Boot AFKers from Gold Saucer

[Cedane]

First, love the gold saucer. Its fantastic.

But getting in and out is extremely difficult. The hype will cool down in a week or two but the servers, like Balmung, that are always at full capacity is a bit of an issue.

There's a limit to how many can get in to the Gold Saucer. Your locked out with "Your destination is congested. Please try again later."

But I've seen people purposely going afk in the Gold Saucer to keep their spot and making it harder for people to get in. This is why the "sign off if afk at certain amount of time" would be really, really useful right now. At the very least, impliment it for the Gold Saucer.

So it can have a steady flow everywhere. Right now? Getting back in is impossible and especially the afkers taking advantage of it.

[hennalang]

Those same people purposely AFKing in the Saucer would more than likely auto-run into a corner to keep their character active and not AFK.

I'm in the same boat. Hope you can get in soon... I hope we all can.

[Chihaya]

Godbert need to be making some rounds in the Gold Saucer to get rid of the congestion.

[Leash]

Could be because of this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...412d4baaa27ae1

At the following time, Sony Computer Entertainment will be performing maintenance on the “PSN”. During this period, players on the PlayStation® 3 and PlayStation®4 versions will be unable to log into FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn. Please note that players that are already logged in can continue to play as long as they remain logged in.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time]
Feb. 24, 2015 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (PST)

PlayStation players might be afraid that they wont be able to get back on like during Christmas.

[Stupiduglytaru]

because ddos attacks and maintenance are the same thing, seems legit

[Eamil]

Came here to post this same thread.

Those same people purposely AFKing in the Saucer would more than likely auto-run into a corner to keep their character active and not AFK.

I've seen other MMOs set it up so autorunning doesn't keep you from going AFK. I haven't tried something like that in this game to see if it works, but it's doable if it's not like that already.

Also, in the event that another patch consisting of only one new zone where most of the new stuff is gets released someday, it would be nice to be able to queue for congested zones.

[myahele]

Its not a ps3/4 issue; its the issue of people AFKing because there's too many people in the instance. This happened way before that announcement anyways.

Otherwise, the devs need to deal with afkers in general. Find ways to kick people who have windows on display to bypass their autokick function

[TouchandFeel]

I agree that there should be an auto-boot for inactivity, not just for this but in general.
Something like inactive for an hour or so seems fair to me.

[Nicobo]

How about restricted everyone only could stay in GS for n hours within a period(every 18hr / daily reset),
I think then ppl will leave the zone immediately instead of AFK.

[Starlord]

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I think Gold Saucer is a bit different than you normal patch week rush.

GS is like a different game all on it's own and people will play FFXIV just for Triple Triad alone, then there's the people that wanna chocobo race a lot. Those two main attractions will keep Gs booming for longer than your standard patch perhaps for a very long time.