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    Raist Soulforge
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    Thaumaturge Lv 60

    Start forcing logouts after extended playtime (with sufficient warning, of course)

    I know ... sounds extreme, but didn't seem to get much response from another idea I've been posting since last night.

    Edit: Please keep in mind that this and other ideas we've tried to bring up are meant solely as temporary measures until SE can get a proper fix in place.
    (thanks to Supertatortots for helping me realize I neglected to clarify the temporary nature of this idea in the OP)

    http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ers-free-slots

    http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ow-to-fix-them.

    Seems like no one wants to talk about reasonable solutions, so figured lets try something off the wall to see if anyone gets involved in the conversation.

    After a player has been logged in for an extensive amount of time, start issuing them a warning to log out within a certain time frame or they will be automatically logged out.

    Once that timer runs down, boot them.

    I understand this may be a bother for some players who routinely play long hours, so the trick would be to allow a reasonable amount of time to accommodate those active players, and will need to allow them sufficient time to complete a task they are in like a mission fight, and get to a safe logout location.

    It may seem extreme, and it can be altered as SE sees fit, but this approach will help in eliminating a lot of the unnecessary AFK'ing and send them back into the queues behind the people that have been affected by their AFK status.

    The original thought was to issue a sort of CAPTCHA call/response mechanism requiring players to respond, designed to deal with AFK activity in a way that may not be easy to bot, but that may require more elaborate coding. This can be a cyclical check against last log-in time and if it's been long enough, start the notices and count down to auto-kick.
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    Last edited by Raist; 08-29-2013 at 08:46 AM.