Boot AFKers from Gold Saucer

[AiChyan]

Could be because of this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...412d4baaa27ae1

PlayStation players might be afraid that they wont be able to get back on like during Christmas.

Several maintenances happened since christmas without interruptions. And the Christmas issue was a DDoS attack not a maintenance gone wrong anyway. This is simply an issue that happened back in early access too: GS is so active people are afraid if they leave they cant go back in, and therefore they never leave.

[Viridiana]

Otherwise, the devs need to deal with afkers in general. Find ways to kick people who have windows on display to bypass their autokick function

That bypass hasn't been needed in forever. They straight up did away with the auto-kick.

[Luvbunny]

The easiest way to alleviate the rush would be to open starting city Chocobo Racing counter. You do not have to be in Gold Saucer to do racing but you can still race with ANY other participants from all other four zones. Which is what FFXI did. This way you split the crowds into 4 zones. As well as add special "city casino" and put those triple triad NPC on another three other zones, each cities will have their own NPCs in a special zone with their exclusive rare cards to have. The crowds will disperse fast since you only do the other mini games and active time events on Gold Saucer and the weekly - daily lottery. The other two major attractions split into three other zones.

[Uielyave]

Agreeing with booting AFKers. On High pop servers,people just standing around AFK for hours on end isn't helping things, that's for sure.

[Eamil]

Agreeing with booting AFKers. On High pop servers,people just standing around AFK for hours on end isn't helping things, that's for sure.

I'm convinced Balmung wouldn't lock character creation 24/7 except after maintenance like it has been lately if they did this. I'll never understand why they removed it in the first place.

[Wobble]

I would say implement the afk boot system they had until this dies down some.

[Amenian]

I knew it was only a matter of time before the afk boot league showed up.

[Zephrey]

The easiest way to alleviate the rush would be to open starting city Chocobo Racing counter.

Why should you have to even be in the zone to queue for chocobo racing? They should it in DF and only allow a player to queue up for that and that only, just like all of the roulette's they have currently. You can't queue up for multiple roulette's AND other duties at the same time, just make it so you can only queue for chocobo racing. You should be allowed to "use food" through the Golden Saucer-> Chocobo window, why is there a need for a NPC? Same for adding traits, or removing them. Why couldn't that all be used in the menu like your Champion? This would free up a lot of people just standing around at the chocobo stand.

[Nestama]

Hmmm. How about being kicked out of Gold Saucer for not participating in GATE's, Triple Triad, or Chocobo races? 30 minutes of 'inactivity' should be enough time, right?

This was in response to someone who said people could just auto-run in a corner or talk to an NPC. "Why are you at a casino if you don't plan on gambling? Either do something or get the hell out."

[Eamil]

I knew it was only a matter of time before the afk boot league showed up.

You've put forth such a good argument against it.