Afking in Hidden Forest / Valley

[brasileira]

Any chance you can make it a afk-check for people who just stand afk in the Hidden Forest / Valley.

Maybe if the afk check, check that the char is afk , either boot him to server select or move him to nexus or another zone where they cant lag / block active people?

[Kuldiin]

Yeah that is pretty annoying zoning into Forest/Vale and getting stuck behind a wall of fatness.

Just as annoying when they crowding around NPCs such as the buffer also

[Ydiss]

It wasn't really an issue until the server reached a certain population count and the more popular the server becomes the more of an issue it is becoming.

The other issue is performance. On my PC things aren't so bad but when the forest is full of AFK players it does have an impact and it is annoying to have lots of players sat AFK in certain locations. It's a small zone, so everyone is crowded in a small region and the zone is also full of NPC models. This all makes the zone quite laggy for less capable machines (I've tried it on one ). Hubs are designed as a place for people to congregate and that's fine but when 50% of them are AFK for hours on end?

Perhaps provide a truly AFK zone where people can go to AFK train (so move the zombies there) and just sit online if they desire - but any other zone I'd suggest a time-out that kicks inactive players (no human input) that have been inactive for longer than, say, 20 minutes. If this is even possible.

It's a minor niggle right now but it could become a real issue eventually, if the server continues to attract more new players.

[Aruun]

Perhaps we could have te server gate anyone who sits in front of Sune for more than a minute or two to POFear. Give folks something to think about other than blocking the buffer.
I finally had to make a /target sune button since almost everytime I go by she is hidden under a pile of afk folks.

[Kuldiin]

but any other zone I'd suggest a time-out that kicks inactive players (no human input) that have been inactive for longer than, say, 20 minutes.

I can think of many times that will annoy me

I have a few toons who sometimes just sit around while my others do the work, then cycle between them, so this would be a major annoyance

[ChaosSlayer]

that is an unfortunate faith of all servers with a single hub zone- afk people pile up in one place.

I believe on Sh server, they have a script and moves you to a random location in zone to make it less crowded, when you zone in.

[Ydiss]

but any other zone I'd suggest a time-out that kicks inactive players (no human input) that have been inactive for longer than, say, 20 minutes.

I can think of many times that will annoy me

I have a few toons who sometimes just sit around while my others do the work, then cycle between them, so this would be a major annoyance

Then just in the hub.

No need to log players off, just move them to another location as chaos suggested. Somewhere out of the way.

[Lillu]

We have 2 hub zones, so the cool ldon guys can afk in THV

[Aruun]

No shortage of folks afk on top of Sune there either.

[Justiceiro]

We have 2 hub zones, so the cool ldon guys can afk in THV

So why then u banned me?