can you make the logout timer faster?

[Cyriack]

can you make the logout timer faster? Please!!!

[Rinuko]

Logout in a mog house or mog garden.

[Uroah]

It's not faster to warp, zone into the MH, and then log out. It should just be faster to log out. It's not 2002 anymore.

[radar]

A 30 second log out timer would be to stop people cheating, and as an anti dupe measure.

[Uroah]

You can't log out mid craft animation and it doesn't aid in duping. It exists to prevent people from aggro dodging. That's not valid anymore.

[Alhanelem]

You can't log out mid craft animation and it doesn't aid in duping. It exists to prevent people from aggro dodging. That's not valid anymore.

It's entirely valid, just because you think it is doesn't make it so.

I aggro stuff and die all the time, sure, I suck, but with the massive EP penalties for KO, if I could just terminate the game to avoid dying, well everybody would be doing it. It defeats the purpose of a game if there's no failiure condition, which would be effectively negated if you could log out at any time.

[Gwydion]

It's entirely valid, just because you think it is doesn't make it so.

I aggro stuff and die all the time, sure, I suck, but with the massive EP penalties for KO, if I could just terminate the game to avoid dying, well everybody would be doing it. It defeats the purpose of a game if there's no failiure condition, which would be effectively negated if you could log out at any time.

I agree with Alhanelem. The 30-second delay is to allow for eventual-consistency to take place between the client and the server.

As an anecdote, I once logged in, dropped some Rabbit hides and d/c'ed ...all within about 20 seconds. I log back in to find that the rabbit hides are still in my inventory. So clearly, the synchronization between client and server still needs this delay.

It would be interesting to hear from SE though ...but who knows? I'd rather they add more content to be honest.

[Alhanelem]

I will say that FFXIV will log you out without the timer in any safe zone, not just the inn room (mog house) so it owuld be fine to not have the timer in the cities/towns/zones that have no possibility of combat.

[Cyriack]

I will say that FFXIV will log you out without the timer in any safe zone, not just the inn room (mog house) so it owuld be fine to not have the timer in the cities/towns/zones that have no possibility of combat.

i totally agree with this, i did not intent it to be shorter to cheat in the game in any way, i just intended it so i dont have to keep running to the mog house between characters because it takes half a day logging in and out 8 characters every single day over and over and sometimes bakc and forth so sometimes its 30 characters in total and your wasting time. but if it is a synchronization thing, is it possible to lower the timer by 10 seconds or 15 seconds or something at least? its not needed in every online game.

[radar]

The mog house has no logout timer, and you can see the limitations that puts on the game.

You cannot use any items in the mog house, you cannot open anything, you can't split anything. The reason for this is potential duping.

The 30 second logout, means anything you do to open or split (turn one thing into something else) has time to be checked on the server.

If they remove 30 second logout to all cities, then you would have the same limitations as you do in a mog house. Which is worse than the 30 second logout.

In a perfect world this would be far less of a problem and a dev could mess around and potentially try it, however FFXI is one of the mmorpgs that have dedicated groups checking every single patch for any kind of bug/loophole they can abuse to make real world $$$ from it.

They will never remove the 30 second logout, they would be crazy to even attempt it.