AFK boot dodgers

[Imora]

Speaking from experience... last saturday I logged in at 7:30 am and logged out sunday 7:30 am, because I was afraid of not being able to get back in the queue. I just played straight through the day. There are people who play for extended periods...

Yeah but three whole days? The one guy I know was at work two of them because he'd been complaining about having to.

[glitteringcosmos]

Yeah but three whole days? The one guy I know was at work two of them because he'd been complaining about having to.

Fair enough, that is a bit excessive.

[Roxiu]

I remember seeing a certain character at Eulmore prior to the expansion and they could be seen dancing about. Not even sure which emote it was that they used, but one just the same. I wondered if that would become a more common thing in later times. Turns out, my suspicion was correct. I do not know if they have been there the entire time or if they have made any moves or not.

I assume the game is aware if they don't move and will boot them just the same. But that is an assumption of mine and by no means a fact. Same goes for a character meleeing a practice dummy to avoid the boot.

I'll admit, I've stopped along the way during the story line to handle chores or get in a meal or even grab a shower. But I will move my character within the 30 minute window to not get booted. Granted, I've failed a time or two in that endeavor but still I would try nonetheless.

[Ashua]

I've been reporting these bots for years. Nothing short of half the player base writing will get se to care about cheating.

[Missbone]

Honestly, you guys should go easy on these Afklers. I also find these kind of behaviour a bit qusetionable or strange but i wouldnt go that far and say SE should kick or bann them. In the end these guys pay the same amount of money to SE like you, maybe even more (glamours, retainers, mounts). Its not their fault that SE is incompetant and not able to provide enough space for everyone. These guys are just a symptom but not the cause.

[AnnaUK]

I have seen people in quiet places like the Ishgard questing areas using a macro to make them naked and swapping jobs/gear on a loop. It's sad to see and very unfair to those who'd actually like to play the game.

It needs cracking down on.

[Brennus]

There *are* people using a trick to stay AFK and not get detected and booted by SE's algorithms. I'm a very new player to this game and I've learned (and seen) how they do it, even though I'll not use that exploit for my own account. LOL, one reason is I don't want to pay for electricity (and my internet provider's excess data charges) to run my PC 24 hours on end while I work, eat and sleep. Two, I do think it's grossly unfair to other players, who may not have been able to play at all, or just for a few hours since Dec. 3rd.

So like everyone else, I login and queue up - and deal with the 2002 errors too. SE should and probably does know about these exploits (there must be more than one), they just don't care, or don't have the time, or truly can't get rid of them.

[SionDurant]

This is probably a stupid question, but whatever.

Is it reportable if someone's dodging the AFK kick, since it was made more strict than before?

I'm talking like, someone that's been "online" for nearing 48 hours now just taking up space in the server.

Should be a timer that logs out anyone for over 24 Hours continuous runtime just as a hardline. Should be so for their own health.

[Myrany]

The only way they can truly handle it is random server resets with minimal (1 hour) lead time. If I remember right they have done it before. Players threw a fit though so no idea if they would risk it again.

[KRIPTICON]

I [had] a guy on my friends list from an old FC I was a part of prior to doing a server swap a few years ago. He hasn't logged out of XIV since the xpac dropped 2 weeks ago. I sent him a pretty nasty message and deleted him from my contacts. People who do crap like this are gutter trash. It's unfortunate that SE can't do much about it without pissing everybody else off while they are at it.