AFK comment .. can I have it.. Suggestion

Hi there,,

See the pic to understand more
http://i.imgur.com/aZD8xN6.jpg

A player can /afk and keep a comment bubble over his head whenever someone pass near him/her .. and as soon as the afker move the bubble is removed .. like the npc's

I do remember a feature like this in a game i played in the past year it was chatbox auto reply's:
Gone out to eat
Be Right back
On the phone
There was a smarta$$ reply one as well from memory.

It was very handy. Even if they just add bubbles over the head that says AFK would be very useful.

Just implement the search features similar to FFXI. You could leave an away note that anyone could read, even if they were in a different zone.

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Originally Posted by Rak_Boy

Hi there,,

See the pic to understand more
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u080fvd4auq7eo5/example.jpg

A player can /afk and keep a comment bubble over his head whenever someone pass near him/her .. and as soon as the afker move the bubble is removed .. like the npc's

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I forget where i saw it but i remember reading that comment bubbles will be NPC only; They were referring to chat bubbles though and i'm assuming your just referring to a kind of viable AFK notice. In FFXI, People would get an automated msg when they send /tell to someone who is away; maybe that's another feature SE might want to think about adding.

I think this would be a cool idea...But you'll know when someone's away if they set their status to "AFK"

This feature was in XI and in 1.0...it would show an away icon next to their name and in the search feature. But the difference between them was that in XI if you tried to /tell the person it would auto reply with a system message that the player is afk, like mentioned already.

I like your idea though! I think that would be cool. It'd be like your character is a temporary NPC. Maybe if you had a bazaar open, you can set a message that when people would walk by you, they see the bubble message (maybe you're selling certain things while you're afk) and your character can be selling stuff for you while you go walk the dog or bring a friend somewhere! XD That'd be great. I'd like that.

Neat idea, but possible problems include lewd messages, like they do with their Name Surname >.>;;; or retainers.

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Originally Posted by Nuinn

Neat idea, but possible problems include lewd messages, like they do with their Name Surname >.>;;; or retainers.

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Nothing you can really do about that. Except be strict about it or have preset messages.

I think I remember seeing in one of the live letters for the Alpha.

That they had icons beside their names.

Might be worth checking out one of those old videos to see. ;)

Thanks everyone for ur agreement .. i hope we can see GM reply about this matter

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Originally Posted by Shioban

I think I remember seeing in one of the live letters for the Alpha.

That they had icons beside their names.

Might be worth checking out one of those old videos to see. ;)

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please update us if u find anything interesting :D

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Originally Posted by Nuinn

Neat idea, but possible problems include lewd messages, like they do with their Name Surname >.>;;; or retainers.

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Agreed. As much as I'd love this feature, I'm going to have to vote "no" because of what the community will do with it. And the GMs can't all be bothered to deal with each individual message.

i think it would be a good idea if they implement it with a bunch of presets, running through town and seeing afk ppl sort of like NPCs with things to say is more lively than a bunch of ppl sitting doing nothing.

This is a great idea, I think, though just using a preset message would be best, given what people would do with it if they could put what they want. ^^;;

This would be a neat little feature.

This would have been exceedingly convenient during the time that personal bazaars still existed. They people could announce what they were selling. Personal bazaars only didn't work because no one wanted to randomly check people and HOPE they were selling something they needed.

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Originally Posted by Kaizuko_Hakupac

i think it would be a good idea if they implement it with a bunch of presets, running through town and seeing afk ppl sort of like NPCs with things to say is more lively than a bunch of ppl sitting doing nothing.

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Presets! Brilliant!

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Originally Posted by Yrusama

Presets! Brilliant!

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Agreed

Ragnarok Online actually let you open an afk chat.
Whatever you put as the title it would pop up above your head like a chat bubble.

People we're allowed to come inside (depending on the number of users permitted inside the chat and if there is a password required to get inside) and leave messages for you when you get back. I found actually really convenient.


http://www11.onrpg.com/gamepics/arti...RagAuction.jpg

If they do decide to add this. Lets hope it won't look like anything in the above picture. Most of those are merchants trying to sell wares but you get the point!

