CM AFKers

[Heather]

Sigh I was in a CM run today and one of the Tanks AFKed the whole run. this is quite unbearable. he has been doing it a lot, I remember even when I was lvling he would drop groups if there was even on player that was new. he is a menace, I really do hope that this new system that SE puts in place does the trick.

[Jonny_Tapas]

If you want an automated system that really deals with AFKers and Freeloaders it needs to:

-Measure Damage Dealt or Healed
-Measure Yalms Traveled
-Compare it to the rest of the party members.

Auto Kick if it falls well below a minimum threshold.

Therefore if you are kicked you are either:

-AFK
or
-Not even trying

With this in place players may still freeload and just stay above the bare minimum... But at least they are helping some rather than doing absolutely nothing.

at the same time you may as well give us this built in parse system! Clearly we all want it!

[gintoki88]

Personally i reckon they should make a second filter option for all dungeons

The normal mode where all cut scenes and all are present, that everyone has to do once. That will then unlock the Run mode which is the same dungeon but no cut scenes or anything special, just a straight run. This way all the elitists don't get bothered by first times who dont know anything about the dungeon, and first timers don't get bothered selfish greedy elitists who will quit if you watch a cut scene

[Black_Wing]

Just ran into this tonight while running with 5 other guildies. I gave the "afker" an ultimatum of "get over here and ready for the first boss fight or we are leaving you." ...well we left. The other non-guildy that was with us agreed. If you see people doing this just leave. Continuing the run just makes it easier for them and harder for the rest of the group. Treat them like Trolls. "Don't Feed the Trolls".

[Resheph]

Greetings,

The development team is aware of the issue where players go AFK during dungeons without participating at all, and they will be making it so if a character does not move for a certain period of time they will be automatically kicked from the instance. This will be implemented along with the MVP voting system in patch 2.1.

How about no points if they don't participate in the fight? If you're too far away from where the boss dies, or haven't participated in the fight, no tomes. The system is already in place because this is how FATEs work.

[amnie]

How about no points if they don't participate in the fight? If you're too far away from where the boss dies, or haven't participated in the fight, no tomes. The system is already in place because this is how FATEs work.

and this leaves people who want to not skip cutscenes where? you really want to punish people for playing the game as it was intended? you want to punish people to play a FINAL FANTASY game for the story?

leechers aren't everything.


as long as SE doesn't come up with reasonable (!) counter-measures to this, there's only one way to stop leechers: don't give them anything to leech on. yes, it sucks for the dps having to wait even longer, but as long as people are encouraged to leech they will do it.

I've had my first 'trolololol you do my job for me' in a run a few days ago, funny enough in a lowbie dungeon (toto rak)

if they really start invading even the leveling dungeons we have a problem us as the 'community' have to do something against it. we HAVE to be aware of these people and HAVE to make sure they know 'not with us'. they have to know that sooner or later their whole server knows them, and even if they change their names and switch their servers we will know who they are (lodestone character number)

[Sublimeprince]

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[PSxpert2011]

Greetings,

The development team is aware of the issue where players go AFK during dungeons without participating at all, and they will be making it so if a character does not move for a certain period of time they will be automatically kicked from the instance. This will be implemented along with the MVP voting system in patch 2.1.

Mr Camate Sir, Please... Tell the DEVs that the MVP system won't matter. Just add a "kick" function, please.
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To add, in FFXI the kick function was indiscriminate, and sometime a person kicked never was given a reason. The voting system in FFXI was a text command that suggested a collaborated effort for communication in the community. In FFXIV there's not even that, so ask the DEVs to fix it.

I personally don't care about the forums and wish there was more text features in FFXIV, more communication in-game. The forums is to get help, offer help and report game issues. We don't need any more irrelevant systems, if so why not add a "reputation system server-wide? Just keep the game simple.

FFXI party leader:

/Propose or /Nominate party "Johndoe has been afk for 10 min, should we kick him?" 1:Yes 2:No

/vote 1

<kick>

<kick>

<kick>

<kick>

<kick>

<kick>
/Nominate end

lolMVP system, the community are not machines. Shouldn't be that hard for people to communicate.

[Grailer]

Yeah not sure what these AFK tanks are trying to do except troll .

But what about the people joining titan wearing grey lvl 49 items ?

That is trolling too , there is no chance of win with these people , however I took all my gear off and tanked titan and we wiped. the same people with lvl 49 items got mad and reported me . Oo

[Kincard]

Wow, really? This is their solution? People were already avoiding the game's auto DC by coming back every few minutes to hit the jump button, what makes them think that adding some kind of separate afk-kick for dungeons will do anything unless it tracks, say, staying in a certain area (the starting room or something)?