Suggestion on fixing the 24/7 afks for now

[kazaran]

They need a confirm activity random button to confirm AFK timer. People will have auto scribts running to simulate input, so a base inactivity system is useless.

PS enough people can trigger a DC. Wink.

Login restarts can be handy, with a regulation of re logins.

[Arkona]

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.

yeah, well in a "week" they're suppose to have all this fix.. so what would it matter at that point. What's better.. to have a bunch of active players, who can't play now unhappy or leave a bunch of afkers who aren't even around and have to come back whenever they feel like it and try to get back in unhappy.

[Malakym]

So if I have the day off, and I manage to log on - you want me to then intentionally get disconnected at least twice that day and fight yet again to get on? I would rage. If I make it on, I better not get booted off again for anything less than emergency maintenance or an ISP hiccup on my end. No thanks, stick with AFK timers.

[darkstarpoet1]

i completely disagree. i say this as someone that is polite enough to sign out when not playing and i still dislike the idea completely.

[Lafier]

I personally am all for server restart. I'm in game right now, and I have no problem with them doing a server restart to kick all the afk players offline. They have already stated they are not even going to look into putting in a afk kick timer until after they implement their current plans. And god knows when that will be. Please, for the love of god, do server restart and kick all those people that are afking forever off.

[briggstuggs]

this is a great idea this morning at round 10am i spent till 12 constantly doing the login cycle got in was playing till 5 min ago when my internet hiccupd ... now im stuck yet again humping the login button the worst part of all this is when i was in playing i had to do dungeons for the main storyline and queue for that lasted 30 min thinking of all the current afkers in town they are taking space of what could be live people and my dungeon may have queued up faster this problem is starting to ruin my gamplay along with alot of other peoples gameplay.

login sever conjestion may last for what 20 min i think that just a wee better than spending 2 or 3 hours zombified pressing the login cycle

[Scarletyoshi]

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.

Making everyone log in at the same time multiple times a day every day would be more likely to bring the servers down completely. Sorry, but this is a really bad idea. Doing anything is not better than doing nothing when it makes the problem worse.

[Haoma]

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.

it's easy to circumvent that. Maybe unique actions. But I imagine they'd find a way to get around that, too.

[Nanga]

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.

Clearly, the only people who are so adamantly against any form of population controls (AFK kicks, server restarts) are the very same people who are causing the problem: AFK'ers.

Listen, if you don't like the ideas proposed, then either suggest something better, or keep your keyboard as idle as it is most of the time while you are logged in (AFK). We all know you hold your ability to AFK indefinitely so precious, but you don't have to shove it in our faces that you abuse it. If you aren't playing, logout and let someone else play. Simple as that. Quit being part of the problem and be part of the solution.

[Diavolo]

Define early morning. What's early morning for me isn't early morning for someone in many parts of Russia. If I remember correctly from my time living there, there are 9.