Remove auto-logout feature

[PhillyBop]

Just wanted to put this somewhere:

It seems that the auto-logout feature is disabled when you are in an active crafting stance (have your anvil out for BS, etc.). Now, I may be mistaken, but I discovered this by accident yesterday. I wanted to make a bunch of lumber, so I set it to auto synth, then alt-tabbed to do some stuff. Well, Counter-Strike caught my attention, then after quite a bit of counter-strike, I realized that my FFXIV was still running. I maximized the screen, to discover that I was still logged in, with the auto-synth window open telling me how many success and failures I had.

[Vandark]

AFK boot was needed and it's made the game much better for all of us guaranteed.

[Camate]

Greetings,

We do not have any plans of eliminating the automatic logout feature at the moment. However, we would like to keep an eye on the conditions now that it has been implemented, and if we determine that adjustments can be made we will look into extending the time before you are automatically logged out.

[Raeletta]

Should be extended to about 2 hours, you'd get rid of the sleepers and workers, but those in the DF would be fine.

Or make it so the DF prevents the timer ticking down, that'd be acceptable (Although I'd prefer a flat 2 hours). If you don't respond to the queue you get kicked from the DF anyway, so if the 30 mins started then you'd be booted afterwards. Which would be fine: you missed the queue because you didn't hear the sound (Were not at your PC at all) rather than because you were distracted by that interesting forum post and got booted while you read all 15 pages.

Like someone else said though, AFKing in interesting places makes the world seem so much more lively, and now the servers are actually stable, the timer isn't really worth it.

[Stryker]

OH MY GOD. THE GAME KICKED ME OUT WHEN I LEFT IT ON AND ATE DINNER/WENT OUT DRINKING. Shame on this game for doing that, because I should totally be able to just use resources because I "pay" money. Do people fail to remember what AFK stands for? Away from keyboard people. If you actually are away from the keyboard you're not in the game. You made an active decision to walk away just like I did last night.

Why does that matter that I have to log back in? If people like myself or anyone else are actually away from their keyboard for a period of time which in this case is 30 minutes. You deserve to be logged out, then you can log back in at your own time and not worry about having to check back to "read" what was written to you. People won't write it to you if you're logged out.

[Herase]

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That just complete defeats the purpose of it. have you read what people have been saying on the matter and why it implemented here differently to FFXI?

The are still servers having log-in problems, it might not be happening for you but it's still around for many others. Also who is this inconvenient for? the only people i can see are those who want to afk all the time and so far these people haven't forwarded an argument strong enough for it to be removed. It's all been selfish reasons so far "i can't afk for DF while watching tv". I'm all for feedback but if people haven't got an argument or anything for something to be changed don't expect anything to happen. I can see some saying it pointless now but to be honest it wont affect your game-play at all being there, unless you afk for 30 minutes but there shouldn't be a reason to afk for that long anyway.

[Z3M0G]

Greetings,

We do not have any plans of eliminating the automatic logout feature at the moment. However, we would like to keep an eye on the conditions now that it has been implemented, and if we determine that adjustments can be made we will look into extending the time before you are automatically logged out.

I believe my ideal would be 1 hour. I can't see any reason for anyone to complain about 1 hour.

[Tekisan]

I believe this will only keep "honest" players out. It is a matter of time before people abusing 3rd party software have a program to move their character every 20 minutes to beat the 30 timer. I think the better option is to only give the resting XP bonus to people who LOG OUT in a sanctuary. Make actually logging out rewarding. No bonus xp for afk at sanctuaries.

[Blackweaver]

I want to chime in here. I definitely feel the AFK timer is a required feature for this game. If someone isn't actively playing, then why stay connected to the server? That is a pointless connection to the server that only adds to server strains. 30 minutes is a hell of a lot better than games like world of warcraft, that log you out after around 5 minutes. 30 minutes is very generous and it's enough time for me to step away to use the bathroom, get a drink, or even warm up a snack in the microwave.

So I definitely feel the afk timer should stay put, the time alloted is more than sufficient to get a couple real world things done before getting back to the game.

[Kenze]

i cant believe how selfish some of you are.
If you go afk for hours at a time and it impedes someone who wants to actually play from logging in or causes excessive server stress or lag with dozens of you gathered around every crystal imo that where your right to "stare at the screen" ends