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.

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.
Well it sounds a hell of a lot more reasonable the someone spending even 10 minutes spamming the login server. Alas, the server upgrades are halfway done and for them to pull resources to get this coordinated (whether it be coding or whatever) doesn't make sense at this point. Don't misunderstand, I am would be happy with this, but they are in the middle of a bunch of other mess they didn't properly plan for and it may not be worth the effort/resources/time to do this.

Similar to implementing a true Que or kicking AFK'ers, those fixes all take time and right now they are focused on the hardware problem which HOPEFULLY will make everything else go away...