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[Vaer]

The concept of retainers was probably developed from what they learned from XI. Many people would AFK in Rolanberry and get killed by a trained Simurgh, (lulz) and later on they would AFK in a part of Jeuno depending on server. They also realized that people have a ton of mules so they made them cost $1 each, (Same as an extra character in XI.) instead of the $3 per new character for XIV.

AFK detection is rather simple. Flag someone with the away icon if they are idle and don't do anything for about 10 minutes. All you have to do to remove the flag is move a little. If the away flag stays on for more than 15 minutes, boot them off.

[Aenarion]

AFK detection is rather simple. Flag someone with the away icon if they are idle and don't do anything for about 10 minutes. All you have to do to remove the flag is move a little. If the away flag stays on for more than 15 minutes, boot them off.

Yes, because everyone wants to relog back in everytime after they take a shower, make some food, go out to the corner store/gas station, or any of the countless myriad of things that may take them away from the pc for 10-30 min.

yup, gonna be a really popular feature I bet.

[Vaer]

Yes, because everyone wants to relog back in everytime after they take a shower, make some food, go out to the corner store/gas station, or any of the countless myriad of things that may take them away from the pc for 10-30 min.

yup, gonna be a really popular feature I bet.

Yep, many other games have this same system, real popular.

Another way to remove this problem, is to make the server code not awful. Btw, math indicates it will boot you off after 25 min in my example.

That's not to say I actually want a system like this in XIV, just one way it could be done if server queues become a problem.

[Delsus]

Yep, many other games have this same system, real popular.

Another way to remove this problem, is to make the server code not awful. Btw, math indicates it will boot you off after 25 min in my example.

That's not to say I actually want a system like this in XIV, just one way it could be done if server queues become a problem.

DC Universe has this and its the most anoying part of the game, I go to the store, have to relog, I have some food, I hate to relog, I hate it.

The problem will prolly go away with 2.0 when they have the new servers, I would say its a capacity issue on the popular servers like Besaid, Mysidia and Selb (i think there the biggest)