Quote Originally Posted by Morphiana View Post
To my knowledge people are doing it by:

-Staying at the retainer bell having their retainer active (which explains the large, never moving crowds around these bells).
-Opening a crafting window then just staying like that.
-Getting into a cutscene then just leaving it.
Autologout is essentially the game entering /logout and selecting "Yes" for you after a certain amount of inactivity. Pretty much any interaction that locks your movement prevents logout.

Changing the way it works would require coding that bypasses safeguards and could result in unforeseen bugs and new exploits. Easier solution is just to have brief emergency maintenance during low activity periods to flush everyone out.