Maybe kick ppl after being afk an hour?

[Yumi_umi]

Are you talking about all the afk ppl in mor during the server's down time?
If so yea plz lol, kinda makes you think if se took out auto log out so that they can make their " how many ppl r logged in " numbers fluctuate XD
But damn mor is always the afk place to hang out huh.

[Kewitt]

I can see 1 hour being a good time, But making it at 2 or 3 hour thing, I think would solve a lot of issues.

There is honestly no good reason to go AFK over night.

Also with people offline maybe the servers wouldn't be crashing so hard because of ddos attack because all of a sudden the servers aren't having to work so hard handling good vs bad packets.

[Sove92]

I can see 1 hour being a good time, But making it at 2 or 3 hour thing, I think would solve a lot of issues.

There is honestly no good reason to go AFK over night.

Also with people offline maybe the servers wouldn't be crashing so hard because of ddos attack because all of a sudden the servers aren't having to work so hard handling good vs bad packets.

If there is no good reason for anything, it must be banned, am I right?

AFK people barely load the servers, I have had a VPN running a few times for a few hours and the data exchange between client and server is very small. When you are AFK, the only data you are sending to the server is the keepalive check response (about every 30s or so) which is a very small packet (compared to the current standard NTP amplified DDoS packet ranging from a few kilobytes up to 48,204 (47KB) bytes per request [millions per second in an attack]). The server sends you keepalive check queries, position data, logs and ability usage data, these are very small packets as well. About 5h of idling in Lavender Beds had data exchange of about 8MB downloaded and much less sent, this includes my web browsing. AFK players have an insignificant effect on DDoS attacks. In fact, the overall data exchange by all players combined is a small fraction of the traffic a standard DDoS of these days do.

[Squintina]

While I have joked with some of my FC mates that the reason one person got 90k was to let someone else in (thus implying that space is limited by players, which would also imply that afk people would hog up space...), it is just a joke.

I don't actually believe that truly has much to do with ddos or lag. Like Sove said, AFKers most likely have a minimal impact if SE handles AFKers correctly. If SE thought this would help, they wouldn't have removed it. The only way I see AFKers causing lots of server drain is if a lot of them are near areas with a lot of activity (since we still get notifications about what other active players nearby are doing, saying, level ups, etc...), so if anything the suggestion should be to kick people after being afk in heavily active areas, but that would probably still end up being a minimal impact.

[Taliph]

If there is no good reason for anything, it must be banned, am I right?

AFK people barely load the servers, I have had a VPN running a few times for a few hours and the data exchange between client and server is very small. When you are AFK, the only data you are sending to the server is the keepalive check response (about every 30s or so) which is a very small packet (compared to the current standard NTP amplified DDoS packet ranging from a few kilobytes up to 48,204 (47KB) bytes per request [millions per second in an attack]). The server sends you keepalive check queries, position data, logs and ability usage data, these are very small packets as well. About 5h of idling in Lavender Beds had data exchange of about 8MB downloaded and much less sent, this includes my web browsing. AFK players have an insignificant effect on DDoS attacks. In fact, the overall data exchange by all players combined is a small fraction of the traffic a standard DDoS of these days do.

If it is causing queues (even only 10 or 20 deep) then it doesn't matter how little data it takes. Those people in queue paid to play the game, not sit in a queue because of people that aren't even playing.

[Riepah]

I'm very happy about the removal of the afk kick and don't want to see it brought back, ever.

[CGMidlander]

I can't really stay logged in for extended periods even if I wanted to. lol
I almost always come back to a 90k screen if I afk for more than a couple hours. :/

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I can see 1 hour being a good time, But making it at 2 or 3 hour thing, I think would solve a lot of issues.

There is honestly no good reason to go AFK over night.

Also with people offline maybe the servers wouldn't be crashing so hard because of ddos attack because all of a sudden the servers aren't having to work so hard handling good vs bad packets.

No, that's not how it works at all. DDOS attacks involve sending massive traffic to the servers to make it unstable or crash. It doesn't matter if there's people on the server already or not because a DDOS attack is going to choke the server with each attempt.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

But... but... if you do that... I won't be able to do this anymore when I'm going to bed irl!

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wait in a line of 7 ppl or sometimes 20 just to log on

7 to 20 people in the queue? Golly gee willikers!