please bring back the afk auto-kick

Why was it removed? Ever since removing the afk auto-kick feature, making new characters on balmung, is nigh impossible. Why? Because so many people will just park their character some place, and leave themselves connected while they goto sleep for the night, head to work, etc.

And from my understanding, servers are locked because too many people are logged in, but what about when you got people logged in, who aren't even physically at the computer for hours and even days? So please, consider reinstating the afk auto-kick. It should never of been removed.

*puts a weight on the 'W' key*

Another option if auto-afk kick wont be brought back, why not set servers so that if one already has a character on the server, they can make a new character at any time. The population of the server isn't changing. Only the amount of characters the account has on the server. I know games like world of warcraft had such a system, if a server got too full, as long as a player had 1 character on that server, they could make a new alt.

I'm not going to repost all the explanation in the thousand other threads about this issue about how online people are not the real reason behind the server lock out (or rather, are the minimal part of it), as much as the simultaneous log ins in the lobby server. Just know that you should blame those who are logging in at the same time as you are creating a character, rather than those who are already online. You can find the full explanation with the search function.

Or you can click here cause I'm bored enough to go back and search for it: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-Restrictions

And here for some more info: http://www.junkiesnation.com/2013/09...ements-part-2/

Anyways, I expect this feature to be brought back momentarily after 3.0, cause while Balmung may not be at maximum capacity right now (server transfer would be locked if that was the case), it probably will with the expansion.

As I recall, FFXI had a system of passwords, so if your buddies were playing on a high volume server, they could give you the password and you could play on there with them, but if you didn't know anyone on the server already, you couldn't.

http://world-alerts.com/ use this if you're to lazy to sit around trying to make a char, most servers open up at like 5am and 7am.

I'm rather glad the AFK auto kick is gone.

I think it was removed due to animus books. If I was auto kicked I would still be waiting for some of those fates, but since they removed it I now have 2 zodiacs instead!
Also, if they hadn't removed it I would still be pvp rank 2 instead of 40. Do you really expect me to sit around the computer for 1-2 hrs+ to join a pvp game.

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Originally Posted by IceWing

http://world-alerts.com/ use this if you're to lazy to sit around trying to make a char, most servers open up at like 5am and 7am.

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The only way you can make a character there is if you transfer....Other than that, you're out of luck...forever.
I've tried on weekdays, 3am's and I couldn't get in for 2 weeks...Transferring is no problem, but for some reason making a character is
impossible. I said screw it because I work usually at 9am and have no time to wait. xD! Weekends forget about it.

I would say THE best time is probably right before 3.0, people are still playing around with content we have now, so you have to wait
until people get at the lull of the game, which is right before then. :/

The AFK kick thing was mostly a thing in 2.0 because of the 2002/90k bonanza, after the game went steady it was removed.

There are plenty of people that know how to get around the auto afk-kick so it doesn't really do much good anyways.

I'm with the OP in bringing back afk-kick after X amount of time afk. But not for the same reasons, I would want it back just for the sake of server stability.

Although there are ways to get around simple afk-kick, that's only for people that actually mean to remain logged in. All those people that stayed logged in while they went and did something (and that something turned into doing another something, etc), they're logged in, and not doing anything nor are they waiting for anything.

They are simply not at their computer, but still eating up server resources.

If you're waiting for a fate or something to spawn, fine, have your character auto-run into a wall. But we need to clear out all the people who leave ffxiv on (accidentally or otherwise), and leave their computer for large amounts of time. They're doing no good just standing there.

Read some of the responses. So going to go over some of the excuses:
- No afk-kick means no auto boot while waiting for fate - I call bologna on this one. I did the whole fate wait many times. I stayed at my computer the entire time, chatting with friends in FC or LS, afk only kicks in if my mouse stops moving and I literally do nothing for 30 minutes. AFK = Away From Keyboard. They aren't waiting on some fate, they are literally not even at the computer.
- AFKers are a minor contributer to server always being locked - Don't buy it. Unless SE themselves have outright said they are minor, there's no reason why Balmung should be closed 24/7. I was checking every hour on the hour last night, and not once did the server unlock.

Fact is, people afk, are not at their computers. My FC had this one person sitting in our house for literally 24 hours while they went to bed, then went to work, and apparently they always do that. That is wasting server resources. If you are not playing the game, then you should logout just like the rest of us, plain and simple. There's no waiting times to login. I get done playing, I logout, do my thing, then when ready to play again, put in my 2 passwords, click play, click start, select character, and I am in. There's no reason to afk, except to be lazy because they don't want to actually input a password.

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- No afk-kick means no auto boot while waiting for fate - I call bologna on this one. I did the whole fate wait many times. I stayed at my computer the entire time, chatting with friends in FC or LS, afk only kicks in if my mouse stops moving and I literally do nothing for 30 minutes. AFK = Away From Keyboard. They aren't waiting on some fate, they are literally not even at the computer.

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Well that's not a really fair assumption. A person can be afk in ffxiv and still be waiting for something. Myself, I have two screens. If I'm waiting for something in ffxiv, and I want to be doing something else on the computer that isn't ffxiv while I wait, I'll just bring it up on my second screen. And afk does kick in while I'm moving my mouse around in a different window.

Another situation, a person is waiting for something in ffxiv, and they play on their phone while they wait.

A person can physically be at their computer, waiting for something to happen in ffxiv, but still be occupied with something other than ffxiv while they wait. For those moments, either auto-running into a wall, or simply having the afk-kick be a large enough window that someone waiting for any reasonable amount of time would still be safe.

I wish Exodus was locked more to creating new characters, it would really cut down on the RMT tells and friend requests.

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Don't know how long you've been around but some of the animus fates have a 3 hours respawn timer. I had to wait around 2hrs30min for two of my fates on my first animus. if SE don't want us to AFK then they shouldn't added that kinda content that is locked by timers. It's not up to the player to think like "Hmm I've afkd 2 hours and the fates hasn't spawned, maybe im just wasting resources"

I agree, in order to alleviate some server congestion they should re-implement the afk-auto kick feature. Maybe have a 6hr limit?

Even when the auto-afk feature was implemented, it did not increase any openings on particular world servers for character creation. Balmung, along with a sizable number of servers, have always been extremely difficult to make characters on since 2.0 launch.

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Another option if auto-afk kick wont be brought back, why not set servers so that if one already has a character on the server, they can make a new character at any time. The population of the server isn't changing. Only the amount of characters the account has on the server. I know games like world of warcraft had such a system, if a server got too full, as long as a player had 1 character on that server, they could make a new alt.

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Not everybody has that option to be able to make a second character on a world server that they already have one character on.