First off I understand why auto kick is implemented on Pug parties but I think there needs to be some adjustments to it for pre-mades.

Our group has been attempting to clear POTD and last night we were on floor 147, it took us almost 4 hours to get there the first night (this is out second attempt). Our tank had a little emergency at home and had to step away from the computer for a few minutes to address the issue, we were all fine with this (group of friends), we had plenty of time and these things do happen. However the game auto kicked our tank right out of POTD and left us basically without our tank on the higher floors.

It takes a lot of time getting people together for this, scheduling is also something we had to work out and I even shifted a shift around at work to make it happen for everyone and 10 minutes in this happens. We honestly wasted our first night running this for no reason.

I would suggest that should someone AFK for a little while a pop up dialogue will happen asking the party if they want to kick the player. I know the game has a kick feature already but for pre-mades I think this is something that should be implemented I mean our Tank came back to chat and was booted just as they were gonna start playing again.