Tells while /away.

Hello! I am (and always will be) one of those people who prefers to clog servers and cause queue lines by afking constantly when not actually playing. My /playtime in XI was ridiculous.

Anyway, I would very much like one of two features to have for /away, both to do with chat:

• When you send a /tell to a player who is flagged as /away, the chat should return a line such as

  • This player's status is set to "Away."
  • This player is currently away.
  • Your message was received, but the player is away and may not receive it.

• Less important--it would be nice if, when removing the /away flag, the game would display a history of received /tells since you put up the flag, somehow.

Just some thoughts. ^^;

I'm all for this. I was surprised when I initially saw that the /away command doesn't have a message when you /tell someone. A visual sign to show people standing near you that you're AFK is neat and all, but not very purposeful.

In addition to an automated response when someone /tells you, there could also be a feature that will automatically set you to /away after a certain period of time where there's no input. Say, after thirty minutes of the game receiving no input (via keyboard, mouse or gamepad), it could set you to /away. Just an idea.

yup, would like it too :D

{Yes, Please}

Makes sense ... common sense that is.
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I like this too, When your trying to /tell a friend, or linkshell member and nothing is put back, your sitting there for a response for minutes on end before you realize their probably away and wont respond. Would definitely be helpful.

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Yeah...I've even had people get mad at me for not talking. o.0 Sometimes people in my LSs get offended and send me tells--"Why aren't you talking in LS? :<" Normally someone answers if they ask in LS because everyone that knows me well understands that my character is part of Ul'dah's scenery, and I rarely move. <.<; Still, for the people that don't know me, send me party invites, etc.

I would like this feature, also. I'd like to use /away to let my friends know I'm not there at the moment, but what's the point if they don't get a message saying so?

Would be nice to have an "out of office reply" and have a 1 or 2 liner that says whatever you put in it when you get a tell.

On 2.0 if SE add the possibility of doing add-ons may be a third party can make it. It doesn't seems impossible.

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Originally Posted by Mychael

Hello! I am (and always will be) one of those people who prefers to clog servers and cause queue lines by afking constantly when not actually playing. My /playtime in XI was ridiculous.

Anyway, I would very much like one of two features to have for /away, both to do with chat:

• When you send a /tell to a player who is flagged as /away, the chat should return a line such as

  • This player's status is set to "Away."
  • This player is currently away.
  • Your message was received, but the player is away and may not receive it.

• Less important--it would be nice if, when removing the /away flag, the game would display a history of received /tells since you put up the flag, somehow.

Just some thoughts. ^^;

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you cant filter a chat log to only show tells.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

you cant filter a chat log to only show tells.

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You can, but if you're sitting in Ul'dah or in a lot of big LSs, chances are your chat log will be wiped at least once before you come back. :/

Doesn't your chat log auto delete after a certain amount of inactivity?

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Originally Posted by Scarface

Doesn't your chat log auto delete after a certain amount of inactivity?

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I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it's whenever the .log file in My Games/whatever.../ becomes "full," and it starts another log file. I'm not sure if this is a set time, or a set number of chat lines/characters.

I am all for this idea, have played a couple smaller games with the option. I am back and forth some days no matter what game I am currently immersed in, and this would be a very nice feature. I am just starting out here but I KNOW it would come in handy a lot soon :p

Would be nice if a dev would see this. It's a really helpful feature.

I don't really afk much, but this is a great idea for people who do. Gave it a like. Hope it gets noticed. :cool:

I miss xi's chat filtering whenever you pressed the chat filter button, you could scroll through tell say shout linkshell filters, easy and fast.

I would very much like this feature.

/away "Message goes here for anyone that sends you a whisper."

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Originally Posted by NotApplicable

I'm all for this. I was surprised when I initially saw that the /away command doesn't have a message when you /tell someone. A visual sign to show people standing near you that you're AFK is neat and all, but not very purposeful.

In addition to an automated response when someone /tells you, there could also be a feature that will automatically set you to /away after a certain period of time where there's no input. Say, after thirty minutes of the game receiving no input (via keyboard, mouse or gamepad), it could set you to /away. Just an idea.

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In addition to that, it should remove the /away status once you move, I sometimes catch myself running around with the away icon because I forgot to reset it.

This is something I wanted to see in XI already, so definitely a big +1 from me.