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Originally Posted by Flowsick

Ragnarok Online actually let you open an afk chat.
Whatever you put as the title it would pop up above your head like a chat bubble.

People we're allowed to come inside (depending on the number of users permitted inside the chat and if there is a password required to get inside) and leave messages for you when you get back. I found actually really convenient.


http://www11.onrpg.com/gamepics/arti...RagAuction.jpg

If they do decide to add this. Lets hope it won't look like anything in the above picture. Most of those are merchants trying to sell wares but you get the point!

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With the above picture in mind, maybe the Away message can only pop up if you target a player or get really close to them.

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Originally Posted by Yrusama

With the above picture in mind, maybe the Away message can only pop up if you target a player or get really close to them.

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Yeah. It would be better like that.
Last thing I want is to walk into Ul'dah seeing tons of chat bubbles covering my screen. lol

I propose characters having tents and afking inside of there.

Meh... When I go AFK, I would smoke a cigarette instead of have a bubble comment.

Our characters are too young to be in bad health. ~.~

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Originally Posted by Zehira

Meh... When I go AFK, I would smoke a cigarette instead of have a bubble comment.

Our characters are too young to be in bad health. ~.~

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that would be sweet ~

my character runs an average of 8 miles a day online atleast, i think we can afford to smoke a pipe ! :p

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Originally Posted by Flowsick

Ragnarok Online actually let you open an afk chat.
Whatever you put as the title it would pop up above your head like a chat bubble.

People we're allowed to come inside (depending on the number of users permitted inside the chat and if there is a password required to get inside) and leave messages for you when you get back. I found actually really convenient.


http://www11.onrpg.com/gamepics/arti...RagAuction.jpg

If they do decide to add this. Lets hope it won't look like anything in the above picture. Most of those are merchants trying to sell wares but you get the point!

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holy shi*s on a biscuit !

like Yrusama said, if that is the case then only ppl with in a few yalms away from you should have their messages displayed..

cause that ^ ... is just a server on drugs.

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Originally Posted by Yrusama

With the above picture in mind, maybe the Away message can only pop up if you target a player or get really close to them.

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True .. I liked the mouse over more ... imagine more than one character are together .. it can lead to ->
http://www11.onrpg.com/gamepics/arti...RagAuction.jpg

This is hte first good suggestion I've seen in a long time. Not even a bubble though, just an auto-reply to tell's and an icon replacing your ls like in xi.

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Originally Posted by Rak_Boy

True .. I liked the mouse over more ... imagine more than one character are together .. it can lead to ->
http://www11.onrpg.com/gamepics/arti...RagAuction.jpg

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LOL. Oh, good old Prontera... Yeah, if they every implemented afk comments, I'd hope they did better than that, lol. Walking through Prontera could be a nightmare sometimes.

Adventurers will be able to set yourself to AFK status through the use of a command (for example, something like /afk). However, there are currently no plans to implement an automated reply system or a way to automatically remove yourself from AFK status. We'll be looking into these suggestions in the future though. :)

This would work better:

1. Instead of a chat bubble, put a circular "AFK" symbol by their names.

2. Edit the rendering engine so that people with AFK status get rendered last. In other words: NPCs, objects, and people who are actively playing the game have more priority over the servers and people's computers than the AFKers. This will make an AFK-filled Ul'dah less laggy as a result.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Adventurers will be able to set yourself to AFK status through the use of a command (for example, something like /afk). However, there are currently no plans to implement an automated reply system or a way to automatically remove yourself from AFK status. We'll be looking into these suggestions in the future though. :)

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Thanks for the info! One question, though... What about a means to automatically go into AFK status after a period of inactivity?

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Originally Posted by yoshikwalla

This would work better:

1. Instead of a chat bubble, put a circular "AFK" symbol by their names.

2. Edit the rendering engine so that people with AFK status get rendered last. In other words: NPCs, objects, and people who are actively playing the game have more priority over the servers and people's computers than the AFKers. This will make an AFK-filled Ul'dah less laggy as a result.



Thanks for the info! One question, though... What about a means to automatically go into AFK status after a period of inactivity?

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Away Message, AFK after a set amount of time, and the idea for giving AFK status people low rendering priority sounds like a good bunch of ideas to me.