Stay logged in... if you're a j/oFollow

Or you put a gamepad upside down that's pushing the joystick forward (or weight on the keyboard button). Point being that idle time out won't stop the AFKers who everyone complains about taking up slots, would only kick out those few who get triggered unexpectedly for things like quickly getting up to go to the bathroom.

Agreed.

Bottom line is, there shouldn't be 'slots'. Anyone should be able to login at any time and at worst, be faced with a queue to get in. AFK auto-logout is just a band-aid, not a solution to a problem.

Um, yea...about that...so sorry

I'm just glad my Razorbacks are looking better than they were last year. Hopefully we'll get back to a bowl game.

Edited, Sep 1st 2013 2:57pm by PhrozenFFXI

3rd party aps (see: bots) are universally against the ToS of any game.


You see this is the crux of the issue.

People can't play because loads of folks are AFK. How dare I propose a fix to allow people who actually want to play to you know. . .do so.


Oh the audacity!

-NW

I would love to hear how freeing up slots by removing AFK players doesn't fix. . .wait for it. . .not having enough slots on a server.


This should be good.

-NW

Tried running the game with LogMeIn and my Internet connection was't up to snuff. DSL choked out bad.

Tired of Aaron Murray yet?

No, no, no, you don't get to run away from your claim and then ask me to justify it.

Would booting afk players open up slots? Yes or no. It's relatively easy to answer.

-NW

There's a simple answer to the OP's statement.

The Golden Rule of life is dead. R.I.P.

I was raised by parents who believed in that philosophy but even they admit, in their golden years, that it's antiquated and following it basically opens you up for pain and suffering.

The new rule is Look Out for #1

Now this doesn't mean you have to be vindictive or harmful but when all things are equal you're better off taking care fo yourself and your family first because the vast majority of people wll not only do the same but an increasing number will ***** anyone over to benefit themselves.

So as far as staying logged in goes.. more power to you. We didn't create the environment, we're just adapting to it.

As it only runs your desktop the TOS is not broken in anyway as you are running your game on your pc the only thing the app does it act as a long range wireless keyboard with screen.

Now if you got an built in wireless card(dongles wont do it)you can use the wake on lan (included in most if not all bios setting)to turn on your computer with one app then with the remote desktop app log into the game from anywhere not sure how well you could play due to delay from the pc to the phone(got to be at least a tenth of a second more if your not on 4g).

To be honest I dont think there is that many afkers the servers are full you could have 4000 playing and 1000 afk if you still got 5000 odd trying to log on still people are going to be upset thing is no one knows the numbers.
Only thing we know for sure is there is a lot more people playing the game than SE thought was going to its going to get sorted sorted at some point:)

Simply screaming like a querulous little girl does not make your statement true.

Booting AFK players would have--at the very least--alleviated problems during launch until they could properly gauge server capacity. Right now, in reality, there are very few slots relative to the number of players. Until server capacity is increased, AFK players ARE THE PROBLEM dolt.

If you don't want to admit that, it's cool with me.

Considering how much of a monumental failure this game has been since day one, none of this really shocks me.

What shocks me is this isn't SE's first rodeo and they botched it this badly is very telling of the developmental team.

-NW

I'm not disagreeing however if this is going to be an ongoing problem for the foreseeable future then something has to be done to address people eating up valuable slots while they are sleeping, at work, w/e.

The fact I've not been able to play this game since Wednesday is testament to how poorly this whole thing was thought through.

The current problem, among a long list of problems, is people sitting AFK disallowing me to play at all.

So yes, boot AFK with a vengeance. It isn't right people aren't even playing but eating up valuable slots disallowing other people to play because they want to AFK.



Why not both? Fix the immediate problem now with simple code until you can get the hardware figured out.

Generally software is cheaper than hardware.

-NW

Edited, Sep 1st 2013 1:44pm by NaughtyWord