Musician Archive
Thread: Very Simple way to fix the AFK problem
1) Dissallow the ability to start preforming while afk
2) force auto-afk
as for #1, the code pretty much already exists, as well, they patched it in to stop afk combat, and well, as for #2, this will prevent people from disabling auto-afk and keeping thier bot running.
Kryxal wrote:
The problem, both with this and the combat-disabling on AFK, is the people who use AFK to block /tells. It would work better with a true indication of somebody not being there (and that doesn't really need to be shown to others).
would you rather have the ability to hide your atk status, or get rid of buffbots?
Asce wrote:
It's fixed. No one can listen to Dancers or Musicans while they are AFK. Problem fixed.
So? they Don't go afk, and they turn off the auto-afk Option. Besides Performing in and of itself prevents a person from going AFK..
I posted this Idea on another Thread...
1. Disbale the abiluiy to turn Auto-AFK On/Off
2. Set the AFK defalut to 15 min.
3. When AFK the /macro and /ui action tollbar commands are Disabled, and all exsiting macros are /dumped
4. Only Moving your character will prevent you from being tagged AFK.. Emotes.. Flourishes...Macroed speach.. NOTHING but moving willprevent you from going AFK..
--Qilue-UCW-- wrote:
Asce wrote:
It's fixed. No one can listen to Dancers or Musicans while they are AFK. Problem fixed.
So? they Don't go afk, and they turn off the auto-afk Option. Besides Performing in and of itself prevents a person from going AFK..
I posted this Idea on another Thread...
1. Disbale the abiluiy to turn Auto-AFK On/Off
2. Set the AFK defalut to 15 min.
3. When AFK the /macro and /ui action tollbar commands are Disabled, and all exsiting macros are /dumped
4. Only Moving your character will prevent you from being tagged AFK.. Emotes.. Flourishes...Macroed speach.. NOTHING but moving willprevent you from going AFK..
Its a good idea...except one BIG problem.
While performing you CANNOT move. So if movingis the only wayprevent the auto AFK then you would have to stop performing every 15 minutes. I stand inplace for hours sometimes just playing. Sometimes its in a cantina chatting and helping others, sometimes its at a gig playing music. Sometimes its crafting instruments. Its all good except that moving cannot be the only way to prevent the auto afk. For entertainers though, while performing the only things we can do are chat, emote and flourish.
Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician
Founding Member - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra
Fragpuppie wrote:
--Qilue-UCW-- wrote:
Asce wrote:
It's fixed. No one can listen to Dancers or Musicans while they are AFK. Problem fixed.
So? they Don't go afk, and they turn off the auto-afk Option. Besides Performing in and of itself prevents a person from going AFK..
I posted this Idea on another Thread...
1. Disbale the abiluiy to turn Auto-AFK On/Off
2. Set the AFK defalut to 15 min.
3. When AFK the /macro and /ui action tollbar commands are Disabled, and all exsiting macros are /dumped
4. Only Moving your character will prevent you from being tagged AFK.. Emotes.. Flourishes...Macroed speach.. NOTHING but moving willprevent you from going AFK..
Its a good idea...except one BIG problem.
While performing you CANNOT move. So if movingis the only wayprevent the auto AFK then you would have to stop performing every 15 minutes. I stand inplace for hours sometimes just playing. Sometimes its in a cantina chatting and helping others, sometimes its at a gig playing music. Sometimes its crafting instruments. Its all good except that moving cannot be the only way to prevent the auto afk. For entertainers though, while performing the only things we can do are chat, emote and flourish.
You need to look at the bigger picture tho.. Would it REALLY kill you to stop playing for 15 scronds move and start playing again? Is is SUCH a big deal that you have to move your character to prevent it from going AFK?
Tho I guess making Actual entered Text commands stop you from going AFK would work too
--Qilue-UCW-- wrote:
You need to look at the bigger picture tho.. Would it REALLY kill you to stop playing for 15 scronds move and start playing again? Is is SUCH a big deal that you have to move your character to prevent it from going AFK?
Tho I guess making Actual entered Text commands stop you from going AFK would work too
No it wouldn't kill me, however it would make buffing difficult...at least doing many in a row (/think did I stop and restart 10 minutes ago or 14 minutes ago).
Performances would also suffer. Having to stop and restart on a schedule to keep a show going would be inconvienient.
Lastly.....I get chatting and I'd forget.
Actual text may be a better solution, but if you get to the point of determining actual text from macroed text....you can use the determination of macro versus anything.
Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician
Founding Member - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra
Message Edited by NeillM on 03-15-2005 10:39 AM