Attacking Monsters with an Avatar While Being AFK.

[Alhanelem]

errr, yeah. never mind me...

Still, I think it's pretty ridiculous to punish anybody for this when it's not even an exploit- it's just a normal mechanic of the game working as intended.

[Yinnyth]

errr, yeah. never mind me...

Still, I think it's pretty ridiculous to punish anybody for this when it's not even an exploit- it's just a normal mechanic of the game working as intended.

Your body also works as a temporary barrier for other players who wish to move through you. Normally this isn't a problem, but let's say you choose to go afk in a doorway with 20 other players who are also afk in that doorway. Now you're gridlocking which is against the rules.

Being afk is not against the rules. Having your avatar defend you is not against the rules. But it IS possible to combine these 2 things in a way that IS against the rules: absentee play.

[Ladyofdragons]

Your body also works as a temporary barrier for other players who wish to move through you. Normally this isn't a problem, but let's say you choose to go afk in a doorway with 20 other players who are also afk in that doorway. Now you're gridlocking which is against the rules.

Being afk is not against the rules. Having your avatar defend you is not against the rules. But it IS possible to combine these 2 things in a way that IS against the rules: absentee play.

And this is happening in jeuno but it doesn't seem to be an issue but in grauberg(s) it's happening and it is an issue
hmm.. wonder why it's area specific.

[Yinnyth]

And this is happening in jeuno but it doesn't seem to be an issue but in grauberg(s) it's happening and it is an issue
hmm.. wonder why it's area specific.

Because of the resources required to fix each problem and the intent behind violators of both problems.

So let's look at the resources required first: GMs have a lot of red tape to go through everytime they interact with a character. Chat protocol, stuff they're required to record, everything they must go through for each individual character before they can move on to interacting with the next (they don't get to just batch-warp people into their MH). Heading out to Grauberg and jailing a dozen SMNs every now and then requires much fewer resources than dealing with the hundreds of chars idling around Jeuno 24/7.

These SMNs are also people who are going out of their way to break the terms of service. Grauberg has no terribly quick ways to get to it for a SMN. They get on blm, retrace themselves, change jobs in town, teleport out to Grauberg, then move to a chigoe camp in order to go afk and engage in absentee play. These are people who are actually intending to do something which is against the rules. The people idling in Jeuno? Some of them fell asleep waiting for a shout. Some of them are just grabbing a quick bite to eat. Some of them are a bazaar mule. Some of them went afk somewhere stupid, died, was force-HP'd and hasn't come back to the keyboard yet. These are people who aren't trying to do anything detrimental. They also don't get breeze geodes for going afk.