Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Celef]

On Balmung at least it's 100% AFK abusers and every day it's been getting worse and worse because more people are getting fed up of them and doing it themselves.

Then SEPARATE BALMUNG IN 2 SERVERS for God's sake !
Jeez everytime there is issues it's about Balmung beeing overpopulated, split it in 2 servers and stop screwing others players game

[Ilenya]

Then SEPARATE BALMUNG IN 2 SERVERS for God's sake !
Jeez everytime there is issues it's about Balmung beeing overpopulated, split it in 2 servers and stop screwing others players game

Tell me, how would you do this fairly?

[Celef]

Tell me, how would you do this fairly?

Cause you kicking every single player from every single server just because of Balmung AFKs is fair to you ?

[XiXiQ]

the stuck in a middle of a craft thing seems simple enough for SE to fix without stuffing us all about, frankly. Time the craft, if it's not finished in 10 minutes (or whatever) end it. Then the user will log out as usual after the 30 mins. Since the launch, I've probably spent 20 hours just sitting in the login que, and have never done a single duty - new or old, roulette or whatever - without at least a 30 minute wait. SE really need to up their game to cover the amount of users they are dealing with, and that is the bottom line in the end. Users blaming other users for SE's lack of planning isn't cutting it.

[Ilenya]

Cause you kicking every single player from every single server just because of Balmung AFKs is fair to you ?

Never commented on it being fair one way or the other. Please, though, tell me how your idea is fair.

Blame Balmung for this....

Yes, because it is totally just Balmung, and the entirety of it.

People have other means of afk. Auto run into a wall. Talk with an NPC. Sit in a cutscene.

For what it's worth, it's a partial idea, aimed to fix one part of the issue.

[Ayer2015]

Blame Balmung for this....

[Kaelah]

the stuck in a middle of a craft thing seems simple enough for SE to fix without stuffing us all about, frankly. Time the craft, if it's not finished in 10 minutes (or whatever) end it. Then the user will log out as usual after the 30 mins. Since the launch, I've probably spent 20 hours just sitting in the login que, and have never done a single duty - new or old, roulette or whatever - without at least a 30 minute wait. SE really need to up their game to cover the amount of users they are dealing with, and that is the bottom line in the end. Users blaming other users for SE's lack of planning isn't cutting it.

People have other means of afk. Auto run into a wall. Talk with an NPC. Sit in a cutscene.

[Nuach]

It might be a presumptuous for me to guess, but it likely has to to do with server architecture rather than malice towards the Aether server cluster users. The housing servers that people are afk crafting in are likely shared between the servers on the cluster, the same goes for the lobby and instance servers too. To properly force afkers in Balmung to log off, they have to take down these servers for everyone rather than trying to target the Balmungers in them which is not only more time consuming and inefficient but also far more error proned. At that point you may as well just have an entire server cluster purge rather than just the shared ones, since the server architecture probably isn't meant to deal with the complete absence of the shared servers.

Don't grab your torches and pitchforks yet, these actions are perfectly reasonable when viewed not as an act of malice or malevolence but instead as basic protocols that they perform all the time for forcing people off for maintenance periods.

[Eldevern]

Do you realize that being afk for hours could be considered like a violation of ToS that makes they could just ban your account rather than just kicking afk players?

[Celef]

Never commented on it being fair one way or the other. Please, though, tell me how your idea is fair.

Create a new server dedicated to spliting Balmung, send there every new players and give advantages to FC / people moving.
If they refuse to move, forget them and stop punishing other players