Players that go AFK in Island Sanctuary is a Problem

[LaylaTsarra]

Outside of it you don't have an afk kick timer. In there you do, just like you do in Bozja etc. See the difference? If they do that it means that for the servers it's absolutely not the same as afking at your house or in the open world in general.

And OP's request makes a lot of sense honestly.

Yes i understand that and it's why there is a 30 minute timer which is more than reasonable. I believe the housing servers and Island servers are the same so yes housing does affect the Island as well if you afk in your house if I'm not mistaken. I don't see the issue really. We had a 30 minute timer in the height of the xpac rush and long queues getting in.

The Op isn't worried about server load they simply don't want people to afk in front of the login NPC. I don't see that problem going away even if the timer was shortened which it won't be in my view. If anything making the timer shorter would only make for more people being kicked and sitting in front of the NPC.

[Arazehl]

Press the X key on the keyboard... then you can click through the Player and his mount and click on the NPC ( or whichever other keybind you set, X is standard )

I already know this, and it's the zero on my numeric pad that let's me click through. That's not the point. I don't want to be kicked and then come back to find my character covered up by someone's big ass mount. It's unsettling!

Why in the world others do not read where I said in the original post, that I knew how to click through and interact with the NPC. Maybe that's what has a few confused when I added it covered the NPC, Still not what I'm saying. I don't like finding myself clipped through some of the large mounts in pitch darkness, or wings flapping around me. It's disorienting and annoying besides. A forced dismount would have been better there.

[Arazehl]

It's the ones that go afk while mounted that is the issue. Just couldn't put all that in, in the title. I hope this clears things up for some.

[dspguy]

I know there are many players working on their Island Sanctuary since it's release, but those that decide to AFK on a mount and are kicked out after 30 mins is a problem.

Problem being is those that go afk mounted, sometimes on HUGE mounts then covering the NPC and most players, in Moraby Drydocks. I know, I know you can simply use your shortcut function key to target interactive objects/NPCs, but it's still annoying to have these mounts clustered there.

Might want to do a set up like you did with this years Moonfire Faire where it auto dismounts players that are kicked out on these mounts from Island Sanctuary.

Keybind -> Target Nearest Object or NPC -> set to a key of your choice

Problem solved.

[Tlamila]

Keybind -> Target Nearest Object or NPC -> set to a key of your choice

Problem solved.

I love how OP said A MILLION TIMES how they know that perfectly welland how no, that's not a solution. And yet people keep being broken records.

[dspguy]

I love how OP said A MILLION TIMES how they know that perfectly welland how no, that's not a solution. And yet people keep being broken records.

I respectfully disagree. It IS the solution. By pure definition.

Problem being is those that go afk mounted, sometimes on HUGE mounts then covering the NPC and most players, in Moraby Drydocks.

Problem is: players go AFK on huge mounts covering the NPC etc etc.

Solution: what has been offered.

Yes, the OP recognizes this. Then why have this post? It is annoying?

"Hey, SE. There's something annoying in this game. Other players. Can we just remove them all and I can play a console game?"

[Jojoya]

I love how OP said A MILLION TIMES how they know that perfectly welland how no, that's not a solution. And yet people keep being broken records.

Because it's definitely a solution. I use it whenever someone on the Lunar Whale ends up on top of the NPC. I know roughly where the NPC is so all I have to do is hit my Confirm keybind twice (NUM 0 on keypad is the default) to target and interact with the NPC to get to my island.

I'm on my island in a few seconds while people who prefer to waste their time complaining instead of using the available targeting option are still standing next to the NPC complaining.

I still agree that SE could have made a better choice for exit point but it's still not preventing anyone from going to their island.

[george357]

i came back to see if anything constructive was coming out of this and no some angey players who keep necro bumming this topic up they have kicking in the islands so more belly aching is not going to change anything after another month they may remove the kick option when interest drops off.

[CammyBear]

My only issue with the target filter option is that I still get chocobos as potential targets. Is there something I'm missing? I thought chocobos were considered pets or minions or whatever.

The only target I have checked is NPCs/Objects (I use the keybind a ton anyway, since I do a lot of gathering).