Stop asking for a playtime cap; you don't know what you're doing

[DPZ2]

That's not what the suggestion is intended for. The 12 hour cap suggestion is to kick AFK bypassers and bots. There's an average of 2000 players AFK right now in Leviathan, probably the same in other worlds. That 2 hour long 4k queue you see in your login screen at peak time? It could be a 1 hour 2k queue at peak time if AFK bypassers and bots were forcibly purged.

The solution to AFK bypassers in the past was to ... wait for it ... reset each world at a random time. No programming involved. 15 or 20 minute warning before the reset. It worked wonders, although I must say it increased the queue for logging on because players will attempt to log back in afterwards. So, your 4000 player queue becomes a 10000 player queue, which goes down almost immediately. However, if you managed to get into the game 10 minutes before shutdown, you're going back to the end of the queue when the world is reset.

I'd rather get up at 5 am and spend most of the morning online.

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

The solution to AFK bypassers in the past was to ... wait for it ... reset each world at a random time. No programming involved. 15 or 20 minute warning before the reset. It worked wonders, although I must say it increased the queue for logging on because players will attempt to log back in afterwards. So, your 4000 player queue becomes a 10000 player queue, which goes down almost immediately. However, if you managed to get into the game 10 minutes before shutdown, you're going back to the end of the queue when the world is reset.

I'd rather get up at 5 am and spend most of the morning online.

Not entirely sure that would be a good solution either, as that would possibly crush tons of players doing progression content, duty finder content, etc.

[DPZ2]

Not entirely sure that would be a good solution either, as that would possibly crush tons of players doing progression content, duty finder content, etc.

You're right. But it was certainly one solution for AFK bypassers that was used in the past on highly congested worlds. Don't recommend it, it's certainly not a good thing. But, it satisfies the "get the AFKers off the system" without having to reprogram anything.