Psssst hey you AFK in HoH.....

[Denizen]

Meh, I don't know about HoH either, it's been good, then bad, then terrible, and now it is back to bad.

I came up with the idea a few years ago to make it so folks going to Nadox didn't need to go through HoH. So, maybe another easy fix would be to have it possible to select HoH instances from within Guild Hall as well, like say Lord Draekon to him and poof you zone in.....

[xadien]

A player suggested a fix that would be interesting. He suggested that playing on other servers, if a player was afk for 15 minutes then you were hit with an illusion of invisible man. As soon as you moved, cast a spell or attacked the illusion dropped.

[Lillu]

That's an interesting idea but I'm not sure how can we track inactivity server side, there's no support for that in the code AFAIK.

[Demental]

Live EQ had an option to "hide" AFK players. If someone's AFK flag was on they were nothing but a floating name. Is that something that could be pushed or would that require the updated client?

[Denizen]

Seems like a great idea to me, it would be a client side illusion....if you put up AFK, you become invisible. Any action such as movement would drop the invisibility.

Another idea might be a "click through" foyer. You are in the HOH zone but you've clicked through to an AFK area where maybe some other things might be available like a vendor and a banker.

To flesh this out a bit, you might zone into HOH in the foyer, say the current lawn, with a click through installed at the current gap between the hedges where you can interact with NPCs and go into the mobs. When you first zone into HOH then you don't incur any graphic load on those on the other side of the click through.

[Muergan]

PEQ uses that in guild lobby maybe they can help with code? could just make it based on movement if a toon doesn't move for 10/15 he gets illusion or the afk tag this works too.

[Muergan]

Also is there any chance we can make the healing automation start out being invisible or make the change stick once you set it? i get a ton of video lag from them. Thank you !

[Denizen]

Well this may be playing into Muergan's hand at hijacking this thread, it is an interesting topic.

The automaton has gone through so many revisions that I would guess the devs are totally tired of this great idea that they breathed into life.

My greatest wish is that, like the donor sune, they'd do something so that a macro could easily target an automaton, so upon spawning you could run a macro to get it just like you want it for all of your characters. So the automaton's name would be something like "My" Automaton where "My" is an PC's name.

[Muergan]

Sorry I'm not trying to hijack this thread. The post was originally made about the people taking turns farming points in HoH and I was one of them. I'm offering possible ideas to help with the lag in the zone instead of pointing finger and scolding or starting a argument. I mean no disrespect at all just observations on what causes me the most lag which most of the time is graphical in nature (Hopefully replacing my gtx580 with a 1080ti soon). However sometimes, and I know Tubiel has this issue, the network connection can be the issue where some characters will go into the 1000's of ms all of the sudden until re-logged. This may be the individual's connection or the distance from server tho. However he did point out that after visiting certain zones such as south karana this always happens, but if he stays out then he is ok for the night. We have also noticed that HoH, Nadox, South Karana causes our characters to crash a lot where all the other zones do not have this problem at all.

As far as the automation I was only told last night about being able to hail it and turn off the graphic. I tried doing it for all my characters, and the rest of the raid did it also. This stopped the constant mob disappearing, and graphical lag experienced from 24+ characters raiding in nadox. The only problem was us being newbs and wiping the animation was back when resummoned lol

[mystickitty]

I wasn't trying to be a jerk. This thread was more of an awareness of how miserable I was all weekend trying to do any HoH and ways to fix it lol. It just seemed better to toss a thread out there for all. Since I have very limited play time these days and also limited options on what i can actual kill, I like them to remain open lol. HoH was previously so dead that i got used to it . It's always been a terrible zone with a lot of people. Before someone was always grinding for the raid. Most likely one of them being me because THF thought I never slept . But having like 40 toons just afk was a tad frustrating lol.