Bring Back AFK Kick to the Servers

[LianaThorne]

IIRC, that que isn't because there are that many "people" logged in, it's to artificially slow down the login so as to not overwhelm the login servers.

This is the truth of the matter. ^ There's sometimes a 30+ queue logging into Marilith and we all know that Dyna isn't congested at any point of the day lol.

As far as AFK kick going back on, I don't really feel it needs it until Dawntrail when servers will actually get congested again and people will be sitting in thousand person queues. On the dead periods like this, it's not affecting anything for some dude to afk in Limsa overnight.

[KenZentra]

As far as AFK kick going back on, I don't really feel it needs it until Dawntrail when servers will actually get congested again and people will be sitting in thousand person queues. On the dead periods like this, it's not affecting anything for some dude to afk in Limsa overnight.

I dont see the reason as to wait for turning it back on though, in fact, it'd be better to turn it on now, so folks arent shocked as to why the got logged out later when the expansion comes out.

[LianaThorne]

I dont see the reason as to wait for turning it back on though, in fact, it'd be better to turn it on now, so folks arent shocked as to why the got logged out later when the expansion comes out.

I mean, we still have half a year+ until the next expansion so doing it 6 months early for no reason isn't valid in my eyes either. I could understand doing it the week before as a prep measure but I feel that people should also have some form of awareness of how expansions work here (unless they're brand new of course). Either way, they'll temporarily turn on the AFK kick and then after a couple weeks or a month it'll go back off again.

I appreciate being able to stay logged in overnight if I want to and it's not hurting anything by doing it now when there isn't server congestion to speak of (except maybe Aether but that's a self-made problem in my eyes).