Please log off if your going to AFK/Sleep.... (Better Anti-AFK system pls)

[Drakeos]

People are hogging FFXIV queue and making harder to everyone else to play if your gonna go afk more than 15 mins please log off and let others have their turn too many selfish people abusing anti-afk system atm ....

[EZGIL]

No amount of hate in the forums will make them stop. Not as long as we are dealing with these queues day after day.

(I dont do it btw)

[PredatoryCatgirl]

The system is 30 minutes. That's what I go by. Meaning if I have to make coffee, and plan on standing next to the machine until it finishes, I'm not logging out. :P

[BlackenedTiamat]

is SE aware of the bot being used en masse by people? the one that allows their character to move without the person physically having to do so? I know a handful of players using it, and tbh, at this point, it needs to be addressed.

[EZGIL]

is SE aware of the bot being used en masse by people? the one that allows their character to move without the person physically having to do so? I know a handful of players using it, and tbh, at this point, it needs to be addressed.

Addressed by the same people working on the queue problems. Which, when fixed, no one will care about if someone is AFK boting.

[Blackcrow]

is SE aware of the bot being used en masse by people? the one that allows their character to move without the person physically having to do so? I know a handful of players using it, and tbh, at this point, it needs to be addressed.

Basically any macro software can do that (which many KB's have built-in now)

[Risvertasashi]

is SE aware of the bot being used en masse by people? the one that allows their character to move without the person physically having to do so? I know a handful of players using it, and tbh, at this point, it needs to be addressed.

The problem is that there isn't a "the bot" for this. Anyone with a gaming keyboard, gaming mouse, or one of the fancier controllers can do it. It's built in to pretty much every gaming input for keyboard and mouse and somewhat for controllers too. Even if SE had anticheat, it wouldn't be able to detect if your keyboard is internally programmed to press a button sometime.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

The problem is that there isn't a "the bot" for this. Anyone with a gaming keyboard, gaming mouse, or one of the fancier controllers can do it. It's built in to pretty much every gaming input for keyboard and mouse and somewhat for controllers too. Even if SE had anticheat, it wouldn't be able to detect if your keyboard is internally programmed to press a button sometime.

Literally this. I use an N52 Nostromo for playing this game. Perfectly within TOS to do so. However it also has macro abilities which I don't use in FFXIV. I use it because its a one handed wired keyboard that contours my hand and never drops the signal like the wireless POS I use for normal operations.

[Arazehl]

is SE aware of the bot being used en masse by people? the one that allows their character to move without the person physically having to do so? I know a handful of players using it, and tbh, at this point, it needs to be addressed.

I was thinking the exact same thing but not the same concept. Some are using clickers too. Set it to click your mouse button before the 15 or 20 minutes is up which resets the logout timer. It seems it would be easily detected when it's clicks exactly at the same time each time vs someone who's actually clicking at random times to progress the story.

[Hayden]

We really don't need people being accused of being AFK and booted by a "Better AFK" System. It's fine how it is now, the problem is on the server end and that is what needs to be addressed. If people want to AFK for less than 30 minutes, let them, that's the system. I'm not logging out if I'm only going to make Coffee or something.