CM AFKers

[Heather]

I'd really like what's the rationale here. People who knowingly AFK in dungeons to leech will just take it one step further and enable auto-run against a wall, or move a yalm every 10 minutes or something along the lines of that. I just can't imagine that this will have any noticeable positive effect.

I'd think that a system which measures amount of participation, and in case there is no / very little participation, you won't get any reward, is a better solution.

Define participation? if a player puts himself on follow and moves or takes damage, or throws a few dots or hots here or there could throw off any management system.

[Recycler]

Define participation? if a player puts himself on follow and moves or takes damage, or throws a few dots or hots here or there could throw off any management system.

There is no way to accurately determine 'participation', but there are ways of approximation. FATEs do it (albeit not very good in my opinion - but even the FATE way of measurement would be acceptable), there was content in 1.0 that did it. It is possible.

In any case, it would be better than the 'kick if not moved for X minutes' solution. Little participation ("throwing a few dots or hots") is better than none. Cheating this system is still possible of course, but considerably harder than cheating the no-movement-kick one to the point where it isn't worthwhile anymore to attempt AFK leeching for most people.

[M4Fade]

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.

*yawn*

Well, hey... it's a start.

The vote-to-kick feature should of been implemented on release, Camate.

[Mezolitik]

I don't like AFK kick. There are many legit reasons why to AFK and the party always consents to it. Examples include:

See, IMHO, if you engage in multiplayer (i.e. raids), you should expect to be killed if you disappear or linger in one area for longer than say 30 seconds (after the objective has been completed). That, for me, is what multiplayer is all about. It's fast-paced and dangerous.

My only experience of multiplayer outside FFXIV and a few other MMOs has been Resident Evil 6. In that game, if you linger, you're dead.

Obviously, there are always gonna be situations that require immediate attention (if your cat has come unplugged, for example) but you can't really blame SE for not programming raids to compensate for the fact that your chips were on fire.

[Makior72]

Vote to kick

Problem solved.

[avecha]

Really? Making a sandwich?... oh it gets better, Go to the store around the corner for a soda? Wait! AFK, I gotta go watch The Matrix Trilogy, brb 4 hours.

You seriously took that out of context.

[TheRac25]

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.

lol rofl etc

[RedXIV]

I know some people are recommending a kicking system, which will be a bad idea. To many mean players that play online these days that will undoubtedly abuse it. I think something on SE end needs to be implemented but giving the power too the player to do so, bad idea!

[CielWulfe]

/snip

No, actually, I tend to have good runs because people respect each others' time and don't waste it by going in just to sit idle.

[Zezil]

kick by area will hard to check by SV. and when wipe all or someone just in boss fight fast when ppl not ready yet? and it can't solved about leecher who just run follow and do nothing. vote kick will solved this case but make more problem follow. Do you truth about humanity? after reach this age of my life. when people can do something that benefit for himself and his group he will not hesitate to do it even it is *ucking sh*t thing to other.btw if have vote mvp it should have vote *unking leecher lol. use same system and method for control manner. better then make new problem for solved old problem

or do you want new topic" hey this mr a b c kick me out from duty bcz i don't have relic in WP."
"SE do something i got kick out from duty w/o reason"
"that child group do something like this to me"
"SE remove kick.that is most fu*king s*it in game system"

don't make chance for bad people or bad people group do more bad thing