Can something be done about the utter waste of character server slots by limsa afkers

[Deceptus]

It's their monthly sub, how they spend their time is honestly their business.

AFK timeouts used to exist but the world needs to seem "populated".

It's a bit of a catch 22

[AnnRam]

People wouldn't be afking if the developers gave us meaningful and lasting content to pursue.
But nothing in this game has any intrinsic value because the developers are too scared to leave the people who don't even want to play this game out.

Ding Ding

Even if that's the case people will AFK and spam dances anyways.

[Remolia]

Login queues has nothing to do with the actual number of players, we have them mostly coz of outdated software/hardware

[Ardeth]

Afk people waste their money on the electricity and the sub fee. Let them do it if they want to. The only ones that bother me are the ones who afk dead to waste altruistic healers times. Those people literally have mental problems. Oh, that and the weeb police guy mainly because they're skirting body blocking rules and they know it.

[Avoidy]

Don't be mad at them. Be mad at the bots beneath their feet. They're the ones increasing the player count and making it so people turn invisible once the town hits whatever weird cap it has on player visibility.
Seriously, next time you're in limsa, stand near the aetheryte, type /icam and then tab around for a while. It won't take long before you see what I'm talking about. All SE has to do is log in like once a week and kill them too. But they don't, because each of those bots pays a sub. "Premium" game btw.

[eternalsnow627]

Just wait until the new expansion hits they’re gonna most likely do log out timers so most people who afk will be kicked off. I’m kinda happy about that cause people don’t need to be afk for several hours on the game

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

People wouldn't be afking if the developers gave us meaningful and lasting content to pursue.
But nothing in this game has any intrinsic value because the developers are too scared to leave the people who don't even want to play this game out.

Even back in SB where there was plenty of content to do, people were still mass-afking in Limsa - it ain't a content related problem.

Those people afk because they want to be seen, whether to show off glamours, accomplishments, etc. The availability of content, whether plentiful or lack of, has a very small impact on the AFKing - simply because in content, people tend to be focused on doing said content, then focusing on the people in said content, so the desires of the afkers to be the focus of someone's attention isn't met.

[Oizen]

They do. Whenever the servers get super congested they add an afk kick timer.

It will most likely return for Dawntrail and then be removed again. Those login queues you see have nothing to do with the ammount of players already in game, and even on a dead server you'll get them, they exist as a form of DDOS protection I think.

[Sebazy]

Or it's simply a lost cause and nothing can be done about it?

But why though? So we can have empty ghost town hubs instead?

Quakeworld figured out how to minimise the load from an idle or inactive clients decades ago. An inactive player barely causes any traffic whatsoever. Ironically you cause far more load by running around and interacting with NPCs/Entities. Should you be charged more for your sub given that you are placing far more load in the servers?

[Boblawblah]

You might as well make a "Can something be done about the utter waste of character server slots by hardcore raiders" thread. Stop trolling, and if you're not trolling, grow up and realize that not everyone likes what you like.