Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
Greetings,

The following is a comment from Hiroshi Minagawa in regards to the automatic away feature.
It seems that they were originally aiming for what several of us have asked for in this thread, that the status only changed based on actual signals sent to the server rather than random interactions with the computer that didn't have anything to do with the game. Shame there was that DF bug but I really hope they'll be able to find a work around.

Currently, I use an /afk macro with a wait command (as a very helpful person previously recommended in this thread) whenever I want to minimise the window without racing for the button like a clumsy madwoman. It's not ideal but it does work as a temporary work around on this end until they can fix things on theirs.

I'm curious how gathering bots are running around chopping and mining with their AFK flags flying high though. Always figured they just mimicked mouse and keyboard inputs but if that was the case it'd dismiss the AFK status, wouldn't it? Odd. Perhaps something that they're doing could help the devs figure out the work around..? I dunno, just a thought.