AFK boot dodgers

[Divinemights]

Just because theres no queues on in the morning doesn't mean there's not people online who never logged out it just means there's not enough online to swamp the data center's connection is all. Also it needs to be early in the morning when fewest people are around and online.

The number of people working from home in general increased after Covid 19
Reboot is something worth to try but it won't resolve much.
People WFH can just relog in and periodically touch the control every 25 mins

Also, I thinks PS Vista still can remotely control PS4 from wireless connection. (Not sure about PS5)

[technole]

There are almost no queues at all in the morning. They could do it at 11 am when most people have already left for work.

Cause it's not swamped at everyone logging in at-once, it's spread out. There are also people logging off around the same time and that keeps it moving quicker.

[Denji]

With how little SE has done to combat bots in the past this sounds entirely made up.

There's literal news posts of them reporting the number of RMT/Botters that have been temporarily/perma suspended/banned. I think they do more than you think and you're just being a pessimist about it.

[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.

[ForteNightshade]

With how little SE has done to combat bots in the past this sounds entirely made up.

That or they foolishly were standing in the middle of Old Sharlayan while doing it. The few people I've heard get dinged for AFK dodging have all been in highly populated areas or made it otherwise blatantly obvious what they're doing. At which point, I have to ask, "What were you expecting, my dude?"

There's literal news posts of them reporting the number of RMT/Botters that have been temporarily/perma suspended/banned. I think they do more than you think and you're just being a pessimist about it.

Which are near entirely pointless as RMT bots like that can be remade in less than an hour. They, however, do virtually nothing to play controlled bots. Case in point, I have several on my server who spammed upwards of 10,000 potions on the marketboard within days every raid tier. Several people have caught them cheating, and even recorded videos of them clearly botting. Guess what? They're still in the game right now, leveling up to 90.

[Imora]

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.

I can't get behind this. I don't buy the "for your own good" line coming from a position of authority.

That just leads to unnecessary and ineffective garbage rules, regulations and laws.

See: cigarette taxes and sugar taxes.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

I can't get behind this. I don't buy the "for your own good" line coming from a position of authority.

That just leads to unnecessary and ineffective garbage rules, regulations and laws.

See: cigarette taxes and sugar taxes.

I agree only because of the precedent it sets. I think most of us would agree that someone doing a 24 hour gaming session needs to get some sleep, but if you say you can't do it for 24 hours, what's next? Cutoff at 12 hours? 8 hours? 5 hours?

[ForteNightshade]

But 8 am is when balmung has no queue at all.
And a 15k queue that moves is much more preferable to a 4k queue that doesnt.

Not when it's been proven the Lobby Server simply cannot handle it. I suspect they're afraid queues may actually get worse for people unable to log in before peak hours because the Lobby Server will be utterly flooded with requests to join the second the servers come back.

[Imora]

Quite a few people did 48 for their "saint" titles. Yeah, some were bots, but not all.

Saint title?