Logout Measures

[Redgate]

Can't wait to be 20 minutes in to my 70 minute plus DPS queue only to get hit with "Ayo, you're gonna be kicked in 60 lol. Better do everything fast, boy!"

[Cadmar]

Maybe instead of this, they could actually address the exploit that allows AFK people to stay logged in. Or is that too logical?

[Catwho]

Maybe instead of this, they could actually address the exploit that allows AFK people to stay logged in. Or is that too logical?

They may plan to do that as well, but that'll entail a client patch, not just a change on server side, so it takes longer. A daily boot to the butt is a short term brute force solution to the problem for now.

[Klonoa7]

That'd would require them to spy on everyone's computer's constantly. They spy on us enough ingame as is reading every last bit of our chat logs. Imagine how many people would quit because of that.

[Edewen]

this is just going to disgruntle people and not help anything. this is how you lose subscribers. Dps waiting un dungeon queues getting kicked off for no reason at all. yeah, expect people to be really pissed off and rightfully so. the problem is there because it is so easy to circumvent the logout using in game features. Fix the real problem

[Aethaeryn]

http://i.imgur.com/rzqRt7h.png

There was only ever one warning

Once again, that was the second warning. I don't have a screenshot in game, but I copypasted it on Skype with a timestamp if you really need proof (or my chatlogs). We're on the same server, and both my FC and novice network were talking about it when it popped up at 1:58pm (I'm in NY, so it was 10:58am for PDT).

Edit: Aforementioned skype screenshot here.

[Klonoa7]

Once again, that was the second warning. I don't have a screenshot in game, but I copypasted it on Skype with a timestamp if you really need proof (or my chatlogs). We're on the same server, and both my FC and novice network were talking about it when it popped up at 1:58pm (I'm in NY, so it was 10:58am for PDT).

Edit: Aforementioned skype screenshot here.

I guess there was an earlier announcement, but, it never showed up for me.

As for that last line.... Had to wait behind 500 people to get back in

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Huh...

Tried logging in to Balmung at 16:30ish....


Instant queue...
This seems to be at least somewhat effective.

[Xeonerable]

Kicking every off of the worlds that don't have queue problems seems a bit extreme. Just do it for the problem-child worlds like Baldung and Gigramesh.

Or come up with an auto logout that people can't circumvent.

[Klonoa7]

Kicking every off of the worlds that don't have queue problems seems a bit extreme. Just do it for the problem-child worlds like Baldung and Gigramesh.

Or come up with an auto logout that people can't circumvent.

As I said before, not possible without Square spying on us, All you have to do is make any movement in game to reset the countdown which can be achieved in a large variety of ways and quite frankly I rather Enix not go and turn FF14 into Runescape, the 5 minute logout system was enough of a headache there. One would go afk for a min to take a leak then when they came back they'd be logged out forced to lack back in (and chatlog gone). Here in FF14 on top of that we also gotta wait in a login que to get back in (some servers worse than others) and to add insult to injury Square has the client setup to automatically close after a failed login attempt yea ... Can't blame someone for not wanting to logout considering that.