Inconsiderate Aetheryte AFkers

I just wanted to say that it is inconsiderate of people AFKing for hours at Aetheryte crystals because it prevents them from being logged off after 30 minutes, causing more congestion than needed. If you look at the main Aetherytes in Mor Dhona, and Foundation, you see tons of people AFKing for hours at those Aetherytes, meanwhile others who want to play have trouble logging in. I hope you fix this problem SE.

If there was a guarantee that you'd be able to log back in and play after afking for a couple hours to go eat dinner or something, I'm sure it wouldnt be a problem. But since we're dealing with the same exact issues we were dealing with on initial launch I dont think many people care at this point.

Just gonna throw this out there. In older games this sort of behavior would get people very poor reputations very fast. The scumbags would have a lot of trouble finding teams, guilds, and friends due to the dim view their servers took of them eventually. Now that this most assuredly unrelated anecdote is out of the way... yeah. Scummy move on their part to further compound the problems we're facing because of their selfishness.

Why doesn't this game have an auto kick for afk? EVERY other MMO that has a spit of popularity to it, as one, some a bit too fast, others a reasonable timeframe, but at least something to kick off afkers, and more likely, the atrocious amount of spam bots that are ruining the enjoyment of the game for most of us.

Implement a bloody 30 minute afk kick off policy, at the least.

And to the AFKers clogging up the servers... log off and save electricity, and your comp some wear and tear. Not even a ding dong tree hippie here and I'm hollering this at yah all. Jeeze almighty. =><= If you're not playing, you're not playing. Give it up, ego morons.

Blackdawn. I insist that they be logged out for their inconsiderateness, and if they flip out, thats their problem, not mine.

And if they have a problem with my attitude, they can say it to my face, no amount of proof will prove them in the right. :D

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Originally Posted by Vivienne_Sokah

Blackdawn. I insist that they be logged out for their inconsiderateness, and if they flip out, thats their problem, not mine.

And if they have a problem with my attitude, they can say it to my face, no amount of proof will prove them in the right. :D

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It wouldnt matter. You still wouldnt be able to log in. The problem right now is with their code/ques/etc etc.

Even with the considerable amount of people online the game is designed to put you in a que to wait until there are enough people OFF the game. But you cant even get that far. So at the point that you're at, its not the afkers in your way. It's SE's inability to handle their own games popularity. :)

Hate to say that Trion did anything right with ArcheAge, but for several weeks after launch they were doing rolling server reboots just to kick afkers who had found ways to abuse the afk-kick. If a lot of people are abusing the Aetherytes, it's probably time for the occasional 15 minute reboot

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Originally Posted by Imladris

Why doesn't this game have an auto kick for afk? EVERY other MMO that has a spit of popularity to it, as one, some a bit too fast, others a reasonable timeframe, but at least something to kick off afkers, and more likely, the atrocious amount of spam bots that are ruining the enjoyment of the game for most of us.

Implement a bloody 30 minute afk kick off policy, at the least.

And to the AFKers clogging up the servers... log off and save electricity, and your comp some wear and tear. Not even a ding dong tree hippie here and I'm hollering this at yah all. Jeeze almighty. =><= If you're not playing, you're not playing. Give it up, ego morons.

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Because we had it and ppl complain enough that now we dont have it.

Well, Square should not care if they complain about AFK timers, Thats one thing that should be implimented no matter how many people bitch and whine, because this is why.

And to those who don't like that. Your part of the problem. Prove me wrong.

I find it odd that there is a work around to not get booted when you go afk. I think you should get booted no matter what after 20 minutes. 20 minutes is a long time, and if someone needs to be away for longer than that, they need to be logged off.

That makes sense, saberchic, but the people who are doing it right now "WILL" scream bloody murder and freak out on Square and all that Jazz.

and I honestly think square should not care and impliment it/leave it in anyway.

I thought the auto-kick was reinstated for the expansion launch?

Then it's time we complain right back. It's clearing being abused by the spammers. I for once 'can' live with an afk boot. Anyone afk for that long, isn't at the comp. if they are, waiting on a node spawn timer, can get into the habit of logging in five minutes before said spawn, instead of sitting, doing nothing, while essentially wasting server space. And apparently, most of the afkers are just sitting at an aetherite, garnering EXP bonus (at best) apparently. Jeeze, most of those node spawn campers, probably have tablet/ipod apps for this stuff, like I do. Anywho, a month from now, maybe it all wont matter. For the moment however, I'm making noise about it, since I'm being denied some (blank) good story, cause of friggen coding problems.

So I'll make the noise, and a month from now, this'll be forgotten. Put BACK the AFK auto-kick timer. 30 minutes is reasonable. End of Line.

