Time to deal with those hiding in their house to afk

[Melondra]

Server resets is a stupid idea.

Case 1: reset them when there is high activity. Obviously a bad idea. You'll have everyone hammering the login server once it comes back up. All you're pretty much doing is shaking the player base and get a new set of people on. More people will be annoyed.
Case 2: reset them when there is low activity. Useless idea. You might get a higher percentage of AFK persons. However, how many server slots do you think that'll free up? It's even more moot if these AFK folks are the ones who get on regularly low-queue times.

Either one of these solutions would impact fewer AFK folks than they realize. Server reboots are only really good if the issue was server stability (such as resource leaks). That isn't the case here. This suggestion just makes people sound as if they are just being spiteful because they cannot get onto the servers.

Actually, Absentee Play is actually against the TOS to my knowledge.

[RobynDaBank]

Lol, why is the one way to avoid the AFK timer being advertised all across the forums? Now I'm inclined to try it out when I go to cook today.

[Vahlnir]

Lol, why is the one way to avoid the AFK timer being advertised all across the forums? Now I'm inclined to try it out when I go to cook today.

Because the angry mob has designated house owners as their new targets for their rage. Gods help them if they happen to be mentors too.

[Dogempire]

Tbf, if they did something to prevent people from afking inside their house like autokicking them after 1 or 2 hours, they can simply afk under their house but outside.

[Ath192]

They will not do anything else about this except get more servers in the future. Get over it. This is SEs fault and they know it. They also spend way less time thinking about how to punish their customers than the people in this forum do, that’s for sure. They won’t ban anyone either, so all that evil you are wishing on others for trying to play a game they paid for will never be realized. Have a good day, and rest in the knowledge no amount of anger or TOS claims will get anyone in any amount of trouble because they are paying customers and hardly criminals to blame for this situation.

See you in the queue folks

[Rolder50]

What about those of us who are in our inn rooms huh?

[PastelPirate]

A lot of the time I am in my FC apartment, I am crafting. I go there to do it, or an inn room to do it, because for me, when I am running around a city, hearing crafters dings and messages (which I finally discovered how to turn off the messages), kinda triggers my sensory issues a little, so I try to be off on my own, doing my thing in private, because I don't want to cause someone else with similar issues as I have, to struggle. At least for me, it's the easiest way for me to avoid sensory overload.

[Myrany]

What about those of us who are in our inn rooms huh?

I personally log out in an inn room whenever I can. It is a tradition I have carried on across many mmos. Sort of putting my character to bed when I log out. Besides I just love the way female Miqote do the kitty facewash animation when they wake up. Makes me smile every time.

[Bobby66]

It's like people WANT to bring back the forced global logouts of Stormblood. Just accept that when you need go to sleep or work or something it's time to log out and let someone else in.

Until they bring them back people will do what they can to avoid queue times.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

Because the angry mob has designated house owners as their new targets for their rage. Gods help them if they happen to be mentors too.

Doesn't matter, botting to keep the connection alive is against the TOS, and houses don't have a 1h timer to them, like, for example, solo instances do. So you can just close your house to the public and run an AHK script that sends your char running in circles all day long, and nobody would know.