CM AFKers

[Rane]

I'd like to add my voice to the chorus of people who don't like the idea of a dungeon AFK kick feature. As others have said, it's very easy to circumvent, and it will impact innocent players as well.

I was running Cutter's Cry with some people in my FC last night when one of them started having internet problems. We waited for over 30 minutes outside the second boss's room for her to fix the problem, and most of the time we were just standing there talking in Mumble. Eventually she managed to get back on, and we finished out the instance successfully. It would have really put a sour taste in my mouth if one of us had gotten kicked from the instance because we forgot to move our character to cancel out the AFK timer while waiting for her.

Vote to kick has the potential to be abused, but it will probably solve the problem of people leeching in dungeon runs. AFK dungeon kick, on the other hand, probably won't solve much at all, and it will be an irritating feature that has the potential to ruin a run for a legitimate party. I'm afraid this will do more harm than good.

[NeruMew]

I'd like to add my voice to the chorus of people who don't like the idea of a dungeon AFK kick feature. As others have said, it's very easy to circumvent, and it will impact innocent players as well.

I was running Cutter's Cry with some people in my FC last night when one of them started having internet problems. We waited for over 30 minutes outside the second boss's room for her to fix the problem, and most of the time we were just standing there talking in Mumble. Eventually she managed to get back on, and we finished out the instance successfully. It would have really put a sour taste in my mouth if one of us had gotten kicked from the instance because we forgot to move our character to cancel out the AFK timer while waiting for her.

Vote to kick has the potential to be abused, but it will probably solve the problem of people leeching in dungeon runs. AFK dungeon kick, on the other hand, probably won't solve much at all, and it will be an irritating feature that has the potential to ruin a run for a legitimate party. I'm afraid this will do more harm than good.

Must remark the impotance of this.

[TeganLaron]

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Is it really that much of an inconvenience to move your character once every thirty minutes?

[Kincard]

Is it really that much of an inconvenience to move your character once every thirty minutes?

Not at all. Now take that question and pose it to trolls, leeches or griefers.

Cross-server blacklist. Cross-server blacklist. Cross-server blacklist.

Add to blacklist, never be pty'd with them again. Easy as pie and once those ppl are on everyone's blacklist for AFKing during DF, they can screw off.

While I would love to see this (As well as a cross-server friendlist/cross-server party invites), I don't have much confidence that the dev team that can't figure out how to allow you to send tells while within a cross-server instance is going to release something like that in a timely manner.