Dungeon reqs

[Ecosmith]

There is already a system to kick you if you are AFK. When a tank drops from a run and I am sitting there after about 8 mins or so I get a message that I have been idle and will be kicked after 10 mins for inactivity.

Well that puts paid to the server-load objection, then.

I'm a big fan of MMOs, but all too often MMO devs make the mistake of taking choice away from players in the assumption that if we can do what we want, when we want, without having artificial reins lowing us down, we'll go crazy and stop playing after a week. WoW has also trained players and devs to think that's how it is, the holy trinity and fetch quests and nothing else.

FF14 is very limiting in lots of ways. I was very surprised to see on entering my first hengequest (or whayever its called) that it not only restricts the numbers to exactly 4 but insists on exactly 1 tank, 1 healer and 2 DPS. No room for creativity in these things, then?

The game has invisible walls in more ways than the obvious ones, which are also massively annoying.

Eco

[Urthdigger]

If you pre-make a party of four, you do not need to follow the rules about class composition. It's only if you're picking up random folks, in which case it insists on those numbers so you don't get screwed over.

[Cap75]

If you make your own teams of 4 you can go in as any classes you want. You're not restricted to the standard 2 DPS, 1 tank, 1 healer setup. I've done some weird groupings with FC mates just for the lols.

[Ecosmith]

Ah, that's not so bad then. I was in error.

Eco

[NintenPyjak64]

Why would people go afk for 12 hours in a dungeon?

Biggest reason would be to troll anybody that joins. Read too many stories about tanks just AFKing for free tomes before and after votekick was implemented.

Second biggest would be to clog the instance servers causing lag to happen, instance servers to be full and thus granting NOBODY the ability to run the dungeon at all

[Ecosmith]

Biggest reason would be to troll anybody that joins. Read too many stories about tanks just AFKing for free tomes before and after votekick was implemented.

Second biggest would be to clog the instance servers causing lag to happen, instance servers to be full and thus granting NOBODY the ability to run the dungeon at all

If you read on further you'll see this objection doesn't stand up as there's an AFK autoboot in place.

[Duuude007]

If you read on further you'll see this objection doesn't stand up as there's an AFK autoboot in place.

It was removed a patch or 2 ago. So there's that.

[Estellios]

I believe he's talking about the in-dungeon auto kick. I think it boots you if you haven't done anything in 10 minutes.