Quote Originally Posted by peaches View Post
I'm not sure why people stay logged in anyways. As far as I know you don't even have to re-enter your password or anything, just click on your character. There's no benefits to staying logged in, it just kills your hardware faster. It's not 2.0 where if you log out, you'll never be getting back in.
I'm kind of surprised that you say this, given that (at this moment) your character avatar is wearing a mining helmet.

My primary reason for leaving myself logged in without doing anything for long stretches of time, is because I'm mining a specific unspoiled node. They can only be mined once per hour, and shutting down the system and turning it on again every hour is arguably more damaging to the hardware than just letting it run (not to mention the whole login process is kind of a nuisance). So, I'll place myself near where the nodes pop and then do other stuff around the house, returning only to mine a node and then leaving again.

Another reason folks would be logged in for long periods of time are if they are waiting for specific infrequently spawning FATEs for their Atma book. They'll plop themselves down in the appropriate spot and then wait sometimes as long as six hours for the FATE to spawn. They could spend this time farming other FATEs, but a lot of the time there's little point to that, so might as well clean up around the house or whatever.

There's probably a host of other good reasons to be logged in but not doing much, but these are two examples off the top of my head.