Institute Temporary AFK Kick Timer

I 100% endorse this idea.

Honestly I think the afk kick would be a great tool for these troubled times. Most of us are tired of this stupid as hell crap of being forced to wait to login. I myself look forward to a little play time here and there in-between work, yet instead we are stuck fighting for a spot on our server. Many people may be content making a new character on a different server or spamming their login but I'm not. My time was spent on my old character and it's my old character I would like to play. At least for the time being they should implement this function to help reduce the waiting.

Another possible option is allow a free server transfer option for players in these congested servers, giving people the choice to spread out and again reduce traffic further. To hell if they are legacy or not, this biggest issue atm is being able to have players actually play. Really this entire situation is a mess and needs some fixes.

Cant get in the servers now because people go to sleep or to work with their characters still logged in. Need 'ta boot em.

Just do us a server reset so the present people can enter.

Wow. This is a big topic of butthurt. I'm on Lamia and have experienced the 1017 issue just like you all have but not in the same volume. Lately I've been able to sign in and go with out little wait. Strange. But on topic yes I support this idea. Hopefully they'll get around to implementing it.

-1 once more lol

Seriously though, I don't know how you guys are unable to log in, I play on ragnarok, granted I afk for an hour or 2 sometimes to run to the store or eat dinner with the fam, but I play on PS3 and I don't like to stress out my system when I hear the fan kick into overdrive I turn it off for a good hour, and have no issues logging back in, or when the wife goes to bed I move my ps3 to a different room and have no issues logging in, sans a loggin cue of maybe 10 minutes. I honestly think you all are over exaggerating this cant log in business at this point

I got it, but watch I get a 90000 followed by 1017 lol.

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Originally Posted by Amenian

That's not true. There are a lot of things you can do in game for 45 minutes that don't involve earning exp. The RP community in particular will tell you that. For non-RPers, farming lower level mats, exploring for hidden things(after your map has been fully filled out), low level duties, hanging around talking to friends, waiting on duty finder as a dps, and a myriad other things. For instance, I spent two hours this morning killing low level monsters that I get no exp for as part of a project to fill out a database of what creatures drop what items. In short, I couldn't disagree with your proposal more. I'd be getting kicked often while actively playing the game.

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Simple solution: Spend 30 seconds crafting an item once every 45 minutes. Now you're fine.

I've been able to login to Leviathan every day. Sometimes it takes 30 mins of login spam and sometimes it takes less. But I get in eventually every time. It would be nice if instead of having to spam, I could get put in a queue so I can go do chores without having to sit in front of my computer hitting a button for a while, but I'll deal with it as long as it gets better soon. I understand some people may not be willing to do that and I can't blame them for getting frustrated. Just saying that if you wanna play, you can. As long as you have a char on the server that is.

I don't understand though why the AFK timer will not be implemented till server upgrades are done. With an AFK timer you may not even have constant full worlds thus not need to upgrade current servers/add new worlds. Although I suppose SE has data that might indicate otherwise. I do hope they don't go nuts with new servers though. I will deal with 30-45 minute login processes right now to have healthier servers 3 months from now.

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Originally Posted by Amenian

That's just a bad solution. Institute an AFK kick timer sure, but only a small fraction of people will even know how to make a movement script and even less of them will bother to do so. It's ridiculous to institute a function that punishes innocent people because they weren't watching a clock to see they needed to make a bronze ingot fast or be booted from the game.

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I agree with your standpoint (because who wants to be forced to craft/fight something every 45 minutes...even though for most it just happens to naturally happen lol) but an AFK timer is definitely needed.

45 minutes is way to short imo. I would suggest maybe a 2-3 hour kick. People who are afk for an hr or so just to pick up something or to eat aren't the problem. Its the ones who go to bed/school/work/etc. and will be AFK for hours and hours because they are afraid to log off. I dont know if this is possible but when you haven't been actively doing something (moving, chatting, getting exp, etc.) a pop up box could come up after the 2 hours of inactivity just to make sure you are there. If you dont respond to the pop up box after 60-120 seconds, you get kicked. This way if they cant include chat or moving as 'activity' and RPers/Explores/Market Watchers/etc, who can potentially be unfairly kicked, have a chance to react so they can stay on. :D

Win-Win no?

i would love an afk timer aswell