Could server stability issues be mitigated by adding a forced log-out to FFXIV?

Perhaps I'm of the wrong mindset but I've believed the recent server stability issues are caused from an overpopulation in Ul'dah. One way to reduce that population would be to force players to log out after 30 minutes of inactivity.

Some may argue that this will prevent people from selling things in the Bazaar, but I'd love to hear about people who do not shout and actively sell things in the Bazaar. [I empathize with you who are not able to be in the Ul'dan market wards.]

Other than that idling in Ul'dah servers few other functions:
Holding hands with linkshell members in designated linkshell hand-holding spots.
using up additional electricity with the high resource use of FFXIV.
remaining in active stance because you think your weapon or armor is neat and you want everyone else to experience the neatness.

Losing these "functions" would certainly be worth additional server stability, if it were a major cause of instability, yes?

Seems reasonable, other than 30 mins is too short. I'd make it an hour or two.

If i rubberband my left analog to keep running me against a wall, i can beat your system! (unless i get in trouble for afk playing!)

I log out simply because I don't want my video cards to melt... :(

Should be no reason for this. I could see this being implemented for a F2P game (which, even then, they don't even do), but why auto-log players to alleviate something that should be working? Also, this isn't the fault of players just staying logged on. There are not an extremely large amount of players on these servers by MMO standards anyway. Doesn't matter if they are idle or active. It's their problem, not ours.

We should probably just remove all Roegadyn from the game...

That's not very nice

lol swtor had a pretty short log out window think like 10 mins of idle maybe more but that's not f2p yet lol. I can understand how it would help with server stress load especially in an area like ulda so perhaps the idea would work in heavily populated areas. If you want to idle in an area where there aren't a lot of people you wouldn't be hit with said forced log out but if you were to be in an overpopulated area it would force log you out based on the population of the current area and how long you've been idle for.

Why would we even need this? We have the inns already. People who afk outside are losing out on awesome rested exp bonus.

Just needs to be more reason to be in other cities. I think linking the wards in each city, at least as far as the item search goes, will give players a lot more freedom.

Fact is, there just isn't a whole lot to do in the other cities compared to ul'dah. Everyone's there because all the important stuff is most accessible from there.

Champions Online and Star Trek Online do this. If you're inactive for a certain amount of time the game will let you know that you're now idle. If you sit for too long without doing anything, then a message in red text will let you know that if you're inactive for any longer that you'll be logged out of the server. I just now remember Star Wars The Old Republic doing this as well.

Though I agree with the idea, I don't think it should be so short, maybe 1-2 hours instead.

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

I log out simply because I don't want my video cards to melt... :(

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Same here, I love my GTX580 too much.

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Originally Posted by Wyyote

We should probably just remove all Lalafell from the game...

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FTFY!

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Originally Posted by insaneshadow

Champions Online and Star Trek Online do this. If you're inactive for a certain amount of time the game will let you know that you're now idle. If you sit for too long without doing anything, then a message in red text will let you know that if you're inactive for any longer that you'll be logged out of the server. I just now remember Star Wars The Old Republic doing this as well.

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Aion also did it since its inception...

I thought about this before too, i don't see any harm in it. At least in cities. But i'd want it to be an hour at least.

Yup they should do this, but not before we have a decent AH and can use our retainers for peddling our wares and offer up our repairs.

It's a standard in AAA MMOs for a reason, there's no need for people to use up space if they are not playing and if we had the right systems for selling our items and asking for services. Anything they could do to alleviate server clogging is good by me.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Just needs to be more reason to be in other cities. I think linking the wards in each city, at least as far as the item search goes, will give players a lot more freedom.

Fact is, there just isn't a whole lot to do in the other cities compared to ul'dah. Everyone's there because all the important stuff is most accessible from there.

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they should have made it so that you could only access your city's inn

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Originally Posted by Majidah

they should have made it so that you could only access your city's inn

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No, that doesn't really make sense. Perhaps charge a small fee, but not deny access.

Honestly, the server issues are not due to total population, they're due to too many of the population being in the same place at one time. Forcing people to log out isn't the answer (and effectively prevents bazaaring).

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Originally Posted by Peptaru

If i rubberband my left analog to keep running me against a wall, i can beat your system! (unless i get in trouble for afk playing!)

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This. I'll just do the same thing.


You mad, OP? You mad?!?!?!

Ya you mad.


But in all seriousness... I think it's silly if people are not taking advantage of the exp bonus while the afk for many hours. I'm always chillin my Inn when ever I need to leave for more than 1 hour.


Edit: I really really hope we're not on the "new" hardware that's supposed to be utilized for 2.0. If that's the case.. we're in A LOT OF TROUBLE!

/Howard Beal