Why so much hate for an AFK timer?

[Brises]

When registered for duty, are you not still watching to see when the duty starts? All you need to do is bump the movement control and the timer resets.

[HatsuneMiku]

When registered for duty, are you not still watching to see when the duty starts? All you need to do is bump the movement control and the timer resets.

why not have us fill out a CAPTCHA every 30 minutes to prove we're not botting. We all have keyboards don't we?

[Nanga]

why not have us fill out a CAPTCHA every 30 minutes to prove we're not botting. We all have keyboards don't we?

It's not about botting. It kicks people who are just standing around AFK for 30 minutes doing nothing. sure, CAPTCHA would also fix that, but also pointlessly annoy people who ARE at the keyboard pushing buttons anyways, and are not AFK. If you ARE, in fact, just sitting there at your keyboard staring at your screen, doing nothing, just push spacebar every 20-25 minutes.

[HatsuneMiku]

It's not about botting. It kicks people who are just standing around AFK for 30 minutes doing nothing. sure, CAPTCHA would also fix that, but also pointlessly annoy people who ARE at the keyboard pushing buttons anyways, and are not AFK. If you ARE, in fact, just sitting there at your keyboard staring at your screen, doing nothing, just push spacebar every 20-25 minutes.

what is the difference between pushing spacebar every 20 minutes and entering a 5 letter captcha every 30 minutes. there are afk people who will get booted and there are bots that will get booted. what part of this are you not understanding.

[Timeraider]

+1 to OP ... we need afk-timer and though people either want it gone or want an 1 hour timer.. i want an 15 minute timer so be glad they took the middle road. it may just be my experience, but people being afk for long times just should be ready for the problems they face by being that. You want to get some food and take 1 hour? sure... but unless you want to ruin the game-experience for someone else just so you can stand afk and get a sandwich...

[Moth]

Myself and others were able to create brand new characters on once overpopulated servers, so that issue has been fixed. Try it yourself, because it worked fine this morning. And the issue of people not able to log into the game because "server is full" was addressed days ago. The only lag I've ever experienced was due to too many people doing FATES in one small area, not too many people afk...

The auto-timeout feature should be optional, something that you tick on and off in your system configuration, because honestly there is no real reason for it. All the reasons it was needed at the beginning of the game have been addressed.

[kazaran]

THe plans are not to update it to capcha but a simple 3 digit code version.

useless bodies around erozea just take up resources, and unneeded loading on others GPU's

[Slambo]

TBH this isnt a f2p game. P2P comes with standards and giving up room on a server for someone else is not one of them. SE sorted it out but neither side was wrong.

[Landiien]

Then: "Why are they focusing on improving the servers when all they have to do is put in an AFK timer?! SE IS DUMB PEOPLE!"

Now: "Why are SE putting in an AFK timer?! The server fix worked! SE IS DUMB PEOPLE!"