Entertainer Archive
Thread: Here's your answer, Nhari.
Oops, sorry.
I didn't want to hijack Tiaga's issues thread, so I'm starting a new one.
Nhari asked:
I'd settle for a developer response at this point that said either:
A)"Things are working as intended with the 'afk' situation and will not be changing in the forseeable future.
or
B) "We recognize thatthere is a very serious problem and are doing everything we can to put an end to it. Expect a solution in (x) months."
Basically, I want to hear in no uncertain terms whether I'm wasting my time holding onto false hope, or if there's actually going to be some relief around the corner.
Here's your answer from Jeassa:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=dancer&message.id=7563&highlight=afk+macro#M7563
AFK-macroing is okay, and there's nothing they're going to do about it.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=entertainer&message.id=7531
7. Do you feel that it is acceptable that the role of entertainers is being completely filled by people impersonating NPCs, leaving those who play the class with nothing to do? Do you plan to do anything about this, such as an auto-logout or making healing a more active process?
We understand the nature of this issue. In essence, we can’t prevent AFK people from playing, but one thing we are doing is looking at different ways we can encourage at-the-keyboard play.
(And I know this will come up again, so here is why we can’t prevent people from AFK. Given that this is an online game, there are people out there who are very smart and will learn how to play AFK no matter what we do. It is just the nature of the beast. So instead of keep it so that only high-end computer savvy people can AFK, we make it fair so everyone can do it instead of just an elite few.)
Tiaga wrote: All Jaessa said was that it was not a violation of the EULA. She didn't say anything more than that about it.
Perhaps Jaessa didn't, but ThunderHeart did. If you need reminding:
Thunderheart wrote:
7. Do you feel that it is acceptable that the role of entertainers is being completely filled by people impersonating NPCs, leaving those who play the class with nothing to do? Do you plan to do anything about this, such as an auto-logout or making healing a more active process?
We understand the nature of this issue. In essence, we can’t prevent AFK people from playing, but one thing we are doing is looking at different ways we can encourage at-the-keyboard play.
(And I know this will come up again, so here is why we can’t [Ed. won't]prevent people from AFK. Given that this is an online game, there are people out there who are very smart and will learn how to play AFK no matter what we do.It is just the nature of the beast. So instead of keep it so that only high-end computer savvy people can AFK, we make it fair so everyone can do it instead of just an elite few.)