Greetings,
The development team is aware of the issue where players go AFK during dungeons without participating at all, and they will be making it so if a character does not move for a certain period of time they will be automatically kicked from the instance. This will be implemented along with the MVP voting system in patch 2.1.
CM AFKers
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10-26-2013, 07:10 AMCamate
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10-26-2013, 07:11 AMTalisVery awesome. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camate
Something to keep in mind when putting this in, however: people can turn on auto-run in a corner, or set up a way to move every so often to pass this check (i.e. the famous drinking bird on the jump key). -
10-26-2013, 07:13 AMReiterpallaschA lot of the people doing this aren't actually afk though. They're there, they just don't participate. These people will still be able to just hit the occasional button while getting the full dungeon reward while staying at the start.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camate
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10-26-2013, 07:29 AMsasakusaku
What needs to be done along with the planned solutions is: if a player is not in the actual boss zone(s), they get no credit/tokens.
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10-26-2013, 07:33 AMHobohttp://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/115...rd-works-o.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Camate
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10-26-2013, 07:59 AMIveraIvalice
I had this happen to me once. I told the party I'm leaving if that person doesn't start playing. It's not possible to start a dungeon and be afk, you have to ready up to be put in so they aren't just "whoops sorry I was afk" they are just not participating and that means that kicking them if they stand still won't do anything. When this happend in my party I saw his status in the party list go from normal to watching cutscene back to normal, so they were there and skipped the cutscene.
Glad to see your aware that it's an issue but the proposed solution won't fix anything -
10-26-2013, 08:00 AMArakatosJust pitching in about the AFKers!
The game is supposed to be fun. If someone is making it less so due to deliberate and malicious action, we as a community should take the responsibility and time to report the offenders in detail and explain why it's an issue. AFKers, Griefers, Gil sellers etc.. are enabled by us the players who don't take the any action to report them.
I lead my PUG CM runs lots, and next time I see an AFKer I shall tell the group to fill out the 'report' harassment section before we start. Screen shot his name so he can't just bail and we lose his name. You can look up the character's server on the FFXIV webpage and provide it to the party so we don't name the wrong person. If the AFKer is unlucky, the GM will be there to see him standing there doing nothing OR he drops right away and another can take his place. I hope it may result in a win/win but didn't test it yet. -
10-26-2013, 08:17 AMEvantide
Last night the other tank sat at the entrance the whole time. When we questioned him he said "my controller is broken"
I wonder how he got in with a broken controller?
I guess he fixed the controller by the end, just in time i suppose. It was a pain being the only tank but we completed it still.
His first name was ryu and if i ever see him again ill let the group know what the deal is. -
10-26-2013, 08:23 AMRomantauQuote:
Originally Posted by Camate
Enter instance, use macro to move in circles, system beaten again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hobo
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10-26-2013, 08:28 AMZumiThe only problem with this if someone is rude enough to afk and let everyone else do the work. They would just do something like auto run into a wall so they won't get kicked for not moving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Camate