Why AFK players can't be kicked from Diadem?

[SuperZay]

There's someone on Chaos who AFKs every instance from start near Mhachi Portal, but moves to pick up free mission reward then leaves. Reports DO NOT work because he continues doing it every day.
Why the game is protecting this behaviour by not allowing to votekick such players and/or suspending them?

[Venoshock]

It's working the way it's designed to. AFK'ing in afkadumb is the new raiding. Blame SE for that complete mess.

[BristolRuss]

Probably because there is no system to replace missing players in the Diadem like there is in dungeons/alliance raids. They probably removed the vote kick feature from Diadem to avoid kicking abuse. Can you imagine having the Emergency Mission pop and then getting randomly kicked because somebody wanted to invite their friend in instead?

Yeah it sucks that they are AFK'ing there; but really it's just fates that you are doing. It's not like you need all 8 people.

[Malzian]

There's someone on Chaos who AFKs every instance from start near Mhachi Portal, but moves to pick up free mission reward. Reports DO NOT work because he continues doing it every day.
Why the game is protecting this behaviour by not allowing to votekick such players and/or suspending them?

Had a group yesterday where 2 people did this. No interest in the mission or the rewards, so much to the point of literally saying, "Isn't the only reason to do this the EM?" I left at that point. This is why we can't have decent cooperative content, because some people won't do anything cooperatively unless it benefits them in the form of some shiny, and even then they'll make it the worst experience possible on the way there.

[Evergrey]

How rude!
You people should give him some company. Leaving him there all alone. ='(

[Vaer]

Either they should add something that tracks participation or make it possible to kick until the mission objectives are done. After that, turn it off since people just do w/e. If emergency pops at any point turn the vote kick off.

If kicked before the objectives are done, it should reset the 30 min entry cooldown and maybe refund the item.

[ShinMetsu]

I don't mind people afking in diadem, i do it myself.
But people should really do that in a premade party.

Doing it in a random duty finder party is kind of disrespectful and those people should be shunned.

[SuperZay]

I don't mind people afking in diadem, i do it myself.
But people should really do that in a premade party.

Doing it in a random duty finder party is kind of disrespectful and those people should be shunned.

Yep, basically the rest of us are working for free to cap his weekly tomestones and give him free materia for AFKing.

[Seryne]

I'd rather them afk than straight up leave. The one time I had an emergency mission pop the only people left in my group was myself as a white mage and an AST. It went as well as you'd expect it to.

[Neophyte]

Working as intended.

If I go into Diadem and want to do boss fates for minion drops then deal with it.

As far as I'm concerned if EM pops you can go into that with 7 people, I'm not interested in that content*, nor do I have any obligation to join it. Gonna go gathering while you wipe in there.
Sry, the 280 bait doesn't work on me.


*Grand Scale content without group coordination, just X groups doing their own thing. You can't even label the up to 9 groups in there and talk about strategy (like 'Group A secures the southern part, B gets the western thing down, C only has one tank, they should do [x] and one of those 4 healers in D, can you keep an eye on group E, they only have one healer.').
You can't even form an alliance with at least 3 groups.

Nada, 9 groups, which you can't even distinguish, randomly jumping in. Maybe a group says which teleporter they'll use, but that's all about coordination.
Hunts with deadly mechanics, wow, mindblowing.



You actually can join as an alliance, but:
"Please note that while players may enter the Diadem as an alliance, upon entering, the group will not be treated as an alliance, but as three separate parties."

That's more than stupid design.