AFK Racing Solution

[Aeyis]

I don't afk and still come last, I keep trying because I know even coming last at least I get a bit of a reward. If it starts costing me precious mgp to race, then that'll just kill it for me. I like it but I'm not gonna risk losing mgp every time I play, even if it is only 10 per race.

It is only 10 MGP. If you ever fall below 500 MGP you can buy it all back up for a very minor price in gil.

I don't get why people are so fixated with punishing AFKers via no rewards. All it would do is cause people who fell behind due to bad luck purposely going AFK because they know that they lost out, ergo they have zero incentive to keep playing and not care if they are holding back the others.

I've read this argument before. Could anyone explain it to me? Because the only way to fall behind is to run out of stamina. At which point going afk or not does not matter one. Bit.

[ajx]

I havent tried it yet. But solution 2 sounds great.

[Devils_Lawyer]

Or just put a timer so that if someone hasnt moved from the starting blocks for 30 seconds after race begun will be automaticly disqualified.

Or even better, make all chocos auto run out of the starting blocks because once out on the racetrack u cant stop completely anyway.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Or just put a timer so that if someone hasnt moved from the starting blocks for 30 seconds after race begun will be automaticly disqualified.

Or even better, make all chocos auto run out of the starting blocks because once out on the racetrack u cant stop completely anyway.

Have you ever done afk racing? You move regardless of input. You just generally will be ~10 seconds from the finish line when it times out (20 seconds after 1st place crosses the line).

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I don't get why people are so fixated with punishing AFKers via no rewards. All it would do is cause people who fell behind due to bad luck purposely going AFK because they know that they lost out, ergo they have zero incentive to keep playing and not care if they are holding back the others.

[KariArisu]

Both of these solutions are bad. #2 doesn't even make any sense, the race already ends early if last place takes too long to finish.

The real solution is to make placing high actually give an amount of MGP that people would care about. Right now people AFK races to slowly raise birds in hopes that racing becomes worth a damn later.

[Mirakumi]

8th place gets 30 minute cool-down before running another dungeon/race.

[Shadray]

8th place gets 30 minute cool-down before running another dungeon/race.

Don't lik this idea, just because someone comes last doesn't mean they are afk. There could be 8 people in the race, or you get unlucky and are spammed by meteors.

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I'd like to see a suggestion that doesn't also negatively effect legitimate players who happen to draw the short straw and still come last. Perhaps something along the lines of:

"Change nothing, because the system is fine and afk racers are far and few between"?

[Zanasae]

Changing anything to punish people who come in 8th place might punish real players. Maybe have an input detection of some kind?