Logout Measures

[KilljoyW]

they will at least freeze the duration of buffs right?
pop a 2hour squad buff or a manual then 2 minutes later get a notification.
perhaps going to freeze that right? and the food people use to craft and gather. and not lose the mats? no duration loss until you are logged back in?
I mean its wishful thinking. but that is a pretty shitty thing to do when so many people are trying to level things.

[Kaelah]

they will at least freeze the duration of buffs right?
pop a 2hour squad buff or a manual then 2 minutes later get a notification.
perhaps going to freeze that right? and the food people use to craft and gather. and not lose the mats? no duration loss until you are logged back in?
I mean its wishful thinking. but that is a pretty shitty thing to do when so many people are trying to level things.

While this is true, it is also a pretty shitty thing that people stay logged in when afk for hours. It's not fair on people that work or have parental commitments, they might only have 2-3 hours to play. It's not fair for them to spend most or all of that time queuing.

[Lildragora]

While this is true, it is also a pretty shitty thing that people stay logged in when afk for hours. It's not fair on people that work or have parental commitments, they might only have 2-3 hours to play. It's not fair for them to spend most or all of that time queuing.

Is it fair to potentially kick those same people off and risk waiting in a potential queue because they had some time free prior to it but not after? This is a blanket solution and is not a good one in many ways besides possibly letting back in some of the people who were already doing content. Maybe there will be enough afkers to eliminate the queue but im skeptical, will have to see.

[Kathryn]

While this is true, it is also a pretty shitty thing that people stay logged in when afk for hours. It's not fair on people that work or have parental commitments, they might only have 2-3 hours to play. It's not fair for them to spend most or all of that time queuing.

There's that but I feel that this change won't help us either, for example if I queue to log in after I get home from work, I'll go cook make sure everyonesx settled down and then get to play after about an hour or so of queue time, What if I log in im hit with the shutdown of the server to kick everyone and made not to be able to login again for 10 mins I'd only be hit with more Queue time x.x

[KilljoyW]

While this is true, it is also a pretty shitty thing that people stay logged in when afk for hours. It's not fair on people that work or have parental commitments, they might only have 2-3 hours to play. It's not fair for them to spend most or all of that time queuing.

I do get and understand that. but I would hope they could figure out some sort of solution that doesn't affect players. like perhaps getting rid of bots?

[Kaelah]

Is it fair to potentially kick those same people off and risk waiting in a potential queue because they had some time free prior to it but not after?

There's that but I feel that this change won't help us either, for example if I queue to log in after I get home from work, I'll go cook make sure everyonesx settled down and then get to play after about an hour or so of queue time, What if I log in im hit with the shutdown of the server to kick everyone and made not to be able to login again for 10 mins I'd only be hit with more Queue time x.x

It'll prevent log ins for 10 minutes, and remember there are potentially thousands of afk people online during the wipe, so the queues to get back on might not be as severe as people are worrying, because those thousands afk will not be queuing to get back in. I could be wrong, we'll see like you say!

I do get and understand that. but I would hope they could figure out some sort of solution that doesn't affect players. like perhaps getting rid of bots?

Would be nice, but are there as many bots as there are thousands of afk players? There are enough afk in their houses on some servers that certain ward areas are unstable and kick people trying to go there. There must be an awful lot of them.

You can thank everyone who decided that rather than freeing up a spot on their server when they are going to be gone forever they would just never log out.

Pretty much this.