why is it when i log out my food timer continues???

[Airget]

Most likely they didn't want players to exploit the longevity of food. Let's say for gathering. Player X just need 30 Gather and this food cost 5k, however the unspoiled node is only up every 24 game hours which means he can only use the food once.

In theory if the timer stopped when logged out that 30 min food could last the player 4-7 unspoiled node attempt if he could just log in and out, sparring time to regain GP or using Cordials as needed.

[Evangela]

cuz digestion.

[FallenArisen0990]

Its probably because of the same reason why when we click a quest we have to dismount. Or when we have to dismiss our companion before we can queue for a duty.

You don't know how badly I want them to change that. The companion is probably a lost cause but the ability to talk to NPCs while mounted, yes please. It's very irritating to dismount, talk, mount, fly and dismount (I looking at you moogle quest..).

[Aryalandi]

Your character exercises while you are away, goes out on dates with npcs, goes gambling at the gold saucer. Khan goes out and kills things, all that "rested" exp is actually just because your character went out solo while you were away.

They get hungry

[Sove92]

Because if the food timer persisted at it's current point when you logged out or went afk, all the Culinarians would sell too little food to survive. Then they couldn't raise the gil to buy food or materials and would slowly starve to death themselves. Do you want the chefs of the world to die of starvation? Do you?

In 2.0, your food buff expired on death, 2.1 changed it to how it is now. Culinarians made this same claim how their income goes down when this was announced, but even after it happened, food still sells very well. The reason isn't really surprising, most people simply didn't use food in 2.0, now the investment is much more worth it and people use it.

But yeah, buffs running out while logged out has always been here and it's not something they are going to change. I can't think of any MMO right now where buff timers stop on log out. Kinda surprising it took tihs long until someone complained.

[DragonFlyy]

I can't think of any MMO right now where buff timers stop on log out.

Everquest, Everquest 2, World of Warcraft, RIFT, Starwars Online.

Also, the Chocobo timer we have for companions stops when logged out, or mounted even.

[Alberel]

With regards to buff timers continuing whilst logged out, I would guess that the server merely stores the time that the buff was applied in your character data and then simply compares that time against the server clock to determine remaining duration. Having buffs pause whilst logged out would require the server to also store the time a player logged out and perform a further calculation to check timers. This would cause more character data bloat and we all know how tight SE is with that sort of thing...

You don't know how badly I want them to change that. The companion is probably a lost cause but the ability to talk to NPCs while mounted, yes please. It's very irritating to dismount, talk, mount, fly and dismount (I looking at you moogle quest..).

This has been answered before and it's deliberate. Anyone that's played WoW knows how infuriating it is when people on mounts talk to NPCs and no one else can even see the NPC because they're lost inside the mount... Forced dismounting to interact with things is a very good design choice.

[FallenArisen0990]

This has been answered before and it's deliberate. Anyone that's played WoW knows how infuriating it is when people on mounts talk to NPCs and no one else can even see the NPC because they're lost inside the mount... Forced dismounting to interact with things is a very good design choice.

The easy fix to this would have been a command line but SE still haven't implemented the awesome commands XI had.

[iWaRTuRTLeS]

Interesting, cuz in ffxi buffs that persisted from zoning (pro/shell/food) actually were saved when logging

Beat me to it

[Jonnycbad]

Do you have any idea how large Behemoth or Adamantoise mounts are? Do you really want tonsee 17 players on giant mounts, crowding quest npc or vendors?