#Implement an AFK kick

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stable otter
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Certain people like @modest rivet love to fall asleep in the middle of playing a game. People walk away from their PC or do something else without realising they are in-game. This takes up unnecessary slots occupied by AFK players, slowing down the game in the process.

real quest
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If you aren't moving for 5 minutes you should get the boot

stable otter
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It can be a bit longer but going to sleep and coming back after 9 hours most people don't expect to still be in-game

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which is currently the case

formal latch
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well poop there goes my bush rat/living squad spawn point strat

open rune
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Good suggestion, some community servers already done this.

weary laurel
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Already should be a think sad that someone had to program an idle manager bot

rose aurora
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i only agree if this is against cyan and only cyan

stable otter
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I think if this gets added, Oki must put "For @modest rivet, we implemented ..."

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in the updates channel

rose aurora
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haha yes!!

lost berry
rose aurora
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unless its cuz i was whitelisted back during playtest days

lost berry
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Really

rose aurora
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yep ive AFKed 2 games before without a kick

lost berry
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I remember vaguely something being said about it

stable otter
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which they do for a reason

lost berry
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Otherwise it's boosting numbers

stable otter
tawdry lintel
stable otter
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ahum Cyan going to sleep for 8+ hrs

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I have bothered Oki a lot with implementing AFK kick to the point where it's become a meme for me to bring that up to him again

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pretty funny

tawdry lintel
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i would love a 15min wait until afk kick tho, its kinda good when u have to take a shit and came back to the same server than before and can still play with the people you were playing

stable otter
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he will read this and go "not julgers again"

lost berry
stable otter
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it's not really boosting numbers imo

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unless you deliberately invite people to go afk on your server

lost berry
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Yeah makes more sense

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You want people actually playing

stable otter
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Yep

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I mean I mentioned this to Oki in every second sentence back in the day so I can imagine he now hates me for bringing it up again

lost berry
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Oki hates me for bringing up the Reporting Lawyer

modest rivet
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This is slander. I never go afk in game.

rose aurora
stable otter
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🔥

fervent scaffold
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down with cyan

stable otter
sudden dust
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fantastic idea!

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come on oki

modest rivet
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wtf is this

tardy lotus
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As long as it times out after a certain amount of time and isn't a voting system that will end up abused by players when they get mad someone killed them.

stable otter
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just if they are AFK for 15m or so

real quest
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That's half a match, if someone isn't playing for 5 minutes give them the boot (on official servers, let community servers set it to whatever they want)

stable otter
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and 5min is a bit short

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if I open the door for someone and come back I wanna be in the same match with my friends

real quest
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If it takes you longer than 5 mins to have a piss/grab a drink then 🤷‍♂️ , any longer and you should probably just dip out, focus on what you need to do then rejoin

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Same with opening a door, you're preventing other people from joining and playing so you can go do something else

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5 minutes is a long time

stable otter
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The main issue I want to solve is someone being AFK for a long time. The shorter AFK times are IMO a seperate discussion and more controversial

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I think a 15-30m afk timer is easier to sell for now, any shorter will become somewhat more controversial

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so I would go with the safe option first

real quest
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I'm just thinking about if I'm in a game and ~5-6 people are afking in base for a maximum of 30 mins, that basically puts you a squad down against the other team

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Even more so if you're losing and flakes decide to AFK until the next game

stable otter
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Yep, IMO 15m

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and, statistically, both teams will have equal amount of AFKers

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unless there is a correlation with being on one certain team and being AFK

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(LAN parties, etc.)

real quest
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I'm of the mindset that you're either playing or your not, if you're not playing then let someone else take your spot

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If you need to vanish for 15 mins, that's not playing

stable otter
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People will be coping about that, because if they come back and there's no server available for them to play on, they will be fuming

real quest
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What about the person who wants to join a populated server but can't? It's exactly the same position

stable otter
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Hmm

real quest
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If that person is playing with friends, you're in the blessed position to be able to join off steam or via the in-game group and wait in a queue

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Which non-friend playing people can't do

obtuse storm
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would agree on that, maybe 20mins

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server owners should be able to enable/disable this though

muted pulsar
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pls

slate cedar
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oce servers would never start with this people need to wait like 2 hours to kickstart a server

muted pulsar
slate cedar
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takes i think 16 people to start a server

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unless a mod starts the server (which they usualy dont)

lapis tartan
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This would be awesome because finally tank campers, and recon players get banned

slate cedar
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but they still have input as in firing?

lapis tartan
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Nuh uh kick them anyways

inner torrent
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Ok but how else am I supposed to pretend I'm an experienced player with many hours

wraith spear
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That's the neat part, you don't

gleaming topaz
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Onetime I forgot to exit the game and came back hours later still connected.

formal latch
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Maybe before you got flagged by the afk system the match ended and it only monitors players that have had an action and then not had one after a while