(10-29-2014, 07:50 AM)Azureus Galthens Wrote: It seems like my friend cannot make a character on balmung because it is always locked. I also know people stay afk in game while they are in bed, at work, school, ect. It really does not seem fair for people in other time zones who want to play with their friends. Is it so hard to have some common courtesy.. what do other people think of this? do you think they should not have removed the auto-logout in 2.2?Consider going to a quieter server for now to pal around with your friend. When things calm down, they can server transfer or just re-roll. I typically don't have a problem making a new character on Balmung between 4amEST and 7amEST Monday through Thursday, but I'm not going to even try doing that for a bit because of the new content. Balmung is a popular server, the overwhelming majority of people who fill the server to the point where it's locked are actively playing. That a major content patch just came out is adding to the server population; people have resubbed or picked up the game for the first time. Even if SE went and reinstated the auto-logout, it wouldn't be enough to make a difference right now.
Removing the auto-logout has really nothing to do with the amount of people AFK for a long period of time. Pre-2.2, if you wanted to stay logged in while sleeping/at school/at work, you could do it easily by leaving yourself in an activity that flagged you as 'busy' by the server -- stopping mid-dialogue with an NPC, stopping in the middle of a synth. They removed it more for the people who would be called away for twenty minutes and then would have to fight against other people who had been called away for twenty minutes to get back in. I live at work. I'm here 24/7, 340-ish days a year. But I'm only DOING work an average of two hours a day, in an average of twenty minute bursts that happen at random. The auto-logout just kept adding me back to the unholy mess that was the queue; I can't tell you how many times I'd be sitting back down and reaching for my keyboard, only to watch  the "You've been disconnected" message pop up.
