One step to stop server overcrowding. [Square please read]

[Zoltran]

Step: Auto-disconnect those who AFK to hold spots.

Fixed.

[Kidogo]

I made a topic about similar issues, but someone brought that one up too. Trying to get it many likes so it grabs some attention (hopefully).
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...re-August-27th.

[Gamerfan001]

Thank you for posting this. If they had a damn set up so players who are AFK 10 mins get booted from game!

[Zoltran]

Liked.

Maybe we will get a comprehensive solution instead of maintenance after maintenance, oh and then a bit more maintenance.

Get the idling players off the servers.

FFXI had auto-disconnect please tell me they didn't overlook something as critical or even useful as that.

[Wolfz3ro]

Another thing I'm wondering is if the characters who are 3102 like me currently, are also taking up slots? Because that can be an issue as well, because my friends are saying I'm in game, but I cannot log in and keep getting the 3102 error, or the 1017 error

[Brises]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...28#post1067028

Yep

[Zoltran]

Its possible 3102 is holding you in the game although what i can gather, and maybe somebody here can better enlighten me, is that when you get 3102'd your character is in limbo between zones, etc. as there was a problem with the hand-off from one server to another.

[Toxictaru]

Liked.

Maybe we will get a comprehensive solution instead of maintenance after maintenance, oh and then a bit more maintenance.

Get the idling players off the servers.

FFXI had auto-disconnect please tell me they didn't overlook something as critical or even useful as that.

FFXI auto-disconnect could be disabled, and was one of the first things I'd disable any time I had to re-install FFXI. Games like WoW are hard-coded to do as much, even going as far as kicking you off of the lobby server if you sit there for too long. This would be ideal. Setting it to something like 10 minutes is too low, but 30-60 minutes would be acceptable, in my opinion.

[Zoltran]

FFXI auto-disconnect could be disabled, and was one of the first things I'd disable any time I had to re-install FFXI. Games like WoW are hard-coded to do as much, even going as far as kicking you off of the lobby server if you sit there for too long. This would be ideal. Setting it to something like 10 minutes is too low, but 30-60 minutes would be acceptable, in my opinion.

Oh it could definitely be disabled, I should clarify that it would be nice if they had one implemented especially one with a backdoor through which, in cases like this, they could override the players setting and implement their own. IE: a disconnect timer after 30 minutes or whatever of inactivity.

[ArkirTulum]

Dumbest idea ever. No offense. Not you, just the idea. I payed for the game just like you. I should be able to AFK all day if I want (I dont do it I am playing the whole time). The problem should be fixed so we can all get on, not by turning the paying costumers against each other for a chance to play a game we all paid for. If I couldn't get in, I wouldn't blame people afking, I would blame SE. Your solution would just let them get away with not providing an entertaining experience for everyone. It's like saying people who go to the bathroom at sporting events shouldn't be allowed back in because other people who couldn't get in want their seats now. Now if all those people paid to get in and couldn't, you dont blame the people not sitting down and watching the whole game, you blame the management for selling more tickets than seats they had.