Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Ty for the good response <3

It's really important to note that from SE's corner, an idling AFK player is literally free money. Modern online client/server games have been excellent at assuming clients are idle until they are not pretty much as far back as the likes of Quakeworld and you can actually use that game to demonstrate my points made here if you are so inclined.

Interestingly, minions generate quite a bit more traffic than their owners in these situations, thus why I guess SE has never been too keen on truly making them persistent.

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Thank you for the concise response.

RMT bots are absolutely a more major issue. But the lesser of two evils is still an evil. I never said that it was a major issue for square's server loads per say (we've come a far cry from SB launch) simply that for lower end PCs and to an extent PS4s it adds to client side frame rate drops and lag. I'm fortunate enough to have built a PC this year but, before i was playing on an older PS4 and absolutely had issues loading into major cities.

Additionally, SE has made it clear that they want to limit the amount of people logged into a singular world at a time, bots add to this as well, but there were log in issues before the bot population exploded to the degree it has.

You're talking to me about server jargon, that i never mentioned but i appreciate the insight on that. Though i would like to point out that the freest money square gets is when youre sub is active but youre not logged in at all.

As for those using the game as a social or chat room, thats fine and all if youre actually chatting in game but then again if you are doing that the game wont read you as afk. If you want to be constantly connected to your FC or linkshell and see everything that there is to talk about, theres discord for that.

The wear is slow on higher end builds sure, but for other PCs and PS4s it can absolutely become an issue. I didnt mean your computer would explode if left on too long, but its longevity could be affected. Also yeah rip that electric bill lmao.