30 minute AFK Timer to Short

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09-13-2013, 01:43 AM
Vili

30 minute AFK Timer to Short

Honestly, if you think about it. You may get up to go and do something that is 30 minutes to an hour, but you have every intention of coming back.
Now I know they made more adjustments to the Duty Finder, but before, it would take me 40-70 minutes to get into Castrum. So I would go AFK for the next 30 minutes. (rr, food, chores, life stuff). Now I may have to sit there, for the whole time, walking about.

I'm not saying I disagree with the implementation. But I would like to see it increased to an hour. Maybe even make it like FFXI, where you can set the time, or even turn it off.
09-13-2013, 01:45 AM
Bluevann

Wholeheartedly agreed.
09-13-2013, 01:46 AM
Jayplex

I don't mind 30 minutes myself, I feel like if you're afk for 30 minutes while in a queue then you will likely miss it anyway.

Is what you're doing so important that you can't go back to the computer and jump for a sec then leave and get back to it?
09-13-2013, 02:24 AM
Helli

30 minutes is what most games have. It should be more than enough to do what you need to do, and if it isn't....is it too hard to come back, move yourself a bit then continue what you are doing?
Can't believe people are whining because the afk timer is 30 minutes.....
09-13-2013, 02:28 AM
Oriachim

Just log back in you fool. What are you scared of? Getting the 1017 error? Oh wait... According to you whiners that's been fixed (it hasn't, I can confirm that) so how much effort is it to log back in?
09-13-2013, 02:37 AM
Ed_N_Ants

its simple if you need to be afk for 30 minutes you should log off... Don't move and go back afk defeats the purpose, log out do what you need to do and there will be available space...
09-13-2013, 02:43 AM
Darken

I completely disagree...30 minutes is a fair number. It is not unreasonable to ask you check on your character once every 30 minutes to confirm you are still playing...
09-13-2013, 02:46 AM
Balzaque

cant you just make a move or jump around 25mins or so to prevent to be dced? you certainly can't completely afk if you are waiting for something, there is no guarantee that a queue won't pop sooner then usual. not that hard to just go to your computer from time to time to check on things >.<

if you really afk more then 30mins without even checking your toon good are the chances that you will miss the queue anyway..
09-13-2013, 02:50 AM
Kraggy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Balzaque

cant you just make a move or jump around 25mins or so to prevent to be dced? .

Yes, which is why this stupid thing is simply a placebo, it's trivially defeated by anyone who wants to. Those who've been whining about it will now learn it achieves nothing noticeable.
09-13-2013, 02:53 AM
Balzaque

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kraggy

Yes, which is why this stupid thing is simply a placebo, it's trivially defeated by anyone who wants to. Those who've been whining about it will now learn it achieves nothing noticeable.

ofc it achieves something, if you can get back to your game around 25min or so you are playing the game, even if it is afk to wait in a queue you are still playing it. but it completely prevents players from being afk while going to work/school or over night for no reason at all.
09-13-2013, 03:02 AM
Talsalus

AFK timer should never be shorter than a dps dungeon queue time :P
09-13-2013, 03:23 AM
Jayplex

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kraggy

Yes, which is why this stupid thing is simply a placebo, it's trivially defeated by anyone who wants to. Those who've been whining about it will now learn it achieves nothing noticeable.

not really, this will force people who REALLY want to stay on to go out of their way to make a 3rd party macro in order to move their character but majority of the people who play will not even do that. Either way having this in place kicks people who're not playing so people who actually are playing can actually get in. If somebody comes back every 25-29 mins to move for a sec just so they stay on, then cool. I can assure you that majority of the people who were staying online before this was in place were willing to do that. Especially the people who would log on and then go to work just to make sure they're online and able to play when they get back.
09-13-2013, 03:30 AM
Xeloth

30 Minutes is perfect, I'm really glad they did this, before we were begging for it to be implemented, now it has and people are whining about it, you can never please people I guess...
09-13-2013, 11:16 AM
samfisher

Also, if it's implemented the same way as WoW, it doesn't matter if your character is moving or not. WoW's client checks for HARDWARE input, so macros that make you jump every 29 minutes will NOT work. As long as the WoW client doesn't actually get the input from the mouse/keyboard, you're gonna be AFK kicked out.