I live in a remote area where the internet can be down more often than elsewhere. So I do appreciate that if it goes down “after” I am logged on I can keep riding even if I am alone. That said today I realized, as my internet was down already, I could not use Zwift it appears if the network is not connected from the start. I understand that this helps stop people from using Zwift on its own after they stop a subscription but is not ideal for me being remote. Today I was able to get a connection, ever so briefly, on my phone with Cellular but that is not common as usually do not have cellular coverage.
Could you not use a token that say renews every 30 days - even 15 days would be fine - and as long as you have logged in over that time frame you can then log into Zwift and use it offline. This way those of us with connection issues can still use Zwift.
I believe the issue is that there are certain pieces of the game data/assets that are loaded when the user first logs in to the Zwift game. Once this are loaded you can continue without an Internet connection (and without other riders), though you must still reconnect at the end if you want to save your ride. But without a connection at the start of the ride, I’m not sure you’d be able to ride at all, since the game wouldn’t have all of the pieces it needs.
Another option would be to get to some place with working coverage, log in, then return to your training space to do the ride. To save it you would need to get back to coverage, but you could do the entire ride with no signal.
Actually that is sort of how I got on this AM as had cell coverage - just enough - to get on them rode alone till internet came on an hour later.
Just thought Zwift could for sure make it so you can log on and still protect the subscription needs - hence the token idea.
Sounds technically feasible, just not likely to be a solution for what you’re dealing with any time soon, if ever.
No it is windstream so better than when I hd Star link that often would have a temprary outage.