Idle check. We need to talk about it.

Square Enix, you got to implement a system that will boot players for idling for to long. They're not playing the game, they're just taking up space that can be used by someone else that wants to play.

I propose this plan:

1. AFK for one hour, you get marked for idle. The player is notified with a message.

2. If the player is still AFK (after getting the idle warning) after 5mins they'll automatically be logged off.

3. If the player has been playing for three hours none stop, they'll get a message suggesting that they should take a fifteen minuet break for health reasons. :)


This feature should be on at all times.

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Originally Posted by Andrien

Square Enix, you got to implement a system that will boot players for idling for to long. They're not playing the game, they're just taking up space that can be used by someone else that wants to play.

I propose this plan:

1. AFK for one hour, you get marked for idle. The player is notified with a message.

2. If the player is still AFK after 5mins they'll automatically be logged off.


This should not be toggled on and off. This feature should be on at all times.

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Shouldn't it be the other way around? Don't move for 5 minutes you go afk, afk for an hour you get logged off? Well either way I agree. Something needs to be added for sure.

An hour is way too much time. Cut that down to 5-15. Even if the servers were fine, that's the limit I think needs to be enforced.

So what you're saying is, if I:

1. Go afk for an hour due to cooking dinner then eating but keep the game on to keep tabs on my FC/LS I should be kicked from the game?

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2. If i go to the bathroom or get something to drink I should be kicked from the game?

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Originally Posted by jpem

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Don't move for 5 minutes you go afk, afk for an hour you get logged off? Well either way I agree. Something needs to be added for sure.

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Don't move for 5 minutes you go afk? People can find a way to prevent it: you run your character to the corner and turn on auto-run before you go afk.

I say we need more servers!

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

So what you're saying is, if I:

1. Go afk for an hour due to cooking dinner then eating but keep the game on to keep tabs on my FC/LS I should be kicked from the game?

And

2. If i go to the bathroom or get something to drink I should be kicked from the game?

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1. Yes, if you sit afk an hour while doing other stuff while others are trying to get in, yes you should get kicked.

2. Takes you an hour to go to the bathroom and get a drink? If so, then yes to that too.

Would love to see this but it's not going to help the relieve the congestion, what they need is to upgrade their servers to allow more players concurrently, too many people want online but there is little room before the server starts crashing because it can't handle the amount of players

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Originally Posted by ChanceFurystrike

1. Yes, if you sit afk an hour while doing other stuff while others are trying to get in, yes you should get kicked.

2. Takes you an hour to go to the bathroom and get a drink? If so, then yes to that too.

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So getting kicked for being AFK for 5 minutes is reasonable? No wonder new MMOs tend to fail once they hit the western demographic.

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Originally Posted by ChanceFurystrike

1. Yes, if you sit afk an hour while doing other stuff while others are trying to get in, yes you should get kicked.

2. Takes you an hour to go to the bathroom and get a drink? If so, then yes to that too.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

So getting kicked for being AFK for 5 minutes is reasonable? No wonder new MMOs tend to fail once they hit the western demographic.

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Where in that sentence do you see five minutes?

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

So what you're saying is, if I:

1. Go afk for an hour due to cooking dinner then eating but keep the game on to keep tabs on my FC/LS I should be kicked from the game?


2. If i go to the bathroom or get something to drink I should be kicked from the game?

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If you leave the game for a whole hour, you should definitely be kicked.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

So getting kicked for being AFK for 5 minutes is reasonable? No wonder new MMOs tend to fail once they hit the western demographic.

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I never said 5 minutes, someone else did. And yes, 5 minutes is way too short of a time. I also think an hour is actually too long. I'd say 30 minutes is good if you give a 5 minute warning after the 30 min time frame.

I like AFKing in Ul'dah so I vote no. It's a legacy thing~

Getting booted after being afk for an hour sounds reasonable. Definitely better than the situation now where you can afk forever. I forgot and left my character logged in once in a previous phase and when I came back she was still in-game and this was close to a 24 hour period. Crazy.

20 minutes and you get a 5 minute warning is what I would do.

I put one hour because I was being generous.

I think an idle check should work together with whatever Square Enix is planning on doing because its better than running through a sea of AFK people flashing their preciouses inside town. They just making lag.

Anyways, continue the discussion!

What if the player is auto running against a wall for an hour, will they be kicked for being AFK even though their character is moving?

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Originally Posted by ihatebeingwhm

What if the player is auto running against a wall for an hour, will they be kicked for being AFK even though their character is moving?

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Then SE could make "server toons" looking for those people doing that. They could poke you and poor your logged out. That would be pretty funny actually. Anyways F that, if this crap progresses I will pay the transfer fee and move my toon to a JP server. It's a lot quieter on that side. Was over there for about 2hrs.

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Originally Posted by duceTRE

Then SE could make "server toons" looking for those people doing that. They could poke you and poor your logged out. That would be pretty funny actually. Anyways F that, if this crap progresses I will pay the transfer fee and move my toon to a JP server. It's a lot quieter on that side. Was over there for about 2hrs.

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Japan data centers is less populated compared to NA/EU data centers. If everyone moves to Japanese servers I believe the problem we're experiencing now will spread over there as well. Just assuming.

Apparently some people think they should be able to go make dinner and then go to bed for 8 hours and then wake up and go to work for another 9 hours and then come home and make dinner and pick up the game again, having been logged in the whole time, cause who cares about all the people actually not AFK who want to play the game and cant, right?