Server restarts to boot afk players?

[White_Wolf_X]

One problem i can see with doing this is .. well they logout all players = All of the players are gonna be trying to login at the same time right after = login server might die.. =p

[Rufaynia]

So what times of the day to do this? Schedules are varied. Many players work, how many don't? Players work 8-5PM? 9-6PM? 11PM-7AM? 12NOON-8PM? 6AM-... what does it matter. GMT zone, Central, Mountain, Pacific, etc. Daylight savings, or not. Some people may work weekends many don't. What times of day or what days? If I don't log in by 6:30AM I can't log in all day most days. So nothing for me but wasted 1017 downtime, 24/7. I am also one of many college educated and business experienced who really understand the causes of the failures and that once overwhelmed by demand for game access, our venerable producer and his team were unable to get reports of many failures. I don't believe they fully comprehend yet the problems because the data is still skewed by lack of technical capacity and lack of customer service capacity to handle it all. I hope for the best.

[Malamasala]

You don't need to kick afk players. All you need to do is add something that after 24 hours gives you 90% exp penalty and unable to lot on drops. When you can't do anything without logging out, THEN you'll have people do it on their own will.

And if anyone wants to argue that it will ruin the game for people who play 48 hours in a row, then feel free because I don't care about that minority.

[Gramul]

Not exactly the best way to go about it as it also punishes those who are actually, you know, playing.

People who (hopefully) outnumber the AFK players.

All you need to do is add something that after 24 hours gives you 90% exp penalty and unable to lot on drops. When you can't do anything without logging out, THEN you'll have people do it on their own will.

A sort of..."fatigue system", if you will.

[Uriahnool]

A sort of..."fatigue system", if you will.

NOOOO!!!!!

[Ferth]

One problem i can see with doing this is .. well they logout all players = All of the players are gonna be trying to login at the same time right after = login server might die.. =p

The trick here is to do this for each server individually on a rolling schedule with atleast a half an hour delay between each reset. One server going down and coming back up is hardly going to stress the lobby servers more than they are right now with all the people trying to get on at all.

[Nexxa]

You don't need to kick afk players.

I beg to differ. Yes... you do. This is why having the game client go unresponsive and error 90k is a rage button. I promise you that if those little selfish sh--err... exceedingly self-motivated diminutive rascals were kicked off after fifteen minutes we'd have to spend a lot less time fighting the error 1017 nonsense. Granted I'd prefer those reported for doing so and found guilty getting a three day vacation but sadly the world isn't perfect. Also your solution has one problematic fault... it likely wouldn't persist past server resets and maintinences and we're having those daily.

[Zer0]

Honestly I wouldn't want to punish the majority that are trying to play to punish the few that aren't.

A system should be put in place but it can wait till next server maintenance.

[Malamasala]

I beg to differ. Yes... you do. This is why having the game client go unresponsive and error 90k is a rage button. I promise you that if those little selfish sh--err... exceedingly self-motivated diminutive rascals were kicked off after fifteen minutes we'd have to spend a lot less time fighting the error 1017 nonsense. Granted I'd prefer those reported for doing so and found guilty getting a three day vacation but sadly the world isn't perfect. Also your solution has one problematic fault... it likely wouldn't persist past server resets and maintinences and we're having those daily.

Did you for some unknown reason stop at the first period you found? I stated you don't need to kick them because they'd log out on their own free will if they were penalized by being online past 24 hours. And in the case my solution fails because there was maintenance within 24 hours, it isn't like they weren't kicked out at maintenance and everything is working anyway.

[loco12]

4 hrs of 1017... i dont have much free time to play and im sick of the AFK players. servers need to change and AFK players need to get out. small changer could make a difference but not making changes isnt helping.