Quote Originally Posted by Ranulf View Post
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.