Quote Originally Posted by Graylock View Post
I also want an answer to this. Has SE commented on why they refuse to add an afk-kicker? This would alleviate so many problems. At any given time, walk to any aetherite-stoned area and you can see hundreds of people AFK and I know for a fact that many of them are gone for 8+ hours at least for work and sleep.
The stock answer you'll get is that regardless of the number of AFK players the expectation was that they would NEVER have as many players as they currently do. Even if you booted every AFK player you'd still replace them with active players and have the same login issues. The server wasn't meant to deal with the number of players, active or afk, that they have because they never fathomed the number of people wanting to play the game that they currently have.