Auto log off does not work, 2400 queue to enter after going down. Upgrade servers!

[SpardaMoonslayer]

the Queue onto Balmung is a lot better yesterday it took 3 hours to get on in a 2k Queue today i was on in an hour in around the same line the problem is not the size of the Server its all the AFK cheating and not allowing the auto kick to kick them after the forced log out today i was in a 3k Queue for around 30 mins at the start of peak hours just fix the auto kick and we would be good

[Rita1989]

this mass log off is a band aid which definitely helped the problem but not a proper fix still saw people back on AFK immediately afterwords but I was able to switch characters around 5pm and took about 30 minutes when the queue was taking 2-3 hours before.

SE is unable or unwilling to actually fix the AFK exploit

[SicariusSeven]

I saw this coming a mile a way. All it did was put everyone back in a queue. Sure it solves the AFKer problem but it just made everyone scramble to log back in and the higher populated servers got to play the queue game again. Granted the one thing it solved was making the queue slightly smaller.

[Felis]

I saw this coming a mile a way. All it did was put everyone back in a queue. Sure it solves the AFKer problem but it just made everyone scramble to log back in and the higher populated servers got to play the queue game again. Granted the one thing it solved was making the queue slightly smaller.

Not only smaller, but also faster

[Coratanni]

I saw this coming a mile a way. All it did was put everyone back in a queue. Sure it solves the AFKer problem but it just made everyone scramble to log back in and the higher populated servers got to play the queue game again.

Please. You couldnt be further off from reality if you tried. For two weeks I've been dealing with on average 3 to 4 hour queues. Today I was 1,327 in line at 5:15pm Pacific time and it took an hour to get through. My second time a couple of hours later took 20 minutes. Everyone I know has seen a drop of login times, by 2/3's. That's a HUGE improvement. I knew the AFK-exploiters were making our problems several times worse, and people were justifying it. Then I watched people cry about the auto-log out when it was announced this morning in /shout chat and on facebook FFXIV groups. Well the sky didnt fall, they didnt do this during prime time, and it made logging on MUCH better.

[Ranulf]

A suggestion, perhaps.

Default everyone's "Away" timer to 10 minutes and then 10 minutes later, if there's been no activity in the craft or NPC dialogue, disconnect them.

That gives them 20 minutes to do whatever it is that they're doing without congesting the queue.

I'm also pretty sure you guys can make it so it's only Balmung, too.

No other server on the Data Center is having issues.

[Hasrat]

A suggestion, perhaps.

Default everyone's "Away" timer to 10 minutes and then 10 minutes later, if there's been no activity in the craft or NPC dialogue, disconnect them.

That gives them 20 minutes to do whatever it is that they're doing without congesting the queue.

This is already in effect, basically. The problem is the game literally cannot disconnect you if you're crafting or interacting with things like Aetherytes.

[tymora]

2.5 hour queue became 1 hour for me at ~7pm pst. I'll say that's an improvement.

[Derio]

3 weeks into SB. And new stuff coming soon. Those numbers aren't changing.

Especially once people secure housing for FCs