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    technole's Avatar
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    Thea Sitori
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    Add AFK logout timer to Limsa

    In 5.2, an AFK logout timer was added to the firmament. It's time to add one in Limsa.

    Limsa is the only place where you can literally login and experience the worst frame rates in the entire game, all because you usually have 80% of the people there are parking themselves AFK. Sometimes even gatekeeping locations such as benches, or standing on retainer bells causing inconveniences so they can't be used by anyone else. This could also cut down on RMT and many shout problems in the area, which does not occur in the same frequency as the other two ARR cities.

    This also isn't the look you want for new players now if your ARR class starts there.
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    Ashmal Gamesh
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    Sorry if my question is stupid, but what all these people are doing in Limsa? I mean, why Limsa?
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    Merissa Defensor
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    Jenova
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nephisto View Post
    Sorry if my question is stupid, but what all these people are doing in Limsa? I mean, why Limsa?
    Because the market board + retainer bells are literally right there at the Aetheryte plaza. If your GC is the Maelstrom, that's only one aethernet jump away, too.
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    Antony Gabbiani
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    I rarely run into this, but I also just don't go to Limsa....

    But I would say that Eulmore probably could stand to have this too. People will AFK there leading to excessively long load in times, especially for PS4 players. I don't see why AFK logout timers aren't just the norm all the time everywhere. If you've stood AFK for hours and hours, there's no reason the game should spend the data bandwidth to keep you in the game you're not playing.
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    Sturm Churro
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    Yeah, I hate it when people gatekeep and afk on the bench I want to afk on. Really annoying.
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    We should've just let Leviathan have it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
    I rarely run into this, but I also just don't go to Limsa....

    But I would say that Eulmore probably could stand to have this too. People will AFK there leading to excessively long load in times, especially for PS4 players. I don't see why AFK logout timers aren't just the norm all the time everywhere. If you've stood AFK for hours and hours, there's no reason the game should spend the data bandwidth to keep you in the game you're not playing.
    Just imagine how much Lag Tuesdays we can avoid in Eorzea if we cut down AFK traffic.

    Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
    Yeah, I hate it when people gatekeep and afk on the bench I want to afk on. Really annoying.
    Very. I need my bench time to use these new g-pose features they gave us.
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    On behalf of Oliver Nexus and Wind-up Nexus on Balmung, I am against this idea.
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    Elric Ashmore
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    I wouldn't mind an AFK boot timer, but I'd almost rather see them redesign the other cities to make them more appealing and to encourage people to actually use the one they want to hang out in. LL is just the most "convenient" one with everything you need basically being right next to the aetheryte plaza, so it attracts the most people...and people aren't forced to log out, so it's a compounding problem.
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    Khit Amariyo
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
    We should've just let Leviathan have it.
    Hey, don't bring my server into this. What'd we ever do to you?

    More seriously, the Firmament timer is—as I understand it—one that kicks you out of the Firmament, bumping you back out to the Ishgard aetheryte; the Firmament is, so far as I know, a special instance case—i.e., a zone handled differently than other areas of the game—not technically the open world, so it's more the equivalent of being bumped from a duty for being idle. Given the usual spaghetti code claims, they might not be able to add a logout timer to a specific zone in the main world versus the whole open world.
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