AFK boot dodgers

[MiniTofu]

and when you search their ign, they're online. Not there, but they're online.

It doesn't tell if you're in game or just at the title screen. Discord doesn't know and it only detects if the app is running. A poor way to judge if someone is hogging the server space.

Also, I press my key every 25 mins while I work from home.

[Raiya]

Honestly, when this was a problem in SB, periodic server reboots solved the queue problems instantly.
It was annoying for about a week, and then people realized the fear of the queue was the cause of the queue.

This. Restarting the servers at 8 or 9am in the morning would solve the problem big time. Punishments and reporting is a waste of time and energy the main fear behind people staying online is being kicked off for 4 or 5 hours in a long wait. However if everyones booted off at the same time every morning for a fortnight it would make afking pointless and people would realise its better to just log out at night as your gonna be booted regardless.

[Anirab]

Reminds me of the 2 catgirls on Excalibur doing the moogle dance for 3 months in Limsa. Whenever i was there, they were dancing in Limsa. Always. No matter if 2pm on a workday or 3am on a sunday. Then i moved to EU datacenter.

But this was long before anything was done because of afk people.

When i'm done playing i log out and turn off my PC during the night.

[Jybril]

Why have they not done the queue kick thing like they did in SB?
Daily server boot or whatever it was.

[technole]

Why have they not done the queue kick thing like they did in SB?
Daily server boot or whatever it was.

I imagine the flack they would receive if everyone got smashed into a 15k queue at 8am kind of thing, since they only process 75 actual logins at a time before the next queue update. The massive logout worked in SB because the population online at the time wasn't as massive as it is now too.

[Roda]

I imagine the flack they would receive if everyone got smashed into a 15k queue at 8am kind of thing, since they only process 75 actual logins at a time before the next queue update. The massive logout worked in SB because the population online at the time wasn't as massive as it is now too.

But 8 am is when balmung has no queue at all.
And a 15k queue that moves is much more preferable to a 4k queue that doesnt.

[Reinha]

I imagine the flack they would receive if everyone got smashed into a 15k queue at 8am kind of thing, since they only process 75 actual logins at a time before the next queue update. The massive logout worked in SB because the population online at the time wasn't as massive as it is now too.

There are almost no queues at all in the morning. They could do it at 11 am when most people have already left for work.

[Divinemights]

Are we starting to witch hunt now?
Are we that desparate?

[Raiya]

There are almost no queues at all in the morning. They could do it at 11 am when most people have already left for work.

Just because theres no queues on in the morning doesn't mean there's not people online who never logged out it just means there's not enough online to swamp the data center's connection is all. Also it needs to be early in the morning when fewest people are around and online.

[Reinha]

Just because theres no queues on in the morning doesn't mean there's not people online who never logged out it just means there's not enough online to swamp the data center's connection is all. Also it needs to be early in the morning when fewest people are around and online.

If the purpose is to clear out people who are botting to stay online until they come back from work, it has to be done after those people go to work. Otherwise they will just quickly login in the morning and set up their macro/program to avoid the evening queues.