AFK boot dodgers

[DamianFatale]

Did you at least contact them before you start making accusations? The wording in your post strongly suggests you do not. Some "friend".

"I know people don't HAVE TO reply to you, but I still think most people will at least give you at least minor acknowledgement if you say hi. Usually the people I suspect are using these third party tools are.. probably doing so, because I have never got any reply from the people I suspected."

Did you even read. I conveyed that I tried to send a couple private messages first.

[Chie_M]

"I know people don't HAVE TO reply to you, but I still think most people will at least give you at least minor acknowledgement if you say hi. Usually the people I suspect are using these third party tools are.. probably doing so, because I have never got any reply from the people I suspected."

Did you even read. I conveyed that I tried to send a couple private messages first.

I would ignore a random "hi", and I would blacklist someone who repeatedly sent it after no response.

[Packetdancer]

I know people don't HAVE TO reply to you, but I still think most people will at least give you at least minor acknowledgement if you say hi.

To be fair, I turned off /tell messages in my chatbox for several days, because a friend on a different server encountered some jackass standing in Old Sharlayan sending unsolicited /tell messages of MSQ plot spoilers to people just arriving in the zone. I went "yeah, I'm not going to deal with that" and told my friends to poke me on Discord instead of in-game for a couple of days.

Once I hit the end of the MSQ, I turned all my linkshells and /tell back on in my chatbox.

But yes, generally people will reply to /tell messages; I just don't think it's a universal right in the beginning of an expansion, even when folks aren't using tools to stay online. Sometimes it's just trying to desperately avoid spoilers. :/

[PredatoryCatgirl]

I do not respond to tells from people I've never met before unless its clearly a newbie asking me a question. I know I'm far from the only one who does this.

[Mythos12]

It is terrible that SE doesn't cut player time to a max 8 hours a day to let others who you know purchased their product and also pay a subscription fee get a chance to play. But hey, players will be selfish pricks and get away with staying logged on for over 16 hours doing absolutely nothing in game but hiding in their homes so they are not reported.

[Kandraxx]

It is terrible that SE doesn't cut player time to a max 8 hours a day to let others who you know purchased their product and also pay a subscription fee get a chance to play. But hey, players will be selfish pricks and get away with staying logged on for over 16 hours doing absolutely nothing in game but hiding in their homes so they are not reported.

That’s a can of worms you don’t want to open, ever.

[Kandraxx]

Legend has it that the sprout I saw at doma aetherite is still jumping nonstop.

[SturmChurro]

While I stay logged in when I get on, and AFK regularly for a time, I do log out by evening - before primetime. So don't be mean.

[lezard21]

It's really a no brainer how to fix AFK cheaters, aside from bans but we don't have the GMs for that.

Put a hard cap to how long you can stay continually logged in at 12 hours, whether you are moving, crafting, watching a cutscene, ERPing or bot farming. You hit the 12 hour continual logged in mark and BOOM, boot and you get a 12 hour cooldown in which you can't queue again.

If the devs haven't done this already is because they can't be more obvious to how little they care about the queue situation.

[hynaku]

Cap for playing should be no more than 8 hours and then you get a 8 hour cooldown before you can play again. If it picks up no movement of your character for 30 minutes it starts a 30 second logout that you have to cancel if don't want to logout.