Add AFK logout timer to Limsa

Turn the AFK timers on game-wide and leave it on. Close the loopholes around leaving retainer windows open. If you're not actually playing that long, stop taking up server space.

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

I agree with the log-out timer for Limsa- People stand in AFK as if they want to be admired. If anyone reading this does this; trust me, noone cares about your fashion since it's been done 100x. You probably have a plain, alabaster Miqote, Viera or Au Ra with white hair, wearing all black anyways.
Just log out at an INN for that cute roll-out-of bed scene, the retainer bell or market board isn't going anywhere.

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Putting ppl on blast!

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Turn the AFK timers on game-wide and leave it on. Close the loopholes around leaving retainer windows open. If you're not actually playing that long, stop taking up server space.

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There are far more ways to stay logged in than keeping a retainer window open, several of which can't reasonably be coded against. Just need to set autorun and voila. Or use a programmable kb or mouse and have it click and drag the camera one pixel once every 5 minutes. Etc.

Server space isn't the issue either, aside from the first week or two after launch when everyone and their dog wants to log in and play. That's why they enact the inactivity timers then and then remove them in the first major patch. Another example is server space does impact The Firmament because it is instanced with limited space and that's why they still have the inactivity timer in place for it.

Load times and fps drops for people with potatoes for computers due to the number of textures and models that need to be loaded in and displayed at the same time is what is the actual issue that people are having here, not server space.

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Originally Posted by technole

In 5.2, an AFK logout timer was added to the firmament. It's time to add one in Limsa.

Limsa is the only place where you can literally login and experience the worst frame rates in the entire game, all because you usually have 80% of the people there are parking themselves AFK. Sometimes even gatekeeping locations such as benches, or standing on retainer bells causing inconveniences so they can't be used by anyone else. This could also cut down on RMT and many shout problems in the area, which does not occur in the same frequency as the other two ARR cities.

This also isn't the look you want for new players now if your ARR class starts there.

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This sounds a bit conceited...

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Turn the AFK timers on game-wide and leave it on. Close the loopholes around leaving retainer windows open. If you're not actually playing that long, stop taking up server space.

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This. It doesn't matter if it stops everybody - it will seriously reduce the number of people sticking around afk doing nothing.

Being logged in = using bandwidth = server load. If you aren't playing, get off.

Also, for people who do use workarounds to stay logged in for weeks at a time, add a daily, server-wide forced logoff. If you're on at 3:00am sharp or whatever, you get booted.

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

I agree with the log-out timer for Limsa- People stand in AFK as if they want to be admired. If anyone reading this does this; trust me, noone cares about your fashion since it's been done 100x. You probably have a plain, alabaster Miqote, Viera or Au Ra with white hair, wearing all black anyways.
Just log out at an INN for that cute roll-out-of bed scene, the retainer bell or market board isn't going anywhere.

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Hey!!! I love going to Limsa to stare at people while I sit in q!!! TT^TT
How dare you how dare you QoQ

I like Limsa the way it is. There are two other city states that offer the same things if you don't like Limsa.

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Originally Posted by gambanner

I like Limsa the way it is.

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There are people who actually like lag?

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Originally Posted by technole

Limsa is the only place where you can literally login and experience the worst frame rates in the entire game, all because you usually have 80% of the people there are parking themselves AFK. .

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Don't know about you but for some reason my CPU goes into overdrive when I port to Eulmore, not Limsa.

Fittingly enough, Eulmore is the Limsa of the First.