Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
The reason folks AFK waiting for NMs is kinda two-fold. The first is that, past a certain amount of people farming the monsters to pop an NM, more people don't help. When 130 people in a zone all crowd around the area for a single NM killing birds or whatever, the issue becomes more respawn time so past 30 or people there's really no POINT for people to help more. Obviously what they should do is go off and pop other things... except for issue #2: If you're not at the NM already or in a place with easy transportation (So, base camp), there's a very real chance that something may pop and you won't reach it in time.

If you want people not to sit around AFK while others work, you need to fix one of these. Fixing the first one isn't possibly unless you make it so kills aren't required at all... but that just makes EVERYONE AFK until the next pop, not just most people. #2 could be fixed by adding easier ways to get to a FATE location once it's popped (Say, a consumable like the Eurekan potion to return to base camp and a more robust aetheryte network) or giving some alert that an NM will pop soon or making it invulnerable for a couple minutes when popped.
Also, people are discouraged from popping other NM's when there are so many "on CD". That needs to change. A 2 hour CD goes against the ethos of the zone where NM's are supposed to be actively popping as they're the only source of crystals.

What are we supposed to do when nothing is up? Other than attempt to go to another instance.