Idle timer only increased by the few seconds while I was offline but still in game every time, so it should not effect you if you get DC'd while doing stuff and relog on the same character*
As far as T-888's incredibly slanted logic, and your complaint about prep time: When moving to your base to gear up and drug up from wherever you were that lowers your Idle time, when entering your base you have 20 seconds of free time, after leaving your base and moving to whatever location you wanted to do combat in, that lowers your Idle time, if you get lucky and the area isn't a combat zone when you arrive then your Idle time does NOT matter at all because if it turns CZ while you're already inside it having Idle time does not effect you. I'm sorry your crusade to be able to have a fresh insta-loggable combat ape ready and waiting at any moment isn't gonna work, we all see what you're trying to do. The whole system is to prevent fresh characters from dropping into CZ's from a safe area. Learn to do something for the 2.5 minutes and move on, if you can't, well this game may be too harsh for you.
We've all said it as many ways as we can, someone wanna tag in for me, I'm taking a break?