Auto-logout exploit?

[Crica]

first of all, how do you know someone is afking for more then the thirty min timer without sitting there and staring at them for more then 30mins?

secondly, if you are, do you not have ANYTHING better to do in the game besides sitting there staring at AFK ppl for more then 30mins?

thirdly, if you can log into the game just FINE anytime you want, why do you even care if someone is afk for more then 30mins? You tired of sitting there staring at them for more then 30mins? Then go play the game!

[Teon]

first of all, how do you know someone is afking for more then the thirty min timer without sitting there and staring at them for more then 30mins?

secondly, if you are, do you not have ANYTHING better to do in the game besides sitting there staring at AFK ppl for more then 30mins?

thirdly, if you can log into the game just FINE anytime you want, why do you even care if someone is afk for more then 30mins? You tired of sitting there staring at them for more then 30mins? Then go play the game!

It's thanks to this attitude we had weeks with 1017

[Valsh]

It's thanks to this attitude we had weeks with 1017

Not really...?

[Crica]

It's thanks to this attitude we had weeks with 1017

no its not - try reading my WHOLE post, including the part where i said IF YOU CAN LOG INTO THE GAME JUST FINE ANYTIME YOU WANT then why do you care if someone is AFK?

[Sebazy]

It's thanks to this attitude we had weeks with 1017

Ehm, the 1017 errors were down player caps being set so low as to not saturate the woefully inadequate duty server cluster. AFK players were a convenient scapegoat for sheep such as yourself to rage at. I'm sure it'll be fixed at somepoint, but in the meantime, who really cares? I get queues of a minute or two on logging in at peak, but I'm yet to see another 1017 so frankly, I really couldn't careless if a few people want to get around it at the risk of some time in Mordian Gaol.

Get over it and enjoy the game.

[Amenian]

first of all, how do you know someone is afking for more then the thirty min timer without sitting there and staring at them for more then 30mins?

secondly, if you are, do you not have ANYTHING better to do in the game besides sitting there staring at AFK ppl for more then 30mins?

thirdly, if you can log into the game just FINE anytime you want, why do you even care if someone is afk for more then 30mins? You tired of sitting there staring at them for more then 30mins? Then go play the game!

This. So this. Most of this community is starting to remind me of an HOA. Just a bunch of nosy busybodies.

[MattReaver]

Don't report them. SE needs to fix it. It also works with the retainer. I did it by accident. Can't assume this is blatant abuse. Its not like the patch notes said "AFK timers now available to help server congestion... unless you are in mid craft or mid retainering".

[Amberion]

Don't report them. SE needs to fix it. It also works with the retainer. I did it by accident. Can't assume this is blatant abuse. Its not like the patch notes said "AFK timers now available to help server congestion... unless you are in mid craft or mid retainering".

It's not like the patch notes said anything about AFK logout having anything to do with congestion.

[EvokerKeii]

Why is afking even necessary anymore? On Excalibur, the most populated and congested server, I get at most a 9 person queue during prime time. Takes me like 2 minutes to log in, tops. No 1017s.

[Swishytail]

It's not all about just "logging in to the game", it's about that you have to render all these characters everywhere you go.
I'm sure I'm not alone on this, as there are some camps I cannot even see the "quest" or "levemate" icons above NPCs
because there are 80+ people sitting on top of the NPCs AFK. It can get a bit frustrating.

It goes well beyond clicking start>your character>ok. It still affects the gameplay whether you think it or not. It affects
server load, fact. People who think that it doesn't change anything by having 500+ chars by an aethernet are kidding
themselves.

And even STILL, I have not seen one reason to stay logged in besides "I wanna read FC chat". Log your paranoid ass
off and go outside.