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

[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.

[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.

[Slirith]

It's no surprise the queues are the same for the high pop servers, of course everyone is going to bum rush back in after the 10 minute wait. Their band-aid did nothing but increase congestion on the servers that weren't having queuing issues. Your problem is, you're on balmung. Get off balmung if you want shorter times, don't whine and complain when you signed up for it. I'm on behemoth and I'm only waiting a minute in queue before getting into the game. The servers aren't the issue, its people who want to cram themselves into an already full server.

Wish I could give you more than one like.

[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

[Anthonywb]

worked for me, I was queue position 1600 and took me about 35 mins

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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

Any 'proper' fix would take development time and testing time, and wouldn't be able to help with the issue now.

A proper fix still needs to be implemented, but this 'band aid' fix will serve to alleviate some of the issues in the meantime.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

How many people were that wanted to move off Balmung, but couldn't because that would require logging in to clear out their retainer and quit the FC? Abusers were preventing the problem from even being solved.