AFKers are not the problem

[Delsus]

AFK implies away from keyboard, not logging back in within 5 minutes of being kicked.

What they are saying is all you would need to do is auto-run in a corner and you won't get kicked. I am personally against an idle timer, they aren't needed if you have the capacity for the amount of users logging in. Yes right now SE don't have that capacity, however they are looking to rectify that, and once they start charging the game will cover the cost of this increased capacity, whilst still covering the development costs and making SE money in the process, the upside of no afk timer is that we can go to the shop for 15 minutes without having to log in again, we can have some food and get straight back to playing.

Also when they increase capacity there will be less afkers because we won't be getting 1017 any more.

[Panthan]

What they are saying is all you would need to do is auto-run in a corner and you won't get kicked. I am personally against an idle timer, they aren't needed if you have the capacity. The upside of no afk timer is that we can go to the shop for 15 minutes without having to log in again, we can have some food and get straight back to playing..

First of all, funny enough, your own statement here explains why you wont be affected by an afk timer after they increased capacity, since you will be able to log straight in.
Second, currently an afk timer would have resolved part of the problem, it would reduce the artificial congestions atleast to some part.
But if you really want to get technical, they are within their rights to take disciplinairy actions against the AFK'ers, they probebly wont but they have grounds to suspent an acount for a X period of time because of it.
Btw, autorunning doesnt counter AFK timers, the system CAN tell the player is idle.