So when are bans being thrown out..

[Zarabeth]

I'm confused, when I'm auto-crafting the game still marks me afk after a while if I'm not chatting or at least move the mouse around every few minutes. Has that changed in Stormblood?

[MrSmiley]

I'm confused, when I'm auto-crafting the game still marks me afk after a while if I'm not chatting or at least move the mouse around every few minutes. Has that changed in Stormblood?

The way it works is it causes you to log out, the server does not kick you.

It marks you as afk, but you cannot log out while taking an action, such as crafting.

[RyanRebs]

How bout you server transfer if its too congested. Quit whining people have other things in life so they have to leave their game for a period of time.

[Hyperia]

The problem I see with the transfers off Balmung is that everybody else expects the other person to transfer off to fix the problem. They need to sweeten the deal by offering entire FCs big deals to move. Balmung alone has over 18,000 active players. The average server is 2,000 to 3,000. They need to move large groups at this point.

OR

Turn Balmung into its own DC and add additional RP servers into that space.

How can they afford that? Easy, add a lot of glams to the mog station. Sophia anybody? =p

[Elim]

Let us demolish our houses for a full refund while free transfers are up. Then we can transfer without any $$ loss. At least for the overloaded worlds.

[Niwashi]

(And even then, some people would come up with sophisticated enough bot programs to still avoid it anyway.)

Or they just tie together their controller with a rubber band and run in a circle in a private room or something. It's kind of laughable how easy it is to trick the afk kicker.

By making the detection software smarter, I didn't just mean including when someone is crafting, etc., but also watching for cases where the only interaction is as repetitive as a held down button or analog stick will create. Either no interaction or a constant repeating interaction for over half an hour should trigger the AFK logout. (And if they're in the middle of a craft or in the middle of an NPC quest interaction, exit from it as though it hadn't started.)

[zer0_sum]

Thats why I don't play on Balmung. I have a queue of 1, and thats only because they turned on and have forced queues.

[Niwashi]

Let us demolish our houses for a full refund while free transfers are up. Then we can transfer without any $$ loss. At least for the overloaded worlds.

Already there. In fact, you get not only a full refund, but extra gil to compensate for any non-removable furnishings:

Bonuses for owners of personal housing/apartments

Personal housing
Reimbursement for the full price of the estate, plus compensation of 3,000,000 gil for non-recoverable furnishings

Apartments
Reimbursement of the 500,000 gil price, and compensation of 500,000 gil for non-recoverable furnishings

[Elim]

Already there. In fact, you get not only a full refund, but extra gil to compensate for any non-removable furnishings:

Sweet thanks for replying!

[DarkLiriel]

happened at the start of HW, happening now as well. Nothing will be done because it's such a small % of people doing it that it's really not causing any problems. in the bigger picture. a few hundred people doing this against several thousand logged in at 1 time is not causing any real issues.