Back around launch we did actually have an automatic log-out, I believe the timer was 15 minutes AFK. What we had back then instead was queues, very long queues - and people would continuously find ways to keep themselves logged in. Locking yourself in a craft, looking at the marketboard, and such things all prevented the game from booting you. Then, after some time, they removed the automatic boot-feature, the queues went away (mostly, these days you might get a 3 min queue as far as what I have experienced) and that was when Balmung wasn't locked all the time.Â
It doesn't make the issue less annoying, but out of having queues or the ability to make characters.. I must admit, I prefer not having queues - as well as the fact that they likely never solved the ways people could lock themselves in the game. So if they just re-instate it, we'll end up having long queues and people will try everything to stay on, which makes the queues worse. Â
What would maybe help, is if they instated some kind of daily "reset" of the server, where the server throws everyone off and then people have to log themselves back in - that would rid the servers of those who's left themselves logged in over night, but it would inconvenience those who're playing at the time, and with Balmungs size there's always going to be someone who's bothered by it cause there's always a billion people on.
I don't think we have anyone in my FC that are always online though. I reckon a lot of people still close their computer entirely when they go to bed. Personally I've had slip ups when I have been online before work and then forgotten to close the game before I headed off - or sometimes when I've been up till 5AM and K.O'd in spectacular ways wherein I do not remember how I even got to bed.
It doesn't make the issue less annoying, but out of having queues or the ability to make characters.. I must admit, I prefer not having queues - as well as the fact that they likely never solved the ways people could lock themselves in the game. So if they just re-instate it, we'll end up having long queues and people will try everything to stay on, which makes the queues worse. Â
What would maybe help, is if they instated some kind of daily "reset" of the server, where the server throws everyone off and then people have to log themselves back in - that would rid the servers of those who's left themselves logged in over night, but it would inconvenience those who're playing at the time, and with Balmungs size there's always going to be someone who's bothered by it cause there's always a billion people on.
I don't think we have anyone in my FC that are always online though. I reckon a lot of people still close their computer entirely when they go to bed. Personally I've had slip ups when I have been online before work and then forgotten to close the game before I headed off - or sometimes when I've been up till 5AM and K.O'd in spectacular ways wherein I do not remember how I even got to bed.
