Psssst hey you AFK in HoH.....

[mystickitty]

Can you please pick a better spot to AFK? Like oh the GUILD HALL? Easy acces right back to HoH! K please thanks . Worst zone to AFK in for the rest of us trying to grind or even make it to an instance. Thank you!

[Nilbus]

you've convinced me, logging in all 24 and sitting afk in hoh just for you kitty.

[Superhoss]

Just echoing MK here. Logged my toons on for the first time in awhile, and some were in HoH with 50 or so other toons, most afk. Sent me into a lag circle of re-logging until they got lucky enough to zone out.

I wouldn't mind taking away the ability to bind in that zone. It's not the most stable to begin with, and I know plenty of us gate and then afk when they need to go without even thinking about the impact on others. I'm guilty of doing just that in HoH plenty of times. Took someone sending me a tell about it to realize.

[xadien]

Yes please, lets not do this, or the forest. Do us all a favor and afk in the guild hall. If you are farming points, no problem. AFK in an active character zone, I'll start with kicking you offline.

[Nizzy]

This has been ok for what the past 5 years, get in a raid kill for a bit, take a break someone else in raid takes over and grinds. Even Kitty would get in said raids and acquire points this way.
Fast forward to now and it is not acceptable and we will be kicked?

[xadien]

Let's Clarify. Its not against the rules to AFK. Players are requesting that you choose a different zone that won't interfere with others play. I'm totally in agreement with that.

By Kick, I mean kick offline, not ban from the server or suspend, just bump the person offline.

If you are taking turns grinding points, awesome. Turn on your AFK flag to say that (again not a requirement, just being nice to your fellow players). When I used to do this, I would move my characters far away from the zone in, dismiss pets and just have them as far away as possible from the entrance.

[mystickitty]

The server isn't as active as it used to be. I get what you're saying Nizzy ( tossing my name under the bus and all lol ) , But the past few nights have been hell with you guys just AFK and we trying to get through the zone .

Also, you guys can still stay in raid and AFK in the GH and get back to it when not AFK.

[Nizzy]

Fair enough and I knew what you meant by kick. I park my crew in another part of the zone like by the Nobles or Djinn or at the zone in area but I move to the far wall.

You acknowledge that taking turns grinding points is awesome, so we are still on the same page.
You also request we turn on an AFK flag, ok cool doesn't get much use on this server but I'm good with that.

What I am interpreting and paraphrasing this is, do not afk in an active character zone, unless you are grinding points and taking turns but move away from zone in.

BUT if you AFK in an active character zone you will potentially kicked off line for going and sitting AFK, which if you are taking turns grinding points someone comes back and is kicked off line that some what defeats the purpose.

Let's back up to the original post which was specifically about Halls of Honor, something is wrong with the zone and I'm not sure how to describe it, maybe this can be split into a thread in the zone feed back forum. When I came back from my 2 year break I went to HOH with just 6 of my toons to get some practice before I loaded the entire crew. I was the only one in the zone(6 characters) and the flashing of characters on and off screen, mobs seem to path past you then jump back and haven't made it to you yet was occurring then. I ported everyone except Nizzy to the guild hall and was running Nizzy on his own machine by himself, 1 single toon in the zone and I see the same issues.
It doesn't matter if I have 1 or 12 toons in zone as it doesn't matter if there are 1 or 60 toons in zone, third party programs(MQ2 and WinEQ2) running or not same problem. I totally understand the don't AFK at zone in request but maybe the symptoms we are seeing are actually part of a bigger issue that we aren't really reporting?

[Nizzy]

The server isn't as active as it used to be. I get what you're saying Nizzy ( tossing my name under the bus and all lol ) , But the past few nights have been hell with you guys just AFK and we trying to get through the zone .

Also, you guys can still stay in raid and AFK in the GH and get back to it when not AFK.

Missed you Kitty..

Fair enough but let me throw this out there. Our raid is actually 5 different players in 2 different guilds and from what we have seen while playing together this week all 5 of us work different work schedules. So if we AFK in guild halls and one of us gets back to grind for the raid how do we get the other 4 players toons back?

[mystickitty]

The zone is definitely unstable I think we can all agree on that lol. What the issue is I can't say . I'm no coder ect... I didn't have any issues really with my group and maybe one other. Or even if it's my group and Supehoss's like 3 groups haha. But major amounts seems to cause a lot of problems that I am sure.

And as for the loss of points while AFK. I can't really tell ya Nizzy. Grind your own! that's what I do because no one was grinding the last couple months when I was in there and points are so easy to obtain more so than before lol!