Guest or New Player 20min default log out

[Zikon]

I understand their reasoning.

Best to just turn it off when you log on, Or make yourself not a "Guest" on the account. (If you're using a Token its not like they'll be able to get into your account anyway).

If you're just going to remember to remove it, Think of it as a training in your memory, This change isn't worth the time it would take to correct, So instead, it'll teach some of us to remember important things.

Dev teams doing us a favor , Can always use more Brain-Training.

It's not that I don't understand all I need to do is remember its just the 2-3 times I forget a month that becomes annoying. I remember almost every time or i'm on the character enough to where it doesnt log me out automatically at all.

But the 2-3 times a month where I go afk and forgot and get logged off...... Is enough for me to get irritated and hope that one day this will be changed.

I got my answer and even though its not exactly a good answer i'll stop asking..

SE if you change it awesome if you dont well... i'm not surprised.

Thank you Rukkirii

and your Coeurl Avatar is awesome.

[Tsuneo]

I don't get why you have to turn auto logout off multiple times a month.

[Zikon]

I don't get why you have to turn auto logout off multiple times a month.

Guest log in. I have more than 4 accounts saved on my desktop.

[Tsuneo]

Get rid of one?

[Dragoy]

Personally, I find a bigger problem is that if you're on PC and you lock your computer, it kicks you out of the game. I don't like to leave my computer unlocked because I don't want my roommates snooping around my PC. So I have to do a total shutdown every time I need to leave the computer for more than a few minutes.

Assuming Windows, I never 'locked' it myself so I'm not sure how many options there is to do that. Does a screen-saver with the password query disconnect you also? Or was there any other way...

I can imagine the log-in screen 'crashing' FFXI right away if it takes you there.
But yeah, I just can't even remember how that works in Windows, since I didn't really ever use it, but I can say that using Linux it is perfectly possible to lock the screen and FFXI (and everything else) will happily keep on running. ^^


As for the topic itself... I for one don't have that many accounts, and need not the Guest log-in feature at all so this doesn't really concern me, but I wouldn't be against it either.

Perhaps one solution would be adding this option to the FFXI-Config utility instead of the in-game options (or better yet, make it both).

[Kaisha]

If they do not wish to address the guest/new player auto-disconnect thing, how about adjusting POL so it allows more than four POL profiles without us having to manually muck about with folders.

And possibly add support for running multiple instances of POL at once for those of us with multiple accounts that have a powerful enough PC while they're at it......

[Juilan]

stuff

your moogle was cuter than that coeurl

[Juilan]

Assuming Windows, I never 'locked' it myself so I'm not sure how many options there is to do that. Does a screen-saver with the password query disconnect you also? Or was there any other way...

it does, so i cant let my computer lock under that either... sadly this issue isn't to do with SE but the fact windows locks the screen and shuts off the network connection...

[Alhanelem]

Really guys, it's not like it's that hard to go into the options and turn it off. One of the first things I do in any game is look through the options to see what's changeable and what's not.

[Zikon]

Really guys, it's not like it's that hard to go into the options and turn it off. One of the first things I do in any game is look through the options to see what's changeable and what's not.

I'm not exactly sure why this needs to be explained again but......

When logging in as a guest it's automatically set at 20minutes every time. There is no way to save the off position like you can when logging in your normal account.

The reason for this thread isn't because of lazyness sometimes you need to log in really quickly or sometimes you just plain forget when logging in under guest. After we log in we either forget or something happens during the log in process and then you go afk and comeback and your disconnected.

We should either have more saved profiles for accounts (more than four) Or it should be defaulted to OFF or we should get something to save the default at off without disrupting everyone's default.