Quote Originally Posted by Raist View Post
I know ... sounds extreme, but didn't seem to get much response from another idea I've been posting since last night.

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.
Is it horrible that I had a similar idea? Granted I was also in favour of bringing all the servers down until you could let EVERYONE play! But both ideas were strictly temporary use only. But seriously, why should some be able to log long play times and hog the servers when the rest of us just want to get in an play for a change? The only times I can log are at 6am MDT, with no chance when I can get home from work unless I play the spam "0" mini game :3

Just a frustration vent. I'm really hoping they'll most things sorted by next week, I do like the fact that they've *finally* tried to communicate to us what they are trying to do instead of leaving us high and dry.