Suggestion on fixing the 24/7 afks for now

[Blackweaver]

Till the congestion is taken care of, it's not fair for people who are courteous that logout when not playing to see people saying "I get frustrated trying to login, so I never logout". Since an afk timer isn't doable right now. I have a solution.

Till the server issue is fixed, do random rolling restarts about 3 times a day. Once in the early morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the late evening. This way, everyone would be on even footing, and people who currently AFK for 24/7 will no longer bother contributing to the problem.

[Azadross]

It is a fix that I was thinking needed to occur as well, gives everyone a fair shot of getting on the servers. There are clearly so many people simply 24/7 afk'ing now that it has become nigh on impossible for others to get on the servers.

[Lexxuk]

You realise that your solution would create problems for the login server with thousands of people hammering it trying to get back in which would take the login server down three times a day. It's bad enough trying to get to the lobby server now, let alone with the thousands of people who are not trying to log in hitting the lobby server.

[Vaer]

Because there weren't enough people complaining about emergency maintenance, now you want them to do random server restarts. What? What if people are doing a long instance?

[Blackweaver]

Because there weren't enough people complaining about emergency maintenance, now you want them to do random server restarts. What? What if people are doing a long instance?

Hence why I said early morning, afternoon, and late evening. If they did restarts every 8 hours starting at around 5am PDT it would be basically 5am -> 1pm - 9pm ->5am. Would it be a slight inconvenience? Sure. But a far less inconvenience than having some 2,500+ players afk for near 12-15 hours a day every day. If the community can't come together to regulate itself in the wake of known issues which will be addressed soon, then yeah, time for a more heavy handed approach.

[KaiKatzchen]

Till the congestion is taken care of, it's not fair for people who are courteous that logout when not playing to see people saying "I get frustrated trying to login, so I never logout". Since an afk timer isn't doable right now. I have a solution.

Till the server issue is fixed, do random rolling restarts about 3 times a day. Once in the early morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the late evening. This way, everyone would be on even footing, and people who currently AFK for 24/7 will no longer bother contributing to the problem.

I have been suggesting this on another thread for hours now and I 100% agree with you! If they can't have AFK times, reset the servers randomly throughout the day or 2-3 set times thoughout.

[AmesArlann]

Or they could simply add a function that tracks whether or not a player has taken an action in the past X minutes. If X minutes exceeds a limit (10 minutes or so?) the games automatically boots the player from the world. There are a handful of other games that ALREADY do this so I doubt it would be hard to implement.

Rolling restarts would put a large amount of stress on the log-in servers as those people booted off will instantly try to get back on.

[Tricksy]

I agree OP.

You realise that your solution would create problems for the login server with thousands of people hammering it trying to get back in which would take the login server down three times a day. It's bad enough trying to get to the lobby server now, let alone with the thousands of people who are not trying to log in hitting the lobby server.

The server is "hammered" 24/7. Since most are FULL of a wide range of timezones from Europe to Western Americas.

[RicharuLucaru]

Even with afk timers I'm sure it will only slightly help. It won't take longer than a week for someone to develop a tool that makes there character move or something every 15 mins or w/e the idle limit is.

[Lexxuk]

I agree OP.



The server is "hammered" 24/7. Since most are FULL of a wide range of timezones from Europe to Western Americas.

It was stated that the servers can take 4,000 people at once, there are 50 servers. Take down the log in server and you have 200,000 extra people hammering the servers to get back in the game rather than the (more manageable) few thousand that are hammering them at the moment, you don't solve a problem by creating a totally new one.