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[Proposal] Implement AFK Status
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MilitantMan
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-08-06 12:03:22 UTC  |  Edited by: MilitantMan
Super simple but effective. There are many people that go afk in eve, and pretty much type afk in a channel to show this. Obviously people that come in later dont see this message. We have offline and online 'lights' can we have another light that we can set manually (amber or blue) to denote we are afk.

Also when this is set and we convo people we are not sat there waiting for ages for them to reply or them waiting for us. A simple message to state the user is AFK would be really useful.

and quite easy to implement.

EDIT : THIS SHOULD BE A MANUAL SETTING, SET BY THE USER.
TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
#2 - 2012-08-06 12:30:46 UTC
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.
MilitantMan
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-08-06 12:55:58 UTC
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.


this is whats wrong with this game, people like you, with some intense paranoia. This has got nothing to do whatsoever about afk cloaking rubbish, what the the hell are you talking about. This is basically putting something in place to show you are afk, and also the people who trying to contact you know you are afk. Thats it. If you want to look at it with some paronoid metagaming facility then you do that.
TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
#4 - 2012-08-06 13:03:58 UTC
MilitantMan wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.


this is whats wrong with this game, people like you, with some intense paranoia. This has got nothing to do whatsoever about afk cloaking rubbish, what the the hell are you talking about. This is basically putting something in place to show you are afk, and also the people who trying to contact you know you are afk. Thats it. If you want to look at it with some paronoid metagaming facility then you do that.


Oh please, don't pretend this isn't about cloakies. For people you're trying to contact? Ha. Know how you know if they're afk? They don't respond. Simple.
MilitantMan
Doomheim
#5 - 2012-08-06 13:07:32 UTC
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
MilitantMan wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.


this is whats wrong with this game, people like you, with some intense paranoia. This has got nothing to do whatsoever about afk cloaking rubbish, what the the hell are you talking about. This is basically putting something in place to show you are afk, and also the people who trying to contact you know you are afk. Thats it. If you want to look at it with some paronoid metagaming facility then you do that.


Oh please, don't pretend this isn't about cloakies. For people you're trying to contact? Ha. Know how you know if they're afk? They don't respond. Simple.


Seriously its not...but if you want to keep on thinking that then hey you do that. Also i would prefer when i come back from AFK that i dint have lots of convo windows too. Also why would i be bothered if it was about detecting AFK cloakies? Im not, anyway that wouldnt even serve a purpose, even if i did know a cloakie was afk, I still wouldnt be able to find him so there would be no point, so seriously think about what you are saying, before just trolling.
TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
#6 - 2012-08-06 13:47:18 UTC
MilitantMan wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
MilitantMan wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.


this is whats wrong with this game, people like you, with some intense paranoia. This has got nothing to do whatsoever about afk cloaking rubbish, what the the hell are you talking about. This is basically putting something in place to show you are afk, and also the people who trying to contact you know you are afk. Thats it. If you want to look at it with some paronoid metagaming facility then you do that.


Oh please, don't pretend this isn't about cloakies. For people you're trying to contact? Ha. Know how you know if they're afk? They don't respond. Simple.


Seriously its not...but if you want to keep on thinking that then hey you do that. Also i would prefer when i come back from AFK that i dint have lots of convo windows too. Also why would i be bothered if it was about detecting AFK cloakies? Im not, anyway that wouldnt even serve a purpose, even if i did know a cloakie was afk, I still wouldnt be able to find him so there would be no point, so seriously think about what you are saying, before just trolling.


Well if this was about afk cloakies, rather than a none existing issue about knowing whether the person you're talking to is afk, you - ahem I mean not you, since you super duper definitely aren't talking about cloakies! - would know when someone in local isn't a threat, allowing all the mining, missioning and other carebearing to be done in absolute safety.

I think coding a mechanic to tell you that the person who isn't responding to you may not be there to respond to you offers so little benefit to begin with that it isn't worth the time and money, but when you throw in the fact that it 'breaks' certain mechanics or meta-gaming (which you so definitely absolutely aren't really talking about, nope no way) then it's not even up for debate. It's a big fat nope.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#7 - 2012-08-06 13:55:59 UTC
Let's settle this argument with a simple idea: Make the "Away" status a toggle option, not automatic. There, now you can be AFK and pretend not to be, while legit people who are AFK can still let the world know.

Katrina Oniseki
Sugar Von MurdererTits
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#8 - 2012-08-06 14:00:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Sugar Von MurdererTits
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
MilitantMan wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.


this is whats wrong with this game, people like you, with some intense paranoia. This has got nothing to do whatsoever about afk cloaking rubbish, what the the hell are you talking about. This is basically putting something in place to show you are afk, and also the people who trying to contact you know you are afk. Thats it. If you want to look at it with some paronoid metagaming facility then you do that.


Oh please, don't pretend this isn't about cloakies. For people you're trying to contact? Ha. Know how you know if they're afk? They don't respond. Simple.


Exactly what he said. ^^ Even if it wasn't designed to test for afk cloakies, that's how it would be used.

Also, I don't want other players to know whether or not I'm at my computer. Sometimes I just don't want to talk to people and I don't want to have to explain why I'm ignoring them as opposed to being afk.
MilitantMan
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-08-06 14:38:40 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Let's settle this argument with a simple idea: Make the "Away" status a toggle option, not automatic. There, now you can be AFK and pretend not to be, while legit people who are AFK can still let the world know.


Oh ofc this is a MANUAL setting not automatic, apologies if his wasnt clear, i will update original post.
MilitantMan
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-08-06 14:40:50 UTC
Sugar Von MurdererTits wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
MilitantMan wrote:
TheGunslinger42 wrote:
Not so stealthy cry about cloakies thread.

Counter proposal: No. HTFU. If you want intel on how active another player is or what they're doing, go out and work for it instead of begging for hand outs. D-scan, probes, covering entrances/exits, etc.


this is whats wrong with this game, people like you, with some intense paranoia. This has got nothing to do whatsoever about afk cloaking rubbish, what the the hell are you talking about. This is basically putting something in place to show you are afk, and also the people who trying to contact you know you are afk. Thats it. If you want to look at it with some paronoid metagaming facility then you do that.


Oh please, don't pretend this isn't about cloakies. For people you're trying to contact? Ha. Know how you know if they're afk? They don't respond. Simple.


Exactly what he said. ^^ Even if it wasn't designed to test for afk cloakies, that's how it would be used.

Also, I don't want other players to know whether or not I'm at my computer. Sometimes I just don't want to talk to people and I don't want to have to explain why I'm ignoring them as opposed to being afk.


Again apologies if not clear this was supposed to be TOTALLY A MANUAL setting not some mechanic to detect if you are AFK. Basically I want an option that I CAN SET MANUALLY to tell people I am AFK. Again this suggestion has nothing to do to detect AFK cloakers.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#11 - 2012-08-07 05:23:29 UTC
I could use this...

I go afk for just a minute and come back to everyone shouting my name in corp chat 9000 times.