RIP AFK'n flexing in Limsa for a little bit

[Breakbeat]

Yeah I found it funny there was previously no auto-logout. I'm a recent WoW expat... the other day I had to get up and leave fairly quickly, while getting ready it crossed my mind that I might have just shut off my monitor and not logged out, but I didn't much care because I figured the game would log me out.

Went out, did my "be an adult" real life stuff, came back a few hours later ... there I am chilling in the exact same spot, just like I never left.

It was good for a chuckle.

[Atreides]

No worries people with Legend titles and ridiculously nice gear I still appreciate your flexing. Also AFK bards running midi programs I really will miss you guys.

Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...9cf1dbf7bedbcf


In an effort to ease server congestion, players who are inactive for more than 30 minutes will be logged out automatically.

I'm pretty sure Bards playing their midi songs will not be affected as they are doing something. So you'll still see bards rocking their 5 hour playlists.

Wonder if you can report them now for circumventing the logoff-timer.
I'll give it a try on those I spot for multiple hours at the same place, busy with *something* to keep themselves logged in.

How would you know they are not chatting with their FC or friends? There are no rules against that.

In general any imput even if they just move their camera ingame will reset the timer.

[HeyMcFly]

Good riddance I say!

[RyuDragnier]

People can just open the HUD display editor and sit AFK still unless they changed that, I'm pretty sure :O!

You fool, you've spoken of the secret, now they know and are going for its throat! RIP

[wereotter]

People can just open the HUD display editor and sit AFK still unless they changed that, I'm pretty sure :O!

If people are going to intentionally attempt to circumvent the logout timer through means like this, though, that should be something Square can take action against. Not only is it, at that point, directly attempting to circumvent the measures they're putting in place to make the game playable for everyone, but it's intensely selfish to not just log off when you're done playing, especially in a situation like we're in at the moment.

Also just a point outside this comment, other MMOs will boot you after a certain amount of time regardless of server status. This should just be the norm in the game always, not just because they're seeing more congestion currently.

[technole]

Pepperidge Farm remembers in 2020 when I made the topic about asking for an AFK timer in Limsa. Who's laughing now, Limsa Thot?

Wonder if you can report them now for circumventing the logoff-timer.
I'll give it a try on those I spot for multiple hours at the same place, busy with *something* to keep themselves logged in.

Considering the strongly worded letter from YoshiP about the current situation, you can bet if this doesn't work they will resort to other measures.

[Dragonblanco]

This made me chuckle more than it should =(

I hate to admit it, but that joke kind of just went right over my head.

[Dragonblanco]

I think that it should only be permanent if it's actually needed. What they have done to prevent needing it is to add more servers and data centers and a world visit system so that you don't feel the need to all congest a particular world.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...o9U5XGcgb2k7l0

As it happens, the matching servers used in the North American data centers were recently upgraded to higher-performance models. Continued optimization of this new equipment has allowed us, as of July 16, to increase the maximum number of simultaneous logins across the NA data centers by 18,000, or approximately 750 per World server.

A matching server upgrade for the EU data centers, while currently planned for the immediate future, however, is still pending. As such, until the upgrade is implemented, it will be difficult for us to raise World login caps to the same degree as those of North American Worlds. That said, the team is currently working hard to optimize existing servers in an attempt to increase the caps, if by a smaller amount, and will endeavor to make continued adjustments and improvements while maintaining game stability.

Despite the aforementioned cap increase, over the weekend of July 17 and 18, several North American World servers experienced periods of six to seven hours at maximum login capacity. As a result, character creation was unavailable for long periods of time, and players faced average login wait times of 10-20 minutes. For players residing on Worlds in the European data center, weekend login wait times were as high as 40 minutes. We deeply apologize for the situation in both regions.

So yeah, they are working on it.

[Axxion]

[Bright-Flower]

Hopefully they will remove the work arounds so that even if you're talking to an npc or crafting etc, 30 minutes with no input means logout. I'm kind of baffled they didn't do something about this with expansion launches already considering the forced logout for everyone they had to do once.