Bypassing auto log out

[ForteNightshade]

Wait do people actually do this? For real?

Yes. Constantly. Bypassing the auto log out is hilariously easy and SE does basically nothing to stop it.

just report it and move along. no need to lose sleep over it.

if its "illegal" something will happen, and eventually when even that option gets removed, you'll know who to blame when people complain about it being taken out in the future....

with the KNOWN congestion issue its massively inconsiderate

People were doing this during the height of Rahuban EX. SE's solution was to literally turn the whole game off for five minutes a day. Reporting it will do absolutely nothing.

[Garnix]

The only times I avoided the auto log out is when trying to get some of the rare fish (Lancet, Rainbow).
I think those are legitimate reasons to dodge the system.
But since they are changing it in 6.0, so that you can log out and keep the fishing chain going, I wouldn't be surprised if they start punishing people who try to escape the auto log out.

[Reinha]

Simply panning your camera counts as not afk, so you have no idea if they are using these bypass methods. Considering that some of the game's content is on a strict timer which you need to follow in order to participate (hunts, fishing, gathering, open tournaments, ocean fishing, GATEs), there are legitimate reasons why someone might not want to log out in between sessions and risk getting a queue time.

[Avidria]

just report it and move along. no need to lose sleep over it.

if its "illegal" something will happen, and eventually when even that option gets removed, you'll know who to blame when people complain about it being taken out in the future....

with the KNOWN congestion issue its massively inconsiderate

Why report it? How would you even prove someone's doing it to deliberately avoid the auto kick? I mean I'm absolutely certain some are, but I've also gone afk while talking to my retainers and gotten distracted only come back hours later just plain having forgotten I was still logged in : p

It is weird that it prevents the auto kick, but honestly there's so much weird about how this game works sometimes that it's not even that surprising. I'd be less than surprised to find out this is a "can't fix it without breaking something else" situation tbh.

[Violet_Galaxy]

Goodness gracious. We playing detective and telling on people for afking now. 12/3 needs to get here quick so y'all will have something to do.

[Jojoya]

As long as they aren't using third party tools, I doubt SE will do anything to individual accounts.

I can see them implementing daily server restarts in Endwalker to give players stuck in long queues a chance to play regardless of the number who are just AFK.

Goodness gracious. We playing detective and telling on people for afking now. 12/3 needs to get here quick so y'all will have something to do.

They won't have something to do if they're stuck in hours long queues because other players are using the exploits to stay logged in while AFK. World capacity isn't really an issue right now (those <5 min log in queues aren't due to world capacity) but it will be when everyone wants to play on December 3rd.

[Averax]

For whatever reason i cannot explain, some people just like to use their sub to sit afk in one spot forever. And some of those selfsame people got very mad when the AFK time out was first announced because it disrupted their RP.

Some people seemed to imply that they didn't like the idea of logging their characters out because it was hurting them in some way, and i have never seen a case of people needing to go outside and touch grass more in my life.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

I avoid AFK because if I'm say going to the bathroom and think it will be fast but it turns out not to be fast, I don't want to sit on the toilet hearing 'SUDDENLY LOUD SHADOWBRINGER TRAILER ON REPEAT' over and over throughout the house.

I've also fell asleep at my computer intent on pulling an allnighter but failed, only to wake up to "HOOOOOOOOOOOOME" which was probably playing on repeat all night.

[Naria]

In so far as I know, you can't get in trouble for bypassing the logout timer. That said if a lot of people do this after Endwalker's launch they will probably institute a server wide log out every 24 hours like the did after Shadowbringers launch.

[Kewitt]

Be carefully thet could just start rolling logout.