Put it back. and again, those who whine about it YOUR PART OF THE PROBLEM.

I don't understand. Did they already remove the 30-minute auto-kick after only a day? If they did, what was the point of putting it on in the first place? Or is it that people have found a workaround (the aetherytes)?

Because they did implement a 30-minute afk auto-kick with 3.0. It's right there in the patch notes.

Not working then, if that is the case. Probably some botting program keeping them on, cause these peeps 'have' to sleep at some point. Anyone else wana try keeping away for more than 36 hours? It gets ugly even in the military (USAF vet here.)

All it takes is to place someone on whatever moves your camara around and boom, a way to skip being flagged for afk.

What should be done is if your char is withing a certion range of an Aether Crystal and does not physically move away from said range for a set time, you get auto booted. Then once they find that range, expand it til you get the whole zone.

Guess I can finally finish The Walking Dead game thats just been sitting on my hard drive.

Woke up early at 4:30 am and Gilgamesh still hasn't opened.. z__z

The only justification that I can think of is that I've had to wait an hour and thirty minutes before for my duty finder to pop. During that time I just had my chara sit there and did some housework because there wasn't anything else I wanted to do ingame at the time.

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Originally Posted by RueBee

The only justification that I can think of is that I've had to wait an hour and thirty minutes before for my duty finder to pop. During that time I just had my chara sit there and did some housework because there wasn't anything else I wanted to do ingame at the time.

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Well I always thought there should be a reminder in chat that you will be logged out in X amount of time if you do not like move from the zone or something if you have been stationary for like 30 mins or more, or you have to kill something of the like, nothing like a screen prompt or anything that could be botted/automated.

EDIT: AMG I GOT IN NO WAIZ! lets see how long it lasts...

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Originally Posted by RueBee

The only justification that I can think of is that I've had to wait an hour and thirty minutes before for my duty finder to pop. During that time I just had my chara sit there and did some housework because there wasn't anything else I wanted to do ingame at the time.

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Thats not hte same. Aetheryte AFKers are those who go afk for hours so that they don't have to be kicked off when they go to bed.

People did it on WoW too, and AFKers will get "ANGRY" if yuo interfere with their right to AFK.

I want them to come on here and attempt to justify themselves so we can all ridicule them.

AFKers angry for being denied their selfish behavior.

What tripe.

This issue was the same way when the game was first launched this will be nothing new when a new expansion launched they were not expecting to have this much of a early access happen to cause this congestion

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Originally Posted by Vivienne_Sokah

Thats not hte same. Aetheryte AFKers are those who go afk for hours so that they don't have to be kicked off when they go to bed.

People did it on WoW too, and AFKers will get "ANGRY" if yuo interfere with their right to AFK.

I want them to come on here and attempt to justify themselves so we can all ridicule them.

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Having read through this thread I agree with your point. They should not be abusing this. But your attitude with this argument is not coming across as constructive, perhaps pitch some idea of how to stop this? Instead of asking people to be ridiculed...

Also, what proof do you have that this is happening, are you watching these people for more than 30 mins? How do you know they are not in menus? Or that they are not moving when you are not looking?

If your log in time is that precious, spend it playing the game, not watching people be AFK...

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Originally Posted by Vivienne_Sokah

I want them to come on here and attempt to justify themselves so we can all ridicule them.

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I'm bored so I'll bite.

I am a member of the cult of the Aetheryte. Consider the following:

* The problem is not, right now, world congestion per se. It is lobby server congestion.
* Once I am logged in, I'm no longer hitting the lobby server. Ergo, I am avoiding contributing further to congestion.
* If I log out and then log back in when I get home (at peak hours), I would actually be making the lobby/login server problem worse.
* At the end of the (working) day... I have only a few hours to play, and I don't want to spend most of that time fighting with errors. Yeah, it's selfish, but I pay my share ~.^

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

I'm bored so I'll bite.

I am a member of the cult of the Aetheryte. Consider the following:

* The problem is not, right now, world congestion per se. It is lobby server congestion.
* Once I am logged in, I'm no longer hitting the lobby server. Ergo, I am avoiding contributing further to congestion.
* If I log out and then log back in when I get home (at peak hours), I would actually be making the lobby/login server problem worse.
* At the end of the (working) day... I have only a few hours to play, and I don't want to spend most of that time fighting with errors. Yeah, it's selfish, but I pay my share ~.^

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most people are ignorant to the fact that there are servers that handle the log in process, and then there are servers that host the game. whenever someone gets that amazing 2002 error, its the log in servers getting slammed/having issues, not the game servers themselves.