One solution to end the server woes...

[Tibuant]

Adding Server Capacity without kicking AFK players won't change anything. AFKing started as a way to stay in with crappy server capacity, and raising the server capacity won't be convincing enough to some players: we've all had troubles getting on the past week. The players who get on will still AFK, there will just be more AFKers.

[Garnett]

Adding Server Capacity without kicking AFK players won't change anything. AFKing started as a way to stay in with crappy server capacity, and raising the server capacity won't be convincing enough to some players: we've all had troubles getting on the past week. The players who get on will still AFK, there will just be more AFKers.

Not if you add sufficient capacity so that anyone who wants to afk can afk, and everyone else can still log in. For example: FFXI. There are countless afkers in FFXI, bazaaring, leeching exp, or just not bothering to log out. In my 10 years of FFXI, I've never came across a server full issue, ever, even in the heydays of the game.

[Banryuu]

Not if you add sufficient capacity so that anyone who wants to afk can afk, and everyone else can still log in. For example: FFXI. There are countless afkers in FFXI, bazaaring, leeching exp, or just not bothering to log out. In my 10 years of FFXI, I've never came across a server full issue, ever, even in the heydays of the game.

Simply make the AFK timer about..15 minutes. This way I can take a poop without getting DC'd

[Kissker]

try reading any of my posts or the thousands of others listed because of AFK kicker suggestions.





yes, Afk kick with Captcha needs to occur, but mostly they need to move players from servers with high congestion to lower.





The problem isn't just AFK - although they might eat up 1K slots.

Lets say each world has 10K slots to play on.
The problem isn't 10K AFK players, or even close to that- estimating 10%/1K afk

The real problem is 25K players made toons on that world, that only has 10K slots. So no matter what, what time, what event - over a "full server" (10K) is WAITING to log in, getting 1017.

Behemoth is one of those servers with "too many players to support" the only way to really fix this - is to move players (forcibly or via volunteer transfer, or simply ignore them and they will quit or move on) because 10K (or the max, whatever it is) are logging in fine -and "playing" - even if it's just AFKing. The "leftovers" are out of luck.