I can be in the auction house selling things and it will tell me I have to move when I’m not done selling thing.
I can run to the kitchen for a drink and the bathroom and back and I’m already kicked. On MAX 2000 player server there is at any given time 800 people online max iv seen of 1200. this timeout/ kick really needs to be fixed. To may people are leaving the game because of simple fixes!
well well I had this petition. It is indeed annoying Petition to remove afk penalty - #5 by Kajack10
I should think that it should be able to detect mouse clicks and searches within the Trading Post
I would consider this as “Friction” as the Devs call it and it should be fixed
Its the same fishing, you find a sweet spot and start fishing, then the annoying afk timer pops up just as a hot spot reopens. royal pain in the arse. Especially when your actually playing an integral part the game.
exactly this… mouse click need to be detected…
The AFK timer in this game is so basic it’s not even funny. It’s like the first AFK timer in any MMO ever… ridiculously easy for bots to overcome, and ridiculously annoying to actual people.
Come on, AGS… look around. Lots of games have much better AFK timeout mechanisms. Build upon the knowledge of others rather than repeat their mistakes all over again.
Yeah, I started a thread about this very thing in relation to fishing some time ago, but it seemed I was easily in the minority as most people responding felt that it was a small enough inconvenience to be worth it since it makes botting harder.
Personally, I still think it’s weird, and now that server queues are not really a thing anymore, there’s one less reason to keep it.
+1, m’y AFK warning pop like 5-10 times / night . Why can’t I go afk smoke 5 min and come back kicked ? Kinda exaggerated but not a top priority either
For me it is the crafting. Im crafting 300 shield, well it takes time for that. Before im done im overweight and the message pops. Very annoying.
It is super annoying, but removing it from using the trading post and such would just make AFK people open a trading window to stop from being kicked.
If there is a way to make changing pages or clicking on an item in the TP count as an action, that would resolve the annoyance.
Yeah, the game should at least recognize game play. If your constantly fishing, or cleaning up your storage, or surfing the trading post, you don’t want to be pulled from the immersion of the game to to deal with the AFK timer, when clearly, you should be doing tons of things that would prove your still there.
I don’t think botting is a thing if your moving things around in your storage, or surfing the trading post, or crafting a ton of things at once. Why have the AFK timer ignore mouse movements in those places.
Have the AFK timer as a question, so the player doesn’t have to quit what they are doing, they can just type the answer, and keep playing.
There is no danger of the server queuing, so the AFK timer is basically pointless.
How about this, set the delay before it asks if your still there to 60 - 120 minutes. That way, you don’t have to learn how to make it detect mouse movements, you just have to change the timers time. Extremely simple fix.
Clearly, if they are still there, they will most like finish doing what they are doing within 60 -120 minutes, and start moving again.
I have to deal with the AFK timer at least 6 times a session, and it’s really annoying at this point.
Immersion is important to you for the players, right? Well, this is breaking immersion, over, and over again.
Afk timer should be in game , already game have many afk farmer…
No problem with the timer…however…it should not trigger when actively drafting, or listing items on the TP, or fishing, etc.
I’m guessing they do this for the BOTs? While we see a lot of them harvesting lol.
No was cuz of afk farmer/ que
Clearly, the AFK timer isn’t stopping the AFK farmers. So all it’s really doing is annoying genuine players of the game.
If someone is able to make a bot, there are also able to overcome a AFK timer. So having it for that reason, doesn’t make much sense, and also having it not detect mouse movement, which at least would supposedly make it harder on the botter, doesn’t make sense.
So you have a AFK timer, that is so limited, that it can’t see actual game play being done… smh
But that AFK timer does annoy me when I’m market shopping and I have to move and start my damn search all over LOL.
I think this whole mechanic was introduced to combat fishing bots and people afk’ing the first week when there were massive queue times. I agree though. Even a programmer that only knows the hello world bit of code should have known that bots and afk’ing people with mouse or keyboard capable of basic macros would have the system defeated about 2 microseconds after it was announced. It’s amazing this severe annoyance hasn’t been removed from the game already. This is AGS though. So…welp…yeah. We’re stuck with it.
Getting? It’s been annoying since day 1.
LMAO Okay girl!
