Suggestion: Remove AFK timer on dungeons, or Command Missions.

Can we please remove the afk timer?

I am disabled. I have a disease that causes me to frequently visit the rest room. I maybe gone for more than 10 minutes at a time.

Because of this, I'm getting kicked out of my Command missions. This is makes me lose seals, and valuable EXP to leveling up other jobs.

I find it incredibly unfair, especially if I'm doing solo play to be punished all because of my disability that I have no control over.

Please remove the AFK timer on dungeons, or at least in solo play.


Some of us need more than the allotted 10 minutes.

I 100% support removing the AFK autokick from solo content and pre-formed party content, because it really doesn't matter if someone is AFK in solo content, and pre-formed party content doesn't fill vacated slots anyway.

It needs to stay for matched content though, so that people don't have to waste their Vote Kick, which has a 4 hour cooldown.

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Originally Posted by Luin

Unfortunately, they still require an instance server. If somebody AFKs overnight, that's an instance server being used that active players could be using.

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Non-issue. That's why instances have time limits.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

I 100% support removing the AFK autokick from solo content and pre-formed party content, because it really doesn't matter if someone is AFK in solo content, and pre-formed party content doesn't fill vacated slots anyway.

It needs to stay for matched content though, so that people don't have to waste their Vote Kick, which has a 4 hour cooldown.

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Unfortunately, they still require an instance server. If somebody AFKs overnight, that's an instance server being used that active players could be using.

I think the timer should be increased.

afaik all duties use server resources that could be used to host other players in duties. that would make this a big no.

its the same reason there is an afk kick in the firmament, and during patch releases. if you aren't present you are taking up space others could be using.

Could you do something like tape down a key or put rubber bands on your controller so the game is detecting input and movement while you're away?

Is typing text enough to count as input?

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Originally Posted by Luin

Unfortunately, they still require an instance server. If somebody AFKs overnight, that's an instance server being used that active players could be using.

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Non-issue. That's why instances have time limits.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Could you do something like tape down a key or put rubber bands on your controller so the game is detecting input and movement while you're away?

Is typing text enough to count as input?

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The game checks for changes in input states. It's not enough to press and hold an input.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

The game checks for changes in input states. It's not enough to press and hold an input.

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there...would be ways around this but they cannot be talked about in game or the forums.

you might be able to talk to SE support, they might have an idea for you.

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be creative.

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Originally Posted by Luin

Unfortunately, they still require an instance server. If somebody AFKs overnight, that's an instance server being used that active players could be using.

I think the timer should be increased.

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They can't afk all night, there's a 90 minute instance timer.

I've been bumped out of a couple of Trust instances because of this. Usually if I'm running a Trust it's because I've exhausted other easy sources of XP for the day AND I'm having to semi-AFK for some RL reason. It's annoying but if there's a good back-end reason for it (server resources) than I'm okay with whatever the rule is.

Agreed, they shouldn't have an AFK timer on any mission you're tackling with NPCs. Some people use those methods because they need the flexibility to AFK randomly. Kind of defeats the entire purpose for those folks.

The reason for the timer in dungeons, trials, raids, solo duties is to keep people from AFK'ing indefinitely in the areas putting extra load on the servers that are keeping those instances open.

As such, they aren't likely to be removed.

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Originally Posted by Seera1024

The reason for the timer in dungeons, trials, raids, solo duties is to keep people from AFK'ing indefinitely in the areas putting extra load on the servers that are keeping those instances open.

As such, they aren't likely to be removed.

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We're talking about removing the idle autokick that removes you from an instance after 10 minutes of no input, not the duty timer. There is no "AFK'ing indefinitely".

The AFK timer can and should be removed from solo and pre-formed duties. The instances will still close as failed when the instance timer runs out.

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Originally Posted by Olivia0x25

Can we please remove the afk timer?

I am disabled. I have a disease that causes me to frequently visit the rest room. I maybe gone for more than 10 minutes at a time.

Because of this, I'm getting kicked out of my Command missions. This is makes me lose seals, and valuable EXP to leveling up other jobs.

I find it incredibly unfair, especially if I'm doing solo play to be punished all because of my disability that I have no control over.

Please remove the AFK timer on dungeons, or at least in solo play.


Some of us need more than the allotted 10 minutes.

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Honestly, this is a good suggestion, and I've only run afoul of it once myself while retrieving a delivery order while my apartment building's elevators were broken (again).

In the meantime, a workaround would be to open up your HUD editor (unless this was patched out recently), as that's what people do in Eureka/Bozja

Who ever said people might be taking up an instance all night without the afk timer must have never noticed the real timer counting down...i don't think we have any instances longer than 120 minutes. Lmao

I think removing/extending the 10 min AFK from solo dungeons seems reasonable and I don't mean to suggest a band-aid as a substitute, but in the interim you may want to look into something like Moonlight or Vita Remote Play. All you need is to be able to register a single input every 5-10 minutes, right?

They really need to remove it. I see ones join a duty then instantly disconnect and not come back till duty is long finished to get the rewards from it. Also need to get rid of it where can't vote to kick a player during combat.

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Originally Posted by SnowVix

In the meantime, a workaround would be to open up your HUD editor

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This works since years, HUD Layout is the way.