Player Features and Ideas Discussion

came to a posible solution of afk players

for example i go jita i see 2000 players im sure half or even more are afk on busy days ppl can even get in jita

in nullsec same deal if big fights happen 500+ ppl tidi happens

solution auto kick after players who are afk for more then 45 mins this might fix Tidi and etry to full systems and shouldnt be hard to get since most other mmo games have this thing.

elise

Why is this even needed and what are you trying to fix?

If you think those AFK are a burden to the servers, then I'm sure you can provide us with data concerned the traffic they produce whilst doing nothing.

Then you can explain to us why CCP would even want to log out players and lower the logged in count.

That and Bob knows i have done real and actual gameplay (well sorta gameplay anywyas) slamming one of my characters into a 100km orbit of a wormhole as a scout while the fleet was grinding c5 sites having your scout disconnect because he's waiting for "incase something happens" isnt what i'd call sensible...

I know i could have wiggled the camera a little or something, but the wormhole sound only happens if the camera is focussed at the wormhole, and i was dualboxxing logi at the time, so kinda busy

tidi is not a result of afk players its that sol nodes have to much workload or the they are waiting for the database and the sol nodes only handle pilots in space. If you experiance tidi it is because there is to much traffic in the systems and the server can not handle it.

They're not AFK - they're ISK doubling in local...

High sec people who hide from PVP are looked up by many as scum, the cancer infecting the game...yet when nullbears feel a pinch everything has to change for them. You know the irony of this right?

Here's the thing, if people are so stupid/cowardly to be put off by a name in local with the new jump changes then I would respectfully suggest they go get the armbands back on and get back in the kids pool of highsec.

If someone wont even log on if there is even any risk at all, I'm not sure they are in the right game.

I've said it before and I'll say it again how you combat this is:

1) Research their staging area and put a scout there
2) Keep an eye on map stats, with the jump ranges, no-one is leaping from half the world away any more, you SEE players clustered around the bridger when they have active hunters out. See a build up in players in space you can't explain? Send a scout. You have a scout near there from #1, right?
3) Learn the people who drop and keep intel open for when they do. Fatigue buys time. Killboards are also handy for this if they are prolific droppers.
4) Move systems if you like

A cloaked player is not the problem people cry about, they just can't be arsed doing anything about it and refuse to accept any risk in their isk accumulation.

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The other reason the idea is bad is if you're on the other side of this, hunting some caps/supers and you're all ready to rock and roll, that can involve a lot of sitting doing nothing until tackle is called. I don't see why they should be booted or have to manage "activity" as well.

All in all, the idea is daft, will be worked around in about 90 seconds and moreover is simply a nerf afk cloaking thread in bad drag.

Apparently the bastard is cloaked though, so no-one can find it.

NERF!

This ^^^^^^

I still find myself wondering why all the stress over an AFK player?
If you know where they are and what they are doing (nothing cause they are AFK) then go shoot them and get rid of the problem and add another mark to your kill board..
If they are nothing more than a name in local then how do you know they are AFK and not sitting there watching and waiting?