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Jarem Alistor
Minmatar
Empire of Destiny
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Posted - 2006.10.14 21:51:00 -
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You know I've been toying with the implementation of this idea over the last week or so.
The if you're going AFK for an extended period of time, let's ay 30-45 min + please log out.
Why? Overall morale for one.
It's pretty bad when someone logs in and says hi and only gets one reply...because the other 7-8 people are afk/have been afk for a while now.
Or I try to do something or talk to someone and, lo and behold, they're AFK and stay AFK for an hour or so.
If CCP added an AFK flag to the game itself it wouldn't be a consideration but for right now it's frustrating.
I know, at least at this point, I've yet to add too many rules to the corporation but I don't think that asking you to be an active participant in the game is too much.
*Shrugs.* If you're going to be gone for 45 min+ then log out and log back on when you get back. I really don't understand what's wrong with asking for something like that really if it makes the overall corp stronger...because then the people who are shown in chat are the people that are actually there as opposed to having a bloated list with a lack of response overall.
Then again it's true that the OP has the "right" as it were, to stay logged in should he/she wish to be as such when AFK... However he/she /did/ choose to join the corp/alliance which is beginning to enforce this rule.
Coming from that standpoint I'd much rather enforce a rule such as that and have a higher overall morale while losing a member or two then not enforce it, have a lower morale and a higher member count - if only because, it seems at least from some of the replies, a portion of that higher member count would be logged on AFK anyway.
Just how I'm reading things so far and coming from the standpoint of someone who's beginning to get frustrated with it myself, and I haven't even gotten to high level alliance ops yet.
-Jare'
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Jarem Alistor
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Posted - 2006.10.15 00:15:00 -
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 Originally by: zeKzn
the only issue I have is for people who play in windowed mode. if they're tabbed out for a few minutes to read something and miss the request, does that count as afk? It gets more and more unreasonable to ask people to log out the shorter their "afk" time is, and sometimes stuff just gets out of hand - leaving the computer for half a minute to go to the toilet and breaking your arm would be an extreme example, but I'm certain everyone has had something they intended to only take 1 or 2 minutes take over an hour at least once in their lives.
Anyone asking you to log out if you're going to be afk for just a handfull of minutes /is/ definitely asking for too much IMO.
However, heck if only for /courtesy/ why not log out so you don't confuse other people? Demoralize /your/ corp/alliance if you're gonna be gone for nigh on an hour?
-Jare'
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Jarem Alistor
Minmatar
Empire of Destiny
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Posted - 2006.10.15 00:49:00 -
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One of my corp members gave a very valid reason for extended AFKs which is v.long travel periods.
*Shrugs* Can't really dispute that.
I think we can /all/ agree however that adding an AFK flag would fix a lot of this.
-Jare'
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