Institute Temporary AFK Kick Timer

[Vars]

Honestly I think the afk kick would be a great tool for these troubled times. Most of us are tired of this stupid as hell crap of being forced to wait to login. I myself look forward to a little play time here and there in-between work, yet instead we are stuck fighting for a spot on our server. Many people may be content making a new character on a different server or spamming their login but I'm not. My time was spent on my old character and it's my old character I would like to play. At least for the time being they should implement this function to help reduce the waiting.

Another possible option is allow a free server transfer option for players in these congested servers, giving people the choice to spread out and again reduce traffic further. To hell if they are legacy or not, this biggest issue atm is being able to have players actually play. Really this entire situation is a mess and needs some fixes.

[Lasteran]

That's not true. There are a lot of things you can do in game for 45 minutes that don't involve earning exp. The RP community in particular will tell you that. For non-RPers, farming lower level mats, exploring for hidden things(after your map has been fully filled out), low level duties, hanging around talking to friends, waiting on duty finder as a dps, and a myriad other things. For instance, I spent two hours this morning killing low level monsters that I get no exp for as part of a project to fill out a database of what creatures drop what items. In short, I couldn't disagree with your proposal more. I'd be getting kicked often while actively playing the game.

Simple solution: Spend 30 seconds crafting an item once every 45 minutes. Now you're fine.

[SirDiscoFrog]

That's just a bad solution. Institute an AFK kick timer sure, but only a small fraction of people will even know how to make a movement script and even less of them will bother to do so. It's ridiculous to institute a function that punishes innocent people because they weren't watching a clock to see they needed to make a bronze ingot fast or be booted from the game.

I agree with your standpoint (because who wants to be forced to craft/fight something every 45 minutes...even though for most it just happens to naturally happen lol) but an AFK timer is definitely needed.

45 minutes is way to short imo. I would suggest maybe a 2-3 hour kick. People who are afk for an hr or so just to pick up something or to eat aren't the problem. Its the ones who go to bed/school/work/etc. and will be AFK for hours and hours because they are afraid to log off. I dont know if this is possible but when you haven't been actively doing something (moving, chatting, getting exp, etc.) a pop up box could come up after the 2 hours of inactivity just to make sure you are there. If you dont respond to the pop up box after 60-120 seconds, you get kicked. This way if they cant include chat or moving as 'activity' and RPers/Explores/Market Watchers/etc, who can potentially be unfairly kicked, have a chance to react so they can stay on.

Win-Win no?

[MagusVandel]

45 minutes is way to short imo

Realistically, if the AFK timer is set to 45 min, the argument for people getting food is null anyway.

Think about it:

You've already reduced the load of all the people who AFK for 5+ hours. People will be able to get in anyway.

And even if you are grabbing a bite to eat, why not let someone else log in? Since we're assuming most of the traffic issues are now prolific AFKers, leaving for an hour in the game and coming back probably will not affect you as much as you'd think.

I do like your idea for a warning to pop up for the person to move around though(it is sort of like the shutdown message on PS3). Personally, I believe if they have been crafting for 45 minutes straight without moving around, they need to get out of their physical house, let alone move their characters for 2 seconds.

I would argue for the timer to be no more than an hour, with a ten minute call time on the warning system.

[SirDiscoFrog]

Realistically, if the AFK timer is set to 45 min, the argument for people getting food is null anyway.

Think about it:
You've already reduced the load of all the people who AFK for 5+ hours. People will be able to get in anyway.

And even if you are grabbing a bite to eat, why not let someone else log in? Since we're assuming most of the traffic issues are now prolific AFKers, leaving for an hour in the game and coming back probably will not affect you as much as you'd think.

I do like your idea for a warning to pop up for the person to move around though(it is sort of like the shutdown message on PS3). Personally, I believe if they have been crafting for 45 minutes straight without moving around, they need to get out of their physical house, let alone move their characters for 2 seconds.

I would argue for the timer to be no more than an hour, with a ten minute call time on the warning system.

Personally I wouldnt mind logging off to eat but if you think it will be quick it would just be more convenient to stay logged in but thats just me. I would be more concerned with those who are RPing or even the people who might have to all of a sudden walk their pet. It shoundlt take that long but things do happen that could prolong these things.

I could agree with you though that maybe 2 hours is too long, I was being generous. And hr to an hr and a half tops would be optimum. So long as something happens (and it includes the warning timer) I'm happy with it. I'm just tired of seeing tons of people just in the city AFK looking like additional NPCs lol

[Lasteran]

Simple solution: Pop up timer warnings. Now you're fine.

[Reika]

Cant get in the servers now because people go to sleep or to work with their characters still logged in. Need 'ta boot em.

Just do us a server reset so the present people can enter.

[Lasair_Shiorai]

Wow. This is a big topic of butthurt. I'm on Lamia and have experienced the 1017 issue just like you all have but not in the same volume. Lately I've been able to sign in and go with out little wait. Strange. But on topic yes I support this idea. Hopefully they'll get around to implementing it.

[seikenflash]

-1 once more lol

Seriously though, I don't know how you guys are unable to log in, I play on ragnarok, granted I afk for an hour or 2 sometimes to run to the store or eat dinner with the fam, but I play on PS3 and I don't like to stress out my system when I hear the fan kick into overdrive I turn it off for a good hour, and have no issues logging back in, or when the wife goes to bed I move my ps3 to a different room and have no issues logging in, sans a loggin cue of maybe 10 minutes. I honestly think you all are over exaggerating this cant log in business at this point

[Reika]

I got it, but watch I get a 90000 followed by 1017 lol.