Institute Temporary AFK Kick Timer

[AamesxDavid]

Spin it all you want. Say "no! It's SE forcing us to do this!" all you want. Rationalize and justify it to yourself 'til you're blue in the face. But at the end of the day, you're nothing but a liar. You know it, and so does everyone else.

Funny, I haven't seen one person say that they're being forced. Your strawman is showing.

And not one of you complainers has the first clue about how big a problem this really is. You have a few anecdotes about seeing people not moving for a while. And those are the people you blame. Not the people responsible for the servers, and the obvious lack of preparation that went into this launch. No, you blame the people who are simply logged into the game that they paid for - even if they aren't actively playing at that moment.

You go on about community, and then instantly point the finger at your fellow player when you feel like they are taking up your rightful spot on the server.

[indira]

put it in the raids too.

one guy went afk for over 15mins today

[Riot54]

I had a post all written up trying to discus this AFK timer issue, but apparently it was over the character limit so I guess I'll do this dirty way.

There's a hard cap on connections per world. It sucks.

AFK characters don't take up a lot of CPU: True. They do take up another resource: Memory. A connected character has to be ready to move when input is given, so they're kept either in active memory (RAM) or some kind of cache on a storage drive. This maybe the upgrade to the data centers SE is looking at.

As time goes on from a server restart more people log in and remain AFK so they can avoid the frustration of logging in. This causes the ratio of AFK to active players to rise over time. It's not a function of maliciousness, just avoidance.

This growing ratio is why people want an idle time out, it would keep the ratio under control. So does upgrading the data centers. Upgrading the data centers maybe ultimately better as it actually increases the hard connection cap.

[Riot55]

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Uh, just noticing your name.... Interesting copycat of my name.

[Alhanelem]

Don't do this. Once new worlds are up / capacity is increased, the need for it will go away. After all, the whole reason you have a lot of people idling is because they're afraid if they log out, they'll never get back in.

[RaidenTaichou]

How can i get my money back? I really want my money back from this game, i enjoy the game, but not being able to log in for the last WEEK.......I want my fucking money back.

Game hasn't even been out for a week, I mean release was YESTERDAY!!!

[AamesxDavid]

Here's a fun experiment: try making a character on a JP server, and see if you have any trouble logging in. I'd be willing to bet you don't.

Then try looking around and seeing how many "AFKers" you can spot.

I'm currently on Valefor looking at a good dozen of them, in just this one spot. This thread's logic dictates that this means there are probably hundreds - if not thousands - of them, and I shouldn't have been able to log in at all!

[Saeki]

Don't do this. Once new worlds are up / capacity is increased, the need for it will go away. After all, the whole reason you have a lot of people idling is because they're afraid if they log out, they'll never get back in.

Agreed! I had to spend a long time just to get on and I don't wanna have to log out and have to try for hours trying to get back in again. It's crap.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I don't think as many people would be idling if they were not absolutely certain that they would not be able to get back in if they did actually log out.

[Roaman]

Ha the level of butthurt and anger in this thread is hillarious glad i saw this coming and decided not to be an idiot yes an idiot and buy this product that is too popular at launch and decided to wait a month or two which i recomend all you butturt raging babies do the next time you just gotta have something so you wouldnt be sitting in a chair for hours spamming one button to get in a server LOL cant wait untill i do get this game i may "just logg in and out a few times smoothly without issues then come make post on the forums about it".