Auto-Kick after 3min AFK please

[PikoAliapoh]

People who run scripts or have things set up to cheat the system won't be affected. A system like this would likely only hurt honest players who have to AFK more than 3 minutes to use the restroom, or deal with pets, kids, and other responsibilities they can't avoid and need to legitimately AFK a little while to deal with things in.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

Please put timer down for auto-kick to about 3 min afk or so, at least during prime times. Maybe it can reduce queue problems a little bit.

Are you telling people they can't use the bathroom - grab a drink of water - eat a snack - stand up to stretch?

That's basically advocating for unhealthy habits and discourages briefly breaking up gameplay with healthy self-sustaining habits.

[PyurBlue]

Are you telling people they can't use the bathroom - grab a drink of water - eat a snack - stand up to stretch?

That's basically advocating for unhealthy habits and discourages briefly breaking up gameplay with healthy self-sustaining habits.

You're completely right, but you don't even have to go that far to find fault with this suggestion. There are roulette queues longer than 3 minutes, among other things.

I can't tell if this thread is supposed to be a joke but if it's not, the idea wasn't thought out very much.

[Anemic]

Are you telling people they can't use the bathroom - grab a drink of water - eat a snack - stand up to stretch?

That's basically advocating for unhealthy habits and discourages briefly breaking up gameplay with healthy self-sustaining habits.

I think this is the best response. We all know the queues suck, but your solution won't help fix the issue. People will just requeue after their 'break'.

[Losara]

I think the issue is people can easily avoid the current afk measures through simple physical measures which are not software related. Apart from the game becoming extremely unpopular were probably going to be stuck with error 2002 for awhile.

What SE could do however is introduce CAPTCHA or variants of it in-game perhaps every hour or so (only while servers are having 2002 errors due to congestion) and not while in a duty/instance to filter out people who are actually afk but dodging.

[Hysorn]

Please put timer down for auto-kick to about 3 min afk or so, at least during prime times. Maybe it can reduce queue problems a little bit.

That would be one hell of a way to get people to stop doing their basic necessities only so they can play more.

That or use and abuse anti-afk methods.

[Hasrat]

How would this help queues? The people kicked out would just immediately be queuing back in, and you'd be faced with all the same congestion errors.

[Tsukino]

I doubt this is a serious thread, but just in case, this would make the queue much worse rather than better. The queue is huge because everyone is trying to get on at once, not because the server is "full" and can't let any more people in. If people got kicked out more frequently, then there would be even more people trying to log in all at once.

30 minutes is a great medium amount of time that keeps the servers from actually filling up with people who are truly not playing while also keeping people who are just grabbing something to eat or going to the bathroom from clogging up the queue itself.

[hynaku]

They should just add a report player function like they have for rtm sellers for those using mythods to bypass the auto afk logout. There accounts should be permanently banned.

[LaylaTsarra]

They need a 3 minute kick from this forum that I would support.