A Simple Quick Band Aid fix

Force a player to log out after 3 hours of gameplay. I.E they can't que for dungeons, raids, or progress in story. Also add priority for long time subscribers, 2000+ days of subscribed as well as legacy players given automatic priority. Ban people (including streamers) using third party tech to by pass the afk automatic log out timers. Also add a queue placement priority for players that are kicked due to timing out in queue or 2002 out of queue.

Honestly quick simple fixes that could be done on SE developer end and probably something streamers don't like, but honestly, everyone pays to play this game not just streamers.

People are not gonna like this!

Kick players who are not only inactive, but any that have not changed position for more than 30 minutes. There are people who use macros and automation to prevent the 30 minute AFK timeout.

Clear accounts and make more room for other players.

This would only be for a month or two until things settle down.

Unfortunately there are players who are using macros or other means to keep their character "active" so they can stay connected all day to avoid the Login Queue.

It gives everyone a fair shot, speed up the queue's a bit as well. As for the 3 hour forced lockout.. They have 5 minutes to relog to log back in at the front of the line. Which I left out.

No. Setting time limits of how long you can play is horrible, that would penalize players in not being able to do all the dailies and progress thru the story.

What about those that want to even play the game?

A simple idea, just for the early access would be to just log out players who haven't completed a quest or entered a duty after 3 hours. That would kick out the afkers, giving more room for players who are actively doing. Would hurt crafters and gathers who are just trying to play the market board, which for the early access isn't that bad.

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Originally Posted by AlaineIV

What about those that want to even play the game?

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Sit through the 5k queue like the rest of us and hope you don't get error 2002. I don't want to feel pressured to rush through the story and ruin my enjoyment.

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Originally Posted by AlaineIV

Force a player to log out after 3 hours of gameplay. I.E they can't que for dungeons, raids, or progress in story.

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this is honestly making me remember the fatigue system in 1.0 ~eye twitch~

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Originally Posted by Wrytched

Kick players who are not only inactive, but any that have not changed position for more than 30 minutes. There are people who use macros and automation to prevent the 30 minute AFK timeout.

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People just simply makes the macro move the character to avoid that. Unless SE installs a monitoring software (which is illegal in Japan, and will trash your PC's performance), there is no way SE can tell if a jump every 1-2 minute is automated or not. And don't bother try to detect them, cuz they clearly do it in where you can't access, like an inn.


The fact that you have to resort a 3rd-party macro to do this means SE already does it best. The common methods for afk-avoiding that people usually use are rendered useless already. And not every single player owns a macro mouse/keyboard to bypass it. Unless you have your relatives or your pets to counter it.